... TO THE CLASS OF ’41!
(See Recipe* Below)
COMMENCEMENT TIME
You can’t believe It, can you?
Susie is graduating from high
school I
In between putting the final
stitches on her organdy dress and
entertaining visiting friends and rel
atives, are you going to try to find
time to give her a party?
Please do. To her, it’s a very im
portant time, and she’ll undoubted
_ ly remember the
gang’s “last real
get-together” for
the rest of her
life.
Why not a buf
fet supper? What
with wars raging
elsewhere, you
might play up the
patriotic theme
in decorations, re
freshments and entertainment.
Use a white tablecloth, dotted with
red and blue stars, and matching
napkins — they’re inexpensive and
colorful. To top this off, use a trio
of star-shaped red, white and blue
candles for a centerpiece.
It won’t be necessary for you to
de much, except, of course, prepare
the food. Games and chatter will
fill up the evening. But remember
that you have as guests youngsters
with appetites. They like second
helpings.
Serve an appetizer, one hot dish,
plenty of salad and hot rolls, more
cake or ice cream than you think
you will possibly need, and flatter
their sense of sophistication by of
fering second cups of coffee.
A fortune telling cake is always
fun when the crowd is young and
merry. You can write fortunes on
slips of paper, roll them and wrap
them in bits of waxed paper, and
put them in the cake after it is
baked. Another idea is to put in a
little trinket for each guest—an en
gagement ring and a wedding ring,
to forecast the first engagement and
the first marriage; a key for happi
ness; a bean for industry; a toy
soldier and so forth. You can buy
these favors at the ten-cent store.
*Good Fortune Cake.
2 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons double-acting baking
powder
% teaspoon salt
% cup butter or other shortening
1 cup sugar
S egg yolks, well beaten
% cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 egg whites, stiffly beaten
Sift flour once, measure, add bak
ing powder and salt, and sift to
gether three times. Cream butter
thoroughly, add sugar gradually,
and cream together until light and
fluffy. Add egg yolks, then flour, al
ternately with milk, a small amount
at a time. Beat after each addition
until smooth. Add vanilla and fold
in egg whites. Bake in two greased
8-inch layer pans in moderate oven
(375 degrees) 25 to 30 minutes. Dou
ble the recipe to make three 10
inch layers. Spread chocolate or
maple frosting between layers and
on top and sides of cake.
LYNN SAYS:
Games may or may not be the
type of entertainment your crowd
will enjoy. Just in case—here
are a few suggestions:
As soon as guests arrive, they
receive a card with the name
of a food printed on it. Each
player must then find someone
with the card with the name that
combines with the name on his
own card. Suggested names are
liver and bacon; apple pie and
cheese; sauerkraut and wieners;
brown bread and baked beans;
ham and eggs; bread and but
ter; doughnuts and coffee; steak
and onions; hot dogs and mus
tard. This game may be used in
choosing supper partners.
• * •
Sardine—Some guest is chosen
to be "It,”#and is given five min
utes to hide in a spot large enough
to hold several people. At the end
of five minutes everyone else goes
in search of "It.** When one guest
finds "It” he hides in the same
spot and before long the hiding
place is packed. The first person
unable to squeeze in is "It”
Ting WEEK’S MENU
Graduation Party
All-American Appetizers
•Americana Salad
Clover Leaf Rolls
•Veal on Skewers
•Good Fortune Cake Ice Cream
•Spiced Coffee
•Recipes given.
•Spiced Coffee.
6 cups decaffeinated coffee
% cup whipping cream, whipped
Mi teasoon cinnamon
Mi teaspoon nutmeg
Top each cup of coffee with a
spoonful of whipped cream into
which the spices have been folded.
Sugar may be served with the cof
fee, if desired. You can use your
favorite method of making the cof
fee, with regular grind for percolat
ed or boiled coffee and drip grind for
drip or glass maker. Allow a heap
ing tablespoon for each cup. And
if you "perk” it, give it a few min
utes extra brewing to bring out its
full flavor.
• « •
Now that I’ve made suggestions
for dessert. I’ll go back to the real
beginning of your party.
While placing the supper foods on
the table, Susie can pass a tray of
appetizers, which are, after all, just
a reminder of the good things yet
to come. A tiny American flag
placed in the center of the tray
will add to the party theme.
Potato Chips an Gratia.
Spread crisp potato chips with
pimiento cheese. Serve plain or
with a thick slice of pickle in the
center of each. Chips may also be
sprinkled with grated American or
Parmesan cheese. Before serving,
put under broiler to melt cheese and
heat chips.
Stuffed Celery.
Scrape deep stalks of celery. Cut
into 3-lnch lengths. Place in ice wa
ter to which lemon juice has been
added. The celery may be placed
in a covered jar in a refrigerator
until crisp. Several types of filling
may be used to add variety.
Bacon Snacks.
Wrap Mi slice bacon around a
sweet pickle or stuffed olive and
fasten with a toothpick. Broil un
til bacon is crisp and serve immedi
ately.
One first glance at the salad will
bring an enthusiastic response from
the crowd. Illustrated in the picture
at the top of the column, it it called
* Americana Salad.
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
Vi cup cold water
2 cups tomatoes
3 whole cloves
1 small bay leaf
1 small onion, chopped
Vi teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
Vi teaspoon pepper or paprika
3 tablespoons vinegar
Stir gelatin and cold water togeth
er. Let stand at least 3 to 5 min
utes. Meanwhile
simmer tomatoes
with seasonings
in a covered con
tainer for 10 to 15
minutes. Strain
and add vinegar.
Dissolve the soft
ened gelatin in
this mixture, and
pour into one ‘
large mold, and chill until firm.
When it has set and is ready to
serve, it is divided into two squares
with layers which are joined togeth
er with a filling of cream cheese. A
cream cheese star decorates the
top. This recipe makes 6 portions.
Now for something truly different
in the way of a hot dish—
•Veal on Skewers
Cut boneless veal in pieces 1H
inches square by about % inch
thick. Stick on 8-inch metal skew
ers, alternating meat with slightly
smaller peeled potato halves or
cubes, chunks of carrot, and whole
small white onions. Lay skewers in
roasting pan, add 1 cup hot water,
and salt. Cover and bake in hot
oven (450 degrees F.) for 1 hour,
reduce heat to 350 degrees F.. add
more water If needed. Bake about
30 minutes longer, or until tender.
Garnish with broiled bacon.
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
1 I
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK. — Birthday inter
views with venerated patri*
| archs of this land are usually given
i to bland optimism, though the
( heavens be
Morgenthau, 85, fauing. It’s
Gazes on World an old Amer
Without Blinders £an cu^m'
Henry Mor
genthau Sr., just turned 85, has been
an exception. We haven’t seen his
customary chat with the reporters
this year, but when and if it is re
corded we may be sure he sees what
he sees and isn’t trying to slick
things up. Not that he’s a pessimist
or defeatist I remember meeting
him on Mt Desert Island, Maine, a
few years ago and was tremendous
ly impressed with his faith, ardor
and fighting spirit.
He knows a lot about wars
and trouble. It was our Civil
war that brought him here from
his native Mannheim, Germany.
His father was a prosperous
cigar manufacturer. Civil war
tariffs put him out of business
and the family came to this
country when Henry Morgen
thau was nine years old. He
was a lawyer at 23, turned to
real estate and flnance, and had
his money-making over at 55,
with time, means and mental
equipment to turn to the human
ities, to philanthropy and good
works in general. Now he has
a son In the cabinet, children,
grandchildren and great-grand
children and the unflagging en
ergies which are the reward of
an abstemious life.
If there’s a dark side, he isn’t
afraid to look at it. He was back
from Europe in 1933 with the simple
conclusion that the world was head
ing into another war. "There is,
in Europe,” he said, "no honest,
moral desire for peace.” In 1913,
his friend Woodrow Wilson made
him ambassador to Turkey, which
post he held until 1916. Thereafter,
he helped pick up the pieces, in
the ruin and chaos of the middle
east. He has been both observing
and studious and unhappily for
easy-goingoptimists, singularly clear
sighted in his prophetic look ahead.
THERE’S a tale of a professor
who grew old writing a history
of civilization. Late one night he fin
ished it. Then, after a brief survey
of the result
Thorndike Now of hi8 ardu.
Holds Intelligence ous labors,
Can’t Be Tested he heaved a
great sigh
and threw the history in the fire.
“What's the matter?” asked his
wife.
"There isn’t any civilization,” he
replied.
Dr. Edward L. Thorndike,
author of the famous Thorndike
Intelligence test, probably
wouldn't say there isn’t any in
telligence, but he does say In
telligence can't be tested, ac
cording to news reports of his
address before the American
Philosophical society at Phila
delphia. Dr. Thorndike’s apos
tasy no doubt will set up some
new measuring standards.
If we don’t learn much, about
keeping out of wars and such, it
isn’t Dr. Thorndike’s fault. A pro
fessor at Columbia for 37 years, he
is the author of a shelf of books in
the general field of the psychology
of learning. He has just about sur
rounded the subject of “How We
Learn.” The question of what we
learn seems to be still wide open.
From Williamsburg, Mass., he
went to Wesleyan university, Har
vard and Columbia and taught at
Western Reserve before joining the
Teachers’ college faculty in 1897.
j He is 67 years old.
THE word U getting around that
the founding fathers could
fight well because they were super
charged with vitamin B,. They ate
~ . anything
Get Courage in handy and
Bottles, Baskets got the thia
In These Days ^ B,
which is to
be found mainly in roughage.
Prof Russell M. Wilder of the
Mayo foundation is alarmed over our
shortcomings in this regard. He
says, “Continued deficiency of the
thiamin content of American diets
may have led to a certain degree of
irremediable deterioration of the
national will.”
His conclusion is one of many in
which it is insisted that we must
look to the drug store and the gro
cery for the real fighting urge.
Courage comes in bottles or baskets
in these fantastic days.
Dr. Wilder is one of the country’s
leading specialists on nutrition and
diseases of metabolism. Bom and
reared in Cincinnati, he was educat
ed at the University of Chicago, and
Rush Medical college; practiced in
Chicago and has been with the
Mayo foundation since 1922. He was
a medical gas officer in the World
war.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Revitwtd by
CARTER FIELD
Arnold, battling with
0. P. M., declares sul
phuric acid pool violates
anti-trust laws . . . Con
gress considers advisa
bility of lowering in
come tax exemptions.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON. — Thurman Ar
nold, the assistant attorney general
with such zeal for trust busting,
is battling with OPM and the war
department again on a question in
volving national defense, and per
sonal feeling is running very high.
This is not the first time Arnold
has injected himself into a situation
Thurman Arnold
involvin g
army and
navy plan*
since William
S. Knudsen
and Sidney
Hillman were
put at the
head of O. P,
M.. but it may
easily be the
straw that
breaks the
camel’s back,
for various of
flcials concerned with the defense
setup are getting ready for a show
down with the President as to
whether he will call Arnold off or not.
The present row is over sulphuric
acid, vital to the manufacture of ex
plosives, but also to steel and fer
tilizer. The army, navy, OPM and
manufacturers had worked out a
pooling arrangement which was
highly satisfactory to all concerned
until Arnold heard about it.
He insisted that this arrangement
was in conflict with the anti-trust
laws, and threatened to prosecute
the companies concerned if they at
tempted to operate under it. He
was told by OPM, the army and the
navy that this pooling agreement
would hurt nobody, that it was vital
to the defense program and would
speed up production tremendously.
Arnold could not see why it was
necessary, in order to get produc
tion of sufficient sulphuric acid
quickly, that there should be any
pooling agreement He wanted open
competition in its manufacture.
He insisted that he had gone very
carefully Into the pooling agreement
as proposed, and that he calculat
ed this pooling agreement would
cost the farmers of the United
States $8,000,000 a year.
This is vigorously denied by the
army, navy and OPM experts, but
some officials are saying that even
if it were true it is a very trivial
matter.
They insist that $8,000,000 is noth
ing on a $30,000,000,000 national
defense program, which will be
slowed down if this carping about
the pooling agreement being a vio
lation of the anti-trust law continues.
• * *
Consider Lowering
income Tax Exemptions
There is a strong disposition on
Capitol Hill not to lower the income
tax exemptions, despite the press
ing need for every dollar that can
be raised. There are two motives
for resisting the change. One is
economy. It will cost as much to
handle the small income group re
turns—meaning from those persons
who at present do not have to make
any—as the resulting revenue will
produce.
The other reason is purely polit
ical. There is no desire on the part
of congressmen to build up resent
ments.
Moreover, the treasury scale of
tax increases is accomplishing the
ends always desired when most
people advocate reduction of exemp
tions without doing it. The point
is that from the treasury standpoint
the only desirable point about re
ducing exemptions in the income
tax schedules is not to get more
people to pay taxes, but to make
those already paying taxes pay
more. A reduction of $500 in the
exemption, obviously, not only
makes more people fill out income
tax blanks, but it adds $500 to the
taxable income of every person now
paying taxes.
The treasury has so coldly
stepped up the percentages, and at
such comparatively low figures, that
this objective is no longer impor
tant. Besides, the treasury has al
ways been more realistic than con
gress about the very high brackets.
; The treasury experts have always
known, from experience, that as
j soon as the government begins tak
ing more than three-quarters of an
income—in the top brackets of
course—the income tax payer in
question loses a great deal of incen
tive so far as making any more
j money is concerned.
If the income tax exemptions are
not lowered, and this is the present
prospect, there is not going to be
any greater realization on the part
of the small income tax group that
big government spending DOES
take a toll from them. They are
going to keep right on thinking that
it does not make much difference
to them personally what taxes are,
because the rich are going to pay
them—but they overlook the "hid
den” taxes on such items as ciga
rettes and playing cards.
Jlsk Me Another
£ A General Quiz
The Questions
1. How far apart are North
America and Asia at the narrow
est point of Bering strait?
2. What is a thimblerigger?
3. Why does a polar bear never
slip on glassy ice?
4. St. Paul’s epistles to the
Thessalontans were written to the
inhabitants of the city now called
what?
5. What is the smallest deer in
the world?
6. What is the principal con
stituent of pewter?
7. Where are the Grand Banks?
8. How does Brazil compare in
size with the United States?
9. Who was the founder of
psycho-analysis ?
The Answers
1. Fifty-six miles.
2. One who swindles with the
aid of three small cups, shaped
like thimbles, and a small ball or
pea.
3. The soles of the polar bear’s
feet are covered with thickly set
hair which gives him perfect trac
tion.
4. Salonika.
5. The mouse-deer of Indo
China. It weighs about four
pounds.
6. Tin.
7. Off Newfoundland.
8. Larger by 250,000 square
miles.
9. Sigmund Freud.
> NEW IDEAS
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS -
CM ALL windows and book
^ shelves at the sides of a fire
place often create a monotonous
series of rectangles. Watch out
for them for they play an impor
tant part in decorating plans. You
see them here in the small sketch
—six of them—window; over
mantel space; window; book
shelves; mantel; book shelves—
around and around they go.
The only architectural change
shown in the large sketch was a
mantel facing built of three boards
and simple mouldings. This broke
up one rectangle. Irregular lines
for swag drapes over the windows
Little Herbert W as There
To Give the Game A way!
On arriving home father found
a foreign coin resembling a quar
ter in his small change, so he
went out to do a little shopping,
taking Herbert, aged five, along.
He went to the grocer's, and the
grocer, looking at the coin, said
with an air of surprise, “Why, this
is not United States money!”
So the man went to the drug
gist’s, and there tendered the coin.
The druggist informed him that the
coin was of foreign extraction.
“Good heavens, so it is!” ex
claimed the father. “I wonder
where I got that?”
“Don’t you know, dad?” spoke
up Herbert. “That’s the one the
grocer wouldn’t take!”
jBROKEN Of IN TOO 4
IMANY WECTAN6LE»-J
fr}*-A SIMPLE
7/ mantel
' FACING AND
f/NAEGULAR UNO
7 FOR CURTAIN#,
/ PICTURES
' AND SHELF
ARRANGEMENT
softened the angles of two more.
A large picture or mirror over the
mantel just added still another
rectangle, so small prints were
hung with ribbons. The arrange
ment of vines, books and bibelots
on the shelves took care of the rest.
* • •
NOT®: Directions for cutting
making the swag draperies shown in
today's sketch may be found on page IT
of Book 1. in the series of service
booklets offered with these articles. Also
book 7 is now ready for mailing. It
contains more than 30 of these homo
making ideas with step-by-step directions
for each; as well as a description of tbo
series. Booklets are 10 cents each
and should be ordered direct from:
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