Ligonier Banner., Volume 81, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 August 1947 — Page 2

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This is our view: : Soybean Research Hunts The “Sleeping Beauty” of the food world, the soybean, still awaits the Prince Charming of chemists who will solve the problem of how to prevent soybean products from sometimes reverting to a “beany” taste. Discovery of such a laboratory technique will mean millions to the soybean industry. Racing to get over this final hurdle are -such well-known laboratories as the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Northern Regional Laboratory, in Peoria, and those of various important processing and refining industries. Margarine manufacturers, all of whom maintain laboratory research on edible soybean oil use, are especially interest‘ed because approximately 40 per cent of margarine produced comes from soybean oil.

Soybean oil itself is a mixture of compounds which can be separated into a fine edible oil used extensively in shortenings and margarine, and a fraction excellent for use in paints and varnishes. Separately, the two parts of soybean oil are worth much more than together, and this characteristic of soybean oil opens up much wider uses. Not all the problems facing soybean growers and processors are technical. One restriction on a free market for soybean oil is the mass of license fees and taxes in effect on margarine that limit the production and distribution of this product. Led by the soybean belt states, these restrictions are being fought in lively bouts in the wvarious state legislatures and in Congress. A product that utilizes the whole bean is soy flour, now coming into greater popularity. Soy flour use is increasing as bakers’ laboratories discover that it has greater water-absorbing capacity than wheat flour and shortens mixing time. Soy flour also retards staling and ‘lengthens the shelf life of bakery prodducts. The University of Arkansas has also gotten remarkable results in its experiments with improving the nutritional value of wheat flour by adding soy flour: - Soy flour is important for its protein content. Soy protein, according to one _scientist, “comes the nearest of any one article of food to supplying all the reg.uirements of proteins in human nutriion.” Soybean oil now leads cottonseed, corn and peanut oils in the use for shortenings, margarine and cooking oils. With constant research going on, soybean oil occupies a strategic position in the fats and oils field.

Indiana Game Aided Game birds and animals in Indiana today have an increased opportunity for survival, according to field experts in the Indiana Department of Conservation. Realizing that natural cover and food rather than artificial propagation produces the most wildlife, the Division of Fish and Game has pushed its Wildlife Habitat Restoration Program under the Pittman-Robertson Act. Under the program, small, unprofitable areas are leased for ten years and seeded to obtain plant life that will check erosion and produce food for wildlife. Six thousand acres are under lease now. This year for the first time the Pitt-man-Robertson field men have had an opportunity to properly inspect areas established in 1941, and their findings will be presented in a report to._be prepared in the Fall. ; "Not only rabbits but also landowners are happy with the habitat areas since after a few years of development, the land once again becomes profitable through the production of marketable timber. @ ~« . This year Pittman-Robertson project leaders will be permitted, for the first time, to spend 25 percent of their alloted funds for maintenance such as fence repair and sign replacement, but most of the money will be spent, as usual, for actual development. :

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Thursday, August 7 1947

Along about February first of this year I remember distinctly the enthusiasm I engendered for this summer’s gardening. At that time all the seed catalogs were pouring in, and true to form I was again planning (and also harvesting) the best crop of everything to be grown in the county. Hardly a night went by that I didn’t complete my evening’s reading with one catalog or the other, and then spend those minutes between awake and asleep dreaming of the bountiful harvest that would be mine.

Well, spring came with its rains and all, and I had my acre plowed, and believe it or not I durn near planted all the seeds I had ordered. It sure looked like a banner year (no pun intended), when an enemy started to rear its ugly head in all corners of the garden, and with malicious a forethought I gathered the weapons at my command and started to kill with a vengeance that even surprised me. You see, without the accompanying bray of the bagpipes I was singing with all my might that old familiar song, “The Weeds Are a Comin”. I chopped, I pulled . . . I even beseeched them in plaintive voice, but to no avail. They came wi¢h rapidity of the Mormon grasshoppers, and nary a seagull or its kind could I find to bring up the rear and save me from their horrible seige. Friends came by and watched with amazement the growth of said weeds, and although I offered a brand new hoe to any man who would spend an evening in the cause of my fight, I found none. Not one person answered the call, and though dispair filled my heart I was touched with this new attitude of peace . . . this refusal to kill. Well, I battled on, half heartedly I admit, until the ever consuming energy‘of my enemy had me licked. : Then one day when I was gazing dejectedly on the sight before my eyes I was struck with a thought. Here was something of which to be proud. Here was a crop of weeds not to be found within a hundred miles. HBe was variety in its fullest sense. Here was something to display with pride. My early heartaches changed to glee. I had been a success. ' :

Now when fellow townsmen pass my way I take them with swelling chest to the rear of my home. I show them my weeds. I point out the various kinds, their terrific growth, and they too admit with me, that no where within the radius of the crow’s flight could a better crop be seen. It now is questionable whether I harvest or not. Perhaps a llone cucumber or a tomato will suffer it through, but mark my word, come next February when the catalogs roll in, I will again be consumed with plans for the summer. I will add to the treasury of the various companies by purchasing seeds with reckless abandon. All I hope, and I shall place a medal there upon, is that some kind man in this land of ours will find a cure for the scurge of the weed. It will be the invention of the ages, and the cheers of the multitude will follow in his wake. Believe you me, I will lead the parade.

This week a stray dog found its way to our home, and though still a pup, it is easy to determine that his origin is of rueful mishap for each in the family have branded him differently, I say he’s mostly collie, but the argument continues, and I suspect my wife is right when she says he’s “just plain dog.” The reason I mention all this is to acquaint you with a unique way we discovered to get him to leave. First, we gave him water and food. Next we fixed a bed of soft materials beside the rear porch door. On the second night of his arrival my son held him on his lap and scratehed his neck and stroked his back. When he barks at a passerby we get out dur finest pencil and beat him' within an inch of his life. We talk baby talk when he comes around and we let him lick our hands. Gh e This procedure was followed for three consecutive days and nights, and each morning when we arise we expect to see him gone. Peculiarly he hasn’t yet left, but we’re on the right track and most any day we ezigect to report that our household is again without the ever watchful eyes of a faithful dog.

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Recession Warning * WASHINGTON. — It hasn’t been noised ‘about, but Senater Taft was advised by Dr. John Clark.of the president’s council of economic ad--visers that it would be very shortsighted to anticipate ‘‘a brief and moderate recession.” If there is a decline in the near future, Clark wrote Taft, it will be anything but - “brief and moderate.” The warning went to Taft in his capacity as chairman of the joint economic committee. * e . Frequent comparisons of the present situation with that following World War I are erroneous, Clark 'said. But even if they were correct, it is wrong to hold that the recession of 1922 was of minor importance. ol - , ' + “Industrial production, industrial employment and national income all dropped about 30 per cent,” the economic adviser informed Taft, “and we all know what happened to . the farmer.” : Recovery then was rapid, except in agriculture, Clark ¢ontinued. * ‘‘But economic changes which were . amajor factor in that early recovery and which those who are compla--cent about another ‘moderate recession’ wquld welcome, may not rescue us this time, he added. “Prices of farm products will not drop as in 1920-21 because congress has ordered that they be supported,”” Clark advised. ‘“The price which we call wages will be far more rigid because the ranks of organized labor, which-will always resist wage reductions, include 10 million more workers whose power in bargaining on wage changes has been fortified by legislation unknown a, generation ago. ‘““The great danger in the easy optimism about a ‘moderate recession’ lies in its tendency to create a reluctance on the part of the people and of their representatives to institute public policies which are uncomfortable but which are needed to forestall the forces which threaten our continued prosperity. We know they will accept—nay, they will ‘even demand—government action of far more serious import if we suffer a depression. “But it would be folly to let matters take their course in the expectation that if business turn. downward it will be only a mild and short affair, or that if it grows into a depression we will then take care of it. “We will take care of it,” concluded Clark. ‘“We™will hi&ve to do so. But the task would be very difficult as compared with our present problem.” . @ &

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Indian Lament : The house public lands committee learned the other day that the ‘“‘vanishing’’ American Indian—contrary to legend—not only can be plenty talkative, but has a long memory about the adversity of his forebears. Protesting a bill which would sell 320 acres of tribal land as a park site to the city of Lawton, Okla., Lee Motah, chief of the ComancheKiowa, Apache tribal council, teold congressmen: “We once faced your rifles and bullets and our countless arrows were no maitch for them. Now we find ourselves equally unable to compete with your political machines.”’ Equally outspoken was 73-year-old Albert Attocknie, a colorful Comanche with a braid of hair dangling over each shoulder. ‘“My people have their own customs and their own ways, which are natural to us but odd to you,” he said. ‘“When we went to the zoo here to see the animals, the people looked at us instead of at the animals.” * L # Who Writes Our Taxes - It is estimated that the CIO and AFL between them, with their members’ families, constitute at least 40 per cent of the nation’s taxpayers. ; However, when it came to ex: pressing their view on tax legislation before Rep. Harold Knutson’s house ways and means committee, here is how the two big labor organ: izations rated: ‘They were given exactly 28 minutes. Chairman Knutson gave the AFL 15 minutes while : thec_m‘zotlg“f iy . In contrast,” here is how Knutson - stacks the cards in favor of big ‘business. To help write the 1949 tax bill, Knutson has appointed a spe cial tax advisory committee, most of whose members are already or - record for reducing higher “bracket taxes and for imposing a sales tax -regarded by most economists as _hitting low-income groups muck harder than big incomes. . Members of the Knutson advisory committee include John W. Hanes, ~melly, E. H Lane and Roswel m‘gﬂ. all of whom are associated _the GOP congressman from Minne.

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|SERMOY OF THE WEEK

- ELECTRONIC GLUE “l am strong just when I am weak.” II Cor. 12:10, Moffatt. There is a gadget every handyman about the house would use if it were not for two drawbacks: it weighs the better part of a ton, and it costs ten thousand dollars. It is an electronic gluing machine, and is used .in the most modern furniture factories. When it was necessary to fasten together two pieces of wood, or several of them the old method was to paste the glue in the right places, put it all in a big vise and then run the ‘whole thing through an oven. The process, speeded up by the best machinery, would take an hour or more. ' With electronic glue it ean be done in 30 seconds and done more effectively. The pieces are stuck~ together just as before, and passed under some powerful radio tubes. The juice is turned on, and radio-frequency waves go through all the wood. But since these seek the weakest spot, thev concentrate not in the wood but in the glue. After about 30 seconds the current can be turned off, but the electronic glue remains. After that treatment, you can throw the pieced-together slabs about, and evenn _break the wood if you treat it roughly enough, but it never comes apart where it was glued. The joints will be stronger than ‘the original wood. - o - These things furnish a parable. Our lives are full of cracks, we 3‘18{&:}( unity, we come to pieces easily. Some kind of inner adhesive is needed to make and keep us strong and stable. The world can put us together in & loose sort of way, but the process never can be relied on. God, if we submit to his power, can do it simply and Smﬂlyum‘ehe ~mighty current of his power and grace, we are filled with what in other circumsidnces wmight destroy us. - This current concentrates at our weak these become our areas of greatet gtoingeh, . . It was so, you remember, with Simon Peter, He was weak at the ﬁm%cﬂmtagm%u% One dark night he was about to be broken a mw%w YU e WL W 5 ok Tm e Lord flashed through him. like an

- MY SUMAMER DREAMS Throughout the yellow .afternoon The heat waves seem to dance Above ther golden harvest fields Beyond the vine-clad fence. A distant reaper, duty bound, Keeps up its harvest song, While drooping leaves and cloudless skies The weary hours prolong. The dusty highway, winding, Tades From sight beyond the hill, While memories of by-gone days Intrude upon my will. Above my hammock bed there floats A lazy butterfly, While far and near odd shapes appear However hard I try. : Farther away, and farther still, The distant reaper sings, While fancies fill my drowsy head And factual things take wi-ngs.* And finally my summer day , Fades from my world, it seems, And leaves me to my hammock bed And to my summer dreams. LG BT

invisible flame. There was strength in Simon Peter, there was many a good piece in him; but that look from Jesus did not seek out the good points that night. It went straight to his line of weakness, the line of cowardice. And later on we find this man Peter stronger at that point, if possible, than at any otler. Under the most frightening circumstances- he stood up unbroken, unbreakable. Paul had the same experience on a different line. It was the physical weakness of his life—whatever form that may have taken—that disturbed him. Many a time he must have felt that his whole success depended on his fragile health. His mental balance, even, may have seemed to rest on his physical balance, and nothing seemed secure. How could he live, how would he go on, when all the time everything might give way in one physical breakdown? Thoughts like these may well have "been behind those desperate prayers for relief. But the power of God passed through him, and Paul learned - what Peter had learned, that into a man’s weakness may come God’s strength to such a degree that whatever other breaks may come, that place willnot break. Readers of his later letters—when he was probably still carrying that thorn in the flesh—would never guess that such lines come from a man with an incurable physical defect, perhaps in lifelong pain. As his days, so was his strength. o It has Thappened before - and since. When Nathan pointed his finger at David and said, “Thou art the man,”. the shock to David’s pride and conscience must have been terrific. But it was God’s shock—and David never came to pieces there again. A young man was dismissed from a college by his own fellow-students once, for stealing; but the grace of God was in that shock, and he eventuaily came back to become of the most scrupulously honest persons his friends ever knew. .. ~ Only a Power not in ourselves can ng%ﬁ pa» e R ALI Tl e Pahag. Qbiy The SR

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HEAT EXHAUSTION EXPOSURE to high temperatures, especially when the air is humid, may result in serious injury. to the body. Heat disturbances, such as exhaustion, suu stroke or heat cramps, are most apt to develop in those ill from other <~auses, »and in the very young and the very old. Heat exhaustion causes marked weakness, dizziness, pallor, sweating, and lowering of the blood pressure. The onset of heat exhaustion apparently is sudden. A victim -of heat exhaustion sheuld be allowed to rest in a cool place. His thirst should be. quenched with water which containg a level teaspoonful of salt in every quart. Orangeade and: lemonade with extra quantities of! sugar are satisfying to the patient.: A physician should be called. | In heat or sun stroke, the" breathing lis -deep and full, the. pulse is rapid and the pupils are, dilated. The skin is dry and hot | and the face is flushed. The cloth-l ing should be removed and the body sprinkled with water. The‘ hospital practice is to soak a| sheet in alcohol, wrap the patient] in it, and allow an electric fan to blow over him. 9 Heat cramps develop in those who work in hot places ax@ pergpire freely. The onset is sudden, with cramps in the arms, legs and. abdomen. The condition is caused: by too rapid loss of salt and water.| The proper treatment is rest and! salt water. ' i Muscular. exertion should be limited during periods of extreme heat, and direct exposure to the rays of the sun should be avoided.

l_l PARALYSIS AGITANS ‘PA‘RALYSIS agitans, sometimes called Parkinson’s disease or shaking palsy, is a chronic condi‘tion which afflicts many people.. ,The most typical sign is a shaking of the hands and arms. There are at least two main varieties of paralysis agitans. One is that which comes in older peo.ble, particularly men, and is probably the result of some aging process involving a particulat part of the brain. This does not mean there is any interference with “thinking.” The . other principal kind comes from a disease or group of diseases called encephalitis, which means inflammation of the brain. Formerly much of the‘ encephalitis was called American sleeping sickness because some of the victims tended to sleep, or at least be unconscious for weeks, and ‘even months. | The symptoms of shaking palsy after encephalitis may be just ex-! actly like those of the other variety. Muscular movements, especially of the hand and arm, are slowed down and are somewhat difficult. There is no really good treatment for either kind of paralysis agitans. The victims seem to be worse when they become fatigued, and therefore strenuous activity chould be avoided. The vast majority of victims are able to lead fairly normail lives. Special exercises, sun baths, massage, vitamin preparations and cold water ireatments have been tried, but do not help muci Scme special drugs seem to relieve the shaking, but—do not get at the root of the disease.,

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g b : (g \ 's |\ ~ Oaﬂﬁ . \ l"\ ¢ b ;‘ } ’)‘. 3 T 5 e (éf, i %;’a%\\i './’ Everybody knows it pays to buy U. 8. Bonds. But not everybody knows how much it pays. By investing as small a sum as $2.50 a week in U. 8. Bonds, your savings will be $1,440.84 in ten years. Take savings of $3.75 a week; by 1957, you will have $2,163.45. There are two easy ways to save automatically. Have a regular amount of money set aside from your pay each week for bonds through the Payroll® Savings Plan. Or, if you’re not on a payroll, but you do have a checking account, you can have your bank automatically charge your account for the purchase price of a bond each , month. U. S. Treasury Department of God can find the brﬁkgn pjaces in our disjointed lives and knit them into a strength that can - outlast the years. @. - ; .. —Kenneth J. Foreman _Next week: Rev. Edward Ma-