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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) NEW YORK—Capt. Oliver Lyttle ton who tells the British they can’t fight a war and keep their pants pressed, at one and the same r j n a j time- iB one Frayed Cuff and of ^g hand Threadbare Knee somest and Smart in Britain w*a'thJe‘t and, to date, best-dressed men in England. It is as president of the board of trade that he rations clothing and decrees the proud distinction of shabby ap parel. It is now smart to be shabby in Britain. Mr. Lyttleton Is managing di rector of the huge and powerful British Metals Corporation Ltd., and, before taking his present post last year, was controller of non-ferrous metals. Under a wide extension of his powers as head of the board of trade, he was enabled to take over indus try for defense purposes and to shift and reallocate labor to any tasks he deemed necessary. He proceeded swiftly with his mobi lisation of defense resources. This assertion of governmental control caused the newspapers to tag him as the "czar of industry," and it is interesting to note that our Edw'ard R. Stettinius Jr. is thus headlined, as the mandatory priori ties bill gives him the power to sub ordinate all production to defense. The extended parallel is also inter esting in that Mr. Stettinius is also a steel-master, former chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation. England, perhaps more un easy and alert than we In the abstractions of social change, was quick to Interpret this cen tralization of power as of pro found significance. Beaver brook’s Evening Standard said: “This constitutes the biggest economic and perhaps social revolution that this country has faced since the breakdown of feudalism. In fact, we are on the verge of a vast experiment In syndicalism.” Captain Lyttleton has never been involved in any such social drift. He is Cambridge bred, the inheritor of a vast fortune and an ancient name, a hard-hitting industrialist and sol dier with a reputation for quick and effective action in any emergency. He fought through the World war with the Grenadier Guards, gather ing the D.S.O. and several mentions in dispatches. He is 48 years old. MUCH as It esteems tolerance, this department occasionally has noted that people who always can see both sides of everything N.wOPMDepaty?;'1™:?* Bomb a Wonder at down with Human Catalyzing alternating personality, or something like, and Just cancel themselves out. James L. O'Neill, appointed dep uty director of the OPM Priorities is an exception. The baldish, ami able, friendly New York banker has an instinct for understanding the oth er man's point of view, and at the same time holding to his own. It upped him steadily in the business world, to his present post of operat ing vice president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. This ambi dextrous vision has given bim rare effectiveness in personnel problems and in allaying friction in manage ment. That might have a bearing on bis moving into the OPM at this moment. A Republican, he had a flexi ble attitude toward the early New Deal, and was loaned by the bank as control officer of the NRA in December, 1934. When the Supreme court saw only one side of the NRA, and not the sunny side, if any, Donald Rich berg moved out and Mr. O’Neill moved in, as administrator. He solved the problem of immedi ate personnel by firing about one-third of it, but by this time the NRA was functioning only to save funeral expenses. Mr. O'Neill liquidated it in neat and workmanlike fashion, and went back to his bank. But he left many friends in Washington, and should be helpful in breaking pri ority log-jams. He is known as a marvelous human catalyzer, lie was born and grew up in Pittsburgh. Mr. O’Neill drove a grocer's wag on at the age of 10, became an er rand boy for the Bradstreet Corp., and later credit man for the Car negie Steel Co., a job which nur tured his talent for mixing and paci fying. After 22 years of this, he joined the Guaranty Trust Co., in 1918, en gaged at first mostly in personnel studies. He likes people and can understand almost anybody. He is deeply religious and is occupied as a Presbyterian layman in church and welfare undertakings at his home in Short Hills, N. J. Juf Jly+ut QUamltesu EVERYTHING FOR HER NEW KITCHEN (See Recipei Below) REALLY PRACTICAL! Whether the bride-to-be Is bound for a six-room "dream house” or for a one-room kitchenette apart ment, you can’t go wrong if you give her a kitchen shower , . . one that’s practical, of course! And, knowing that some of you are anxious for new, clever, unusual ways to entertain, I’m ready with plans for a kitchen shower that’s really different! In Chicago’s huge Merchandise Mart, where buyers from all over the country come to purchase kitch enware, I found a variety of inex pensive, yet dura ble gadgets which anyone about to be married would love. To make the party practically all play and no work for the hostess, I decided to place the gifts on the ta ble (see picture at top of column). When luncheon is over, everything is hers I The tablecloth Is of a fancy new type oilcloth, and the place mats and napkins are none other than dish cloths. An angel food cake pan serves as the base for a "gadget bouquet” cen terpiece of measuring spoons and cup, carving set, sugar scoop, funnel, spatulas, pancake turner, strainer, tea ball, grater and other vital kitchen helpers. The plates are pie tins. The flat ware is a very inexpensive kind with gaily-colored plastic handles. And note the spice Jars to the right which, because they’re to be gifts, nold salt and pepper while doing jouble duty. They’re from the Grif fith laboratories. The first course of the luncheon is a tart 'Cardinal Salad, set on the table right in its aluminum ring mold. A tasty Beef Stew in a cas serole follows. Iced tea is poured from a tall aluminum pitcher into matching "glasses.” And rolls, all buttered, are served from a com pact, serviceable bun warmer, which may be the hostess’ gift. Des sert is Peach Upside Down Cake, served from a square cake pan. 'Cardinal Salad. 1 package lemon gelatin 1 cup boiling water Vi cup beet juice 3 tablespoons vinegar 1 cup cooked beets, diced Vi teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons onion juice or grated onion 1 tablespoon horseradish Vi cup celery, diced LYNN SAYS: There'll be lots to talk about at your party, and conversation, plus opening of shower presents may well fill up the allotted party time, but just'in case . . . here’s a clever game that suits a bridal shower to a “T.” To each guest pass a slip of paper titled “Things Found in the Bride's Home.” 'Neath the title are these words (1) engar, (2) gothorphrpa, (3) elmiunol, (4) fubfet, (5) hicra, (6) ri/hifcoen, (7) pavndorte, (8) blaet, (9) nur caef, (10) pardyer, (11) kccol, and (12) pocarbud. Ask each person to rearrange the letters in each of these 12 words to make them spell an article of furniture that would be likely to appear in the bride’s new home. The answers are (1) range, (2) photograph, (3) linoleum, (4) buf fet, (5) chair, (6) chiffonier, (7) davenport, (8) table, (9) furnace, (10) drapery, (11) clock, and (12) cupboard. To make the game more inter esting. you might set a deflnte time limit. Collecting all papers after, perhaps, five minutes. Lol lipops or some similar original, Inexpensive gift may be awarded as first prize. — I SO YOU’RE TO BE MARRIED! The date is all set, invitations mailed, your dress, white and simply beautiful, is hanging in the closet . . . well, then the rest is easy. But, in case you're per plexed about the after-ceremo ny refreshments, whether they be in the form of a breakfast, gar den reception or dinner, please read next week's column. Lynn will tell you how to entertain your wedding guests correctly, yet inexpensively . . . Watch for •'After The 'I Do’s’ ”... Dissolve gelatin in boiling water, add beet juice, vinegar, salt and sea sonings. Chill until slightly thick ened. Fold in vegetables and mold. •Peach Upside Down Cake. iy4 cups sifted cake flour iy4 teaspoons double-acting bak ing powder y4 teaspoon salt V* cup granulated sugar 4 tablespoons softened butter or other shortening 1 egg well beaten Vi cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add bak ing powder, salt and sugar, and sift together three times. Add butter. Combine egg, milk and vanilla. Add to flour mixture, stirring until all flour is dampened; then beat vig orously for 1 minute. 4 tablespoons butter Vi cup brown sugar, firmly packed 2 cups sliced peaches (fresh or canned) Melt 4 tablespoons butter in an 8 by 8 by 2-inch pan over low flame; add brown sugar, (y4 teaspoon nut meg may be mixed with brown sug ar, if desired), and stir until melt ed. On this, arrange peach slices. Turn batter over contents of pan. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 50 minutes, or until done. Loos en cake from sides of pan with spat ula. Serve upside down with peaches on top. Garnish with whipped cream, if desired. Canned pineapple rings, cooked apricots or prunes, or sliced tart ap ples may be substituted for peaches in this recipe. Going back to entertaining the bride-to-be, had you ever considered a Recipe Show er? A new idea comes to mind . . . why not serve a luncheon at which every dish, from the ap petizer to the cof fee, is prepared according to some favorite and test ed recipe of one of the guests. Have each recipe written on the back of a place card, collect these, put them into a file box (gift of the hostess) and present them to the bride-to-be. • • • A shower that calls for an almost negligible outlay of money on the part of those who buy the gifts, but which will help the young bride to do some real housekeeping, is a "dime” shower. The flve-and-dime stores are bris tling with simple little things the bride will use every day without be ing aware of them. If you’ll con tribute two ten-cent items, you’ll be doing her a real service. Matches, gummed labels, paste and waterproof cement (to repair the china she’s bound to break some time or another), playing cards and score pads, plenty of tissue cleans ers, electric light bulbs, little wire flower • holders, assorted pads of paper for shop ping lists or ad dresses — they’re all so inexpensive when purchased separately, but how they do mount up in cost if the bride has to go out and buy the whole batch at one time! (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD President being urged to increase aid to Brit ain . . . Commodity shortages of World War l are coming again, but in different form. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON.—There is tremen dous pressure on President Roose velt from those who like his word "realist” with respect to the war to take some active step NOW instead of waiting until it is so much harder. Such a practical step, for exam ple, as the seizure of Dakar, the Cape Verde islands and the Azores. Excitement has been lent the ar guments now going on inside admin istration circles by wild rumors floating on the outside. Before the President made his comment about having forces in "strategic” places there was a rumor, for example, that the main fleet had passed through the Panama canall This could only mean that the sea power of Uncle Sam was to be added to that of Britain in the battle of the Atlantic. For the Nazis to attempt to seize Iceland, as they seized Crete, would be, in the President’s words, a threat at invasion of the United States. This brings the war very close indeed, for there has been plenty of planning by the Nazis with respect to Iceland. In fact it is diflfl cult to imagine any other purpose for the tremendous concentrations the Germans have made on the Norwegian coast ISLANDS ARE NEUTRAL When it comes to the Cape Verde islands and the Azores, however, the problem is complicated by the fact that those islands are neutral. True, the President himself said that at any time they aro ready the Nazis are able to overrun Spain and Por tugal, but seizure of the islands by the U. S. In ADVANCE of such an invasion would be imitating the in ternational morals of the Nazis. And yet such lack of international morality is precisely what is needed in this situation, a great many ad visers of the President believe. They insist that you cannot fight Marquis of Queensbury rules against an an tagonist who uses the knee and gouges in the clinches. If one fight er elects to follow bar-room-brawl tactics the other fighter has not much choice. The chief difficulty here is that we have NOT entered as a fighter. Technically we are neutral, though the strangest neutral, perhaps, in the world’s history. We are not only in the corner of one of the fighters, but we are providing him with fight ing power. « • • Commodity Shortages Seem Probable Remember the “gasolineless days” last war? The days when any one driving a passenger automobile on Sunday was regarded by pass ersby as pretty nearly a traitor? Those days are coming again, but this time there will be different things we will be asked to do with out For the present, for instance, there is not the slightest indication that we will ever be told to cut down our sugar consumption. In the last war there was first a shortage, then se vere rationing, with the waiter bring ing you a couple of lumps in a paper sack instead of handing you the bowl. Then right after the war sug ar soared to 17 cents a pound, and beyond. But up to now there has not even been any raising of the quota bans on sugar production. Every indi-1 cation is that there will be plenty of sugar regardless of developments. I The first important appeal to the public to do without something ap plies, curiously enough, to electrici ty. In a statement signed by the federal power commission, the Of fice of Production Management, the war department, the Tennessee Val ley authority, the Alabama Power company, the Georgia Power com pany, the Gulf Power company, the Mississippi Power company and the South Carolina Power company, the people of the Southeast are asked to conserve electric current. "The Southeastern area,” says this statement, "is a large contribu tor to this defense production. In addition the area has been chosen for the location of many army can tonments, air training bases, muni tions plants and other defense facili ties. These defense activities re quire a great volume of power. This year an unprecedented drouth threat ened that power supply throughout the Southeast. “Large additions of power supply for the region are now under top speed production by TV A and pri vate companies. They are nearing completion but until these new sources of supply are actually deliv ering power and especially during the next few months it is impera tive in the interest of defense that power be carefully conserved." The statement added that even if normal rainfall should end the drouth you still will be asked not to waste power, for every kilowatt hour you can conserve at this time adds that much to your nation’s capacity for defense." istorical hf, SUno. Scott Wation (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Our Only Admiral General EMPTY years ago there died in * Washington, D. C., a man who is unique in the history of America’s armed forces. He was Samuel Pow ! hatan Carter and he was the only officer who ever became both brig adier-general in the United States army and rear-admiral in the Unit ed States navy! Bom in Elizabethtown, Tenn., Au gust 6, 1819, Carter was educated at Princeton university and left that | institution to accept a commission as midshipman in the navy in 1840. At the outbreak of the War with I Mexico in 1846 he was assigned to the U. S. S. Ohio and took part in the capture of Vera Cruz. After the war he was ordered to the United States Naval academy at Annapolis where he served as assist ant instructor of infantry tactics un til 1853. Promoted to lieutenant two l . ' ' REAR-ADMIRAL S. P. CARTER years later, he saw active service against the Chinese pirates who were preying on commerce along the Asiatic coast. He was on a tour of duty in Brazilian waters at the out break of the Civil war and, believ ing that the navy would see little active service, he asked to join the land forces. On July 11, 1861, Lieutenant Car ter of the navy was transferred to the war department and sent on a special mission to East Tennessee to raise troops for the Union army. Appointed colonel of the Second Ten nessee Volunteers, he continued his recruiting work until he had organ ized a full brigade and was made acting brigadier-general in Septem ber, 1861. Early the next year he was given the full commission of brigadier-general of volunteers. "Old Horse Marine" Carter, as they called him, served brilliantly throughout the war, participating in numerous battles in Kentucky, Ten 7 , % ' BRIG-GEN. S. P. CARTER nessee and North Carolina. One of his outstanding achievements was in 1862 when he led a cavalry raid through Eastern Tennessee. Because of his success, this "sailor on horse back” was recommended for pro motion to major-general. That promotion did not come how ever, until March 13, 1865, when he was given the brevet of major-gen eral. Meanwhile he had been pro moted to the rank of commander in the navy, but, although holding com missions in both the army and the navy, he drew the salary of only one of these offices. Honorably mustered out of the vol unteer service in 1866, Carter was ready for another go at naval serv ice. He asked for active duty, was given command of the gunboat Monocacy and sent to the Asiatic station where he remained for three years. Then he was promoted to captain. After another tour of duty on the European station, he was finally retired on August 6, 1881. The climax of his naval career came the next year when he was pro moted to rear-admiral. Carter's last i years were spent in the nation's cap ital where he died May 26, 1891. * * * In 1863 the “sailor on horseback,” proved he could hold his own with some of the South's best cavalry commanders, including the doughty Gen. John H. Morgan. For his troop ers whipped the gray-clad horsemen of “Morgan the Raider” at West's on August 28 and following it up by defeating Pegram’s forces and win ning another victory over Morgan. 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