International Convention
at Geneva Will Draft
Outline
Geneva— (UP)— An international
convention requiring every signatory
state to institute an obligatory old
age, widows and orphans insurance
is to be launched by this years In
ternational Labor conference.
The International Labor bureau
has sent out a questionnaire ask
ing for all laws and informations
on the subject.
In addition the Labor bureau has
begun the drawing up of a draft
project for such a convention to be
submitted to the conference.
Fifty Plans
Over 50 existing compulsory in
surance laws have been carefully
examined as a basis of the draft.
One of the principles, which it
has found in all these existing la .vs
is that insurance should be compul
sory for wage-earners and this will
be incorporated into the draft.
In investigating the present status
of compulsory old age workmen’s
widows’ and orphans’ insurance, the
Labor bureau has found that the
first steps in this direction were
taken by Germany in 1889.
V First Scheme
For a long time it remained the
only scheme of the kind in exist
ence, but in 1906 the former Aus
trian empire also established a
pension insurance scheme for non
manual workers.
France in 1910 instituted pen
sions for workers and peasants but
this was never fully applied.
The same period saw sickness
and invalidity insurance launched
in England; old-age and invalidi
ty insurance in Luxemburg, Ru
mania, and Sweden.
Following the war the Holland
scheme, which had been adopted
in 1913, was finally put into force
while compulsory insurance was
adopted in Italy and Spain.
The body of such laws as they
now exist cover tens of millions of
people, but the Labor bureau hopes
to make such compulsory insurance
applicable to workers oi all classes.
SPICED PRUNES
Wash and soak 2 cups prunes
over night. In the morning add =4
cup brown sugar, Vt teaspoon cin
namon. tablespoon cloves. tea
spoon nutmeg. Cook slowly with
cover on until tender. Chill. Serve.
Cinnamon Biscuits
2 cups sifted flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
% teaspoon salt
% cup water
2 tablespoons shortening
Sift dry ingredients. Work the
shortening in with a fork. Add
water, mixing with fork. Toss on
floured board. Spread with melted
butter. Sprinkle with sugar and
cinnamon to suit taste. Roll .p
tightly. Cut pieces Vi inch thick
and bake as cinnamon rolls. Very
delicious.
Jellied Chicken
2 tablespoons granulated gelatin
4 tablespoons cold water
1 cup boiling chicken stock
% teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
cup cooked peas
cup hard cooked eggs, chopped
2 cups chopped chicken
Soak gelatine in cold water.
Add chicken stock and stir until
gelatine is dissolved. Cool. When
it starts to thicken, add rest of
mixture. Can be molded and
chilled in one large mold or a
number of small ones.
Gild Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Using tgg yolks from making
angel food.
1 cup shortening.
2 cups sugar.
10 egg yolks.
3 tablespoons milk.
teaspoon salt.
2 teaspoons vanilla.
Vi teaspoon nutmeg.
% teaspoon soda.
Cream shortening, add sugar,
then beaten egg yolks and milk.
Eift dry ingredients—salt, flour,
soda, nutmeg—and add to first
mixture. Add only enough more
flour to make a soft dough; han
dle as little as possible; roll out
small amount at a time; cut and
sprinkle with sugar, place a large
seeded raisin in center of each one.
Bake in moderate oven (350 de
grees.)
sauce for meat loaves and casser
ole dishes.
One can of tomato soup, when
heated and poured over hambur
ger patties, make a tasty dish.
Many canned soups are delicious
if combined with cream or evapor
ated milk before serving. A tea
spoon of seasoned whipped cream
added to the soup just before it Is
served, often adds attractiveness.
A False Charge.
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me. It seems that you remarked,
"I see you're installed in your new
home;” and as they furnished on
the instalment system, she thought
you were trying to be funny at their
expense.
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Sister Mary’s Kitchen
Does your family refuse to eat
plain, every-day stewed prunes?
Then try these recipes for luncheon
or dinner and overcome all objec
tions.
A prime cocktail for dinner is a
concoction very different from
stewed prunes for breakfast. A
ring of prunes for dessert will be
welcomed as a treat, and when the
same once despised prune appears
stuffed in a salad, no one will rec
ognize it.
Since prunes are graded for
market these days, it’s quite easy
for the housekeeper to get exactly
what she wants. Generally speak
ing the best grades are the cheapest
in the long run, for they contain
the smallest stones. However, the
ways in which the fruit is to &e
used, of course, determines the
grades wanted. Prunes are graded
into 10 sizes varrying from 20-30s
to 110-120s, the figures referring to
the number of prunes to the pound
■ If you order 20 to 30s you ■will
expect to find 20 to 30 prunes in
each pound and these prune' will be
large in size. So it naturally fol
lows that the 110 to 120s. meaning
110 to 120 prunes to the pound, will
be very small. Medium sized prunes
averaging 40-50 or 50 to 60 are suit
able for most purposes when the
fruit is wanted whole, either pitted
or unpitted. But if the prunes are
to be cooked, stoned anti sieved cr
cut up, the small ones are just as
1 good. In this connection it is worth
j knowing that although the percent
' age of pits is greater in the smaLer
size prunes, there is more meat for
the money in a pound of small
prunes than there is in a pound of
j large ones.
Then there are two distinct kinds
of prunes, the sweet and tart. Cali
fornia almost exclusively produces
I sweet prunes which have firm,
sweet flesh and consequently need
little sugar in cocking. The tart
prunes usually are grown in Wash
ington and Oregon. These prunes
average larger in size, carry larger
pits than the sweet or California
prunes, and ordinarily require more
sugar in cooking.
Stuffed prune salad can be varied
in several ways. Choose the largest
size available for this purpose.
Prune Salad
Sixteen prunes, 1 package Ntul
chatel cheese, 2 tablespoons lintly
chopped nut meats, cream.
TOMORROWS MENU
Breakfast — Chilled tomato
Juice, cereal, cream, boiled liv
er sausage, corn bread, milk,
coffee.
Luncheon — Split pea soup,
Melba toast, stuffed prune sal
ad, chocolate bread pudding.,
grape juice.
Dinner — Tuna fish leaf,
baked parsnips, pickled beets,
dried corn with cream, cherry
up-side-down cake, milk, cof
fee.
Scrub prunes and wash carefully.
Cover with boiling water, cover bowl
closely and let stand until cool
Drain and remove stones. Chill. Mix
cheese and nuts with enough cream
to make moist. Fill prunes with
mixture and arrange on a bed of
lettuce or romaine. Serve with
French dressing.
A mixture of Cammcmbert cheese
minced celery, few drops of onion
Dr. Coolidge Is So Restful.
Editorial Opinion of the Columbus.
• Ohio) Dispatch.
Calvin Coolidge probably would
have made a fine family doctor.
Even as statesmen, he has a won
derful bedside manner—so rooming
and restful. Through his writings,
he sits by the side of the sick na
tion and, while he attempts to pour
no bitter medicine down the throat
of the patient, he invariably leaves
him feeling beater.
In the current American maga
zine, Dr. Coolidge is at it again. H:
view of Uncle Sam's ailment is a
cheerful and reassuring one. Kt
blames the patient’s past indiscre
tions for Jiis present p’ifcht, hut
A Farmer Looks at Washington
Dear Jim: When you was a kid
and used to play Indian in the al
ley with your neighborhood gang,
there was one kid in the outfit—
there always is—who wouldn’t play
unless he could make all the rules.
If you all didn’t play to suit him, he
would take his play to suit him, he
lariat and feathers and toy gun and
go home. And of course it was the
boy who owned all of the toys
quite naturally, who was so snooty.
Men, as has been often said, are
just boys grown up. They have the
same instincts, and they play the
game in the same general way in
which they started.
All of which philosophizing, aft
er a manner of speaking, brings
us back to this matter of guessing
cn the probable relations of Mel
lon and Hoover. Mellon, of course,
owns most of the toys. Senator Nor
ris and others who don’t like him
nave said repeatedly that he is the
only secretary of the treasury who
has had three presidents working
tor him. The whisper, reported in
this letter a few days ago, to the
effect that Mellon and Hoover had
spatted a bit over the question of
inflation of the currency, now seems
to have had some foundation for It.
At any rate, now that “the greatest
secretary” etc., has quit the camp,
it looks like inflation is about to
be put over. And, brother, it may
help!
At any rate, now that Mellon is
out of the game, someone else may
dictate the rules. The sensible thing
to expect is that Hoover and his
advisers—if they have a lick of
sense—will try to do something to
make it possible for Hoover to be
re-elected. By inflation they can
rahe the commodity prices artificial
ly by 50 or 75 per cent, undoubtedly
Of course it will still take just the
same number of bushels cf wheat
to buy a pair of shoes—but it will
make everybody feel better. It will
also give the smart folks in our part
of the world a chance to pay off
their debts with cheapened money.
juice and minced green pepper
makes a good stuffing.
Peanut butter and Philadelphia
cream cheese combined in equal
parts is another good filling.
Chopped nut meats, minced pre
served ginger and cream cheese also
are good in prunes.
Prune Cocktail
Twelve fine large prunes, 1 lemon,
1 orange.
Scrub prunes thoroughly and
wash through several waters. Cov
er with cold water and let stand
over night. Bring slowly to the
boiling point in the same water,
reduce heat and simmer until prunes
are tender and plump. Do not let
the water boil during the cooking.
Let stand in liquid until cool. One
tablespoon sugar can be added
when fruit is removed from fire if
,too tart. When cool, cut in neat
halves and remove stones. Add juke
from orange and lemon and chill
thoroughly. Serve in cocktail glass
es.
State Wildcat Bounty
Aid to Jobless Men
Augusta, Me. — (UP) — An in
crease from a $10 to $20 in the
bounty paid by the state on wild
cats has proved a boon to many
jobless men.
From July 1 to December 1 a
year ago, with the county at $10
only 78 wildcats were killed. Dur
ing the corresponding period of
1931, with the bounty at $20, a total
of 320 were killed.
December and January usually |
doesn't scold about it. He says, in
effect, that the boy who eats green
apples must expect the stomach
ache, but he secs no use in brow
beating the sufferer for being a
icol. Boys will be boys, seems to be
his attitude.
No person or group can right- j
fully be accused of a general moral j
lapse in connection with present
conditions, and America as a whole
must take the blame he says. A
great body of people took egregious
risks, and now tney should share
the blame and stop complaining.
Work, thrift and faith only are
needed to set things right. ' There ;
has been a general lack of judg
ment so widespread as to intvlve .
That, of course, would not appeal
to a man like Mellon who already
has his money in the old sock, but
it surely will appeal to folks who
have a flock of debts that were
contracted when money was cheap
some years ago.
And isn’t a little artificial price
raising justified, in view of the fact
that the general fear of the un
known future is to a large extent
responsible for our present peculiar
condition? There's lots of money in
the country, and there's lots of stuff
to be bought with it. The banks,
however, don't dare loan to any
one because they realize that fear
may impel their depositors to de
mand cash at any time—and with
out any reason. Ordinary folks,
knowing that this is the case, mere
ly have their owm individual fear
intensified by this knowledge, so
they start hoarding and demanding
cash. The thing rolls on like a snow
ball, getting bigger and more un
wleldly as it goes—and still there’s
the same money and the same prop
erty and the same food and the
same clothing in this great country.
What’s all the shooting about?
Maybe a little artificial heat will
dissolve this economic snowball of
ours—this snowball of frozen assets;
and maybe the artificial heat to do
the business is this policy of in
flation which now seems about to
start. And maybe, with Mellon gone,
something like this can at least be
tried. It can’t hurt, and it might
help. And it might help Hoover.
Herb makes me think of the
piano player in the joint in Dead
wood in the early days who used
to have the sign up over the Piano,
“Don't Shoot the Piano-Player. He’s
Domg His Best.”
Hoover should have that painted
on the front of the White House.
That's an old story, Jim, and it
has been used often—maj be about
Hoover, for all 1 know'. Anyhow, it'a
apropos and pomme de terre—or
something. Hank.
see the greatest number of wdd
cat hides, and it is estimated as
much as $1,500 weekly will be paid
out during this period.
DIVERSIFIED PHILOSOPHY.
You think you have influence, yes?
To ascertain the fact,
Go out and ask some favors and
Just watch how folks react.
The chap with dollars now in hand,
He’s got whate'er it takes;
And you can bet whate’er you hav^
He's also got the breaks.
If Mars is signaling to earth,
Perhaps she wants to tel]
Us that she has some gilt-edgeg
bonds.
That she would like to sell.
It is to laugh, until you get
Your side another stitch—
To clothe the poor by aiding bank*
Disguise their coats of pitch.
The dollar may go farther now.
But here's what I'm bewailing.
The fact is known to only those
Engaged in dollar trailing.
When folks can die of thirst at sea,
And starve in midst, of foods,
’Twould seem to silly folks like mev
Fate hath satiric moods.
—Sam Page.
Wanted Asa in.
From Buen Humor, Madrid.
Why so sad?”
Said something to my wife and
she wouldn’t speak to me lor a
week.”
That's too bad, old man. When
did that happen?”
” Bout ft month ago.”
'Well, why so sad now7?”
Forgotten what r said. ’
virtually the entire country. We
have found out we are not &s big
as we thought we w7ere. We were
riding too high. We shall have to
keep nearer the ground. We shall
not feel so elated, but we shall be
much safer.”
No panaceas. No violent emetics
or purgatives. Just a tried and true
old household remedy, as old-fash
ioned as sulphur and molasses—
work, thrift and faith. Come again,
doctor; you're so restful.
The Buddhist religion warns
against drinltmg intoxicants, dan
cing, singing, playing musical in
struments, wearing jewelry, using
ptrlumes, or sleeping in a soft bed.
The Myth of Over-Production
Alexander Hamilton Institute Bulletin
President Hoover’s Committee on Home Building and
Home Ownership having announced that two out of every
three homes are below proper living standards, the Alex
ander Hamilton Institute pertinently submits this Ohal
lenging question: What has become of the theory of over
production?
The depression, in its early stages, was generally
charged to over-production. But, asks the Institute, did you
have the finest home you could wish for, all the clothing
you wanted, your choice in automobiles, a country homo
and a town house, a ticket for a world tour? Obviously,
there is something distorted about the theory of too much
wealth.
To be sure, in a few specific industries there was an
accumulation of stocks wKch simply could not be sold. But
in the vast majority of cases it was only high price which
restricted the market. And all that was needed to balance
consumption with production was to lower the price.
The whole scale of prices had to come down. Goods
had been produced in unprecedented quantities since the
war, and gold, the basis of money, in quantities hardly in
creasing. Their relation had shifted. And the expression
of that relation, prices, had not shifted. When the adjust
ment came, like in a fault in basic rock, it produced an
earthquake.
The more one considers the excess profits, the leaks
and the wTastes of boom times, the clearer one sees that
prices could have been lowered. But prosperous companies
sought to widen their markets, when none existed at cur
rent prices. Instead of widening their markets by lowering
prices, they fought to capture the markets of competitors.
Instead of passing along some profits to consumers, they
wasted them on hopeless sales efforts. No wonder they
talked about the high cost of selling!
These companies are not entirely to be blamed. The
sentiment against lowering prices was hard to oppose. But
there is a big difference between predatory price-cutting
and sharing profits with the consumer.
There was no over-production, except at the level of
prices. And prices are fast taking care of that. In a na
tion where there is only one bnth-tub for every 20 persons,
one can hardly conceive of over-production. And until
that Utopian future when every man, woman and child
can have anything he wants by pressing a button, one can
not envision over-production at all. The over-production
theory, with its corrallary that industrious activity throws
workers out of their Jobs, is a discouraging conception but,
fortunately, only a high-price advocate’s myth.
How to Achieve Self Government
Alexander Hamilton Institute Bulletin.
With bankruptcies menacing local governments, with
an unholy burden of taxes on every family, as the result of
corruption, inefficiency and laulty structure in federal,
state, county, city, town and village governments, the task
of self-governing is placed squarely before the public.
But what if the citizen refuses to take an interest in
government, or, as he puts it, in politics? Relatively lew
vote. Next to none attends political meetings.
To this the Alexander Hamilton Institute makes the
amazing statement that the average citizen is not only in
terested in government but active, even though he does
not realize it himself.
As proof the Institute points to the hundreds of thous
ands of clubs, associations, leagues, unions, societies, pri
vate bureaus, movements, etc., with millions of members
engaged in other than purely social activities. A great many
of them are engaged in promoting some phase of health,
education, charity, business co-ordination, that at least
one of our many overlapping governments is organized
to perform. In other words they are in politics Most of
them are trying to accomplish what that government is
falling to do right. Many cf them arc actually presenting
petitions, trying to pass laws, set king to get things done.
In other words, the average citizen is trying to run the gov
ernment from the outside, instead of the inside.
What if all the members of these private clubs and as
sociations with at least one interest in a governmental
function should, as individuals, march into political meet
ings? There would be the greatest and most constructive
political revolution in history.
Suppose every club and association with at least one
interest in a governmental function should put public poli
tical meetings on its regular calendar? How long would it
take to stamp out corruption, eliminate inefficiency, reor
ganize the structure of disorganized states, headless coun
ties and managerless cities? A great opportunity awaits
the members of clubs and organizations in America to
achieve their objectives, as citizens by the direct action of
getting into politics.
Brook hart Out of Step.
From the Storm Lake Filot-Trib
une.
It is quite apparent from the re
marks made by Senator Smith W.
Brookliart down at Washington that
our senator is entirely out of tot Lh
with Iowa and out of tune with the
sentiments of his constituents.
When he wrote a letter to the
Euena Vista county committee lor
reduction of governmental expen
ditures in which he declared that
federal taxes should be increased
instead of lowered, people were in
clined to th nk he didn't fully un
derstand the situation.
He fails to answer Congressman
Cole's charges that he has been con
niving with Big Bill Thompson of
Chicago in an effort to swing Iowa
to Hi Johnson for president.
He votes against the $2,000,000,000
credit corporation just formed in
the belief that it will help this na
tion out of its financial distress. In
this he was one of the very few
who registered a negative vote.
Then he declares himself opposed
to cutting the salaries of United
States senators, congressmen and
others on the government payroll.
Botanical Garden
Flowers Set Record
Philadelphia — (UP) — The
flowers that bloom in the sprint
are giving an encore this year, tie
«*ite the fact that Jack Frost has
already reached the city.
At the Ur.fversity of Pennsylvania
Botanical gardens 14 different kinds
of flowers are in bloom. According
to officials of the university, tins
is a record of the last 25 years.
GIRL BURGLAR REFORMS
Den:oit —(UP)— A pretty 37*
be; a use S8ys, ihe (10,000 a >car
senate re are worth mere then they
get Meaning himself, of tourw
He fails to answer the ebarpe
cf Louit Cook In which he is lic
ensed ol putting his own Jamb) ou
the government payroll at fat nat
al res Ol course, ire doesn't want
their salaries reduced either.
All of which bears out our unp
ins] contention. The senator sum
been living in Maryland so long .hr
is entirely out of ctcp with Ins lovt.x
constituents. If he thinks the titr
pavers out here are not for tsi re
duction and for cutting salaries u»
Washington as well at at home, bo
a. ail wet.
Lovie Grows Ar. I’orpie Kcw
Firm the Peterson Patriot
Judging from what we hair bcii
reading in the newspapers pubhe
in towns where Louie Cook bun
spoken, notably Spencer, btorm
Lake and Sac City, Louie 1a gi t Log
over big in his campaign agaitosl
Mr. Brockhart aDd his stock is ars
ing higher and higher. Ke enmi
to make a big impression rwrry
where he talks anyway.
year-old girl, who obtained 25 rente
in two burglaries here, has decidnJ
crime doesn’t pay. The giiJ-tmr
pjRr, Beatrice Webster, was a»
rerted alter police traced J hig.n -
prints found on the window of the
garage tht entered. "I needed
money for my mother,” the pit I
said, "but 1 was foolish trying to
be a burglar."
Mis Own Sj-sirm.
From Lu.si.JKe, Bteetter, Berha.
Parent: My ton hat so many oric
inal ideas
Teacher Yes, typcr.t 'y in aj:r«b~
raetic.