WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
| WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK —Dr. Minnie L. Maf
fett, who, as president of the
National Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs, is the
Assesses Women about* 75.000
For Authority in career worn
Tomorrow's Era fn in Anr!e4r‘
lea, insists
on equal pay for women doing
men’s Jobs, and she also assesses
women with heavy responsibility for
what lies ahead.
“Women must take leadership in
insisting on a new economic world
order,” says Dr. Maffett.
That might seem like a lot of
bother for the women, what with
getting the children off to camp and
this and that, but Dr. Maffett tells
them sternly they must face it, "if
we want women to have authority
in the world of tomorrow.” Her ob
servations were addressed to the
biennial meeting of the above fed
eration at Los Angeles.
Hie silver-haired, blue-eyed,
pink-cheeked Dr. Maffett, is,
like many contenders for equal
ity and authority for women,
emphatically feminine. Pre
meditated or not, It's a good
technique which the early-day
suffragists knew and practiced
diligently. She lives in Dallas,
Texas, where she has long been
a distinguished physician and
surgeon, a member of the col
lege of medicine of Baylor uni
versity, on the staff of the three
biggest hospitals in Dallas, and
a director of the department of
health education of Southern
Methodist university.
Descendant of a family which
went to Texas in 1834, Dr. Maffett
took her academic and medical de
grees at the University of Texas.
She was elected president of the
federation In 1930. She rallies wom
en to intelligent social effort under
the slogan "business women in a
democracy.”
She is a dynamo of energy,
flying everywhere—she's an avi
ation fan—organising and agi
tating for women and their work
and their readiness for a new
economic and cultural show
down after the war. Women
certainly do like to get things
ship-shape. Perhaps they rate
a trial workout, considering the
general state of masculine un
tidiness and confusion now pre
vailing.
r\R. ARTHUR UPHAM POPE,
art connoisseur and leading
world authority on Iranian art,
beads the "Committee for National
Out to Give War ™h°J * ^
To Adolf Hitler's after months
‘Secret' Weapon ot research,
makesknown
it has discovered and identified Hit
ler’s “secret” weapon. As Dr.
Pope explains it, the device is the
precise scientific mastery of impel
ling scientific forces by which you
can make men think and act as you
want them to.
One of the last books of the late
Jacques Futrelle. who went down on
the Titanic, was “The Thinking Ma
chine.” It was about an old pro
fessor who discovered what Dr.
Pope's committee thinks it has now
learned. He finally dominated the
world. The theme of the book was
that any man who masters certain
definite psychological formulas, and
employs them diligently, will own
and operate mankind.
That is exactly what the Germans
have been doing, according to the
committee, Just now issuing a 155
page brochure describing its re
search and its findings.
The committee, which began work
last July, Includes many of the lead
ing social scientists and psycholo
gists of the United States. It deliv
ers not only a detailed description
of the German psychological mass
pressure techniques, but it con
cludes that we have abundant
knowledge and skills with which to
meet it But it will be no hit-or-miss
job of agitating. It will be a cam
paign of psychological warfare as
carefully contrived as an air battle.
Mr. Pope, a native of Phoenix,
R. I., was graduated from Brown
university. He has long been a dis
tinguished figure in the world of
both art and philosophy—but always
on John Ruskin's terms: "Fine art
is that in which the head, the heart
and the hand go together."
We saw Dr. Pope occasionally
when he was professor of philoso
phy at the University of California,
and again at the Foyot restaurant
in Paris in 1923, fired up with Persian
art and beaded toward Teheran, to
sink many years and much brilliant
scholarship in that area. After a
round-trip to about 3000 B. C., be
landed in London in 1930 with the
noblest exhibition of Persian art
ever assembled.
Last year, with his collection
greatly augmented, he staged a
memorable exhibition in New York,
at the old Union League club.
—~w p j '
Jlynn ChcuttheM.
SANDWICHES THAT REALLY TEMPT
(See Recipe* Below)
BUFFET SUPPERS
If there's one season of the year
when you like to feel really free
from the heat of the kitchen, then
summer’s that season. You can do
It easily, too, If you'll plan and pre
pare C-O-O-L meals in the early
hours of the day before the heat be
comes sweltering. Then stay strict
ly out of the kitchen until supper
time.
Make mealtime during these
months as simple as possible. Not
only will you ne
the more charm*
ing for doing less
work, but your
family will enjoy
the simplicity as
a change. One of
the answers to
this is buffet service. An attractive
ly arranged table on the summer
porch is a tonic for hazy summer
appetites.
‘Sandwich Loaf.
For Chicken Filling use:
1 cup ground, cooked chicken
Mi cup ground almonds
2 to 4 tablespoons chopped celery
Salt to taste
Lemon juice to flavor
Salad dressing to moisten
Mix chicken, celery and almonds.
Season with salt and lemon juice
and add enough dressing to give
spreading consistency.
For Egg Filling use:
4 hard cooked eggs
Mi cup chopped cooked bacon or
Vi cup stuffed olives, chopped
Salt to season
Few drops Worcestershire sauce
Salad dressing or cream to moisten.
Chop eggs, add bacon and Wor
cestershire sauce. Moisten with sal
ad dressing to give spreading con
sistency.
Remove the crusts from an uncut
loaf of day-old white sandwich
bread. Slice lengthwise to make
three or four slices about Mi inch
thick. It's a good idea to have the
bottom slice thicker than the other
three since it helps in placing the
loaf when served. Spread slices,
except top and bottom, with
creamed butter, mayonnaise, then
with different fillings. Use chick
en filling between two slices; egg
filling for the next and chopped
vegetables moistened with mayon
naise for the third or tomato slices.
Stack and cover top and sides with
soft cream cheese piled like frost
ing. Garnish with thin radish slices
and dust with chopped chives. Chill
in the refrigerator several hours be
fore serving. It's better not to use
lettuce because it offers slicing dif
ficulties after the loaf is served.
For the cream cheese frosting use
Mi to M pound of cream cheese. Add
rich milk or cream to make a thick
paste. Beat cheese and cream un
til evenly mixed and of good con
sistency for spreading. Spread over
loaf to give a fluffy effect, as
though you were swirling icing.
•Tomato-Cheese Salad.
(Serves 8-10)
1 can (10% ounces) condensed to
mato soup
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon grated onion
1% tablespoons gelatine
Vi cup cold water
6 to 8 ounces cottage cheese
% cup mayonnaise
Salt to taste
1 cup chopped cucumber
1 cup chopped celery
% cup sliced radishes
LYNN SAYS:
When you think the thermome
ter’s going to burst, then think
cool, eat cool, act cool, and you’ll
be cool. Drink plenty of water
and cooling beverages.
Be gay and have your meals
casually out on the shady porch
on a bright table cloth. Serve
things buffet style for it’ll make
it easier all the way around:
less table setting, less dishes, and
less to do.
No one may feel much like eat
ing, and people, generally eat less
during summer months, but they
must still have the proper diet. So
bring out your crisp garden sal
ads, chilled main dishes, and as
sorted fruits. Be Cool!
THIS WEEK’S MENU
•Sandwich Loaf
•Tomato-Cheese Salad
•Honey and Nut Bran Muffins
•Spiced Rhubarb Jam
Cool Beverage
Chilled Assorted Fruit Plate
•Recipe given.
Vi cup finely chopped onion
Lettuce
Tart french dressing
Heat the tomato soup, butter and
grated onion. Soften gelatine in cold
water and add it to the hot tomato
mixture. Add the cottage cheese
and ma>onnaise, stir the mixture
thoroughly and salt it to taste. Let
the mixture cool until it thickens
slightly, then add the chopped vege
tables. Pour into a large ring mold
or individual molds and chill until
firm. When ready to serve unmold
on crisp lettuce. Use a tart french
dressing with this salad.
A one-dish summer meal that will
help you be a cool and collected
homemaker is this tasty ham
mousse which may be served as a
salad main dish, heaped high with
garden greens, tomato aspic cubes,
devilled eggs, carrot strips, peas
marinated in french dressing, ripe
olives, celery hearts.
Ham Mousse Salad Plate.
(Serves 6-8)
1 tablespoon of plain gelatine
V« cup cold water
2 cups stock or bouillon
V4 cup mayonnaise
V4 cup diced celery
V« cup diced dill pickle
V« cup minced pimiento
1 cup chopped, cooked, smoked
ham
Soak gelatine in cold water for
5 minutes. Heat stock or bouillon to
boiling point and add gelatine which
is soaked. Stir until dissolved. Chill
until slightly thickened, then whip
in the mayonnaise. Add remaining
ingredients, pour into ring mold and
chill until firm. Unmold on salad
plate and garnish with accompani
ments suggested above.
Muffins that will bake in a few
minutes will give your meal a tang
and zest that will
bring cheers from
the family. These
are so good you’ll
want them often
for any meal of
the day. If made
in the smaller
muitin tins, they’ll make a grand
addition when you have the ladies
in for luncheon.
•Honey and Nut Bran Muffins.
(Makes 16 large muffins)
V4 cup honey
1 cup flour
Vi to V4 teaspoon soda
V4 teaspoon salt
2 cups bran cereal
1 tablespoon melted butter
1V4 cups milk
*4 cup walnuts, chopped fine
Sift together flour, soda, salt, and
mix with bran cereal. Add other in
gredients. Place in greased gem
pans and bake in a quick oven (425
degrees) for 25-30 minutes.
A jam spicy and delicious to go
with your muffins is this one which
needs only a few minutes* cooking
and is therefore guaranteed not to
make your kitchen unbearably hot.
•Spiced Rhubarb Jam With Orange
(Makes 7 6-ounce glasses)
3(4 cups prepared fruit
4 cups sugar
1 box powdered fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, trim and slice
fine (do not peel) about 2 pounds of
small red-stalked rhubarb. Add 1
cup of sugar, mix, let stand for 15
minutes. (This cup of sugar is add
ed in addition to the ones specified
above). Add 1 teaspoon each of cin
namon and cloves, and grated rind
of 1 orange.
Measure prepared fruit into a 5- to
6-quart kettle filling up last cup or
fraction of a cup with water if nec
essary. Place over the hottest fire,
add fruit pectin, mix well, and con
tinue stirring until mixture comes
to a hard boil. To reduce foaming
y4 teaspoon butter may be added.
Pour in the 4 cups of sugar, stir
ring. bring to a full rolling boil, and
boil hard 1 minute
Remove from fire, skim, pour
quickly into glasses. Paraffin at once.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Many U. S. pilots have
important roles near bat
tlefronts in China, Egypt
and Syria . . . SEC to
keep *hands off’ ex
tended public utilities.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON.—It is not being
shouted from the housetops, but a
good many of our army aviators
are already in the “shooting” war.
There are the pilots recently sent as
“observers” to China, and a much
larger number "observing” in Brit
ain. It may be denied that they
functioned as did the newspaper
man who got in so bad in the first
World war by shooting a gun from
a German trench, but if anyone
thinks they are not doing a bit of
shooting as well as piloting that per
son could be classed as gullible.
One of the things now being urged
inside the administration is that
we provide a “larger” number of
military pilots to fly planes across
Africa. Note that word “larger.”
It is the word used by officials in
explaining what they want done. In
other words, some military pilots of
the U. S. forces are already in this
work.
The planes are destined for Egypt
and Syria—primarily for the de
fense of the Suez canal. It takes
so long to take them across the Pa
cific and Indian oceans, and up into
the Red sea, that the shorter route
across the Atlantic to Africa is be
ing used. That involves a long flight
from just under the western hump
of Africa northeasterly to Cairo.
Actually the planes fly almost
straight east to the line so long
maintained by the Cape to Cairo air
line, and then follow the estab
lished airline up to Cairo. This
route enables them to take advan
tage of the existing fueling and
other facilities established by this
commercial line long before the war
started.
What is suspected is that a good
many of our aviators who start in
to do this trans-African ferrying job
will wind up shooting at Nazi planes.
BRITISH POSITION SERIOUS
It is frankly admitted that the
British situation in Egypt is very
serious, even with the Russians fight
ing the Nazis. But before Hitler
decided to attack the Reds the Brit
ish position near the Suez was al
most desperate.
President Roosevelt was desper
ately anxious to do everything pos
sible to prevent the Germans tak
ing Egypt. There was no way of
stepping up delivery of planes to
the British by the Pacific-Indian
ocean and Red sea route, so this
plan of ferrying them across Africa
was set in motion. The use of mili
tary pilots was the next step.
All of the sentiment in adminis
tration circles in Washington is to
speed up help rather than slow
down as a result of the war in Rus
sia. Conviction here is that the
present situation offers an oppor
tunity which may not come again
for years, and successfully taking
advantage of it may spell the dif
ference between a two or three-year
war and a nine or ten-year war.
There is no longer any hope of
starving the Germans out. As a
matter of fact there never was
much basis for any such hope. The
Germans were not starved out in
the last war. Confidential investi
gators for Herbert Hoover reported
that just before the end of the last
war, in 1918, the Germans had
enough food, and were not facing
any famine. Their diet was not
what the average German wanted,
of course. It was a hardship, in
that sense, but there was no danger
of anyone starving, much less the
army and navy.
What beat the Germans in the last
war was the failure of the kaiser's
promise to the German people
that he would win the war before
American troops could get to Eu
rope. When the Germans found out
American troops were fighting in
the front lines they knew that
promise was pie crust.
...
Power Shortage
Brings New Policy
In many of the cases where, to
relieve the electric power shortage
in certain communities, connecting
links with nearby systems are being
and will be ordered, the government
is promising that there will be no
advantage taken of the privately
owned utilities in question as a re
sult.
This means that in some of the
cases a specific assurance is given
I companies now operating exclusive
ly within the boundaries of one state
that the new connecting link will not
be seized upon by the Securities
and Exchange commission and the
Federal Power commission to bring
that company within their jurisdic
tion.
Up to the time of the SEC and
the death sentence public utility
holding company act there had been
a general movement on the part of
the power companies to tie in with
each other, so that in the case of
sudden failure in one spot, or sud
den and unexpected demand in an
! other, there would be an adequate
; supply of power.
Weather, and
Its Relation
To Behavior
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
j (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
SO DEFINITE is the
knowledge that wet weath
er or an impending storm
aggravate the symptoms of
rheumatism r————
that we fail to TODAY’S
see the humor urAi tu
in the story of HEBLIH
the salesman COLUMN
who tried to
sell a customer a barometer.
The salesman pointed out
that the barometer would tell
when the weather was going
to change. To which the cus
tomer replied, “Why would I
need a barometer? What do
you think the good Lord gave
us rheumatism for?”
In wards of hospitals containing
patients with rheumatism there are
Dr. Barton
always more com
plaining when a
storm or unset
tled weather
approaches. A
ward that is quiet
one day may have
two or three nurses
“on the jump” the
next, due entirely to
the weather.
That the weather
greatly affects nerv
ous individuals and
those whose family
history shows evidences of strange
or unusual behavior has now been
shown. At the last meeting of the
Section on Nervous and Mental Dis
eases of the American Medical As
sociation, Doctors William F. Peter
sen, Chicago, and Hans H. Reese,
Madison, Wis., stated that the psy
chotic (strange behavior) patient
lives in an atmosphere and that at
mosphere in this region of the world
varies tremendously from day to
day. While every healthy normal in
dividual is affected by weather
changes, these nervous or psychotic
individuals are more affected, due
to the fact that they have not the
nervous “balance” of those who are
normal.
When Certain Types Are Affected.
The individual of normal build—
not stocky nor slender—is not much
affected by the weather. Also, the
stocky individual when he is young
Is not much affected. On the other
hand, in the slender individual there
are periods of elation and depres
sion.
When the blood becomes less al
kaline (nearer an acid condition)
the thin nervous individual, with the
blood and tissues less alkaline, be
comes blue, depressed and irritable.
m m m
Removing Warts
On Soles of Feet
WHEN we see an individual
walking carefully, perhaps
with one foot turned slightly out
wards or inwards, or a slight limp
is noticeable, it is due, in many
cases, not to arthritis or to a fallen
arch, but to one or more tiny warts
buried deep in some callous. It is
only when cutting down on the cal
lous that small reddish or brown
ish black dots may be seen. These
dots are really tiny blood vessels.
For the past few years, radium
and X-rays has been considered the
best method of treatment. How
ever, Drs. J. H. Marks and C. C.
Franseen, Boston, in New England
Journal of Medicine, state that while
this is the best method of removal,
there are some cases in which the
after effects of this treatment are
more or less serious. In a series
of 15 cases treated by X-rays, 10
showed a complete cure, one re
quired removal of toe by surgery,
one still had a remnant of the wart
and three failed to obtain a cure
but were later cured by electricity.
Of six patients treated by X-rays
after failure by use of radium, only
two obtained satisfactory results,
one had to have toe removed and
three required surgical treatment
to obtain results.
“If a single radiation treatment
fails to cure the method should be
discontinued,” they report. Electro
dessication, when properly carried
out, gives excellent results. The
absence of late after effects and the
certainty of sure removal of the
wart if done under a local anes
thetic, easily make up for the slight
immediate discomfort. In all cases
in which radium has failed, electro
dessication has succeeded in remov
ing the wart.”
The lesson, then, is that treatment
by use of electricity under a local
anesthetic is method of choice when
radium and X-rays have failed.
• • •
QUESTION BOX
Q —What causes my nose to swell
and get red?
A.—If your nose only swells, bet
ter see a nose specialist. If nose and
eyes swell, may be due to some
food you are eating.
Q.—What is brewer's yeast?
A.—You can get brewer’s yeast
in its natural form or in tablets.
It is not a trade name. Your drug
gist can supply you with brewer’s
yeast tablets made by various drug
companies.
A PET summer fashion for miss
** two to six. A simple frock
which she can learn to put on and
take off by herself; it has straps
which button on the shoulder. The
little bolero has ruffled cap sleeves.
The ensemble has panties to
match as well as a becoming bon
net which buttons in shape. It
opens out flat for ironing.
• * *
Pattern No. 8970 Is designed in uneven
sizes for 2 to 6 years. Size 3 dress and
bolero requires 2'/« yards 35-inch ma
terial. Panties. % yard and bonnet
yard. Send your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
Room 1324
311 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
Pattern No.Size.
Name..
Address.
Circumnavigation as Done
By Young IS aval Officer
A young naval officer whose
marks in navigation had not been
all that might have been desired,
was set to “shooting the sun" to
determine the ship’s position. The
vessel was somewhere west of
Penzance. After a while th®
junior delivered the result of hi*
calculations.
Shortly afterwards, the captain
sent for him. “Young man,” he
said, seriously, “remove your cap.
We are now on a hallowed spot.”
“Beg your pardon, sir?” “Yes,
sir,” said the captain. “If you
have calculated accurately, we are
now right smack in the middle of
Westminster Abbey.”
Hope for Tomorrow
Hope ever tells us that tomor
row will be a better day.
Daily Beard
The average man’s cheek, chin
and upper lip produce a crop of
some 12,500 beard bristles, each
of which grows about half a milli
meter every 24 hours. Thirty feet
of beard is thus the average man’*
total production in a day.
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THE SEVENTH INNING [
STRETCH i
is 4 good American custom ^
whose origin is tost in baseball's Z
lore. How it began is so obscure *
it stumps even the experts.
SMOKING MILD, FRAGRANT
King Edwards is another good American
custom you're bound to enjoy. Choice
tobaccos skillfully blended make King
Edward the world's largest teller.
^ At^HE PUBLIC nature of advertising bene
X fits everyone it touches. It benefits the
public by describing exactly the products that are offered. It
benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair
and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public.
These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious
benefits which advertising confers—the lower prices, the higher
quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms.