Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1937 — Page 5

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s I Indian Big Help at Thanksgiving »s I uwik,;’- W = ■ w- ii "H K jy, mH .<'*■"*' u :•< U I Bl Th.inksgik Ing rites [ g . 3: -' r * BHr. <* (•■MSF - * wWIm IMU&U i m ißi & ' '■■ ■’W’ /k QBy ; T ; iRSf - . . -gar t t£®J" Jss<“"Zfc'» Indians grinding corn y • ysAnoth" r Thanksgiving calls attention to how much credit is due iNe .WMhn for his share in making the holiday dinner a success, r More thanp. r > food plants were discovered and developed by these original Americans not to speak of the turkey which is a native bird anil one which was a real delicacy to the redskin. Potatoes, beans, com, pumjE'ins. pineapples and other similar staples were introduced to I ’TOi White man by various tribes. Even the tobacco with which many 1 1 IM.’frft their Thanksgiving meal was first taken up by the Indian.

1 , B.' ELLA M. PHILIPS M News Writer ' , COLUMBIA. Mo. Our ThanksV giving feinner, long considered an : 1 AauXte' institution, is really' 1 morßkhorougiily American than r we realize. Baked turkey—and ” dinner is com0 pMliHfrithout it?—was eaten by the American Indians a thousand yeflßefore John Alden and Priscllla eyer celebrated harvest time. BufMlked turkey alone doesn't niwKa Thanksgiving dinner. wMßfcbout the other foods fo* I year? Where did ' tWßbme from? On your Thanksgiving table you 1 mW Jave pineapple salad. This as it is with AmericatjMind Europeans, is a food gjgJßbm the Indians. It is told that An Indian warrior was once desert region of Central Atetajca and, after several days of wgj®tir.R in search of food, he de- , cidetßto tackle a forbiding look-hSHweius-liko plant. Upon breakiajpljft’oiigh the hard scaly shell of tMljJteer looking ball, the Indian tasttjfit hesitantly. He was surprised to find the inside pleasant and jfctrory. When his companions -him sometime later, they, too, were amazed at the excellence of the‘peculiar fruit. From then on, the Indians took pains to im- ' prov® and develop the pineapple. 1 Developed Corn iflMh le ; nother food that many I 1111 have for our dinner this living. When Manuel Alarearly Spanish explorer, ate meal on this continent, he er seen nor heard of corn, ericans, corn on the cob, rnbread, succotash, corn >r just plain corn pudding, common as bread. This s a gift, and probably the iportant food gift, from the of the Americas. Many ions of experimentation ib.'o the development of the compthat we know today. The | harvest of corn, jeaped I

them made additional preparations to protect the city and refugees continued to flee to points further inland. Many already have arrived in Hankow, whore the main functions of the Chinese government will be carried on. United States Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson and other foreign envoys were expected to arrive in Hankow either tomorrow or Friday. Attaches of the Japanese embassy and United States consulate transmitted to the Japanese consulate a proposal from a civilians committee tn Nanking to create a neutral sone there. Forty Americans remained in Nanking, but 18 planned to leave within a few days. In South China Japanese airplanes bombed Canton and vicinity. At least 100 civilians were killed in Canton and the destruction was widespread. In North China there was evidence that ,ie Japanese Kwantung army was consolidating conquered territory into a manageable unit I without awaiting general settle- ! ment of the North China and Yangtze river problems Bomb Nanking Nanking, Nov. 24 tU.R) Tl" Japanese war machine officially opened its major offensive on Nan- . king today when the evacuated 1 capital was bombed for the first time since Sept. 8.

around 3500 B C., required 130 to 200 days to grow, was killed by the slightest touch of frost, and stagnated when the temperature I fell below 60 degrees. The sad plight of the midwest farmer of the past few years cannot compare with the struggle through the centuries between the Indian farmer and his field of corn. All through the Hallowe’en and Thanksgiving days we see fields of corn spotted with orange pumpkins. The Indian planted his corn with pumpkins that yellowed in the fall, making an unusual spectacle. This appealed to the early settlers, so they adopted the custom outright. Pumpkin pie is as Indian as com. Tobacco Another Debt Although com is perhaps the grea te st food gift from the Indians, they were generous with other products as well. No Thanksgiving dinner lacks both sweet and white potatoes. The yearly pound consumption of potatoes in the United States is greater than any other vegetable product, with the Irish potato leading. However, the Irish potato is no more Irish than Adolf Hitler. In the South American Andes the Indians developed it from the bitter tubers of a wild Salanum plant and they took the sweet potato from the roots of a wild morning glory vine. After years of experimentation they developed the vegetables as we know them. Some Thanksgiving tables will display beans-red beans, kidney beans, lima beans, green beans—all thoroughly American, and thoroughly Indian. And some may have tomatoes and chili peppers, tapioca flavored with vanilla, or Indian figs and star apples. These, too, were brought into cultivation by the American Indian. In all, we owe our thanks to the Indians for about 45 food plants and the turkey, besides the tobacco with which many top ofi their Thanksgiving dinner*.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY. NOVEM BER 21, 1937.

POWERS ADMIT - , - C ONTINUBp FwtQM rA_qg ON®) will reconvene on request of Its president, Paul Spaak of Belgium, or of any two members. The historical report recalls Japan s refusal to attend the conference and cites the stronglyworded declaration which the conference adopted a week ago condemning Japan, a declaration which contrasts strongly with the present colorless declaration and report. China's filibuster to get stronger action from the conference apparently collapsed before the meeting. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate, previously demanded aid for China in the form of arms, credit and economic sanctions against Japan. By pressing the demands, the Chinese apparently hoped that the United States. Britain, France and other powers might, at least agree outside the conference to help China obtain arms and munitions. With such help, the Chinese thought they could prolong their resistance through the winter and cause the economic collapse of Japan. The Chinese still hope that the big powers will aid them secretly but delegates of the United States, Britain and France declare they have made no secret committments on the question. Britain invited Norman H Davis, chief United States delegate, to visit Ixmdon and discuss future action outside the conference. Davis expected to decline. Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister, suggested that Davis leave for London on Friday, leading to the possibility of tripower talks, since Premier Camille Chautemps of France and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos are due in London about the same time. JURY RETURNS (CONTINTQED _ FHOM FAOP OTfg) then threw her body from the Mark Twain Memorial bridge into the Mississippi river. The confession, he said on the witness stand, was obtained under duress. “I couldn't kill her, she was 'my friend and a devout church worker,” he said. He accused his stepdaughter, a trim spinster, of engineering the crime—an unexpected story on which he based his hopes for acquittal. On the night of the slaying, he said, he was slugged and kidnaped by at least two persons, including Miss Hanan. "When 1 recovered conscious ness,” he related. "Myra was driving me home in her car and told me Mrs. Kelly was dead and 'had gone down the river’.” Miss Hanan denied the charge and said she was home in bed. She testified Newton had given her $1,920 in cash for ‘‘safekeeping’' July 13, the day Mrs- Kelly’s body was found by a fisherman. The state charged the money was the remainder of $2,000 the siain mother withdrew from a Paris bank the day she fled with the preacher. The trial w-as marked, too, by the dramatic testimony of the son, Noel, who reluctantly told a story which conflicted with his father’s alibi for the night of the slaying. Despite the damaging testimony of his own family, Newton maintained a stolid front. He seemed relieved when the case was given to the jury. He everheard a newspaperman ask a bailiff for a call when the jury returned its verdict. Newton smiled. “Would you let' me know, too. bailiff?" he asked. Judge Williams did not announce when lie would pronounce formal sentence. o Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Harkless and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hollmann will spend Thanksgiving Day in Fort Wayne as tlfe guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Decker and Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Faegler and son David. o Pure Pork Sausage, Gerber’s Market. m-t-w

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