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“Overage** destroyers
raise question of keeping
V. S. navy up to date ...
Guarded talk shows Ad
ministration holds ban
on Japanese silk as re
serve weapon.
(Bel) Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON —There has been
so much talk about “overage" de
stroyers, and so much about the
necessity of “capacity” to build as
being more important than actual
ships or planes, on the theory that
the actual fighting craft might soon
become obsolete, whereas the capac
ity to produce them would lend itself
to Improvements in construction,
that a little study should be given,
before the next armistice, to what
course should be followed when the
shooting stops.
The keels of 97 of these much
talked about “overage" destroyers
were laid AFTER the armistice of
November, 1918! They cost the gov
ernment $181,000,000.
Now everyone at the time, if any
one had stopped to think, knew that
was a foolish thing for the govern
ment to do. Actually it was against
the old practice of the navy depart
ment. It was only a few years be
fore that happened that the navy had
delayed awarding contracts for new
battleships for several years in or
der to take every possible advantage
of newest developments.
But the point here is that the
naval officers responsible for this
delay—the same men who permitted
the laying of the keels of 97 unneces
sary destroyers after November,
1918—knew perfectly well that the
destroyers they were permitting to
be built were headed for storage in
grease, and nothing else.
RESTRICTED CONSTRUCTION
Their mere presence, in grease,
in the years that followed prevented
the navy from getting modern de
stroyers.
And notice that at the time all this
post-war construction was rushed
through, there was not the slight
est notion that an arms conference
was coming which would stop new
construction and freeze navies at
their existing strength. That did not
come until the winter of 1921-22,
though quite possibly the greatly
added strength of the U. S. navy
caused by this construction made
other nations the more willing to
stop the armament race.
But few naval officers have ever
thought anything except that the
arms conference was a disaster for
America! Which again does not at
tribute wisdom to that feverish post
war construction.
So it is to be hoped that at the
close of THIS war a more sane pol
icy will prevail as to the use of the
enormous capacity we will have on
our hands for the construction of
both ships and planes.
U. 8. THREATENS
SILK IMPORT BAN
The most significant thing in our
foreign relations at present is not
the nature of the repercussions from
the menace to Germany and Italy
in President Roosevelt's address to
congress, but a much less publi
cized activity of the government re
garding restricting or banning im
ports of silk from Japan.
Publicity about this is perhaps
even more interesting than the
threat itself. No one is shouting it
from the housetops, but apparently
every government official involved,
from the White House down to the
humblest clerk in the department
of commerce, is under orders to say
practically the same thing. That
same thing is, boiled down, that
there is no economic necessity for
restricting or banning imports of
silk at this time—that such an ac
tion would be purely POLITICAL.
In short, the administration wants
Japan to know that this government
has had the banning of silk imports
under serious consideration; wants
Japan to know that there is no eco
nomic reason why this should be
come a necessity, but that some
POLITICAL motive might bring it
about overnight!
II Japan should attack the Dutch
East Indies, for example, that just
MIGHT be the spark that would
start the ban against silk imports.
•INFLUENCE’ JAPAN
The hope of the administration, in
cidentally, is not to crush Japan eco
nomically, but to detach Japan,
partly by blandishments but mostly
by threats, from the Nazi-Fascist
group.
Which brings us down to the ques
tion of just how seriously the sudden
stoppage of silk shipments to the
United States would affect Japan.
From the ordinary business stand
point, the blow would be terrific.
Japan’s sales of silk to this country
are far and away her best source
of the exchange she needs so badly
to pay for imports she must make.
But, once the step were taken, the
United States would lose its chief
weapon for keeping Japan in line.
Japan then would have nothing more
to suffer from any further economic
step by the United States.
Household News
MID-WINTER MENUS
(See Recipes Below)
You may have a mental filing
system for your menus, or you may
Jot down your meal ideas and slip
them into a recipe box. Either way,
the chances are that mid-winter
finds you in the market for some
fresh and workable ideas for what
to feed the family.
First and foremost, you will want
your winter menus to be warming
and heartening.
The calorie con
tent may be a
little higher be
cause more ener
gy is needed to
supply heat and
because the cold
stimulates us to
more activity. Vi
tamin suppliers
need to be care
fully watched. With your garden
adrift with anow, not so many fresh
vegetables and fruits will find their
way to your table without a spe
cial effort on your part.
Even if fresh peas, green beans
and vine-ripened tomatoes are out
of reach, almost any market boasts
whole bins filled with apples, sweet
potatoes, cabbage and carrots—all
of them potent sources of vitamins.
Plenty of grapefruit, oranges and
tomato juice will help to replace the
fresh tomatoes.
But now for the menus! Two are
dinners—one built around a fragrant,
red-brown dish of Hungarian gou
lash served with plenty of hot but
tered noodles; the other, sausages
baked under a covering of York
shire pudding. The third meal is a
hot soup luncheon.
Hungarian Goulash
Buttered Noodles
Salad Bowl
(spinach, carrot, raw cauliflower)
Brazil Nut Cherry Pie
Coffee Milk
Yorkshire Sausages
Canned Green Beans with
Mustard Butter Sauce
Whole Carrots
Red Cabbage Salad
Honey Spice Cake
Coffee Milk
Tomato Chicken Soup
Swiss Cheese Sandwiches
Grapefruit and Apple Salad
Frosted Ginger Bars
Tea Milk
Red Cabbage Salad.
(Serves 5 to 6)
2 cups red cabbage (shredded fine)
3 tart, red cooking apples (un
peeled) (diced)
1 cup grated carrot
4 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons French dressing (pre
pared)
Buy a small, solid young head of
red cabbage, one with thin, tender
leaves. Remove
core, and shred
very fine. Place
shredded cabbage
in ice water for
30 minutes to
crisp it Combine
cabbage, diced
apple and grated carrot. Mix brown
sugar, vinegar and French dress
ing and pour over salad. Toss light
ly, until dressing is thoroughly
mixed with salad.
Hungarian Goulash
(Serves 4 to 5)
lVi pounds beef round (cubed)
3 tablespoons fat
3 beef bouillon cubes
3 cups hot water
Vi clove garlic
Vi bay leaf
Vi teaspoon salt
Few grains cayenne pepper
2 cups cubed potatoes
lVi tablespoons butter
lVi tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon paprika
1 cup canned tomatoes (sieved)
Have beef cut in 1 Vi-inch cubes.
Brown on all sides in hot fat, then
add bouillon cubes dissolved in hot
j water Add garlic, bay leaf, salt
I and cayenne pepper and simmer
the mixture for 2 hours. Remove
garlic and bay leaf, and add pota
toes cut in Vi-inch cubes. Cook 30
minutes, then remove Vi cup of
broth from pan and cool. Combine
with melted butter, flour, and pap
rika and blend into a smooth paste.
Add to goulash, stirring constantly;
cook until thick, about 5 minutes Add
sieved tomato and cook 10 more
minutes.
Brasil Nut Cherry Pie.
(Makes 1 9-inch pie)
2*4 cups sour, red cherries
(canned)
1 cup cherry juice
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
% cup sliced Brazil nuts
Drain cherries, and set aside the
juice. Blend cornstarch and sugar
in a saucepan; add cherry juice.
Place over heat and cook, stirring
constantly until thickened, about 3
minutes. Remove from the heat,
add drained cherries, butter and
Brazil nuts. Pour the filling into a
9-inch pie plate lined with pastry.
Moisten the edge of the pie with
cold water; arrange lattice of pastry
strips across pie. Press down rim
with fork. Bake in hot oven (450
degrees Fahrenheit) 15 minutes,
then in moderate oven (350 degrees
Fahrenheit) for 30 minutes.
Honey Spice Cake.
3 cups sifted cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Vt teaspoon salt
Vt teaspoon soda
1% teaspoons cinnamon
% teaspoon cloves
V4 teaspoon nutmeg
¥4 cup butter or other shortening
V4 cup sugar
¥4 cup strained honey
2 egg yolks, well beaten
14 cup chopped nut meats
1 teaspoon vanilla
% cup water
2 egg whites (stiffly beaten)
Sift cake flour once, add baking
powder, salt, soda, and spices and
sift together three times. Cream but
ter thoroughly, add sugar, and
cream together until light and fluffy.
Add honey gradually. Beat after
each addition. Add egg yolks, nuts,
and vanilla; beat well. Add flour,
alternately with water, a small
amount at a time. Beat after each
addition until smooth. Fold in stiffly
beaten egg whites. Bake in a paper
lined greased loaf pan (9 by 13 by 2
inches) in moderate oven (350 de
grees) for 50 minutes.
Tomato Chicken Soup.
(Serves 6)
2 tablespoons onion (finely chopped)
1 tablespoon butter
2 No. 1 cans con
densed chicken
soup
1 No. 1 can con
densed tomato
soup
1^4 cups water
XV* cups light
cream or milk
74 teaspoon salt
to teaspoon white pepper
Saute onion in butter until yellow
and transparent. Add chicken soup,
tomato soup, water, milk, salt and
white pepper. Stir thoroughly and
heat to serving temperature.
Apricot Sweet Potatoes.
(Serves 6)
6 medium-sized sweet potatoes
to pound dried apricots
to cup water
to cup sugar
to teaspoon salt
Peel sweet potatoes and cook in
boiling salted water (1 teaspoon per
quart) until tender, about 35 min
utes. Mash with a potato masher.
Cover apricots with water and let
soak for 30 minutes. Then simmer
until tender, about 25 minutes. Mash
the fruit to a pulp and add sugar
and salt Whip apricot pulp with
sweet potatoes until very well blend
ed. Serve very hot. Apricot sweet
potatoes are especially good with
ham and broccoli.
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( ( r I HE trouble," said Toby
I Stark, “with your modem
X criminal is his lack of con
fidence in himself. The
fact that he is forever afraid of be
ing detected, the fact that he usual
ly works under cover of darkness—
a time when burglars are expected
to work—all combine to bring about
his apprehension by men who can
work in the open."
Toby paused and lighted a ciga
rette. A half dozen of us were
grouped on the veranda of the
Ridgeley Club and for a moment
after Toby finished talking there
was a silence. Toby is inclined to
be loquacious and at times extreme
ly boring. There are few subjects
on which he can’t talk knowingly
and, much to our regret, lengthily.
“You talk like an experienced
hand at the game,” said Lloyd
Barnard presently, and grinned.
Toby laughed. “I’d like to wager
I could pull off a crime and get
away with it Employing my own
methods, too."
Lloyd puffed at his pipe. “Why
not? I’ll take your wager.”
Toby slapped his knee. "Done!
I have twenty-five dollars that says
I can break into a house in broad
daylight, fill a traveling bag with
silver, and get away with it.”
Watching Lloyd closely I distinct
ly saw a twinkle come into his eyes
and immediately disappear again.
He said, “Twenty-five suits me,
Toby. But suppose you get caught?”
“I won’t. But in case there’s a
slip-up, you boys will have to fix it
up with the police. I’ll tell you
what. Leo Chapman is up in the
mountains this week and with his
family. His place on the drive is
empty. That’s the house I can
break into.”
Again Lloyd’s eyes twinkled, and
I knew a feeling of excitement. Un
Toby was in Jail, getting his jolt,
and none of us were very sorry.
less the signs lied, Lloyd had in
mind some sort of plan whereby
Toby was to get a jolt.
A moment later my excitement
subsided. Toby had also seen the
twinkle in Lloyd’s eyes. “0. K.”
he grinned. “I know you live out
that way Lloyd, and you can fix it
up with the cop on the beat if
you like. Only in that case, I’ll col
lect the twenty-five.”
“There’ll be no fixing,” said
Lloyd. And Toby nodded.
One or two of the group who had
listened in on the conversation were
a little doubtful. In the first place,
they didn’t think Leo Chapman would
like the idea, and, in the second
place, they thought we’d have a
pretty hard time explaining the sit
uation to the police in case Toby
were caught.
But Toby was adamant. In fact,
he was so cocksure of being able
to commit his crime and getting
away with it, that we all agreed
to let him try, hoping secretly that
he’d get caught and taught a lesson.
The day set for Toby’s attempt
at crime was Sunday. We all
agreed to stay away from the Chap
man place, giving him a clear field
to work in. When the Chapmans
got home we would accompany Toby
to their house, make sure he had
actually stolen some of their prop
erty and witness the payment of
the wager.
At seven o’clock that Sunday
night Lloyd Barnard dropped into
the club and found four of the half
dozen of us who were in on the plan
talking together. Barnard was grin
ning.
“Well, I win the bet. Toby didn’t
get away with it.”
“Didn’t get away with it! What
happened? Where is he now?”
“Rivers, the cop on the beat, met
him as he came out of Leo’s front
door. Toby's down at headquar
ters.”
Earl Colby leaped to his feet.
"Good heavens! We'd better go
down and get him out. This thing
has gone far enough:”
Lloyd sat down and pulled out his
pipe. “Go ahead if you want to,
but it won’t do any good. Toby.
I’m afraid is in for a good long stay.
And I’m inclined to think this will
take some of the conceit out of him.”
Early, who had had little taste for
this business in the first place, dis
played no little alarm. “But look
here, Lloyd, that isn’t playing the
game quite fairly. You agreed to
fix it up with the police, you know.”
Lloyd seemed not at all put out.
“Sure, I agreed to fix it up, and I
tried. I just came from there, but
they wouldn't believe me. There’s
another factor entered the case.”
“Another factor! Good heavens,
Lloyd, tell us what’s happened!”
Lloyd lighted his pipe and smiled
pleasantly. “Well, to begin with,
Toby did a pretty good job, accord
ing to his own telling and accord
ing to Rivers, the cop. About three
o’clock this afternoon Toby drove up
in front of Leo's place as smart as
you please, took a traveling bag
from the rumble seat of his car
and strode up the walk. Acting
quite as if he owned the place he
removed a bunch of keys from his
pocket—skeletons, of course—un
locked the front door and stepped
inside.
“Rivers saw him do this and
didn’t get the least bit suspicious.
Rivers told me about it himself.
What happened after Toby got in
side the house was told me by the
culprit through the bars of his cell.”
Lloyd paused and chuckled. “Aft
er Toby got inside the house,” he
went on, "he put a pair of gloves on,
and fitted a mask to his face. The
mask was just a precaution in case
Leo had left any servants in the
house, and because he liked the idea
of wearing one.
“However, the mask proved un
necessary. The house was empty.
Toby filled his traveling bag un
molested. And a half hour later he
stepped through the front door, first
wiping off the knob and removing
his gloves and swung jauntily down
the walk again, whistling merrily.
"At this very moment Rivers
rounded a comer on his return trip,
espied Toby coming down the walk
and waited for him at the gate.”
Lloyd paused again. “Well?”
Earl asked.
“Well,” Lloyd echoed. “Rivers
arrested Toby for breaking and en
tering. And upon looking into the
traveling bag, the charge was sub
stantiated.”
“But how,” I asked, "did Rivers
know?”
‘‘How? Why, Toby had forgot
ten to remove his mask! Except
for that, the crime would undoubt
edly have been successful.”
For a moment there was silence.
Then Earl said, “But the new fac
tor? You said something about an
other factor in the case?”
Lloyd nodded. "That happened
later. Toby explained to the police
all about the joke and the bet he’d
made with me. They called me on
the phone and I came down and
confirmed his story. However, in
order to make sure everything was
as Toby had said, the police called
Leo Chapman at his place up in
the mountains — and learned he
wasn’t there at all. He’d gone on
an extended motor trip to Canada
and wouldn’t be back for a week.
“The police were willing to believe
our stories, but they weren’t willing
to let Toby go until Leo returned
There was too much evidence
against him. Furthermore, they ad
vised me that unless I made myseli
scarce around the vicinity of the
station house, they’d be inclined ti
lock me up With him as an ac
complice.”
Lloyd ended his tale, and ther<
was again that twinkle in his eye
I wanted to ask him if he hadn'i
known that Leo was going to take
that Canada trip. And I wanted t<
ask him also why he hadn’t offeree
to go bail for Toby, or if, instead
he had bought the sergeant a box o
cigars and told him to keep Toby ir
storage for a week.
But I didn’t. Toby was in jail
getting his jolt, and none of us were
very sorry.
Eyes Are Vital Controls
Of Many Body Activitier
More than 70 per cent of the mus
cular activity of the human bod\
results from impulses received fron
the eyes, according to the Bettei
Vision Institute. At work and ai
play the eyes play a dominant role
and our muscular actions are influ
enced strongly by the impressions
received by the eyes.
A survey of 20 common industrial
and office occupations has showr.
that the eyes are in serious work
three-quarters of the time. Improp
er lighting conditions or uncorrect
ed visual defects tend to impair the
efficiency of workers by fatiguing
the eyes. Experiments have dem
onstrated that visual fatigue slows
up body activity and is conducive
to errors.
“If an office or a factory worker
gets ‘three o’clock’ fatigue it would
be a good idea to check up on his
eyes,” says the Institute. "There
are millions of adult persons in the
United States having relatively mi
nor visual defects that are uncor
rected. Such eyes may not cause I
headaches but they frequently cause
’three o’clock fatigue.’ During the
last hour or two of the working day
the body of a worker may be tired ;
because his eyes unassisted cannot
work an eight-hour day.”
"
Jumping Beans Stimulate Crickets
When thousands of crickets got
sulky and refused to perform before
the camera in a cricket plague
scene, a sack of energetic jumping
beans, with a lot of pituitary, was
rushed by plane from Mexico City.
Actual pictures of crickets were
painted on the beans which then
were mixed with the live crickets—
which thought that it was just sim
ply cricket and caught on right
quickly. Anyway, the jumping pro
clivities of the oomph beans kept the
crickets on the move, which kept the
movie people happy.
But, as might be expected, the
crickets finally carried the whole
thing to extreme. They invaded the
movie camp in such hordes they lit
erally chased the players off loca
tion, spattered up the camera lens
and got into the sound equipment.
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WONDER she looks sweet
^ ’ as pie and decidedly pleased
with herself! This little miss, with
the bows in her curls and her doll
by the arm, is wearing the newest
and best of pinafore-jumper fash
ions, and one that you should make
up immediately for your own
small daughter. The pinafore
jumper is so deliciously full, below
that down-scooped cut in the front,
and the sash bow in the back ac
AROUND
THE HOUSE
To remove mustard stains from
linen, soak the linen as quickly as
possible in cold water to cover.
This loosens the mustard so that
it will come out when laundered
in the usual way—in plenty of
warm water and soap suds.
* * *
Save left-over griddle batter
and use it for dipping chops, cut
lets and so on.
* * *
If your kitchen storage space is
imited, make file-like shelves in a
ower cupboard and use them for
storing lids, pie and cake pans and
)ther flat utensils. This will be a
:ime-saver.
* * *
Try this candle arrangement for
a youngster’s birthday cake: Ar
ange small candles to form the
minerals telling the age. Or place
hem on the cake to form the
■hild’s initials. If the first name
s short it can be spelled out with
iny candles or small, hard can
lies.
• • *
Be careful not to season meat
iravies so much that they lose
heir characteristic flavors. Usu
illy salt and pepper or paprika
ire enough. If you like a pre
pared meat sauce add only a dash.
3etter yet, pass the sauce and let
:he family use what they please.
* * *
Fruit gelatin mixtures gain in
avor and nutritive value if fruit
juices are substituted for the liq
uid called for in the recipe. Left
over canned fruit juices are as
good as juice from fresh fruit.
♦ * *
Candied cranberries are just as
effective as candied cherries for
garnishing winter foods.
• • *
Cookies should be cooled com
pletely before storing in a cov
ered jar or box.
• * *
To get the best results from
electric light bulbs, remove them
and dust the glass part occasional
ly. At long intervals they may
be given a bath with a damp
cloth, but be sure the bulbs are
dry before replacing them and
keep the damp cloth away from
all sockets.
cents its saucy flare. The little
guimpe is plain and tailored, as it
should be for school and kinder
garten, with a round, tailored col
lar and a little neck bow.
Send for the pattern right away
(the number is 8860). Make the
pinafore-jumper of checked ging
ham, printed calico or plain cham
bray, and trim with braid or Mas
binding. Repeat the guimpe sev
eral times in batiste, lawn, dimity
or linen.
• • *
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2, 4. 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 2'/»
yards of 35-inch material for pinafore
jumper; 13,i yards trimming; Is yard for
blouse. Send order to:
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Puzzled Him
Housewife—I don’t suppose you
know what good, honest work is!
Tramp—No, lady, what good is
it?
Chickens are funny creatures.
They are the only ones we can
eat before they are born.
Not Out Yet
Teacher—And where is the dot
over the “i”?
Small Boy—Please, teacher, it’s
still in the pencil.
Missed Most
“Yes, I’ve moved out into the coun
try. It certainly has its inconveniences."
“What do you miss most?"
“The last train home at night."
Cheaper Here
Bob—It says here in the paper
that in Africa a single spearhead
will often purchase a wife.
Carrie—That’s nothing. I know
of plenty of instances in this coun
try where a bonehead got one.
Wasted Care
“I say, Smith,” exclaimed Jones.
“where's that silk umbrella I lent you?"
“I found it u’as my own, so I kept it,"
replied Smith.
“You don't say so! And here I've
been dodging old Robinson for three
weeks, thinking it was his.”
His Strong Point
Father was examining Reggie’s
school report.
“English poor, maths poor, Lat
in very weak, history unsatisfac
tory,” he read aloud, frowning at
Reggie.
“It is not as good as it might be.
Dad, I must admit,” said his son,
“but read on.”
And on the very next line father
read, “Health excellent.”
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