The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 248, Ed. 1 Monday, December 24, 1934 Page: 3 of 6
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
SUCH IS LIFE—Pop’s Night Out
By Charles Sughroe
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Seek to Stamp Out
Rule of Marihuana
Authorities Start Fight on
Pernicious Drug.
New York. — Narcotic authorities
throughout the country have started
a grim, intensive drive against the use
of marihuana, one of the most insid-
ious and pernicious dope evils of the
Twentieth century. The campaign will
be prosecuted with an intensity that
no similar past crusade has known.
And it probably will fail. Almost in
evitably it must do so.
But that is not deterring United
States officials from bending every ef-
fort to stamping out widespread use of
marihuana. If anything, their deter-
mination was whetted by the recem
discovery here of the raw material for
1,000,000 “reefers.” This is the slang
term, used by addicts, to describe
the innocent-looking cigarettes made
form the lethal Mexican plant.
A Drop in the Bucket.
But—statistics startlingly show—this
seizure, while imposing on paper, per-
haps—was a mere drop in the huge
bucket of marihuana dissemination.
To root out the menace it would be
necessary to include marihuana in the
list of drugs forbidden by the Harrison
act.
This measure fixed a heavy penalty
for the sale or possession of opium,
heroin, cocaine and similarly deadly
narcotics. But on the topic of mari-
huana it is silent, although desperate
efforts are made yearly to have the
latter included in the ban.
The outstanding reason why the lat-
est and most savage thrust against
marihuana may fail is easily explained.
This Is the facility with which the ad-
Pug’s Fighting Face
Pug Lund, captain and star back of
the Minnesota football team, is not
handsome to look upon when in action,
but he gets there just the same. His
friends think he might go to Holly-
wood and get a job as a screen vil-
lain.
diet can provide himself with it locally.
If you craved cocaine or heroin, the
only way you could get it would be to
buy it surreptitiously from a peddler.
But marihuana can easily and cheap-
ly be made by almost anyone. “Mary
Warner," as it is known along the wa-
terfronts, will grow in window boxes,
backyards, any patch of earth. There-
in lies the grimness of the situation.
And the ironic corollary to this is the
fact that in-at least half the states of
the Union it may be sold quite openly,
without fear of arrest.
Terrible in Effects.
What is this sinister marihuana? It
is scientifically designated as cannahis
\mericana (American hemp). EYom
its plant hasheesh is made—a mixture
of the dried seeds of the hemp, a little
opium and aromatic spices.
American addicts, however, usually
unoke the ungarnished leaf, known as
reefers’’ or “muggles.”
After the first few puffs the novice
experiences a sense of wild hilarity.
Then he falls into a profound slumber.
The second time, however, the real ef-
fects begin to telL Space and time be
come vastly distorted so that a second
seems like hours, and a kiss will last
forever. Sensuous images become mag-
nified and last indefinitely. A hand-
clap sounds like a thunderbolt and the
addict can literally hear a pin drop.
The craving for it becomes greater,
unconquerable. After five years of
taking it periods of temporary insan-
ity result.
Move 150-Year-Old Home
From Coast to Coast
Portland, Maine. — Charles Quincy
Chase, of San Francisco, will transfer
from coast to coast the 150-year-old
homestead built by his great-grandfa-
ther.
So delighted was he with the land-
mark when he visited Maine that he
arranged to have it taken apart and
shipped to California, where it will rise
again on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Golf Ball Is Moon
in Calendar Clock
Fort Worth, Texas.—A clock that
tells the time of day, the day of
the week and month and phases of
the moon has been constructed by
Price Kiker, whose occupation is
piano tuner.
The clock works with such ac-
curacy, Kiker said,' that it is cal-
culated it will not vary more than
one day in 48 years.
A golf ball, painted black on one
side and aluminum on the other,
represents the moon. It is connect-
ed with the regular clock move-
ments by delicate gears and makes
a complete turn in 29y2 days, just
as the moon does.
Kiker spent five years in figuring
out the plan, he said but actually
spent only five days constructing
the clock.
ODD THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode
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MORE DURING SUMMER
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Our Neighbor—the
Oriental
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
So far as numbers are concerned
the late immigration laws have en-
deavored to solve
the problem of the
Oriental in our
country. Restric-
tions have prohib-
ited the Japanese
and Chinese from
entering. Whether
this is a wise pol-
icy time alone will
reveal. It is true
that much of our
menial labor can he
done more willing-
ly and far cheaper
by the Oriental than
by those of the
also true that mer-
Japan has been of-
fered for sale in this country at a price
cheaper than it can be manufactured
in our shops. It is also true that the
Oriental may not be the most con-
genial neighbor. He comes to us with
Political Prodigy
Rush D. Holt has been elected United
States senator from West Virginia on
the Democratic ticket, but being only
twenty-nine years old, he cannot qual-
ify for the place until next June. Mr.
Holt wras a' member of the West Vir-
ginia legislature, or house of delegates,
when he was twenty-six years old and
gained fame for his successful fight
against waste in government expenses.
His father, Dr. M. S. Holt, is mayor
of Weston, W. Va.
the background of a different culture
and insists on expressing his hereditary
tendency. For this reason we find the
Chinese, in particular, developing
colonies of their own where they have
their own temples, shops and social
privileges. Every large city has its
Chinatown. This is only one side of
the picture. We should not forget that
in our universities many Oriental stu-
dents have won first rank in the field
of scholarship. Many are preparing
for a professional career in their native
land. All of the Orientals in this
country are not of what might be
called the artisan class.
When we seriously ask ourselves,
what are the obligations we owe these
neighbors, we face a dilemma. One
thing certain: we cannot press assimila-
tion to the extent of intermarriage if
we want to preserve the white race.
The latter invariably loses its identity
in the offspring of all intermarriages.
On the other hand, the best judgment
of the Oriental mind is equally opposed
to intermarriage. Nor can we assim-
ilate them into citizenship, for the rea-
son of their tendency to colonize. It
would be just as impossible for us to
become Chinese or Japanese.
Perhaps our obligation is best ex-
pressed in the exercise of Christian
courtesy and neighborly spirit, endeav-
oring to instill into them the spirit of
American democracy, and leave it to
work from within outward. Whatever
assimilation is possible, must arise
within the personality of the Oriental
himself, and cannot be forced upon
him from the outside.
©, Western Newspaper Union.
Famous Names Live
Chicago.—The University of Chicago
intends to challenge Harvard’s claim to
famous names. The frosh class here
boasts of a Woodrow Wilson, William
Cullen Bryant, Irving Berlin and Wal-
ter EckersalL
Has Bottle 200 Years Old
Union City, Tenn.—A small bottle, or
demijohn, which is over 200 years old
and which has been in the family five
generations, is owned by Mrs, N. E.
Jenkins, of Union City.
white race. It is
chandise made in
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^ Bij Ltjdia Le Baron Walker
T.M THESE days when economies are
-I sought it is well to remember that
fuel can be saved in many little ways
of well-planned cooking. Frequently
the saving proves one of time as well
as coins. Modern stoves and methods
require different management from the
one-time kitchen stove burning coal
and which was always kept going.
This is seldom found. There were cer-
tain advantages in it, for the constant
heat made it possible to cook, slowly
at least, without adding to the fuel
bill. But on the other hand, the very
fact that the fire was constant in-
creased costs. It is because the heat
can be regulated at will today, that it
have the fire going
I as little as is com-
patible with the
culinary work.
Cooking on top of
a gas, oil or elec-
tric stove requires
less fuel than oven
cookery. So when-
ever possible, use
top burners. When
stoves are equipped
with oil burners,
top and oven are
heated at the same
time, but it still
should be borne in
mind that more oil
is used when the
oven is made hot,
than when the top
of the stove only is
needed without
high temperature.
With an oil burning
range the planning
of cookery to save
fuel is much the
same as with the
ordinary, if less
used, range. That is
when the fire is
high, do oven bak-
ing as well as top cooking, and then
let the fire burn low, or even cut off
the flow of oil and let the fire go out.
For Thrifty Cooking.
When using the regulation oil stove,
or the gas or electric stove, confine
cooking to top burners as much as can
be managed with results satisfactory.
For example, try that delicious pud-
ding, baked apple tapioca, made from
cored, peeled, and sliced apples and
pearl tapioca, water, sugar, a dash of
salt, and cinnamon, if liked. Make it
in a double boiler on top of the stove.
The tapioca will steam in the boiler
much quicker and the apples soften in
much less time than in the oven.
Serve in sherbet cups, and top each
glass with whipped cream or marsh-
mallow whip. Macaroni with cheese
can be made in the double boiler, and
if dished up and top covered with but-
tered crumbs browned under the flame,
the effect is practically identical with
baked macaroni.
When having a roast use the oven
to cook other things which require a
hot oven, when that is needed, or
which take long rather slow cooking if
a lower temperature is right. It is
amazing the reduction of time of keep-
ing current on that can be managed in
this way. Carelessness in turning
burners down, when a lower tempera-
ture is all that is needed, will bring
up bills a bit. And not to turn off the
current immediately it Is not needed, is
actual loss.
A Place for Everything.
An ounce of prevention Is worth a
pound of cure is certainly true when
it pertains to putting away things so
that they are easy to find. One’s pa-
tience is not taxed nor her temper ei-
ther when she can go to a place and
find, not part of what is wanted, but
every piece needed. Few things are
more trying than to find one cuff of a
collar and cuff set lacking, when one
is in a hurry, and all three pieces
should be together. There are some
aids which may prove helpful in guard-
ing against such an inconvenience.
If a set is to be put away for some
time, a good way to insure having all
parts together is to take a stitch or
two through them just enough to tack
the articles together. See that these
stitches are taken through the portions
which turn under in each piece and so
will not show even the tiny stitch
holes when put on to wear. Pins can
be used, but they are likely to leave
rust marks wherever the pins rest, as
well as in the pinholes, so the stitches
are better. Another way is to spread
the collar out on cardboard and lay
both cuffs on it too, over the collar.
Wrap the whole set in tissue paper,
and lay in a box. Many sets can be
put in one box which should be wide
though not necessarily deep.
©, Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Smart Accessories
A black cellophane hat and bow are
the smart modern accessories to this
Schiaparelli costume. The coat is in
black lightweight wool and is collared
with two silver fox pelts. It is worn
over an afternoon dress of heavily
crinkled rayon called “Pave.”
is so important
Mark Builds His Own Tombstone
Mark Wt Sanderson of Ellsworth, Wis., believes in preparedness. So in his
spare time he has constructed his own tombstone. The picture shows him view-
ing with considerable Dride the ornate monument, now completed.
Let Our Motto Be
GOOD HEALTH
BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD
Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive
Medicine, University of UHaois,
College of Zvfedicine.
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RICKETS
Many persons have an Idea that
rickets is a disease affecting young
children of impov-
erish e d parents
only. But. this ig
not true. Rickets
Is no respecter of
wealth. You have
but to walk in vari-
ous sections of a
city to notice that
there are just about
as many evidences
of bow-legs, knock-
knees, bandy legs
and arms, pigeon
chests and square-
topped heads
among the older persons in the well-to-
do sections as there are in the poorer
sections.
This is because when these persons
were children, doctors did not know so
much about rickets as we do today.
And it is to be hoped that no child
within the reach of modern medical
knowledge will ever have to endure the
physical handicap caused by this dis-
ease
The only prevention and the only
cure of rickets is adequate supply
of vitamin D. Sunshine is a great
source of this important vitamin.
It is for this reason that sun suits
are ideal clothing for small children
whenever the temperature permits, and
why it is good even in zero weather
for a child to have its nap on a sunny
porch—the child of course to be kept
warm, and its face protected from the
direct glare of the sun. Ultra violet
light, too, is a source of Vitamin D,
but, except in a few instances, this is
expensive and impractical.
The other great source of Vitamin
•D is in a very limbed list of foods.
The oil from fish; liver leads—cod
liver oil is the one with which we are
most familiar; next comes egg yolk;
and there is some Vitamin D in butter
fat, and just a trace of it in mother’s
milk.
These foods also contain Vitamin A,
a very important health promoting and
general anti-infective vitamin.
Since we are not able to control the
number of sunshiny days, our best
hope of doing away with rickets is to
see that the child gets the amount of
vitamin D that he should have in the
food he eats. This is what medical
science Is trying to do now.
It might be interesting to note here
that rickets first manifested itself in
Europe in the Sixteenth century when
people were more and more attracted
to living in cities, with their dark
houses and dark, narrow streets, and
when people generally were living more
of an indoor life, and babies were kept
more and more in the house.
In this connection it might be inter-
esting also to note an old folk remedy
that is still used in England and Ire-
land. Dr. Langdon Porter, child spe-
cialist, tells of visiting the rural dis-
tricts of England and Ireland and
finding a concoction there that the
grandmother in the family puts up
every autumn for the grandchildren.
She fills a jar with whole raw
eggs and then covers it with sour
wine. When the calcium in the shells
is dissolved, she stirs the mixture vig-
orously, strains out the membrane of
the egg, and then feeds a spoonful ot
the concoction to the children once or
twice a day throughout the winter.
Modern science approves this remedy.
There is calcium in the egg shell, vita-
mins in the egg yolk, and the acid of
the wine acts as a preservative. .
Since milk is so generally a good food,
health authorities in this country are
now experimenting with four methods
of increasing vitamin D in milk to the
point where milk so treated will have
a sufficient amount of this vitamin to
prevent rickets. The first, is to treat
yeast with ultra-violet light, which In-
creases the amount of Vitamin D sev-
eral hundred times. This activated
yeast is fed to dairy cattle, and they
in turn secrete in the milk enouglf
vitamin D for it to be anti-rachitic.
Visitors to the 1934 Century of Prog-
ress saw a demonstration of this vit-
min D milk in a dairy herd at the
south end of the grounds.
A second method is to expose the
dairy cows themselves to ultra-violet
light so that they build up their own
vitamin D, and give milk with a higher
persentage of this important vitmain,
A third method is to treat the milk
itself with ultra-violet light, and a
fourth method is to add to the milk in
concentrated form a tasteless cod-liver
oil, so that the child gets both the milk
and the valuable cod liver oil at the
same time.
It is difficult to say as yet which of
these methods will prove the best, and
it will be interesting to watch their de-
velopment. All of them, necessarily
but unfortunately, add to the cost of
the milk.
But unless you can get this vitamin
D milk, give your children a teaspoon-
ful of cod liver oil and see that they
are out every sunlight day. Older chil-
dren may have the yolk of an egg.
Children with rickets not only have
softening of the bones but they are
more liable to pneumonia and other
diseases.
These measures should be for tne
dark months, beginning with October
or November and through April.
Rickets occur most frequently dur-
ing the second half of the first year of
life and the first half of the second
year. Dark-skinned people, as negroes
and Italians, are more prone to It than
light-skinned people; their pigment
acts as an armor against sunlight
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