The "Mount Joy Bulletin ESTABLISHED Published Every Thursday at Mount Joy, Pa. the. E. Schroll, Subscription Price $1.50 Per Annum Bix Months. .............75 Cents [Three Months. ..........40 Cents The subscription lists of three other newspapers, the Mount Joy Sta: and News, the Landisville Vigil and the Florin News were merged with the Bulletin, which makes this paper's circulation practically double that of the average weekly. sm JUNE 1901 Editor and Publisher Single Copies............3 Cents Sample Copies...... THE EDITOR’S VOICE Before and even after this war is over there will be a number of men “marked and some in jail for cheating our government. Of course every preceding war left similar records and this will be no excep- owners of the defunct Souderton Pants Co., were indictéd on nine ‘counts for embezzlement and con- spiracy. They took 2500 pairs of trousers valued at $10,000. eo 0 BE VERY CAREFUL + guthcrities do not exer- care and precaution, in- to land anywhere fhe enémy will set up armies within us. Frequently the FBI finds good sized gangs of ene- en week the authorities the ee collection of fire ever taken in any locality in raids cn 125 homes in Chester- Marcus Hook area. It included rifles, shot ‘gums, pistols, cameras, short wave radio receivers and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition— all of which Axis citizens are for- bidden to own ‘since the outbreak of the war: . ® 00 ANOTHER FOR RIPLEY . When it comes to that Ripley stuff, a man at Matietta is deter- mined that the Columbia cow which ate a man’s wallet, or the gcse that swallowed a fellow’s fountain pen have nothing on him. Al Rapp made a specially designed wooden leg for his pet duck which underwent the amputation of a dangling useless leg, and says it can outrun any duck in the neigh- ~ But ducks have more use. . for legs with which to swim than run and if Al takes his flock to the river he'll readily learn how the - peg leg functions in actual use. He may only have to add the web. @ ® HEAVY EATING These are the months that are supposed to be the most dangerous in the entire year, to the man who crams bis stdmach to capacity with all of the tempting things that are so easily and inexpensively attain- able to fill his dinner table. Ask a doctor and he will tell you that July and August are two months when thomisands of people bear down heavier on the shovel they are using to dig their graves—the knife and fork. He will advance the same sort of advice that we hand out, to eat a bit less heavily during hot days, not get too much sun, not chill the stomach with too much ice water. Of course it is hard to watch our diet when we are in the very midst of the best season there is for food. But the fellow who does is apt to outlive the othier who doesn’t. ® 00 EDITORIAL GALLEY TWO SaIM : SWIMMING Times have made it pcssible for most children to learn how to swim. Everyone should know how and almost everyone does. But one thing about swimming, tc learn the fundamentals. you can't read it | of hooks but must take to the The boy who lives in or y the country has the advan- using a creek nearby. Few oldsters wko won't thrill they think of the old swim- hole of their childhood and the memories that it revives are ‘sweet. There is more of a thrill to swimming. in the old swimming hele than in any modern heat tem- pered bathing pools with the water | shot through with health rays, | | shower rooms and electric at hand. No sir, give us the below the cornfield where off your clothes behind a and splash, yell and leap, tune of the old swim- rib H hl E fs eo ; - : he wen't die. lough, Intell-Journzl editor accepts the defi and bets Stephan all the cats in the rice. bet. up the action in these verdicts, the war will be over before the penal- ties are paid. mcnths afte: or those eight saboteurs are drag- ged around in courts and prisons is beyond many of us Americans. i the president him take a losk at the mess of eéx- «f the men were electrocuted while | quests, | atmy Well, he’s on. Ausin McCul- Lancaster County against Now we'd like to lay a little side If the authorties don’t speed Just why Stephan is held three being found guilty, thru let is not yet rending their trial testimony, plosives they brcught aleng and by an act of providence had no chence to use. Possibly that will convince him of their guilt. Since the above was written, six the two c¢thers were jailed, one fer 30 years, the other for life. ® © 0 LONG ens 20 Years Ago P. R. R. placed guards on all its bridges thruout this section. Maytown Alumni picnic was held at Accaniac. Markets: Eggs, 28 cents; 35 cents; Lard, 12 cents. The Mumma clan held their re- union at the camp grounds at Lan- disville. H. C. Brunner, suffered a badly sprained foot. Gerberich-Payne Shoe Co. base- bell team held a festival in the Market House. Phares Landis, of Rheems, suf- fered a’ broken arm in a fall. EE. Dudding, pres. of Prisoners Relief Society, sent a letter to gov- Sproul, to appoint a day be opéned and the a. Butter, ernor when prisons convicts freed.. A baby party held by the local clinic was held in the high school building. A birthday surprise in honor. of Mrs. Mary Shrites 76th | birthday was held on the “Bull Moose Farm.” The singing class, of Elizabeth- town, spent a delightful afternoon with Mr». and Mrs. W. S. Krady, near Palmyra. Rev. Chas. Truax, Port Carbon, was elected for the fourth time <as THEY KEEP GOING We spend lots of talking and | writing in praise of labor and in- dustry in their method cf working for the interest of the country dur-| ing war time. Of course that is] what they should do, earn praise for themselves by carrying on and not standing in the way of any branch to let it carry on its as- is, trouble with laber striking and industry suffering a hitch in pro- duction. There was more trouble expected than transpired, thank heavens! We have eculogized in tke work of the railroads in trans- portation and bus companies, of fur factories turning out im mass quantity, of the laborer down and doing his job. But say, whnét about throwing a big bou- quet at the farmer who foils at his chores, kept busy with his cows and chickens, wheat and corn, fruit and berries. He goes his way, us- ually unsung, rising early and woiking late, no time and a half everiime, no hourly schedule, help- ing hands, wezther to worry about, storzge to fret over. There is a great deal to worry abdut and not fake for granted in farming. But on their way they go, these farm- ers of our nation, plowing, sowing and reaping, grinding, feeding and shucking. Stay at home, db their job mcistly without complaint, be- cause that is what they always done, before the war and if is what they will still do after the war is They are fighting for their and theic way isn’t easy. © 00 SOLVING THE RUEBER PROBLEM “Tre tightest, grimmest shortage facing the U. S. is rub- ber.” says Time. “It need not have beén. For five months after Pcarl Harbor tne U. S. Govern- ment did practically nothing to get a synthetic rubber industry io fll the gap caused by Japan's con- That f2ilure is the worst scandal in the U. S. war effort.” There has been an encirmous waste of time in coming to grips with the rubber problem. There has been endless confusion, and excessive division of responsibility. At last, however, it looks as if semething definite and constructive is zbcut to be done. On July 17. Donald Nelson an- nounced that he had assumed per- sonal directiczin of the government's rubbe; program. On the same day, the 4th Corps Area Quartermaster Headquarters said that tires made of buna, a petroleum derivative, will be used as replacement en all vehicles throughcut the na- tion. And on July 15, President W. S. Farisn of the Standard Oil Ccmpany of New Jersey, gave a House subcommittee some exceed- ingly interesting information on the progress that is being made. New and faster processes, said Mr. Farish, will produce, before the end of 1943, 34,000,000, more automobile tires than were expect- ed. Further, synthetic. rubber will be better on the whole than nat- ural. rubber, and its cost will not be materially greater. This does not mean that any mo- cver, ceuntry, war orast can afford to “bum up” his signed task. There was and still | buckling | j spiral director at Landisville ! Camp. Chicken thieves are raiding the | poultry yards nightly in the boro. Mrs. Frank Felty, near Maytown | entertained in honor of her mother, Mrs. Jno. Derr. 55 tickets were sold to the P.R.R. excursion to Atlantic City. Rev. J. C. Foin, pastor of the Episcopal Church at Elizabethtown, | retired. Lance. Co. Sunday School Assoc. held their field day at Buchanan Fark. 100 girls handle 41,000 calls daily at the Bell telephone exchange at Lancaster. Manheim band furnished = music for the festival in Florin held by 1 the cemetery Asso. tl ee PLANT COVER CROPS To conserve nitrogen which oth- erwise would leach away during the winter and to control soil ero- sion, sow cover crops in the peach ¢tchard. Fruit specialists of the Pennsylvania State College report {hat domestic ryegrass, rye, and hairy vetch will produce satisfac- tory cover crops. —= HARVEST CLOVER SEED Farmers who do not need their second crop of clover for hay or ensilage will help the seed situa- tion by harvesting the crop for seed, say Penn State agronomists. The field should be quite free of weeds and the heads filled with rubber, on tae theory that replace- ments will soon be available. Mili- tery needs will absorb most and pethzps all the synthetic rubber produced for 2 long time to come. Rigid conservation cf rubber, as a result, remains an absolute neces- sity. Private industry is doing everything in ifs power to produc an adequate supply of synthetic rubber in the shortest possible time. There are, at, grounds for believing that government rubber red-tape is cut, and that there can be acfion, nct continued political talk, im dealing with the rubber program. Some of the best informed com- mentztors now arguing that there must be reveluticnary chan- ges in the organization of the Gov- ernment if the war effdrt is to be advanced with maximum speed and minimum delay. They point out that Washington red-tape makes really quick and effective action impossible in many vital mistters. On top of that, they say, some of the best men in the gov- erment must give too much of their time to questicn of detail, in- stead of questions of war policy. .. There is also a goctl deal of criti- cism of the military organizations i themselves. The crities say that !the the Army, Navy and Air For- | ces still don’t cperate in complete harmony. Lack of cooperation be- tween Army :and Navy. chiefs, , it will? be remembered, | was one of the mzin reasons’ for tne‘ debacle at Pearl Harbor, according to the Roberts report. Since Pearl Har- bor, considerable progress in the right direction has been made—but are EE rs "HAPPENINGS —= of = apparently a geod deal more is necessary. AGO 30 Years #30 Mrs. Gifford Delong raised a sweet pea stalk that is seven feet high. The fifth annual old time color- ed camp-meeting was held at Rheems. Markets: Butter 28 cents; Eggs 23 cents and lard 10% cents Mt. Joy Alumni Asso. held their outing at Pequea. A social was held in the field of Ephraim Hoffman's, nears Reich’s church. 2 | A birthday surprise was ténder- ed Mrs. Leah H. E. Ebersole held his August Clearance sale which brought many shoppers to town. R. L. Dochman, Square hotel property to Frederick of Manheim. Andrew Heisey, of Elizabethtown, has several apples on hand are almost two years .old. sold the Union: that’ {on how to provide a profitable Mr. Hoffman, Milton Grove, pur-| chased a fine new threshing outfit. Rev. Linebaugh, former pastor | here occupied the pulpit in the U. B. Church. Wm. Schutte, Bird-in-Hand, will open a garage here. Considerable hail fell this section damaging tobacco. George Barto, son of Edwin Barto had a finger smashed while assisting to bale straw at the Eli Engle farm. Etta M. Bennett will sell the meat business conducted by Chas: M. Bennett. York Fair Managers hope to have Roosevelf, Taft and Wilson on hand for speeches. Elam, 15 mos. old son of Wilson Meckley, Florin, fell from the arms of an elder brother, breaking his forsarm. 2,000 persons attended the fumer- al of David Ober, Mt. Joy Twp. Merchant I D. Breneman sent all his patrons a pencil by mail nett Oe SAFETY ACROSTIC FOR “PATRIOTIC RIDERS” “Patriotic Rider” reads a bicycle safety acrostic written by the Safe- ty Department of Keystone Auto- mobile Club with a view to im- pressing cytle users with the ne- cessity for observance of traffic rules. It follows: P—edal on the right side of high- way . A—void hitching rides T—ake time to use hand signals R—ide at night with proper lights I—nspect the vehicle for mechani cal defects O—béy all traffic signs and signals T—ake no one on the handlebars I—nstruct new riders away from highway C—ross intersections when if’s safe R—elieve congestion — ride away from heavy traffic I—nfluence your friends to avoid accidents D—o not park vehicle in a danger- ous place E—njoy bicycling in a safe place R—ide in single file —_—— W. C. T. U. TO DEDICATE FOUNTAIN AT E'TOWN The: W.C.T.U. met at the home cof Mrs. S. P. Engle, at Eliza- bethtown Tuesday afternoon Aug. 11th with ten members present. Mrs. Jno. Floyd of the Bainbridge Union was a visitor. Final arrange- ment for the dedication of the Al- ice Lenenight Memorial Fountains were made. The time of dedica- tion is Aug. 20 at 6:30 P. M. when the county Pres. Miss A. Virginia Grosh, of Lititz, will be the speak- er. The public is cordially invited to the E'town Park on that date. Temperance Road signs are in the course of erection and will soon be completed. As you travel Fast and West from Elizabethtown, along the main Highway they will have a message for all rrr A PREVENT FRUIT DROP Hormone sprays have proved successful in decreasing the preentags of fruit dropping before maturity. Fruit specialists of the Pennsylvania State College recom- mended applying the spray accord- ing the manufacturer's directions as soon. as the fruit begins to drop. It is effective for 8 to 10 days. rrr A A Eo FRUNE RAMBLER ROSES Cut most of last year’s shoots out of the rambler roses, since the growth will be productive of flow ers next year, remind Penn State ornamental horticulturists. wad The Bulletin, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pa, Thursday Augiist 13, 1942 T= Torics GRAIN SOYBEANS DEPLETE THE SOIL But if Plowed Under They Increase Soil Nitrogen. By PROF. GEORGE D. SCARSETH (Soil Chémist, Agficultlitdl Experiment Station, Pi Paki daé Univetsity.) Many farmers do not realize that soybeans harvested for grain are a soil-exhausting rather than 4 soil puilding crop. If soybeans aré plowed under or cut for hay, and thé manure therefrom is returned to thé soil, they do increase the soil nitro- gen and thus increase the corn or whéat yields that follow in thé ro- tation. But harvestéd for commer cial purposes such as ojls, plastics, éte., they représent a drain on the soil. A crop of 20 bushels of soybeans harvésted for commercial purposes removes 15 pounds of phosphate (equivalent to 75 pounds of 20 per cent super-phosphdte) and 20 pounds of potash per acre. Soybeans are certain to play an increasingly important part in the present war effort. At présent very little information has been obtained means of directly fertilizing soy- beans at the time of seeding, but ex- periments now in progress at Pur- due university involving plowing un- der phosphate and potash indicate | that effeétive means are being found. With 'a favorable price outlook, a greater acreage will be planted to soybeans this year. Farmers will find it advantageous to fertilize the crop, unless their soils have been adequately treated previously in the rotation. Based on experience at the university, the following suggestions may be of value: If the soil is acid, lime it ade- quately this winter. This is impor- tant for otherwise the fertilizer will bé los. In many cases about three tons per acre will be effective. Then just before plowing the ground for soybeans, broadcast about 300 pounds of 0-20-20 or 500 pounds of 0-12-12 and plow under. Do not use any fertilizer when planting the beans. The bénefits from the lime will last at least 10 yedrs, although it has been found profitable to re- lime in about six years. Indicative of the importance of plowing down fertilizer, for soy- beans, was a test at the Purdue ex- periment station last year. On an unfertilized plot, the soybean yield ‘| was 15.7 bushels of grain or 3,570 pounds of hay an acre. When an equivalent of 1,000 pounds of 4-10-25 had been broadcast and disked into the topsoil immediately before seed- ing, the yield incréaséd only 1.9 bushels. But when this same amount was broadcast and plowed under the yield per acre was 23.4 bushels of grain or 4,653 pounds of hay. When lime at the rate of three tons per acre was used with the fertilizer and plowed under, the yield was 28.2 bushels of grain or 5,377 pounds of hay per acre. Feeding Laying Hens Successful poultry farmers pay nearly as much attention to the way they feed their pullets and laying hens as they do to thé kind of feeds they provide. For one thing, abrupt changing in the diet causes thé birds to go ‘‘off feed” and results in lower egg produc- tion and slower growth as will the use of stale feed. If a change in diet must be made it should be made gradually and extend over a period of a week or ten days. One practice followed by many of the better poultrymen is to pro- vide only a liftle more feed each day than thé birds can cléan up. The leff-overs, if clean and dry, can be mixed thoroughly with the fresh feed in the hoppers. In this way there will be no accumulation of stale feed at the bottom of the hoppers, reducing likelihood of mold. Some Mighty Trees The free with the largest circum:¢ ference is the sequoia, 101 feet, 6 inches, in California, and the tree given the widest spread (168 feet) is a liveoak at Hahnville, La. The wide-spreading liveoak on the Lien- do plantation in Waller county seems to be unrecorded on the banks of the Potomac. A California redwood with an altitude of 364 feet is given the palm for the greatest height. The world’s record for girth is given to a cypress in Mexico. Probably the largest, oldest, slow- est and fastest growing trees now in Texas, is the cypress. Its wood also has had more home and industrial use than any free. Less Spuds, More Eggs People eat about the same total quantity of food now as they did 30 years ago, but thé composition of the dietafy has changed. Consump- tion of wheat and other cereals, po- tatoés and dpples, beef, veal, and téa has declined. But consumption of vegetables (other than potatoes), citrus fruifs, sugar, poultry, eggs, milk, manufaefured dairy products (éspécially ice cream), edible fats and oils (other than lard and but tér) dnd cocoa increased. —_— ee India’s Game of ‘Poona’ Grew lito Our Badminton Asia gave the world a game which in late years has grown rather popu- lar inf the western world. The game is badminton, and it grew out of an older game called ‘‘battledoor and shuttlecock,” or simply ‘shuttle- cock.” A battledoor is a racket with a long handle. Usually it is strung with catgut, like a tennis racket. A shuttlecock is a cork with feathers stuck in it, or around the rim. All the feathers are pointed in the same direction; they follow the cork when the shuttlecock flies through the air. Shuttlecock can be played in sev- eral ways. Sometimes a player sees how many times he can knock. the shuttlecock info the air, without let- ting it fall to the ground. In another form, two players bat the shuttlecock back and forth. The batting may be done with or without a net between the players. This game appears to have heen played in India as. much as 1,500 years ago. In India it had the name of ‘“poona.” | A form of shuttlecock was played in France about two centuries ago. A picture made in 1760 shows a lady and a gentleman of France batting a shuttlecock back and forth. They are using rackets with much shorter handles than’those employed in the modern game. About 70 years ago, British of- ficers refurned to England from India. With them they brought rackets and shuttlecocks which they had used in India while playing poona. People in England began to take up the game, and no one seemed to like it better than the duke of Beau- fort. This duke lived in a home which was named ‘‘Badminton,” Roasting Meats Better When Left Uncovered Low temperature, evenly con- trolled oven heat for roasting means ténderness, flavor, minimum shrink- age and all the available nutrients of meat. Tender cuts of meat for roast- ing are placed on a rack in a shal- low uncovered pan. (By shallow, we mean not over two inches high on the sidés,) In this way the roast basks in the gentle circulating fresh warm air currents of the oven. The fat side of the meat is placed upper- most so that as the fat cooks the basting job is done without the touch of human hand. A lean piece of meat may be larded by the butcher, brushed with oil, spread with sof- téned fat or topped with strips of bacon. For true roasting, meats should never be covered. Roasting is a dry heat method of cooking and neither pan nor oven should retain steam, The brown- ing results of uncovered low tem- perature roasting are extremely at- tractive. This browning takes place in the latter part of the roasting period without any increase of oven heat. tll) CI. Patronize Bulletin Advertisers. * * Ro * EOE Ty your Chevrolet dealer, : who is COLE EET EE service station orTruck Con- EC re iA Lie PRT] emblem Lied your LE : TR H. S. Nevcom + TRL: RRL Sn WAR BONDS Gas masks which came into use fn warfare for the first time when the Germans used poison and mus- tard gas in World War I, are much | improved today over those used | then. The Chemical Warfare Branch | of the War Department issues these | gas masks to every man in the serv- ice. We are A no chances. The type pictured here is the | “can” and ‘‘elephant nose” mask and costs about $9.25 each. headgear is transparent, made of material resembling cellophane and does not cloud with the breath. You can buy two of these gas masks with the purchase of an $18.75 War Bond. We need thousands of them. Don’t fail to give at least ten percent of your income every pay day for War Bonds. Buy them at your bank or postoffice, regularly. U. S. Treasury Department The An Economieal Way To Shop _. EX GE —Without Us- a GAY : ing Tires or oA i Ye \ | Gas! Sab -<G ® Shop at home and save your tires aud gasoline. I'll be glad to demonstrate Spencer Indi- vidually Designed Supports— right in your own home! MRS. MARY W. FREY 434 S. Market St. Phone 234-R MRS. EDNA K. MUMMA Phone 34535 ETOWN, PA. E'TOWN PA. ‘WE HAVE..... QUALITY MEATS KRALL'S Meat Market 4 el West Main St.. Mt. Joy i m1 EL 016 EE A Ld EYES EXAMINED Dr. Harold C. Killheffer OPTOMETRIST MANHEIM ELIZABETHTOWN 163 8. Charlotte St. 15 E. High 8t Telephone 11-J Telephone 24-B Mon.,, Wed., Thurs. 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