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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH RADIO NOVELTY Oldest Industry 0 Fights for Life Naval Stores Trade Finally Heeds Extermination Danger Due to Prodigality. beWashington. A strong effort is oldest one the of save to ing made Industries. If you should ever happen to delve Into detailed accounts of our colonial history you would find that In 1610, when business in this country was decidedly In its infancy, Instructions were such drawn up in London regarding things as are to be sent from VirThese Instructions explained ginia. In picturesque spelling how turpentine was to be obtained from pyne and The trees were to be ffirre trees. wounded within a yard of the ground and, so the paper said, that which yssues owte wilbe turpentyne worth 18 tonne. When the tree beginneth to runne softelye yt is to be stopped yp agayne for preserveinge the tree. The Virginia colonists and the Pilgrim fathers did get pitch and tar and crude gum turpentine from the pine trees when they were not engaged In other more urgent or alluring pursuits. Gradually the business became established in this country. Used for Wooden Warships. The wooden ships of commerce and war were always in need of quantities of tar and pitch. In fact, they used most of the tar and pitch on the market so that the production of these materials was known as the naval stores Industry, and though ships use comparatively little of the pine tree products any longer the industry has retained its old name. The ldngleaf pine forests of our southeastern coast proved an especially prolific source of naval stores.. Operators, seeing no end to the miles of pine forest stretching away through the south toward the Gulf of Mexico, worked trees of one section for a very few years recklessly, so as to get the biggest yield of turpentine in a hurry. When the trees were bled dry, the workmen broke camp and traveled on to new territory. The instructions of 1610, urging that the trees be preserved, were never taken American ... seriously. The industry rose toward a peak In the last century as improved methods of distilling spirits of turpentine were invented. But since the beginning of this century, the end of the endless pine forests has been In plain view. Some 15,000,000 of the original acres of southern pine forest are yet to be worked, and they are being used up at the rate of about acres a year. Industry Now Dying. The United States still dominates the worlds trade in turpentine and rosin, but the industry is considered to be dying In this country. As conditions look now the country shall soon be fortunate if It can make enough to mix its own paints and to supply the numerous industries that use Important gum products of the pine. Heretofore there has been little organization in the industries which use the southern pine forests. The turpentine man has been interested only In getting the turpentine. Sometimes a lumberman salvaged the trees that were left before they rotted ; sometimes not. Sometimes the deserted land has been left idle, covered with stumps and brush, and again land has been taken over for agricultural pur130,-000,0- poses. , . Turpentine operators have never thought seriously of investing money In the planting of new forests ' that would not be mature in twenty years. While one man was altruistically planting trees for the next generation his competitors would have been hurry & ISii, Western Newspaper Union.) (, Tls an old maxim in the schools ; that the nomadic days of the Industry are obviously numbered, it FOODS YOU WILL LIKE Is beginning to be worth while for the operator to consider planting trees and conserving those that he has; This spring, the naval stores Industry held a conference and decided to send a committee to France to study the industry there, because the French turpentine farms are known to be thriftily managed and profitable. These French farms are on a. small triangular stretch of land along the southern Atlantic 'coast. A hundred years ago this section of 2,000,000 acres the size of a few counties in a state like Georgia consisted of swamps, pools and dunes. To save it from the ocean the French government planted forests of maritime pine, one of the few forms pf vegetation which seemed to thrive there. The reclaimed forest tract now yields the French people an annual income well up in millions of dollars. Approximately what the French are doing in their limited area the American naval stores industry will have to copy if the industry is to retain its importance permanently. The French trees are carefully chipped in ways that do not injure them for timber purposes. The slashes are shallow and do not devitalize the trees. The ground between the trees s kept cleared of brush and inflammable gum drippings, so that fires are not apt to spread. Pines worn out as turpentine producers are disposed of as timber and become telegraph poles, railroad ties and fence posts. And when the stumps of the forests have been sold for firewood the land Is left clean and ready to be replanted. Even loose branches only an inch in diameter are gathered and sold for firewood. The different processes go on in rotation year after year. We in this country have lately been working the young trees just springing up, even chipping pines as young as eight and ten years. We exhaust a tree by working it at top speed and leave it dry in a fraction of its possible, working lifetime. The French operators work i&nall trees before thinning out the forests, but promising specimens are left until they are twenty-five years old before they are worked, and these strong pines yield turpentine until they are seventy-twyears old. The social conditions which accompany the French system are entirely different from those in our turpentine camps. No social progress can result when workers are ' wandering about on the edges of civilization. One American turpentine operator said recently that our western pioneers did not find conditions more difficult than the modern turpentine producer who goes to new territory. A typical camp is a temporary 'affair, pitched near the pine forest, generally far away from any school, churcfe, store and out of touch with the life of any community. Most of the turpentine laborers In this country are negroes. Convicts have often been employed for this work of scarring the trees and gathering the gum. In France the Industry is settled in its limited area. Railways and good macadam roads run through the district. The workmen live in attractive little towns and villages. Almost all of the 1,400,000 people who' reside In the turpentine section depend on the forests for their livelihood. ' One observer says there are no very poor people there and that the laborers who work the trees are often worth from $3,000 to $30,000. Capt. I. F. Eldrige, a forest expert er . - o ! J That flatterys the food of fools; Tet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a hit. Jonathan Swift. ing through the virgin forests making money. Now ii Here is a new radio tube invented by Conrad Schickerling which uses either direct or alternating current from the house lighting system withThe out any additional apparatus. coiled spring across the center is the grid, under which may be seen the tiny rectifying tube. On either side of the grid are the plate! elements. Planked dishes sound complicated to one who has never prepared them. the However, given a plank, oak, hickory or maple plank, with a groove far enough from the edge to hold the juices of the meat, and the rest is simple. A plank that has been used, browned and baked well is much better as It ages. It is best to put a new one, after giving it a good scrubbing and rinsing, into the oven and give It a good, hard baking. Hot Cross Buns. Dissolve one cake of compressed yeast in cupful of lukewarm water; add two cupfuls of scalded, cooled milk, three cupfuls of flour; set in a warm place, after beating well. When light, add cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful of of salt, two egg yolks, a cupful of melted butter, one cupful of currants or seedless raisins and enough flour to knead the mixture to a When doubled in soft, light dough. bulk turn upside down on a board lightly dredged with flour, roll in a sheet and cut into rounds. Set the rounds an inch apart in the baking tin. When doubled in bulk, bake a r in a hot oven. .When baked, brush' over the surface of each with white of egg and return to tlje oven to dry and glaze. Remove to a wire cooler and decorate with confectioners frosting, by piping a cross on each. Terrapin of Lamb. Cut enough cold cooked lamb or veal to make two cupfuls. Rub together two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour with teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of dry mustard and teaspoonful of paprika, Add to one and cupfuls of stock or milk and stir until boiling. Add one tablespoonful of catsup, two tablespoonfuls of currant jelly and two raw eggs; beat with a Dover egg beater until quite thick. Add the diced meat, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice or flavored vinegar and turn into a hot dish. Serve on Boston brown bread, toasted and A fine gravy Is as important to serve with a turkey as the stuffing or any of the other accessories. one-ha- u HP ff tvlt&i fii!ions ofWOlttCSk lf one-ha- l ... have do? frf: lf one-quart- er , who spent three years studying condiAmer- tions in France, says that the ican southland has better trees, better soil, better climate, a longer working season and equally good if not better markets than France, and that even with half our pine area eliminated we could produce more turpentine and rosin and make it cheaper, make it practically! forever, and combine with it a lumber business and important woodworking activities. Work Out New Methods Here. Tiie committee which toured France has reported its recommendations for the industry. It does not believe that American operators need try to copy the details of slashing trees as practiced .in France. .Our own investigators are working out methods which are best adapted to local conditions and suitable modern practices have been developed in certain Florida forests. Some other details of French practice are recommended, after which the committee returns to the main lesson learned from the French turpentine of the forests the conservation trees. Whether or not our past methods were justified by conditions qs we found them no longer matters," says inexhaustthe report. Today ible timber Is almost gone. Continuous forest production must therefore be given the place of first Importance In the future course of the industry. The naval stores industry of the South must continue, and it must look to forests for its raw material. r second-growt- h the - WORLDS GREATEST e'aheng it never spoils aay half-hou- into-dic- on ba&e ot e 3 one-ha- lf one-quart- er one-ha- lf well-buttere- d. Is nothing holler in this of ours than the first consciousness of love the first flutsilken wings the tering of itssound and breath of first rising that wind whtch is so soon to sweep through the soul, to prirlfy There life i ; i j or destroy. Longfellow. 1ST BY IESE "'TJawin A Sales 2 oS Times Those Any Other Brand Nature Assisted Time seems to have touched your wife lightly, old man. Dont fool yourself. Its the beauty specialists who have 'been doing the American Legion Weekly. touching. , Permanent roads are a good investment . WHAT SHALL WE EAT? Movement to Gather All Lepers at Culion "1W This Is the season of the year when cool days stir the blood and the Manila. More than 300 lepers dequicken the appe tained In various parts of the Philiptite. pines are held under conditions neither Potato Salad. sanitary, humane nor safe to the pubTo six cupfuls of lic at large, according to an urgent hot sliced potacommunication sent by Vice Governor toes, add two teaEugene A. Gilmore to the secretary of spoonfuls of salt, commerce and communications. teaspoonMr. Gilmore requests that a coast ful of paprika, guard vessel be made available im- one small grated onion, f cupmediately for the purpose of collecting ful of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of these lepers from the various islands parsley and one cupful of and transporting them to Culion is- choppedcream. Mix thoroughly, using heavy land, the leper colony. two silver forks. Serve cold on a platAccording to the report of Dr. Jose ter surrounded with slices of smoked Avellana, chief of the Culion leper col- ham. ony, 5,103 persons are confined there, Stuffed Celery Salad. For a defour of whom are Americans. The coltidbit this is a Joy to the licious ony consists of 2,487 men, 1,318 womCream one tablespoonful of palate. en, 802 boys and 496 girls. There are one cream cheese, a dash 1,134 sirigle and 2,350 married lepers, butter, add of a tcaspoon-fu- l of paprika, 267 widows arid 1,298 children. of salt and three stuffed olives Fill the hollow stalks of chopped. With a sharp tender crisp celery. knife cut across the stalks, making Inch wide. Add pieces about a little French dressing and on each Individual portion place mayonnaise dressing dotted with walnut meats coarsely cut Canned Peach Pudding. Put six halves of canned peaches through a colander, add one beaten egg, cupful of milk, the same of sugar, one and cupfuls of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking of a teaspoonpowder and ful of salt Lastly stir in two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. The batter should be quite stiff. Pour of the mixture into a greased pudding dish, place over It six halves of peaches hollow side up, fill the cavity with red Jelly or Jam, pour over the remainder of the batter and bake In a moderate oven for half an hour, or until done. Sift granulated sugar over the top and set under the gas flame to melt the sugar and brown. one-ha- lf one-hal- i one-fourt- h Irish Pilgrims Flock to Grotto of Lourdes one-thir- d one-ha- one-ha- po0V lf lf one-four- th one-ha- lf an efCTwe Building Far Behind the Automobile Millions now recognize the automobile as a necessity. It is no longer a luxury for the few. Sixty per cent of its use is for business. Because of this the mod- ern paved highway has become an economic cessity. ne- Yet although the mileage of Concrete Roads and Streets has been steadily increasing, our highway system today lags far behind the automobile. The great majority of our highways are as out of date as the single-tracnarrow gauge railway of fifty years ago. Such a condition not only seriously handicaps the progress of the automobile as a comfortable, profitable mean9 of transportation, but also holds back commercial, industrial and agricultural advancement in practically ' every section of the country. It is costing taxpayers millions of dollars annually. Highway building should be continued and enlarged upon. Your highway authorities are ready to carry on their share of this great public work. But they k, must have your support. Tell them you are ready to invest in more and wider Concrete Highways now. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Washington Street til WestCHICAGO oA National Organization to Improve end Extend the Vies of Concrete Office in 29 Cities Some of the 6,000 Irish pilgrims who recently visited the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes In France seeking relief frow bodily ailments. IIujUc W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 47-1- 924 |