Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 January 1942 — Page 7

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If shredded coconut becomes dry it can be softened by steaming in a clean cloth over boiling water. • • « Keep spices tightly covered and away from the heat. Otherwise, much of the flavor may be lost. • * • If potatoes .are placed on the broiler rack instead of the floor of the oven they bake quicker. * * * . If you like the flavor of cloves, try adding a few whole ones to the fat in which doughnuts are fried. * * * To remove paper that has stock to a polished surface, soften with a little olive oil. * * • Don’t open cans or chop ice in the sink—you will damage the enamel. * * * . Moisten dry stove polish with vinegar instead of water and your stove will take on a better polish. * * * Paintbrushes, when not in use, should be soaked in turpentine and washed in warm soapsuds before they are stored away.

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Sporthight

by GRANTLAND RICE

'T'HERE was a time, not so many * dynasties ago, when the New York Giants were the most valuable franchise in baseball—worth more than almost any stock on the big exchange. Now the same Giants are in a spot where it may well take a million dollars to bring them a first-division ball club, where the success of the Brooklyn Dodgers kept them floating neck deep in the surf. , , It is a far and eerie cry from McGraw’s Giants of 1905 to Mel Ott’s Giants of 1942 and the homerun hitter from Gretna, La., has a long and rough pull upward to get them on the old camping grounds. That 1905 delegation was the first batch of McGraw Giants I ever saw in action, and it still remains in memory among the best in the game. At any rate, you’ll find no

MEL OTT

stronger battery work today than Mathewson and McGinnity pitching to Bresnahan. j There was plenty of Irish on that Giant squad—McGinnity, Bresnahan, McGann, Devlin and Mike Donlin, to mention only a few. It was the beginning of a new Giant history that was packed with merry sagas up until the last three years when Bill Terry’s material dropped to the sec-ond-division class and floundered out of polite baseball society. The Giants, in their day and time, have had such pitchers as Mathewson, McGinnity, Wiltse, Ames, Marquard, 'Tesreau, Nchf, Schupp—and the groat Hubbell. They hgve had such ball players as Devlin, Bresnahan, Donlin, Beauty Bancroft, Heinie Groh, Pep Young, Buck Herzog, Larry Doyle, Bill Terry, George Kelly, and a long line of others well up on the list. It is different now’. . Otfs Job No one can expect Mel Ott to reach into the dugout and bring forth a miracle. These are tough rebuilding days for any ow r ner or manager. You’ll read where the Dodgers need maybe two or three additions—where the Cardinals can stand pat—where the Reds need a few changes —where the Pirates need pitchers —but the Giant need takes in the pitching staff, the infield and the outfield. Me! Ott is a smart, keen baseball man who knows his trade. But he will need at least 10 or 12 new, good ball players before he will be back in old Giant territory, around the top. And good ball players are not picked up around the first corner. It is hard enough to get one or tw’o good new men, much less 10 or 12 or more. Someone has let the Giant machine go to rust. It will take a large bale of money to have it shining again. MacPhail at Brooklyn has proved the job could be done. But he found no substitute for mqney on his way up. For that matter, Tom Yawkey and others have found that even money isn’t always quite enough, no matter how much you spend. The Changing Years I can take you back to the days when the Yankees were struggling on the old hilltop and the Dodgers were just another club in the National league. At this time the Giants were the Mt. Everest of baseball. Under McGraw they were winning 10 pennants. The Yankees and Dodgers were trying to get out of the second division the greater part of the time. Last fall the Yankees and Dodgers met in the World Series show with the Giants so deep in the second division that if took a deep-sea diver to locate their bodies. Just who it was that let the Giants go to seed —Stoneham or Terry—isn’t so important now if the right move is made to bring them back. But the point is that the Dodgers and the Cardinals are already strongly fixed around the top—the Reds have the pitching that may again carry them close—the Pirates and the Cubs have been building for another upward Burge. It is easy enough to understand the killing job Mel Ott faces in clearing most of these hurdles, especially if first baseman Babe Young goes into the army.

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST

Kathleen Norris Says: Women Pay Great Price for Indiscretion

My married life uas perfect until a man / knew in college turned up in our neighborhood. The story of our affair is not new. All the lessons in the world can’t save me from what is going on now.

By KATHLEEN NORRIS

N’O LANGUAGE is strong enough to convinceyoung boys that theft and forgery are Wrong. And not merely wrong in being punishable crimes. Wrong because of what they do to a boy’s character, even if he is never found out. Wrong in boyhood, because the stolen quarter or the, forged school excuse are steps to more serious forgeries and thefts, and once schooled well in those directions it takes heroic fortitude —it takes indeed a complete change of personality, to resist later temptationsT In the same way I wish I could find words impressive enough to help girls to see just holv great is the price Women have to pay for that thrilling “giving in” to the young lovers of school and college days. If your husband told you, one of these cosy winter evenings, that during his senior year at college he supported himself entirely by stealing and forging, you would be horrified. You couldn’t laugh it off, tell him that it didn’t make the slightest difference to you. You could not honestly say, “I love you for what you are, dear, not for what you were.” Having sold his honor once, you would feel —and the world would feel —he might sell it again. And in exactly the same way a man knows that a girl, who w 7 as reckless in giving her favors in girlhood, is not going quite suddenly to attain an entirely different position toward what ought always to be the sacred symbol of her honor. These are old-fashioned phrases, and to gijis mine seems an old-fash-ioned altitude. But I can assure them that, viewed in the light of later years, they will see the whole thing differently. It would be easier for a young wife to explain to her husband that she lifted some money out of the department-store cash} register when she was working there years before her marriage, than to explain that she was intimate for a few months with one of the men who is known to her husband in business. Buried Secrets Reappear. Of course, if she can avoid it, and hope permanently to avoid it, a girl doesn’t tell her prospective husband these things. But that security 'sn’t always as sound as it seems. Hardly a day goes by without bringing me a desperate letter from some young wife who has supposed her secret long forgotten and buried. Many of these women say that, feeling it would be more comfortable to admit to the affair befdre marriage and start on an apparently honest basis, they have softened the story by saying that the man was ‘‘someone you never met. He died the following year.” This does smooth things over for the moment. Few men, especially in anticipation of an immediate marriage to an adored woman, will waste time on jealousy of a dead man. But matters are much worse when the perverse turn of events brings this man into contact with the family again, and the unsuspecting husband is perhaps cordial to him. So that the wife must either make a clean breast of the whole thing, or put up with the insufferable situation of having a secret with one of the guests of the house that would crush her husband’s pride and faith in her if it were made known.

(Bell Syndicate— WNU Service.)

\o amount of good advice u ij.l keep some girls from saying to themselves “Everyone else does it, u-hy shouldn't l?" So they willingly give away their future security and peace of mind. Perhaps they do “get away with it" for a while. But sooner or later they must come face to face with their earlier indiscretion, only to find that it really H asn't n orth it after all. Be sure to read Kathleen \ orris' advice to the "J. G." of this letter, a happily married woman ivhose girlhood folly threatens to destroy her home and the love of her invalid husband.

. Such a case is that of who writes me from Georgia: “When I married my husband, I loved him,” says her letter, “but now after 11 years of unclouded happiness I know that my early Ipve was only a shadow of what real love could be! He is not a strong man; we live for our garden, our books, and our one daughter. “Reggie was invalided after a terrible bout with pneumonia four years ago, and we took what capital we had and bought a tiny farm, which my nine-year-old Rachael and I have brought to the point of being an asset rather than a liability. Meanwhile Reg had started writing, little bookish essays at first, for which he was not paid; later more ambitious literary studies, one of which is to be published in book form in the spring. Our lives were per-fect-perfect perfect, until a man I used to know as a college student turned up in the neighborhood. “The story of our old affair is no new one to you. I thought it concerned only ourselves. I was away from home for the first time, and ‘every other girl did it, why not I?’ The 15 years between that time and this have been disciplinary years, and I know they have made me a finer and wiser woman than anything that was promised by the nature of that girl of 19. “But all the lessons in the world can’t save me from what is going on now. I suppose you would call it blackmail. Victor amuses Reggie, who calls him a ‘rough diamond,' and Victor wants to come and live with us. He has no job, no money, no ambition. He has grown heavy and lazy, but on the three occasions when he has called he has, as I say, made himself amusing, and outlined what he would like to do with the farm to develop it. “Oh, Reg wouldn’t divorce me or leave me,” the letter concludes, “but his faith in me, his pleasure in what he calls my ‘lily’ girlhood, would receive a terrible shock. He is not strong; he cannot go about as other men do. He has so few pleasures! His utter pride in Rachael and me is the greatest of them all.” I’ve written “J.G.” telling her that the only way out is the way of full confession. That means she can dismiss the odious Victor in no uncertain terms and then resume her happy way of life with no further reference to the cloud that has come up so suddenly. Victor will have her old letters, of course, and she the sting of old memories. And Reg wdll have to replace his idealistic love for his wife with something less fragile— less perfect. I wonder what her answer would be today if she could hear that girl, of 15 years ago, asking, “What’s the difference?”

NOT WORTH IT

FARM TOPICS

SOIL PROTECTION HELPS WAR PLAN Increased Production Takes Toll of Important Resource.

By PROF. C. J. CHAPMAN

(Soils Department, Wisconsin College Of Agriculture, Madison: Wis.) While we are pouring billions of dollars into the war program to fight the aggressions of Axis powers threatening our way pf life, we likewise have an obligation that is of tremendous importance to our future and ultimate security. And that is the protection of our greatest resource—the soil. It is fortunate that before we had to launch this all-out military effort we were already engaged in a peace-time defense program involving soil conservation. It is essential that this program we have so well started, against the forces of nature and of human indifference and carelessness for the preservation of our soils be continued. Otherwise the handwriting on the wall for American agriculture of the future will be visible to even the dimmest eye. It is of vital importance that our soils be made fit to produce the vast crops necessary in this war effort. The federal government has already shown what can be done through its gigantic programs of land use planning, soil conservation, erosion control and reforestation. The combined results of the findings of experiment stations, extension Workers and teachers, and the efforts of the educational agencies of the fertilizer industry, ’nave iong since built up a vast fund of information that leaves no doubt as to the wisdom of and necessity for a neverending program of soil conservation. Steadily, but surely, the soils of the United States have been losing essential plant food elements ever since they were brought under cultivation. Thp organic matter content of our soils is diminishing. Tremendous losses of plant food are being incurred in the yearly sale of farm produce, live-stock and live-stock products. We are losing fertility through the wasteful handling of animal manures. It is true that losses of plant food have been offset to some extent through the purchase of commercial fertilizer. However, the sum total of all losses in actual plant food sold from our farms or wasted on farms is many times that which at present is brought back and applied to cultivated fields in the form of commercial fertilizer. We cannot continue a system of farming where we are spending or using up soil fertility many times as fast as it is being replenished.

AGRICULTURE IN INDUSTRY

By Florence C. Weed

(This is one of a series of articles showing how farm products are finding an important market in industry.) Honey and Wax The honey and wax industry brings $14,000,000 to a half million bee keepers in the 48 states. Each year the wax is adapted to wider uses, especially in cosmetics where it is used as a base for ,the finer face.creams and nail polishes. It also is used in polishes for furniture. In the automotive industry, beeswax into foundry fillets. Here it is especially favored because the wax sticks to any surface and can be worked into the corners of patterns.* Higher priced electric coils are insulated with wax and some goes into the cores of golf balls. After marketing their product, bee keepers have some of the wax returned to them in the form of comb foundation which they buy for their hives. This is the thin midrib on which the bees make their comb. Nearly 3,000,000 pounds of beeswax is used for rubrical candles and lights for the Catholic church. Beeswax candles are favored for mystical reasons and because the high melting point of wax (145 degrees) provides a slow burning candle that will not bend at high temperatures. The pure wax candle does not smoke and gives off no irritating gas. Some honey is used in curing hams and brier pipes but most of it goes to the direct consumer for food. It is highly recommended for quick energy and is prescribed by physicians for infant feeding and in the treatment of some diseases. Dark colored, strong flavored grades go to bakery and confectionery trades.

Agricultural News

Three million United States farms now are included in soil conserva tion districts. • • • Russia is experimenting in the production of rubber from a variety of dandelion to supply war needs. • • * During the winter cows in production consume about five pounds of water for every pound of milk they give.

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