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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features— WNU Service.) NEW YORK —Adam Smith de scribed economics as a science and then added, “Science is an anti dote to the poison of enthusiasm '' . It is possible FDR t Economitt that Presi An Antidote to dent Roose •PoUon of Zeal’ vfu’8 pers°"‘ al economist, rarely heard or seen, serves as such an antidote when impulsive action is indicated. He is the somewhat dimly outlined Dr. Lauchlin Currie, graying at 37, clothed in gray, as though in protective coloring, a shadow-shape in the Washington fogs of doubt and uncertainty. Dr. Currie not only delves into mountains of detail, as did Hay and Nlcolay for Lincoln, In an other critical hour In March, 1860, but he is a deep fount of economic doctrine. He has not been credited with the inspira tion for the lease-lend bill for aid to Britain, but it is Interest ing to note that in April, 1938, he put forward a plan to solve railroad troubles by a leasing lending procedure in which the roads would get equipment much in the manner in which Britain would get war goods un der the new bill. As the “last of the brain-trust ers," he is an advocate of the full utilization of technical resources by clearing them of financial entan glements and commitments, so far as possible. The late Thorstein Veb len foreshadowed these techniques. Dr. Currie is a native of Nova Scotia who became an American citizen in 1934. He joined the New Deal in that year, three years after taking his doctorate at Harvard, as an assistant economist under Jacob Viner of the treasury department. Later he was taken over by Mar riner Eccles of the Federal Reserve board as an assistant in the di vision of research. He Is not only the President’s personal economist, but his liai son man In economic matters, appointed as one of those six White House assistants, "with a passion for anonymity," which passion seems fairly authentic In his case. He was a teacher at Harvard and an Industrial consultant in Boston before go ing to Washington. All of which is a reminder that the average man’s wife is his per sonal economist and that she fre quently is an “antidote to the poison of enthusiasm.” IF ADAM SMITH were alive, he would note that Mile. Eve Curie's scientific antecedents had not dimmed any of her enthusiasms. e • u ai m The daughter Science Hae Not Gf Marie Cu Curbed Emotion rie arrives on Of Mile. Curie ** ?: S J cambion boil ing with enthusiasm for free France and for democracy and civilization in general, science or no science. Her previous trips over here had made her a favorite in this country and her charm, intelligence and beauty have been eloquently ex iled. Her burning black eyes might be called "an antidote to the poison of indifference.’* She qualified in science, at the Sor bonne, but turned to music in 1926, a gifted pianist, praised by her friend Paderewski. With ail her other gifts, she is an ath lete and a first-rate bowler. And with all that, women rave about her clothes. Writing has sup planted music as her chief interest and she has been highly praised for her biography of her mother, pub lished in 1938. Her proficiency in higher mathematics rounds out a perfect score for one of the most highly esteemed of our gang-plank celebrities. ERICA MORINI, whose recent concert drew an overflow crowd to the Town Hall, frequently has been called "The greatest woman violii^st.’’ She doesn’t like it. While she notes that there have been, in nearly three centuries, only 73 dis tinguished women violinists, as against thousands of men, she in sists that the lag is due only to the fact that women have been too busy with homes and children to bring through their talents. She thinks the above accolade is patronizing to her sex. When Adolf Hitler's tanks rolled Into her native Vienna, the comely young violinist moved out, with her $45,000 Stradivarius. It was in 1921 that she first came to New York, a child prodigy in pig-tails, making her American debut with the New York Philharmonic in a recital which one critic termed "the great est violin sensation since Kreisler " Her father was Italian, one of a long line of musicians, but none so gifted as she. She defies snobs and highbrows by playing Victor Her bert and Stephen Foster along with the violin classics. 'Household News VEGETABLES SERVED STREAMLINED FASHION (See Recipes Below.) NEW WAYS WITH VEGETABLES The time may come when we will get all our vitamins in little pellets. but I doubt it— not when eating vegetables is as , much fun as it is. There would be a , big gap in our meals if such things as tender little green beans or whole carrots rolled in butter. disappeared from the dinner table. Success in cooking vegetables de pends on such small things—the amount of water in the pan, whether the cover is on or off, whether the vegetables are removed from the heat when they are just tender or allowed to continue cooking until they become slightly mushy. Remember, it’s "covers off,” for all green-colored vegetables. Then the acids which are given off during cooking are not held in the pan where they turn the brilliant green color to a dull olive. To keep the vitamins in the vegetables instead of losing them in the cooking water use just as little liquid as possible. For mild-flavored vegetables an inch of water in the bottom of the pan to keep the pieces from burn ing is ample. Vegetables like spin ach, which contain a great deal of water, should be cooked in the mois ture which clings to the leaves after washing. And if you value your vitamins, never, never discard the liquid from canned vegetables. Place it in a saucepan, heat until the liquor evap orates to about one-half, then add the vegetable and heat to serving temperature. Lima Bean Casserole. (Makes 6 servings) 1 10-ounce can tomatoes (1% cups) 2 medium-sized onions (minced) 1 small green pepper (finely chopped) 2 tablespoons molasses % teaspoon dry mustard 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1 No. 2 can green lima beans (2Mi cups) 6 strips bacon Put tomatoes through sieve, add minced onion and green pepper and simmer (or 15 minutes. Then add molasses, mustard, salt, pepper and butter. Stir until well mixed. Drain lima beans and arrange in a shal low, well-greased casserole. Pour sauce over them and arrange strips o( bacon over top. Bake in a mod erate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) (or 20 minutes or until bacon is crisp. Serve piping hot. Beets, OrangC'-Style. (Makes 6 servings) 3 tablespoons grated orange rind Vi teaspoon salt V« teaspoon paprika 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 4 tablespoons butter Vi cup orange juice Vi tablespoon cornstarch 1 tablespoon water 3 cups cooked beets (sliced) Place orange rind, salt, paprika, sugar, water and lemon juice in saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes. Cream butter until soft, and add it to hot mixture together with orange juice. Blend cornstarch and water to a smooth paste and add to sauce. Cook slowly, stirring occasionally, until sauce is thickened and corn starch is thoroughly cooked, about 15 minutes. Pour over hot cooked beets and mix lightly but thorough ly. For company dinners serve the beets in orange shells. Corn and Bacon Rings. (Makes 7 servings) 7 slices bacon 2 eggs 112-ounce can whole kernel corn 2 tablespoons flour Vi teaspoon salt Few grains pepper V« teaspoon baking powder Vi cup milk Line muffin tins or custard cups i with sliced bacon. Snip edges with j kitchen scissors to prevent curling { Beat eggs slightly, and add well , drained corn. Sift flour, salt, pep per and baking powder together and add to corn together with milk Fill bacon rings with this mixture. Bake t moderate oven (350 degrees Breakfast-Skippers, Beware! Do you have a breakfast-skip per in your family—one who would rather have 20 extra winks than a piece of toast and coffee? Next week Eleanor Howe devotes her column to recipes for break fast specialties, guaranteed to get the whole family up—and off to a good start for the day. Fahrenheit) for 35 to 40 minutes, or until firm. Peanut Butter Crust. 1 cup flour (all-purpose) Few grains salt 2 tablespoons peanut butter 4 tablespoons shortening 2 tablespoons ice water (about) Sift flour once before measuring, then sift together with salt. Cut in peanut butter and shortening with a pastry blender, two knives or rub it in with the fingers. Lightly stir in ice water, using a fork, until mix ture forms a stiff dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured board, and roll out to fit top of casserole. Cut several slits in crust to allow steam to escape. Place over top of cas serole and seal edges. French-Fried Green Pepper Rings. (Makes 6 servings) 4 large green peppers 1 egg (well-beaten) 1 tablespoon water Vt cup fine, dry bread crumbs % teaspoon salt y« cup flour Wash green peppers, cut into thin slices (about % inch thick) and re move seeds and membrane. Com bine beaten egg ‘ with water. Sea* s son bread crumbs 4 with salt. Dip rings first in egg mixture, then in flour. Dip again in the egg mixture, and finally in crumbs. Fry them, a few at a time, in deep fat at (375 degrees Fahren heit) until nicely browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Drain on absorbent paper. The green pepper rings are excel lent with broiled steak. Any-Scason Spinach. (Makes 4 servings) 1 14-ounce box quick-frozen spinach 1 cup water % teaspoon salt Vi teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons butter 1 hard-cooked egg Place water in saucepan, add salt and heat to a brisk boil. Drop frozen spinach into boiling water, bring again to a boil and cook 4 to 6 min utes or until just tender, separating the leaves with fork during cooking. Remove from fire and drain thor oughly at once. Add butter, salt and pepper. Garnish with slices of hard-cooked egg. Reserve the liq uid to use in a vegetable soup or stew. Vegetable Pie, Peanut Butter Crust. (Makes 6 servings) 12 small white onions 3 carrots (sliced) 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 1% cups hot water 2 beef bouillon cubes Vt teaspoon salt Vit teaspoon paprika Vi teaspoon celery salt 1 cup canned or cooked peas 1 cup canned or cooked green beans Place onions in saucepan with 1 cup water. Cook for 10 minutes, then add sliced car rots and continue to cook until both vegetables are tender (about 15 minutes). Cooked 1 leftover onions I and carrots may be substituted. Melt butter and blend with flour to a smooth paste. Dissolve bouillon cubes in hot water and add to flour together with salt, paprika, and cel ery salt. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 10 minutes. Combine onions, carrots, peas, and beans with sauce and place In shal low greased baking dish. The in gredients should come nearly to the top of the dish. Top with peanut butter pastry and b'ake in a hot oven t425 degrees Fahrenheit) for abou’ 20 minutes. il;t leased Ov W estern Newsy,.yer Union.) NATIONAL AFFAIRS Rtvitwtd by CARTER FIELD Fight on President's aid to-Britain program links personal element to Wil son s opposition ... Brit ish make grave mistake in agricultural policy. (BeU Syndicate—WNU Service.! WASHINGTON.—So many of the political phases of the present help to Britain situation remind observ 1 ers of the days just before Ameri can participation in the first World war that the actual relationships of some of the men involved are of interest. For instance, there is Sen. Ben nett Champ Clark of Missouri, one Senator Clark of the leading oppo nents of President Roosevelt’s foreign policy. The senator is the son of Speak er Champ Clark, who in 1915 and 1916 was one of the out standing opponents of President Wilson, insisting, as his son does now, that ’’the President is leading us into war.” Of course the Clark case was em bittered by the personal rivalry of the two men. Champ Clark had been a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1912 and, according to majority rule, was in a way en titled to it, for he won all the pri maries in which he entered, includ ing some against Woodrow Wilson. Senator Clark was his father’s parliamentary clerk at the time, and no son was ever more devoted ly loyal and partisan. LA FOLLETTE ISOLATIONIST Another son who is carrying on the same fight his father made against the White House on the iso lationist issue is Robert M. La Fol lette. Perhaps no figure in our po litical history was ever treated more drastically than the elder La Fol lette for what was regarded as his unpatriotic course. Charles A. Lindbergh, consciously or not, is affected by the same sort of thing. His father, a member of the house in those days, was an iso lationist, and voted against the dec laration of war. He was persecuted, at a time when the Atlantic flier was at probably the most impressionable age. Sen. Burton K. Wheeler is another of this group, though in Wheeler’s case he underwent persecution him self. In the war days he was a dis trict attorney in Montana, and if there was anything short of traitor which was not said about him, it could not be printed anyway. He had plenty of enemies, both in Montana and Washington, who vir tually left nothing unsaid about him, so naturally he bears a few scars. Add to this the fact that he be came closely associated later with the elder La Follette, being his run ning mate on the Progressive ticket for President in 1924, and you have a background which will explain ev erything. A study of the list of those oppos ing the lend-lease bill to aid Britain will reveal that while the illustra tions given are the most spectacu lar, there are plenty of others. • • # Britain’s Agricultural Policy Unsound It is very obvious now that the British made a mistake in their whole agricultural policy, from the national defense standpoint—a mis take almost as grave as their lack of preparedness. Sir Charles Ross, inventor and manufacturer of the famous Ross rifle in the days preceding and dur ing the last World war, has been pounding away at the British gov ernment frcyjn his home in Wash ington since 1939 to do something drastic about the food situation. Sir Charles has been deeply in terested in agricultural problems for many years. As the largest remain ing landowner in Scotland, he pried every bit of information possible out of the U. S. department of agricul ture with a view to making those lands more productive. As a result, he came early to a pronounced conviction that tractors were absolutely necessary. Early in the war he urged that it was vital to Britain’s safety to have every possible acre producing food. He seized on a calculation printed in 1 the London Times which showed j that some 3.000,000 odd acres, which had been under cultivation at the close of the last war. in 1918, were not being used for the production of food a year ago. “Proper use of those 3.000,000 acres,” says Sir Charles, “would have made Britain almost self-sup porting on foodstuffs. But this was not done. "But for years prior to the out break of tl's war the British gov ernment had deliberately discour aged domestic agriculture, allowing the prices to sag below the cost of j production. The purpose of this was to give a trade advantage to our industries. 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