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EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1925 Grasshopper as Food first welcomed G EN ER A L Gasoline one yea t] ago! On August 28, 1924, the first Portland motorist drove up to a station displaying the now famous Greenland- Authorized Independent .White Sign and fuelled his car with GENERAL. D e a l e r s Who Sell No extravagant claims were made for GENERAL. It was allowed to speak for itself. The public was told that GEN GENERAL Ga s ol i ne ERAL was like the good, old-fashioned gasoline of years ago but made by the most efficient, modern process known. This request was made: “Fill Up Your Tank and Let Your ENGINE Decide!" P Popular in the East Every one knows that cats catch grasshoppers and eat them with great relish, though housewives will tell you that they grow thin on that diet. Fabre. the famous naturalist, believes that grasshoppers and similar insects would be palatable food for human be ings, too, and in one of his books, says Mr. Percy F. Blcknell, he quoted with approval thla passage from General Daumas' book, “The Great Desert,” explaining In a footnote that the grass hopper (cauterelle) referred to Is more exactly the cricket, which must not be confused with the true grasshopper; “The grasshopper Is good eating both for men and for camels. Either fresh or pickled. It Is eaten after the feet, th* wings and the head have been removed; the rest Is broiled or else stewed and served up In the form of meat balls. After being dried In the sun It I* ground to powder, which may j be stirred Into milk or made Into j dough nnd then fried In fat or butter with salt. “Camels greatly like to eat grass hoppers, which are served to them either dried or nfter being roasted In a heap in a large hole between two layers of live coals. The negroes also eat them cooked in that way. "The Virgin Mary, having asked God for some meat that should‘have no blood, He sent her some grasshoppers. “The wives ef the prophets, when anyone sent them a present of grass hoppers, always shared them with the ether women. •The Calif 0<par, one day when he was asked whether the use ef grass hoppers for food was permitted, re plied ; T should like to have a basket ful of them to eat* “From all this testimony It Is dearly evident that by the grace of God grass hoppers were given to man for food." —Youth's Companion. ortland T be remarkable success of GENERAL is due to the fact that it is fine, old-style gasoline made by an unique, modern process which gives i t “balance” according to definite specifications. It starts quick, assures maximum mileage, gives full power and burns cleanly and completely. Its quality never is permitted to vary a hair's breadth. G ENERAL is sold only by selected, Authorized, Independent Dealers. Y ou can depend on GENERAL always as fine gasoline made efficiently and distributed economically. If you haven’t tried it yet, right N O W is the time to get acquainted. Just— ‘Till Up Ed’s Service Station Estacada Oregon Your Tank and Let Your ENGINE Decide!” M o d em Tower o f Babel Located in N ew York There may be uncertainty still as to the site of the Garden of Eden, but there need be none as to tbat of the Tower of Babel; it wna Just a little north and east of the Woolworth tower. A few days ago a friend of mine paid me a visit, not so much to enjoy the (Irtvllege of converse with me as to exhale his Indignation at the language heard en the streets of Man hattan. He controlled bis temper long enough to repeat the sounds he had overheard. They were as follows— as far as I am able to produce them: "Jeet?” "Yep." "Javer "Negnapple." I had to pretend; but I was at last able to lntsrpret for him: "Did you e a tr “Tea." "What did you have?" "An egg and an apple." “That," I said, "is lower East side New Yorkese. But It isn’t really worse than the Somersetshire dialect or Venetian, is It?—Mr. Smith In in ternational Book Review. Niblick Overworked U. 3. TRADE FUTURE . that of tho investor and developer, city, your state and your national to much law, and illustrations cited INCREASED EFFICIENCY IN SOUTH AMERICA whose efforts will create Wealth, congress? If you should employ the are merely examples of what obtains OFFSETS AftODED EXPENSE i growth and a higher standard of eco- The most natural and tho most | noinie life within these neighbor na- promising; field for American en ! lions. A due regard for the nation terprise and investment is in this al and racial loyalties of the people hemisphere, according; to the Na of the Latin-American republics and [ for their material interests as well, tional Republic. “The Department of Commerce," must accompany American partici- says the National Republic, in it spe ' pntion in finance and industry there. “The interests of the United cial article in the August number, “ reports that our trade with Latin- j States lie in tho direction of the America has increased tremendously growth in wealth nnd population of In recent years. Nearly 30 per cent the Latin-American republics and in of our imports come from that quar tho heightening of their economic ter. Nearly half our foreign invest standards. That we have designs ment independent of foreign securi upon the territory of exclusive con trol of the resources of these nations ties was in that region lust year. “There was a time when tho Latin is a claim given the He by the .acts American republics were under sus of history and by the dominaiu sen picion by American investors because timent of the people of this country of the instability of government. Hut as every American knows them. “ We need n strengthening of tho European governments have been during the last few years less stable, ties of good will between the United and dependable than those of our State* and the other republics of sister republics of this hemisphere. this hemisphere. Better transporta Of ail of these republics Mexico is tion facilities between our ports and the only one with what appears to be theirs, more American travel in Cen a chronic tendency toward political tral and South American countries, disorder. And Mexico will yet learn and more visitors from these lands in that prosperity and progress arc to our own republic would be potent be preferred to chronic revolution factors in bringing about this better and lawlessness, as the more enlight understanding, “The future of the United States ened republics of the hemisphere is wrapped up in the future of the learned long ago. “The spirit of America has been American republics, and theirs in that of the pioneer, the developer. In ours. The sooner this close end the conquest of this continent Am friendly relationship is recognised ericana have shown that they possess as inevitable: the sooner we begin to peculiar qualifications for the devel cement more closely the ties of com- opment of resources and the crea I mercial intercourse and friendly co tion of means of transportation and operation for ends mutually benefi distribution. Ours is primarily a cial. the sooner tho new world will «i. . i trndi-g na- enter Upon it destined era of world . .e United States n today leadership, not in military and naval the greatest reservoir of capital in force, but in the activities which the world. It h asthe means and the promote human prosperity and prog wen necessary to the development ress.“ of the new lands of this hemisphere, EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY rich in resources and poor in the means of realising upon them. Sunset Magas- ne poses the ques- “Our opportunity in Central and , . • '1-1* of *V- * - •• • a lawbreaker? Of . ,v * are l How could you hope p lO « ,C I , J,.,, It *.W i«i. . M,U..h to be (»ported to tbe homeland, but to obey all the laws pasted by your most able lawyer in tho lnnd to guide in a dozen other departments of By the use of gas and electricity you, he could not read fast enough daily endeavor. railroads are reducing cost of re to keep Informed as to the new leg pairs and increasing efficiency in islation and multiplicity of court de AFFECTED BY PICKING freight yards. cisions." • * * gjnc# we can’t A number of railroads over the even hope to know what all the laws Both quality and amount of fruit are, it follows that we must violate are affected by the time and man country are using gas, turned into many of them, says The Magazine. ner of harvesting. Fru\t loses weight heat-treating furnaces and portable Charles Alexander, editor of the when taken from the tree, and this blow torches. It has been found Albany, Oregon, Democrat, poet, loss rn storage may be as great as 15 possible by using gas to salvage novelist, critic literary editor, says per cent. The two factors that cause much rolling stock and other mate we must, by the terms of necessity, this loss, as reported by the Oregon rial which had formerly been scrap use our own discretion and be our experiment station, are loss of mois ped. Last year a large railroad installed own judges of what is proper and ture and natural decomposition. what is wrong.” The fact that a Loss through decomposition of a scientific system of electric flood thing is law no longer impresses us. winter apples rightly stored is very lights in its classification freight • * * "The man who craves a small, so the main loss is from evap yard. After several months opera drink and can get it," says The oration. This ie governed by the tion a comparison of freight handled Magazine, “feels no moral restraint. humidity, aeration, temperature, the during this period with that handled Tell him that he is a lawbreaker and time of picking, condition of the in a similar previous period was he will laugh and cite instances to skins and kind and variety of fruit. made. It was found that number of prove that you, too. are n lawbreak Lack of moisture in the air is the cars handled at night had increased er." * * * This is an indict leading cause of heavy evaporation. 151-4 per cent and average cost of ment hard to escape, says Philoso With humidity at 86 to 90 per cent damage to cars handled at night had pher Alexander. It ie a true indict loss of weight in winter apples was decreased 21 per cent. ment, one into which enters net practically nothing over a period of NOT YET BACK NUMBERS alone the idle pomposity of Amer seven months. If gathered in low ican laws in trivial matters, but also humidity the fruit may lose consid the official lack of recognition of erable weight in the orchard or pack On a general showing of facts as fundamental tendencies in the indi ing house. Bartlett pears lost four they are leaking out in many cities vidual which make toward his de per cent when left four days under it doesn't look as if the street car cent treatment of his fellow citizen.” the trees in excptionally dry weath was a back number. Questionnaires have been sent out i •• • Hear him further: "Take er. Much of the lose can be prevent the traffic law. If 40 miles an hottr ed by covering the boxes with wet in a number of cities like Philadel phia, Buffalo, Baltimore, Boston and is needed to make a hill ahead on canvas. The heavy moisture loss wilts the Washington, showing quite the con high gear, and the way is clear and safe, 98 per cent of the drivers will fruit and damages its appea.ance. trary is the case. Reliable statistics show that 90 to speed to 40 mile* or more, tt is a No indication was found that this wilted fruit goes down more rapidly, 95 per cent of all the people who matter of their own judgment. * * * A regard for fundamentals Is or loses texture and juciniess. it live in the larger cities use street the greatest attribute of any funda seems to be slightly more resistant cars regularly. Inquiries in 21 principal cities mentally free people, th enfore* to decay. If the fruit is picked too imma over 26.000 busy people taking the mnt of detailed regulation* it a sign ture it wilts more than if picked at trouble to report show that 80 per of the unfre* surf. “The more laws that are passed, the right time. The type of wrap cent of motor car user* ride on the pers used on pears had but littie in street cars regularly. the less effective they will become." fluence on the rate of evaporation. In the large cities named 75 per Truth is the middle ground, the no- Loss of weight of pears evidently cent of the owners of high class man's-land where so few ever ven was steady at about the same rate automobile* used street cars on an ture. Law is good. Too little law throughout the storage season. average of 28 times a month. is bad—too much law ia bad. A sen If you haven't subscribed, why sible amount of law it just right * The News latchstnng’a alias s- * In America we bare Altogether don't you gst busy? bangin out far ya Two novices were enjoying a round of golf. One player sliced Into a huge bunker, and after some time, when he failed to appear, hie opponent went in search of him. The latter was found seated on a hummock outside the bunker, which showed signs of heavy attack. “What are you doing?" exclaimed the other. "Oh, It's all right, old man," replied the beginner. "But my niblick's got a bit overheated.” Ruthless Slaughter The biological survey says that mar ket hunters were probably the direct rause of the extinction of the passen ger pigeons. These bfrds were so- ralled colony birds and nested in great quantities in certain vicinities. This made it possible for hunters to wipe out great numbers with very little ef fort. There are many traditions ac counting for the extinction of these birds, one being that forest fires in woods where they roosted destroyed great numbers. That Pleased Him Terrible discords were Issuing from the adjoining room. The caller sat up (pprehenslvely. "Never mind," smiled Mrs. Brown, “it's only my small son practicing on the piano." The caller relaxed and sat back. "Does be enjoy I t f she asked. Th* food mother •miled a bit more broadly. "Not st first," she admitted, “but then the neighbor* complained," Rutabaga's Introduction The rutabaga Is said to have been introduced Into Scotland stout 1781-82, •nd Into England In 1790. tt Is men tioned in 1806 by MscMshon as in American gardens, and In 1817 there is a record of an acre of the crop in Illinois. The vernacular names all in dicate an origin In Sweden or north ern Europe. It is sometimes called hanover, as one variety was grown in Hanover, Germany. Necessary Deception How many people have applied to themselves the lesson of "She Stoops to Conquer." Oliver Goldsmiths ft- mens comedy. The heroine made her self appear to give up her undertaking, but site really didn't Frequently In life men most do likewise in ordor is it
