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Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29
PLEASE NOTE

WHO is the cigar smoking
w champion Of the L. s A d?
How about Henry BrISSe Of
Minneapolis who has been smok-
ing an average OF Il cigars
day for 10 years. Henry started
smoking cigars when nine years
of age.
Am asked when and whore
Ring Crosby first sang Il Sur
render Dear. II was around
1881, when he was vocalist
with Gus Arnheim 5 band al the
Cocoanut Grove. Ambassador
Hotel Los Angeles. incidentally,
1t IS reported that 10 date over
Seventy-fve million Bing Crosby
records have been sold.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

Come bach my IHs's delight.
Let me not IN IanRour pine
Love loves no delay; thy sight.
The more enjoyed, the more
diUins;
o come back, and take from me
The pam OF being depriUed OF
thee!
THOMAS CAMPION.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

NUSSOLINFS brain was
w studied at the Eliza.
bsthGn Hospital, Washington.
The duee's head did not ar.
riustintaet; IL uos mashed IN
from hicks administered by
the mob that killed hum.
There Wers good enough sec
tions, howsUer, for srdnind-
ton. But the "oIoRists," Who
hoped TO hnd HIM q moron
and hsnd. etc, diseousred that
Bsnito had Uery normal
think seetion
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-29

Ii ~ VS. great international
: thinkers were sitting up in
use press gallery the
wondering how We
lid spend a few more billions
foster inter-hemisphericsl
,d~1ll when Rep Wal,
ran Of the state Of Wash
;ton suddenly jerked US from
r trance
Rising with Impressive Re
hlican dignity Mr. Horan
AIRED tIy rfToat and said
Mr.. Speaker; II our hope for
rid peace IL tn come from
: association Of peoples rather
an governments. I should like
have you listen Ia me for
,ut Ave minutes on skiing ="
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
BraziPs Tree of Life
Yields MANY Products

Brazil has a tree which produces
the most important vegetable wax
in the world, flourishes in drought
when other vegetation withers,
yields food, fruit, medicine, and
materials for building, paper manu-
facture and other useful arts.
The tree is the carnauba wax
palm, known as the ''Tree of Life. "
1t has defied not only the greatest
scientists to produce it synthetically,
but also other nations to grow it sue
cessfully.
Cattle can live on the shoots OF
the young carnauba palms which
emerge from the baked earth. The
tender hearts of the palm become
a green vegetable or salad. The
tree bears long clusters of edible
fruit not unlike date. The seed is
crushed and a cooking oil is ex-
tracted. The shell around the nut is
roasted and coffeelike beverage is
brewed.
The pith of the tree contains
a high starch content, and a food
similar to farina is made. The
roots yield an extract and medicine
for illness. The wood is burned and
the ashes yield an alkai for home
soap making.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
GARDEN SUPPLIES FOR 1e45

Victory gardeners need not worry
about supplies this season, but there
may be some bottlenecks in deliveries
so it will be wise to order seed, ferti-
lizers, and insecticides early and have
them delivered early to be sure of
having them on hand in good time
Generally the outlook is good. There
are some exceptions brought about
by wartime conditions that gardeners
have learned to deal with, says Vic
tory Garden Headquarters at the U.
S. Department of Agriculture.
Weather was good last year in
most areas where vegetable seeds are
grown commercially, and there were
bumper crops. But gardeners Lad
better buy early, because shortage of
help makes it impossible for dealers
to fill orders promptly If all the or
ders come in at once Just before
| planting time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Reconditioning Programs
Aid Patients Recovery

Strides being made in the opera
ton of the army reconditioning pro-
gram will probably lead to radical
changes in the civilian hospital of
the future, Maj. Henry B. Gwynn
of the reconditioning division of the
office of the surgeon general, said.
Through the pioneering carried on
by the army in this comparatively
recent field, reconditioning is prov
ing "as scientifically important in
it's way as the development of sulfa
drugs and penicillin," Major Gwynn
said.
Civilian hospitals, capitalizing on
the progress made by the army's
reconditioning program, will prob
ably include motion picture the
aters, gymnasiums, public address
systems and areas for physical and
occupational therapy in their build
ings of tomorrow, according to the
speaker.
Anticipating the objection Of in
creased costs in such a program,
the speaker pointed out that the
army is finding disqualification time
is curtailed from 10 to 1913 per cent
as a result of reconditioning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Yanks Rig Up Floodlights
For Tropical Night-Ball

How Yank ingenuity made night
baseball possible in the heart of the
New Guinea jungles has been re-
vealed by sportswriter Lou O'Neill
in the Long Island Daily Star.
Taking advantage of widespread
interest in the game, anti-aircraft
battalions of the area formed a
league. A field was cleared within
four days, with subsequent i'm
provements, and one of the team
describes it as almost as good as
the diamonds back home"
All the day games scheduled could
not be worked in, so the only solu-
ton was to provide enough light for
night-ball. Putting to work the mate
rails and equipment available, the
boys made IL coconut trees into
POLES so feet high and installed them
around the field. They then placed
60-inch arc searchlights of the $780,
100000 candlepower variety used in
anti-aircraft defense IL feet from
the botto moi the poles. They di-
rected the light upward on white
board ref1ectors 20 feet square and
mounted at the tops of the poles.
Four 750-watt f1oodlights supplement
the illumination around home plate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19

AS soon as the aster flow is over,
which usually is around mid-October
the surplus goldenrod and aster
honey should be removed promptly
from the bees. In many cases the
aster honey may not be thoroughly
ripened-that is, the honey may be
thin because of the high water
content. Goldenrod honey, and espe-
cially aster honey, granulate rapid
ly during the cool fall weather and
it is important to remove the honey
before it graduates in the combs.
In the case of honey in extracting
supers, it should be placed in a
warm room (85 degrees F.) sew
eral hours; it will then extract more
easily from the combs. Another
word of caution is not amiss in urg-
ing beekeepers not to leave such
fall honey in storage tanks too long.
When the honey has settled in the
tanks it should be run out in 60
pound cans. When fall honey starts
to granulate in tanks it frequently
will granulate solid in three to seven
days.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Differ in Quality

Variations in nutritional value
and quality of various foods, such as
meat, the cereals, leafy vegetables,
fruits and so on are well-known.
That variations within the same
class, and even within the same
plant variety may result from diff
ferences in soil and the manner in
which crops are cultivated is some
thing that should have wider recog-
milton, according to U. S. depart
ment of agriculture experts. Content
of phosphorus, calcium, nickel,
cobalt, iron, copper, or other ele-
ments in vegetables may be low
with little, if any, outward sign.
Where the crops were grown had
much to do with the mineral values
they offer, it is believed, and soil
surveys are now under way to make
definite determination of the rela-
tionship between soil and nutritional
value Of what is grown in that soil.
To test men, need their help. TIE
big one is compassionate and tactful:
the little one is overbearing and ar
rogant.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Good Repair Shop Is
Essential to Farmer

All farm machinery should be pro
tected from the winter weather and
it's good time to plan farm shop
where machines and tools may be
repaired for next years operations.
Since there is no standard type shop,
a corner of the barn, part of the
machine shed or garage, or sepa-
rate building can be developed into
farm shop which provides a place
for every wrench and bolt.
If large machines are to be re-
paired, it will be well to make the
shop about Is by 20 feet, with an
entrance door at least IL feet wide.
A concrete floor and windows that
provide plenty of light are needed.
If electricity is available, the shop
should be wired. This will provide
cheap power for the operation of a
number of handy tools and will help
with night repair jobs.
A stove is essential for the repair
shop. There are any number of ex-
ceptionally cold days in winter that
can be devoted to the repair of
machinery so as to be ready for
the spring rush. The ideal location
for shop is one partitioned off the
machine shed where all of the ma
chinery may be checked, repaired
and thoroughly creased. Such a shop
is one of the best investments that
any grower can make.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
KEEP HIGH CROP GOALS FOR
1915 PRODUCTION

Weather permitting, the United
States may expect production of food
this year to equal or even surpass
the record levels reached during 1914
If the tentative 1945 crop goals an
nounced by the war food administra-
ton are met.
The 1945 production program sug-
gests slightly larger total crop acre
age than was planted last year. Goals
have been set below 1914 paintings
for some crops in which prospective
demand requires increases.
Total farm income from market
ings and government benefit pay
ments, however, is expected to de-
cline, reversing the trend of three
years of war time expansion. The de-
partment of agriculture estimated
that farm cash income from market
ings in 1914 will be 10 billion 500
million dollars Government benefit
payments are estimated at about 500
million, making total of 20 billion,
900 million, higher by more than 1
billion than the record of 1913.
Farm income in 1916 may drop
to 10 percent the department pre-
dicted, because of some reduction in
marketings and in demand. Income
from crop sales is not expected to
change materially, but a decrease in
income from live stock and live stock
products believed likely.
Total crop goals for 1945 are $685.
$4,000 acres, compared with 359,-
100000 planted acres estimated for
1914 Live stock and live stock pro-
duct goals for the most part are in
creased, with the exception of chick
ems, eggs, sheep and lambs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Use Water to Flush Oil
From Marginal Wells

Since 1886, more than 100000
barrels of oil have been recovered
as the result of the injection of about
al 100000 barrels of water-a ratio
of one barrel of oil to 9.66 barrels
of understanding to the bureaus
report which was prepared by Peter
Grandone, petroleum engineer at
Bartlesville, Okla, in cooperation
with the Kansas state board of
health.
The application of secondary
recovery methods is a most valu-
able conservation measure in that 1t
prevents the premature abandon
ment of producing properties and
also is one of the most promising
measures for relief of the present
acute shortage of crude oil.
Water-f1ooding-the introduction OF
water into formations through some
wells to drive the oil toward other
wells for pumping to the surface
began on a planned basis in Kansas
in 1885 with the passage of a state
law authorizing this method of
petroleum recovery. BY 1886, three
initial projects had demonstrated the
practicability of the method, and by
November, 1912, the practice was
being followed in Is counties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Vegetables Lose Some
Vitamins in Processing

No processed vegetables are as
good as the fresh and no cooked
vegetables as good as the raw, ac-
cording to DR.. Agnes Fay Morgan,
professor of home economics of the
University of California.
Summing up vitamin losses in a
recent article, DR.. Morgan says
that whenever vegetables are SUBJ
jected to water or steam treatment
the water-soluble vitamins are
leached out to some extent. The loss
varies with the process and with
the vegetable, from 5 to 10 per cent
for B-1 and BIZ in potatoes and
tomatoes, to rs to IS per cent for
vitamin c in snap beans and spin
ach. The carotene, provitamin A is
not water-soluble and is usually not
lost in this way.
In most cases canned vegetables
lose about one-half their fresh value
but the loss is reduced consider
ably if the liquid in the can is used.
Cooked vegetables which have been
preserved by freezing contain less
than one-third their original vitamin
value; when the cooking water is
saved, about one-half. Cooked de-
hydrated vegetables also retain
about one-half of their fresh value.
Ordinary cooking in water to cover
produces vitamin loss of about the
same as in dehydrating.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Animal Retreat

The entire countryside around the
park of Kagera belgian Africa)
and the park itself is a favorite re-
treat for heavy game. AS a matter
of fact, lions and leopards abound,
antelopes scamper out from all
sides, and it is feast for the eyes
to meet flock of ''impalas," those
handsome beasts with coat of bronze
and tall, lyre-shaped horns. While
running they are so light and feet
they seem ready to fly away. AS for
the equally numerous zebras, their
reputation for swiftness is not exag-
gerated! They rush down the hills
in blur of black and white, and
their eyes glow like lighthouses. All
this country becomes extraordi-
narily alive at night, Carnivorous
animals on the hunt sow terror
among zebras and antelopes, and at
nightfall the few natives, after hav-
ing driven their cattle into an en-
closure well-fenced off by a hedge
of spurges, can hear the distant
roaring Of the lions in search of
prey.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Mahogany Harvesting

Mahogany harvesting is notable
folk technique in Honduras. The tim
Der is usually felled in the rainy
season, since the color of the wood
is then richest, and in the light Of
the moon, since the cool of the night
is the best working time for cutting
the huge trees. Very likely Honduras
has the greatest treasury of true
mahogany in the world. Besides
timber, Honduras has other notable
exports such as rubber, coconuts,
indigo, cattle, hides, citronella, sill
yer and gold. In the future this list
may be tremendously enlarged, for
the resources of the nation are not
yet fully tapped. Much of the soil
is fabulously rich. Much of the rock
teens with minerals. There are nu-
merous mountain rivers with vast
resources in undeveloped water pow
er. Honduras is republic of ire
mendous potential strength which
will undoubtedly become an &C.
tuality Vim the postwar period.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Value of Scan

The value of a soap depends upon
the character and quality of the fat
used in its manufacture, the way
the ingredients are mixed and
handled, the foreign materials
added, and upon SO regulating the
amount of fat and I've that there is
an excess of neither. Too large a
proportion of fat produces a soap
that feels greasy and leaves traces
of fat on the clothes. This is rarely
true of commercial brands, but
sometimes is of homemade soaps.
An excess of I've produces what is
called ''strong SOAP" and one that
is likely to weaken cloth and injure
the hands. When this is not the case
the soap is called neutral" The
large variety of soaps on the mar.
ket differ in all these ways, but
chiefly in the water content and in
the materials added to increase their
value as cleansers, to act as
water softeners, to cheaper them,
or give them special properties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
ACCESS TO FOOD is KEY
PROBLEM

Access to the products rather than
for growing food is probably the key
to food security for the nations of
the world, says JOHN F. Timmons,
land economist of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture in the winter is
sue of Land Policy Review. His ar
ticle looks toward the postwar Or
ganization of world land resources.
"Cursory examination of land re-
sources gives clear hint that the OBJ
jective outlined at Hot Springs by
the United Nations Conference on
Food and Agriculture-'s secure, ade-
quate and suitable supplies of food
should be cardinal aim in every
ountry'-cannot be accomplished
merely by division of physical land
resources among all nations. TIE
problem is much more complex. To
attempt to distribute land resources
among all nations and partitions of
nations without regard to location
and irrespective of the economic and
social forces that influence their uti-
lization is an invitation to future
trouble.
Further inquiry suggests that the
key to a secure, adequate and suit
able supply of food becomes one of
access to the products of land regard
less of where the land may be locat-
ed or in whom the control may now
be vested. ="
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Artificial Breeding Tests

The first survey of the results
of artificial breeding of dairy cows
in New Jersey shows that the first
100 artificially bred daughters stud
led produced IA per cent more but
terfat and 9.3 per cent more milk
than their dams. AS two-year-olds
on two times a day milking, these
cows averaged 1857 pounds of milk
and 1929 pounds of fat in lacta-
ton of 10 months. Their dams at
the same age in the same herds
averaged 1898 pounds of milk and
1877 pounds of fat, or 734 pounds of
milk and 42.2 pounds of fat less than
their daughters. There were no rec
ords of dams for some of the daugh-
tiers. All told, the average pro-
duction for the first $50 artificial two
year-olds was 8,125 pounds of milk
and 324.3 pounds of fat. The rec
ords were made by Holsteins and
Guernseys, the first two breeds to
enter the program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Only Pinheads of Blood
Needed for Analysis

Some blood tests, speedy and life
saving, now can be made by
chemistry under the microscope
with only a pinhead of blood, and
science can look forward to the day
when complete analysis of many
components can be made with only
one drop of blood. So precise are the
tiny instruments used in this micro
chemistry that even in a pinhead-
sized dot of blood they can analyze
materials weighing less than one
heterogeneous 1870, 900 of an
ounce.
1t has long been known that the
chemical composition of blood
changes in disease. But in the early
days of blood analysis it took as
much as half pint of blood, for
example, for each duplicate sugar
analysis in diabetes. Through the
years methods were developed until
samples as 20 to about 3b
thimblefuls of blood could be used.
These delicate methods permitted
analysis for materials amounting at
times to more than 20 micrograms
in the specimen.
With these micromethods, the de-
mand grew until in some cases an
alysis was asked for as many as 30
components in a given blood speci-
men. If they were to be done in dupli-
Gates, such tests might have re-
quired as much as 100 to 200 cubic
centirneters of blood serum or plas-
ma, representing 800 to 900 cubic
centimeters of whole blood. TAX
ing this amount of blood was not
desirable, and in most cases the
determinations were not undertaken
at all, even though the clinical con-
dition warranted it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Soil REIMBURSEMENT

Soil specialists pointed out that
commercial sources of nitrogen can
not begin to supply all the needs.
We are fortunate, however, in hav-
ing the kind of agriculture that sup
plies nitrogen needs on the farm it.
self through legume-grass mixtures
for hay and some Is million tons
of manure from livestock each
year. But from the manure, prob
ably not more than $4,000 tons Of
nitrogen ever reach the roots Of
crops. Altogether, about $4,000
tons of nitrogen are put into the soil
each year, or $4,000 tons less than
is removed by crops. Losses by
teaching and washing are unmeas-
ured, but if we made full use of the
fertilizer value of manure and Of
legumes we could balance the nitro
gen budget.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Onion Storage

For satisfactory home storage
over a period of several months,
select fully dried onions. Store in a
dry place, as humidity may cause
onions to rot. Keep at temperatures
as near to freezing as possible, but
do not let them freeze. Onions store
satisfactorily at from 80 to IS de-
grees; they may tend to sprout if
storage space is too warm. Pro-
vide free circulation of air. Never
pack closely in a closed container.
Spreading-out helps. The pantry or
attic is usually superior to the Gel
lar for storing, as cellars are often
damp. Spreading on a screen
placed overhead in the garage, on
the back porch and in like places is
suggested If temperatures remain
above freezing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Soap Making

Soaps are usually made by heat
ing or thoroughly emulsifying fats or
oils with certain quantities of lye.
Glycerin is also formed in the proc
ess and may be removed or left in
the soap. On account of its value for
other purposes it is usually not
found in laundry and other less ex-
pensive soaps, but is taken out along
with natural impurities by dissolving
the mixture in water and Sailing
out" For this, large quantities Of
common salt are added, which cause
the soap to fall out of the solution
while the bulk of the impurities, the
glycerin, and the salt remain dis
solved. It is impracticable, II not Inn
possible, to remove all of these vari-
GUS materials, and therefore soaps
always contain at least traces of inn
purities and often more or less salt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19
Noted Revolutionary Song
Composed by Moderate

The Marseillaise, beloved anthem
of France, has spread throughout the
world the name of the great Medi'
terranean seaport of Marseille. Yet
the song was not composed in Mar
seille but entirely across France in
Strasbourg on the Rhine. In fact,
the song was first named the
Battle Hymn of the Army of the
Rhine"
A second paradox concerning this
greatest revolutionary song ever
written is that it was composed not
by an ardent revolutionist but by a
moderate republican, Claude Joseph
Rouget de Lisle, a captain of en-
gineers. The immortal notes were
picked out on a harpsichord and the
accompanying words set down on
paper during the nights of April "a
and Is, 1892, while de Lisle, at
tached to the army of seething and
only half-liberated France, was sta
toned at the French German
frontier to ward off threatened at
tack from beyond the Rhine.
The anthem was sung during the
next four months at scattered places
in France but was practically I'M
known in Paris. 1t first gained spec
tacular notice there when revo-
lutionary soldiers from Marseille
sang it Justify as they marched into
the French capital and took part
in the storming of the Tuileries Pal
ace.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-01-19

Tallest peak in Switzerland IS
Monte Rosa 1926 feet high on the
Italian border. A third as high are
the limestone ridges of the Jura
ranges in the west.
Between these two great noun
tain chains is the rolling floor of the
country, dotted with towns, glazed
with lakes, crisscrossed with roads
and railways. This midland area &C.
cupies about ole-fourth of Switzer
land; the rest reaches toward the
sky. %
The rugged backbones of the
mountain ranges feed international
rivers Main systems beginning in
Switzerland are the Rhine and the
Rhone. From the Gotthard range
southwark flows the Ticino to meet
1taly's Pc; the Inn sweeps north
east through Austria to join the Dan.
ube. The Aare rises in central Swift
zerland and winds northwest through
mountain lakes past Bern, then
northeast to join the Rhine.