WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Feature»--WNU Service.)
NEW YORK —Some people don't
know when they are well off.
Karl Ulmanis was a milk man at
Lincoln, Neb., for five year*, and
• a/ . doing all
Anyone in Need right, before
Of Good Milk he went back
Wagon Driver? lo Latvia- to
• be president
of the country and sit on a hot seat
for 25 years thereafter. It was er
roneously reported that he had fled,
as the Russians moved in, but the
news today is that he is still around,
and has broadcast a message to his
people to be nice to the invaders.
Nobody knows the trouble he's seen.
Considering that steady job he had,
it looks like a score for the isola
tionists.
In Lincoln, In 190*, he was
Karl Ullman, not Ulmanis, for
mer dirt farmer and country ed
itor In Latvia. The dean of the
state college of agriculture got
him the milk route, so he could
work his way through college.
He was graduated In the allot
ted time. He was steady and
dependable, and might have
been mistaken for a Nebraska
farmer.
One day, he discarded his bib
overalls, appeared in a store suit
and was seen no more in those
parts. Everybody liked him and
they were especially shocked by the
fact that he owed about $1,000,
which he had borrowed to start a
cheese factory in Texas. Six years
passed when A. L. Haecker, one of
his creditors, had a letter from him,
enclosing full payment of his debt.
He explained that he had a nice
job as president of Latvia and was
glad to be able to pay what he
owed. Other bank drafts followed.
The $1,000 was paid in full.
As president and foreign min
ister of Latvia, he lived in an
ancient, turreted castle and
ruled In a medieval throne
room. On the wall behind his
desk, the medieval heraldic em
blem of Latvia was crossed with
the green pennant of the Ne
braska State College of Agricul
ture. But he wasn’t having a
wonderful time.
The country was under czarist
Russia when young Mr. Ullman ran
his newspaper. An indiscreet edi
torial brought about his departure
for Lincoln by devious routes. To
stave off Nazi aggression, he made
himself dictator in 1934.
THE possibility of South and Cen
tral American countries picking
up empire salvage before the U. S.
A. works out its hemisphere de
r .... , fense plans
Gen. Ubico Out seems to have
To Beat Hitler to been but
British Honduras ^Bhtly re
garded. How
ever, here’s little Guatemala reach
ing out for British Honduras, and
Sir Samuel Hoare’s mahogany for
ests and mills therein, according to
news reports.
Gen. Jorge Ubico, dictator of
Guatemala for the last nine
years, brings forward In the files
the tale of a British pirate who
snatched British Honduras from
his country 60 years ago. “Los
ers weepers, finders keepers."
Whether that applies to the
wreckage of empires seems not
to have been covered in Interna
tional law.
General Ubico is the only living
ruler who looks like Napoleon. He
often is called the “ 'Little Napo
leon’ of the Tropics." He was elect
ed for his first one-year term as
president. He survived two revolu
tions during this term, and then set
aside the constitutional limitation
against more than one term—and
has had eight repeats, so far.
The general received a tech
nical and military education In
the United States and Europe,
and rose to political power
through various provincial and
national offices. He entered the
national assembly In 1911. He
concentrates on road-building,
sanitation, agriculture and voca
tional training for young people.
He has been strongly pro-U.
8. A., and reports from Wash
ington are that our state depart
ment probably wouldn't make
much of a fuss over his grabbing
British Honduras—as long as
Hitler doesn’t get it.
Brilliantly educated, hard-boiled
and diligent, he has worked out in
his small laboratory his own idea of
an authoritarian state. Monopoly
is the central idea. He grants ex
clusive concessions in basic goods
and industries. To restrain grab
bing and grafting, he establishes a
probity department in his cabinet
Anyone working for the government
or doing important business with it
has to file a complete inventory of
his own and his family’s possessions.
If these goods and chattels increase
too rapidly, the general’s busy little
gestapo is on the job.
WHEN YOU MAKE JAM OR JELLY
(See Recipes Below)
tH /fgWmoT'
"Sugar 'nd spice 'nd everything
nice” goes into the preserving ket
tle. and out of it comes a tantaliz
ing array of jellies, Jams, pickles
and relishes, and rich fruit butters
and marmalades.
This year, why not add to your
stock of preserves (and to your rep
utatlon as a good
cook!) by doing
some of your own
| canning and pre
serving? It’s as
easy as A,B,C, if
you'll follow a
\few simple sug
gestions and use
tested recipes.
iviosi oi me equipment you neea
for canning and preserving you will
have on hand; large kettles or
saucepans, a colander, coarse
strainer, wooden masher, wooden
spoons, a skimmer, wide-mouth fun
nel, glass jars, Jelly glasses, jar
covers and new rubbers. It may be
necessary to buy a few new jars
each year, for nicked jars are likely
to cause spoilage.
Wash Jars, glasses and covers
thoroughly in soapy water, and rinse
in boiling water. Sterilize them just
before using and let them remain
in the hot water until you are ready
to All them. Use new rubbers ev
ery year, and dip them in boiling
water Just before you put them on
the jars. When jars or jelly glasses
are to be Ailed with hot foods,
place the hot glasses on a clean
towel which has been wrung out of
hot water.
If you have an old-fashioned gravy
boat with a spout and handle, use it
in filling glasses
with Jellies, jams
and preserves.
Allow the Jam to
cool in the glasses
before sealing
with paraffin.
When the parafl'vn
has set, wipe the
glasses with a damp cloth, cover,
and label them. To prevent the
formation of mold, store jams, jel
lies, and preserves in a cool, dry
place.
Homemade Tomato Soup.
(Makes 6 pints)
1 peck tomatoes (14 pounds)
1 bunch celery
1 quart onions (sliced)
H cup butter
Vi cup flour
cup sugar
4 to 5 teaspoons salt
% teaspoon pepper
Scrub the tomatoes and celery,
and cut into pieces. Add the sliced
onion, and cook over a low flame
until the vegetables are thoroughly
soft (about 1 hour). Strain. Blend
together the butter, flour, sugar, and
seasoning, and add to the strained
tomato mixture. Bring to a boll,
and boil gently for 20 minutes, stir
ring frequently. Seal in sterilized
jars. To serve, combine the tomato
soup with soup stock or milk.
Sweet Pantry Slices.
(Makes 8 to 7 pints)
1 gallon cucumbers (3 to 5
inches long)
m quarts white onions (sliced)
% cup salt
5 cups sugar
1 tablespoon ground ginger
% teaspoon turmeric
2 tablespoons mustard seed
1 tablespoon celery seed
5 cups vinegar
Scrub cucumbers and slice thin
(without paring). Add sliced onioqs
and salt, and if crushed ice is avail
able, stir in 1 pint which aids in
crisping. Cover with a weighted lid
and let stand for 3 hours. Drain,
and add remaining ingredients.
Plaee over low heat, bring to the
simmering point, and simmer for 5
minutes. Pack in sterilized jars and
seal.
Strawberry-Rhubarb Conserve.
2 pounds strawberries
2 pounds rhubarb
3 pounds sugar
Wash fruit; hull strawberries and
cut rhubarb in small pieces (you'll
find the scissors a great flnger-saver
in cutting the rhubarb). Place fruit
in deep pan like a dish-pan and
place in cold oven. Set temperature
control to 400 degrees and start the
oven. Cook about ltfc hours, then
add sugar. Cook, stirring occasion
ally, for Mi to 1 hour, or until con
serve becomes thick. (The time va
ries according to the “Juiciness” of
the fruit). Pour into sterilized jars
or glasses and seal Immediately or
cool and cover with melted paraffin.
Quick Strawberry Jam.
(Makes 6 glasses)
1 quart strawberries
Boiling water
4 cups sugar
Remove caps from strawberries
and wash thoroughly. Then pour
boiling water over berries until wa
ter is lightly tinted with pink. Drain
and place berries in saucepan, add
2 cups of sugar, and shake over
low flame until sugar is dissolved
and mixture begins to boil. Then
increase heat and boil hard for 4
minutes. Reduce heat, add remain
ing sugar and boil hard again for 4
minutes longer. Pour into jelly
glasses, allow to thicken, and seal
when cold.
Sunless Sun Preserves.
Take 4 cups of strawberries which
have been washed and hulled and 5
cups sugar, place 1 cup berries in
a heavy saucepan and cover with 1
cup sugar and continue until all of
the berries and sugar have been
placed In the saucepan layer by
layer. Bring slowly to a boil and
boil gently for 9 minutes. Remove
from fire and add 3 tablespoons lem
on juice. Let stand over night. Next
day bring to a boil and boil gently
an additional 9 minutes. Remove
from Ore, skim, and let stand in
saucepan until thoroughly cold, then
seal in hot sterilized Jars. The ber
ries remain whole and retain their
natural flavor and color.
Rhubarb Butter.
(Makes 6 to 7 glasses)
2V» pounds rhubarb
2 pounds sugar
% cup vinegar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
% teaspoon ground cloves
Cut rhubarb in small pieces (do
nor peel). Combine with remaining
ingredients and cook for about 2
hours—or until the mixture is the
consistency of fruit butter. Pour
into sterilized jelly glasses. Cover
with melted paraffin.
Chill Sauce.
4 quarts ripe tomatoes
6 apples
2 onions
1H cups brown sugar
2 cups vinegar
1 tablespoon salt
3 tablespoons pickle spice
2 teaspoons paprika
Peel and chop One the tomatoes,
apples and onions. Add the brown
sugar, vinega r
and salt and the
spices tied in a
spice bag. Cook
slowly until thick,
stirring frequent
ly. Remove spice
bag. Seal in hot
sterilized jars.
Send for Your Copy of
'Better Bakin*.’
Your homemade Jams and Jellies
will taste twice as delicious when
you serve them with homemade bis
cuits and rolls. You’ll find tempting
and unusual recipes for bread and
rolls in Eleanor Howe’s cook book,
"Better Baking."
Mountain Muflftns, Cheese Roll
Biscuits. Peanut Butter Bread, and
Hot Cinnamon Rolls; you’ll find test
ed recipes for these and other de
licious baked foods in "Better Bak
ing.” Send 10 cents in coin to "Bet
ter Baking” care Eleanor Howe. 919
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
and get your copy of this cook book
now.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Kitchen Polisher
To freshen kitchen cabinets that
have become dulled by frequent
washings, rub them occasionally
with furniture polish. This renews
the gloss and makes cleaning the
next time easier.
Welsh Rarebit
To prevent cheese from becoming
stringy when making Welsh rare
bit melt it in the sauce after remov
ing the pan from the flame.
For Sandwiches
Put fresh bread that is to be used
in making sandwiches into the re
frigerator for an hour and it will
cut more easily.
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AFFAIRS
Rev/ewec/ by
CARTER FIELD
T.V. A. power shortage af
fects national defense war
planes... Henry Ford drops
plan to make engines for
war planes . . . Declares he
ivill make them only for de
fense of the United States.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON. — If Savannah
doesn't get one dam, TVA can’t
have another dam.
That argument, made by Sen.
Richard B. Russell of Georgia, de
feated the $65,000,000 authorization
and $25,000,000 appropriation item in
tlje subcommittee of the senate ap
propriations committee. A lot of
other senator* agreed With Senator
RusselL In fact, only Kenneth D.
McKellar of Tennessee voted for the
item.
The story behind this episode is
significant of a lot of things that
are going on in Washington. There
has been a bad drouth in the Ten
nessee valley for more than a year
now. As a result the production of
power by the TVA power plants is
not what its officials would like. Re
cently TVA notified the Aluminum
Company of America that it would
not be able to supply it with dump
power in the quantity desired, and
under the contract, would have to
charge a higher rate.
The Aluminum company is mak
ing sheetings for airplanes. It laid
the situation before Edward R. Stet
tinius, of the national defense com
mittee, pointing to the importance
of the work it was doing from the
national defense standpoint. Stetti
nius consulted with various experts,
including Gano Dunn and Charles
W. Kellogg, head of the Edison Elec
trical institute. In his recommenda
tion to congress he mentioned that
both Dunn and Kellogg had been
consulted. (Stettinius has never
been accused of lacking a sense of
humor.)
ACTUALLY SOLD IDEA
This recommendation was actual
ly sold to the defense committee
member by David E. Lilienthal of
TVA. It was for authorization of
the Holston river dam, to cost
$36,000,000, a steam plant, at $10,
500,000, and various incidentals, in
cluding transmission lines.
This writer has never been ac
cused of boosting Lilienthal, but in
all fairness it might be pointed out
right here that back when the Nazis
marched into the Rhineland, when
Britain and France were enjoying
a respite from war’s cares, which
they have had occasion to bitterly
regret in the last few months, Lili
enthal actually advocated more
power in the Tennessee valley be
cause of the national defense situa
tion! He quoted that day’s head
lines from Europe to the house mil
itary affairs committee!
Unfortunately for the record,
Dave’s friends in the power group
were so indignant at his joining the
"war mongers” that they prevailed
on him to edit that prediction out of
the stenographer’s transcript of his
testimony!
CARRIED CROWD ALONG
This is cited in fairness to Lilien
thal because the conviction that
more power for TV A as a military
measure is not new with him.
This merely happens to be the first
time that he could carry his crowd
along with him in using national fear
as an excuse to further the cause
of government ownership.
The real point is that all the sena
tors on that committee had been
voting the most amazing appropria
tions for airplanes, ships and other
national defense items. Had they
really believed that the construction
of another dam and steam plant
in the Tennessee valley was vital to
national defense, they would not
have allowed their petty disappoint
ments over their own lack of pork
to prevent their going along with the
administration.
They believed the national defense
cloak for this appropriation was the
bunk!
As previously noted, it is only the
advocates of extension of govern
ment ownership of the electric indus
try who are worried about a power
shortage.
FORD IS STUBBORN
Negotiations between Henry Ford
and the army for mass production
Henry Ford
of airplane engines
collapsed because of
the manufacturer’s
refusal to make war
material for foreign
countries. Ford, a
life-long opponent of
war, took the posi
tion that he would
make airplane mo
tors only for the de
fense of the United
States.
Plans had been
forming to employ
the vast facilities of his company
to produce 6,000 Rolls Royce motors
for Great Britain and 3,000 for the
United States.
It was indicated that as a result
of Ford’s determination to limit his
war efforts to assisting his own coun
try, he will not be given a contract
I for airplane motors so badly needed
by America.
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Farm
Topics |
COW ‘ON PASTURE’
REQUIRES GRAIN
Constant Ration Aids the
Production of Milk. ,
By DR. GEO. E. TAYLOR
Discontinuance of grain feeding of
cows on pasture is somewhat akin
to the action of the man who killed
the goose that laid the golden egg.
Yet many a dairy farmer stops
grain feeding as soon as his cows
increase their milk flow under the
stimulus of luxuriant pasture rich
in protein, minerals and vitamins.
To make so radical a change in
the ration is to make a costly mis
take.
Dairy cattle on good pasture will
maintain increased production with
out grain for possibly three to four
weeks, but they will lose weight in
the process. This loss of body
weight will be followed by a reduc
tion in milk production. Even with
renewed grain feeding, it will be
difficult to restore production once
it has been allowed to slump.
Continued feeding of grain and a
limited amount of hay until the cows
just turned on pasture are accus
tomed to the change in their ration
is recommended. Amount of grain
to be fed will depend upon the qual
ity and amount of available pasture
and the level of milk production.
Good pasture alone will provide
sufficient nutrients for body main
tenance and the production of 10 to
20 or more pounds of milk, depend
ing upon the per cent of fat in the
milk. New Jersey experiment sta
tion trials demonstrated that the
feeding of one pound of grain to
8% pounds of milk maintained the
level production during June. Un
der average feeding conditions,
however, a more liberal allowance
of grain is usually recommended for
the entire pasture season. One
pound oi grain to every nve or
seven pounds of milk produced
should be sufficient. The higher
testing breeds require the more lib
eral allowance of grain in propor
tion to the amount of milk produced.
“Since the protein content of
green pasture is higher than the
protein content of roughages fed
during winter, the protein content
of the summer grain mixture can
be reduced. A concentrate grain
mixture containing 12 per cent
crude protein will supply ample pro
tein for cows on excellent pasture,
usually high producers excepted. A
mixture of such home grown cereal
grains as corn, barley and oats con
tains about 12 per cent crude pro
tein.
“During summer, cows should
have free access to a mineral mix
ture of equal parts salt and steamed
bone meaL
Novel Device Checks
Field Contour Lines
Technical assistance in laying out
contour lines on farms has long
been an expressed need of conserva
tion-minded farmers. L. H. Schoen
lebec, Iowa agricultural engineer,
has attempted to meet this need
with a device which enables farm
ers to lay out contour lines for them
selves, without surveying equipment
or technical assistance.
His invention is called a grade
meter. It has not yet been placed
on the market, but it has demon
strated its merit in a wide variety
of tests. Schoenleber has received
a public service patent on the grade
meter but plans to subject the de
vice to further tests before effering
It to farmers throughout the coun
try. Contour farming is a basic part
of the farm planning program.
The grade meter consists of a
pendulum connected to an indicator
arm through a train of gears. This
is mounted rigidly on the tractor in
front of the operator. As the pen
dulum swings it causes the indicator
arm to move over a scale which
shows deviations from zero. The
operator of the tractor endeavors to
keep the meter reading zero at all
times.
Agricultural News
About $20,000,000 is lost each year
from eggs that are incubated but
fail to hatch.
• • •
If you want to insure pastures for
all summer, use moister soils for
pasture seedings and divide large
fields into small lots.
• • •
Most cows will drink from four to
five pounds of water for each pound
of milk they produce. They should
have access to all the fresh, clean
i water they can drink.
• • .
The newest transparent food wrap
| pers developed by scientists are
made of tightly stretched rubber
that will encase products in a skin
tight, air-free container.
• • *
4-H club work hit a new high last
J year when more than 1,300,000 boys
and girls held membership in 79,500
clubs in the United States and terri
tories.
• • •
Good cows change almost two
thirds of their feed into milk and
butterfat
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CWEET and summery as a bas
^ ket of flowers, this frock (8729)
is perfect for warm afternoons.
In printed silk, or flower-patterned
cottons like voile or batiste, it will
look so cool and fresh and fem
inine, with its open-topped sleeves,
heart-shaped neckline, and frills
that put all the emphasis up at
the top, an effect always becom
ing to slim figures. The skirt has
the lilting grace of circular full
ness.
And notice how little detailing
is required—just a few gathers at
the waistline; otherwise it’s all
straight, easy seams. Even begin
ners can make it, guided by the
step-by-step sew chart included in
the pattern. In fact, you'll prob
ably repeat this design many
times.
Pattern No. 8729 is designed for
sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14
requires 4 Vi yards of 39-inch ma
terial without nap; 2% yards of
ruffling. Send order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. I
Room 1324
211 W. Wacker Dr. CblcafO
Enclose 15 cents In coins (or
Pattern No. Size.
Name .
Address .
Strange Facts
200-Mile Lights t
No Double Joints
* Ban Animal Flesh *
CL The brightest lights ever creat
ed by man are the 800,000,000
candlepower carbon-arc search
lights that are owned by the Unit
ed States army. Their beams,
when directed vertically into th»
night sky, can be seen for a dis
tance of two hundred miles.
C There are no such things as a
double joint in a human being, a
revolver silencer outside of fiction
or a blood test through which it is
possible to determine whether an
unknown parent of a child is of ths
white of Negro race.
C. Many orthodox Brahmans of
India are so fearful of pollution,
by animal flesh that they take a
purifying bath even after receiv
ing a letter from a meat-eating
country.—Collier’s.
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Full Wealth
Poor, and content, is rich, and
rich enough.—Shakespeare.
Oranges can help you to feel your best
When you want refreshment, eat an orange! Or help
yourselr from the big family pitcher of fresh orangeade!
‘‘Hits the spot”! you’ll say.
But that’s not all. Oranges add needed vitamins and
minerals to your diet. And fully half of our families, says
the Department of Agriculture, do not get enough of these
health essentials-to feel their best!
The best way to be sure of getting all the vitamin C
you normally need is to drink ait 8-ounce glass of fresh
orange juice with breakfast every morning. You also re
ceive vitamins A, B, and G and the minerals calcium, phos
phorus'tinii iron.
There’s nothing else so delicious that’s so good for
you. So order a supply ot bunkist
Oranges right away. 'Ehey’re the
pick of California’s bcst-ever
crop of wonderfully juicy
summer oranges, c<>Pr.,i94o, /
California Fruit Growers Exchange Mf
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