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
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* 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