Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1952 — Page 11

THURGtUY, OCTOBER 2, 1952

Canning Industry Will Honor Appert

First To Can Food For Preservation

\ WASHINGTON, UP —The canning industry Oct. 23 will honor “the man behind the, tin can” on his 2Ooth birthday anniversary. That man was Nicholas Appert, who'.was born in 1752.

Ip 1775 when France was fighting uiogt Os Europe, there it seemed, one enemy which could not be conquered. French soldiers we|e‘dying from scurvy and other diseases. \ ~ The government offered 12,000 francs as a prise to the citizen who could devise a< method of preserving fresh food for transport on campaigns./ Up to that time .about the only method of preserving foods was to dry them. When peaches and tomatoes became ripe, the people either had to eat them right oft the tree or vine, dry them, or throw them away.

Appert was an obscure confectioner. He was not a scientist. He developed a process which hekriew preserved foods, but he, did not know. why. J A \ \ Tn« ’humble cake baker worked for years tofind a method whereby man copld divorce himself from the local harvest. His \theory was that if food was sufficiently heated and

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then sealed in a'container, it would k?ep. That simple reasoning is the Jhindamental modern principle as practiced today. 4$ Appert filled bottle* with various £bods. He sealed them with cork stoppers and cooked them in boilUg water. j ■ ' Samples of the preiserved vegetated and fruits weije put aboard filing vessels and sfent around the i<orld. They retained their whole- | v Buts for some time Appert was •pone too popular. Skilors and soldiers complained that the foods didn't seem to taste the same, but ■febfore long they found themselVes jiealthler— and wiser). ii At length in 11809 Appert received the 12,000 franc prize from none Other than Emperor Napoleon Bon■aparte. ‘ In all, Appert succeeded in can-

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nlng more than 50 different foods.| This inspired himio publish in)) 1810 a treatise called “Art of pre-| serving all kinds of aniriial and) vegetable substances/’ That bed canie the basic reference book forj subsequent developments in can-) ning procedure and technology. It remained for 1 xml's -Pasteur, the great French scientist, to re-j veal that food spoiled through the process of ffermentation because on the action of always-present bacteria. . I : ' , ' • ’ About the time Appert announc-) ed the results of his work, Bryan Donkin land John Hall began ’ to| preserve foods fey his method in Britain, In 1810,. the j’ear aftfer tha baker received )his reward, pfeteij Durand introduced and patented; the “tin Icanster,” which most cferl tainly \vas the granddaddy of 'the tin can We know today.

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The “tin canster” was made qf iron coated with tip. The cohtain; er could be turned out by a good tinsmith at the rate of 10 cans a day. . •. . V ; , Today)the house without a can opener is hardly a house at air. o- _ L—o | The People’s Voice This column is for the use of our readers who Wish to make suggestions for • the general good or discuss; questions of interest. .No articles will be published without signature of , the author.L > h ' i J 9 _ -g Enjoys Hi-Way Airport Editor, Decatur Daily Democrat: I wish to express my gratification in being able to use ttie HiWay airport on my; recent visit to Decatur, and my appreciation of, the very courteous reception I had from Miss Ivetich and her associates at the field. Over the past 1Y years I hate flown to Decatur oh an average of once a month, as often for professional reasons as for personal. I used the former airport Just east of your present golf links several times; after the war I landed fre-

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quently at Liniger airport.' these 'Were not available I landed at Baer Field or at Van Wert, and very recently enjoyed the hospitality of Russ Beyer at hig private landing field) at Willshire. \ ; I You then will appreciate how much I enjoyed the privilege of landing my plane at the conveniently located Hi-Way airport. | 1 have known) many of your local pilots, and am aware of the active! interest your city has in flying) I do hope that the Hi-Way airport wil} receive jthe support it deserves ifrom your city as well as from active flyer|, Few cities are fortunate enough to have a suitable landing area so close and accessible to . the business; district I am sure that your responsible Officials sense this advantage, and accordingly iwill provide what is necessary for developing this location into thfe kind of airport that a. forward-looking Decatur needs! Ydurs very truly, - ) George ißenner, Jr. MI), 2458 Clybourn Place Cincinnati 19, Ohio; ; . , - i|l ; ; 1 " ■ ; When potatoes are boiled too rapidly it makes them soft and broken on the outside, while the centers will ibe hard and uncooked. ' I , ‘ I ■

Langnge Mixture Plan For Touring MONTE CARLO, Monaco UP — Thei day is not far off when a tourist seeking a cup of coffee or a single room with bath will be able to ask for them, anywhere in a new universal language of tourism. But he’ll probably have to ask for a “cup dlcafe” and a single mit bain.’* The International academy of tourism recently met here -and adopted plans for creation of a single international language for use by traveller*. The body approved the project of a basic dictionary. Then it promptly voted that the term “dictionary" He replaced by “International vocabulary of tourism”—to make easier. The academy is made up of travel bureau executives, touring elub presidents, cultural counsellors, hotel men and others who make the|r living catering to people with a wanderlust. Thb first dictionary — pardon, I. V. T. —will be rushed into print before the end of this year. It will bd a mixture of English and French at first because the academicians don’t have much hope of agreeing oiji single terms for everything right away. The I.V.T. will be revised and brought up to date every two and other languages will be “integrated” from time to time. To prove they know what they’re ' talking about, the savants of travel sponsored a contest for a definition of tourism. The assistant director of the Belgian Congo tourist office won. and will be awarded a medal with the likeness of Prince Rainier 111 of Monaca, a Iff-day trip to Monte Carlo and 10,000 francs (S2B) in cash. , > The winner, M. R. Demeyer, who livds in Brussels, defined tourism as: “L’ensemble des deplacements humains et des activities qui en resultent, provqques par I’exterlorisation et la realisation du desir d’evadlon qui sommeille a des degrees divers en chaqup individu.’j <jf which a literal translation is: *tThe total of human displace? mehts and the activities whjch re? suit from them, caused by the exteriorization and the realization of the desire to escape which is latent in various degrees in each individual.” Perfectly clear n,owf See how easy that international tourist language is gbing to be?

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