Show a lars SAMP SAIP good eating when I 1 was a boy down east one or of the familiar figures on the streets 0 of f our town was the hulled bulled corn man he peddled irom from a huge can what wh atthe the indians taught our pilgrim ancestors to make and to call samp it was indian corn parboiled in lye so that the outer S skin kill came off and the kernel was white and fluffy and very good eating especially I 1 used to think when served with porto rico molasses in the middle states the indian name for this processed sed corn was hominy and farther south the name began to be applied to coarsely ground corn which had been put through a similar process and which the folk of the deep south now call grits when I 1 hear anyone talk of the de licious lam of hominy alone or in the familiar combination of hog and hominy I 1 am never sure whether they are talking about our yankee samp or the southern Og grits rits but I 1 do know that both are mighty good eating RABBITS and felver twenty years ago the small animal life of some of the alaska islands was wiped out by a volcanic eruption this left eft the indians labad in bad shape for they lost not only an important food supply but the foxes whom they kill for their pelts also had their food curtailed now mow the government is planting colonies of rabbits on those islands in the expectation that they will increase rapidly and restore the balance of animal life what I 1 w want ant to hear is that the government L has found a cure or prevention id fm the awalt fever which whick is ofru atai to man who handle rabbits or rabbit pelts A maine handie gu guide e died the other day fr from 0 M this disease which he be baug caught ht from a fox ox he had skinned alter after the lox fox hart had been eating a rabbit it Is a 0 cur curious lougi infection which seems to be spreading all over the country I 1 G GOLD OLD to market the price ot of 35 an ounce tor for gold has naturally stimulated gold mining everywhere re that ft a trace ot of the precious metal has ever been found and in some places where they have only guessed it might be ono ol of my neighbors a few miles from my tarm farm has taken out a license to dig tor for gold in the berkshire hills I 1 hope he finds it they are getting gold in paying quantities from several abandoned mines in north carolina before the gold strike in california there were profitable gold mines in many parts of 0 the atlantic seaboard so much gold was mined inthe carolinas Caroll and georgia that tor for years the government maintained a mint at dahlonega georgia now there Is no more gold coinage but anyone who finds an ounce ot of gold anywhere can get 35 tor for it from uncle sam and some folks are arc going to strike strike it rich MUSIC neighborhood sings I 1 am not yet convinced that the radio Is a good thing in all respects people do too much listening to professional singers and musicians make not enough effort to produce their own music not that it it not refreshing to listen to first rate music which we get too seldom on the air but it ought not to be too easy there Is more social value more that M makes akes for love or of home life and neighborly spirit when everybody in the house hold or a group of neighbors get together in a home or a church or a town hall and try what they can do to make a little music tor for themselves I 1 know ot of nothing that Is so heart warm ing in its effects as a neighborhood i sing in the part of new york where I 1 hope up tor for the winter greenwich village weve been having these old fashioned musical evenings this winter and hundreds of my neighbors are beginning to bayto sayto say to each other 1 I never knew what nice friendly people new yorkers were of course just like all other people everywhere but it takes something that they can all do together to bring out the human qualities |