WHO’S
NEWS
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features— WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.-When Parks John
son and Wally Butterworth
brought their pioneer quiz broad
cast to New York city back in 1934.
it took them
Quizxera Enriched just about
In Plumbing the eight weeks
Minda of Demon ot 4lll««t
quizzing to
get an answer to the question,
“Where is Singapore?”
The other day the ninth anni
versary of their Vox Pop pro
gram, the first outbreak of the
growing quiz craze, now ramp
ant on all networks, was cele
brated. In an age of deepen
ing uncertainty, people find
great felicity if they happen to
know how many toothpicks
there are in a cord of birchwood
—and sustenance for an ailing
ego. Messrs. Johnson and But
terworth rash In in a big way.
Parks Johnson is the son qf a
Methodist minister. He had been a
captain in the World war, a news
paper reporter, a cotton broker, and
in 1932 was running a one-man ad
vertising agency in Houston, Texas.
A client wanted a radio idea. Mr.
Johnson quizzed himself at length
and got the right answer.
He set up a microphone in the
lobby of a Houston theater and be
gan his quiz. At first he had to
hand out one-dollar bills to lure par
ticipants, but the “mike-fright” soon
passed and Vox Pop quickly be
came a successful program.
Mr. Butterworth, former pho
nograph salesman, radio singer
and announcer, came in later.
Soon after they were estab
lished In New York their pro
gram was on a big network. In
1940, they carried their micro
phone more than 50,000 miles
around the country, and to date,
have asked about 300,000 ques
tions.
Newspapers were ahead of radio,
however, in getting at the question
and-answer mother lode of interest
In their own field. It was in 1920,
that Miriam Tichenor, a reporter
on the New York Daily Mail, sug
gested to George T. Hughes, the
city editor, the daily questioning of
five or six citizens at random. Mr.
Hughes started the feature and
slugged it “The Inquiring Report
er.” Under this and other titles it
still carries on in many news
papers. This, however, is an opin
ion, rather than an information in
quiry.
ANEW YORK doctor, a friend
of this writer, says physicians
who have made a life-long study of
diet, nutrition and mass condition
. ing are won
Eminent Athleteu dering why
Toughen U»;Why? physical
Specialiata A.k *°r
r defense is
being organized by athletes. Instead
of specialists in physical fitness.
Without disparagement to any of the
persons mentioned, he cited Gene
Tunney, Alice Marble and John B.
Kelly, the last an undefeated oars
man, as examples in which eminence
in athletics is substituted for precise
knowledge of how to “toughen-up"
America.
The discussion had to do with
Mr. Kelly’s current prescription
of a “courage diet” for the na
tion, in which he says he has
listed calory and vitamin com
binations which will enable us
to lick our weight in wildcats.
Mr. Kelly, a former bricklayer
and contractor, is chairman of the
Philadelphia Democratic commit
tee, and last August became direc
tor of physical training for national
defense. He was formerly a Re
publican, and is veteran of much
fast and intricate milling in both
parties.
The tall and athletic “Hand
some Jack” Kelly, as he Is
called, quit the Philadelphia
public schools at the age of 16
and got a job in a brickyard.
He was an ambulance driver
in the World war, came back
with a capital of (40 and opened
his own brickyard. Twelve
years later, at the age of 31, be
was the Olympic single sculls
champion, winning for America
at Amsterdam. In 1926, he re
tired from rowing as the unde
feated champion oarsman of
the world. At the age of 52,
he still rows five miles every
morning.
fcIn September, 1940. President
Roosevelt saw an article “hand
some Jack” had written for a phys
ical culture magazine and sum
moned him to lead the national
“physical preparedness” endeavor.
He now officially and formally
heads this department and is work
ing up plans for national mass calis
thenics.
He is one of four eminent broth
ers. George, a playwright; Walter,
the famous “Virginia Judge" of the
stage; Patrick H., deceased in 1937,
who was the builder of the Free
Public library in Philadelphia.
--Jly*u* -~
Chicken a la King for Fifty
(See Recipes Below.)
Church Supper Ideas
What is so gay as a grand, big
get-together full of informal fun, the
hum of pleasant conversation and
plenty of good food thrown into the
bargain? A church supper, of
course!
The fun will take care of itself
and the food—well, almost if you get
the right amount
of it, for the cook
ing’s as simple
as only simple
can be. Chicken’s
\ a treat any way
' you serve it, but
I very easy to pre
* pare and serve if
you do it this time-tried, old-fash
ioned, favorite way ladled out of a
big kettle with plenty of cream sauce
onto feathery light hot biscuits:
•Chicken or Turkey a la King.
(Serves 50)
( 4-pound chickens, stewed, then
cut meat into pieces
Or
1 18-pound turkey, stewed or
roasted, meat diced
1 pound fat (chicken or turkey
fat and butter mixed)
4 cups flour
2 gallons scalded milk
1 pound fresh mushrooms or 2
large cans
2 tablespoons minced onion
m teaspoons or more salt
% teaspoon white pepper
1% teaspoons paprika
2 sweet green peppers, chopped
(optional)
2 pimientos, chopped (optional)
Vi cup egg yolks (6 eggs)
Melt about three-fourths of the fat,
add the flour, and blend thoroughly;
add scalded milk, stirring rapidly
with a wire whisk to keep well
mixed. Cook until starch taste is
gone—about 10 minutes. Cook the
mushrooms, sliced, in remaining fat,
until delicately browned and add to
sauce with the onion. Beat egg yolks
and mix with a small amount of the
hot mixture to blend and add to the
sauce, stirring thoroughly. Cook 4
or 5 minutes more. Add turkey
meat. Season to taste (with paprika
and pepper mixed into salt). Add
peppers and pimiento, if used. Serve
on hot biscuits.
The simplest way to prepare the
chickens is to cook them in sea
soned water, to
which a small on
ion, 2 carrots and
a email bunch of
celery are added.
Chickens are han
dled best if dis
jointed and the
breast and back
sections cut into
convenient-sized pieces.
Baking Powder Biscuits.
(Serves 50)
4 pounds flour
% cup double-acting baking
powder
2 tablespoons salt
1 pound shortening (2^4 cups)
5 cups milk
Sift the dry ingredients together,
add fat and mix lightly. Make a
well in the center and add the milk.
LYNN SAYS:
Attractive salads pep up meals
besides adding nourishment plus
to menus. Salads in winter are a
little hard to plan because of the
scarcity of fresh fruits and vege
tables, so I suggest you try these
for solving your salad problem:
Prunes stuffed with cream
cheese and nuts, served with or
ange sections and lettuce.
Cooked beets and cooked car
rots diced with celery, mixed
with mayonnaise.
Orange sections served with
tiny cream cheese balls. Mari
nate oranges in french dressing
first.
Canned pineapple and fresh or
anges served in alternate sections
on lettuce. Alternating orange
and grapefruit sections are a food
idea, too.
Chunks of lettuce with crum
bkd hard-cooked egg and a few
leftover peas, tossed together with
j salad oil, salt, pepper, vinegar
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THIS WEEK’S MENU
—
•Chicken a la King
•Scalloped Potatoes
•Sunset Salad
Bread and Butter
Assorted Cakes
•Coffee
•Recipe given
Mix Just until the dough holds to
gether. Divide dough into fourths
and make V* at a time. Roll on a
floured board, pat to % inch thick
ness, cut and place on baking sheet.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a hot (450
degree) oven until golden brown.
♦Scalloped Potatoes.
(Serves 50)
10 pounds (6 quarts) sliced potatoes
2 quarts hot milk
cup flour
1V4 cups butter
3 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon pepper
Peel potatoes before weighing. Be
fore measuring, peel and slice. If
large, cut in two lengthwise before
slicing. Into six baking dishes put
a layer of potato, then a slight layer
of flour, and repeat until all potatoes
are used. Dissolve salt, pepper and
butter in hot milk. Pour over pota
toes, cover and cook in slow oven
for 1% hours or until done.
Best idea for a salad is this one
that’s made in ad
vance and needs
only to be sliced
and placed on
lettuce leaves for
serving. It’s as i
gay and colorful
as the get-togeth
er itself.
•Sunset Salad.
18 ounces lemon gelatin
quarts hot water and canned
pineapple juice
1V4 quarts grated raw carrots
1V4 pints canned crushed pine
apple, drained
2 teaspoons salt
Dissolve gelatin in hot water and
pineapple juice which has been heat
ed to 130 degrees F. Chill. Combine
carrots, pineapple and salt. When
mixture is slightly thickened, fold in
carrot and pineapple mixture. Turn
into individual molds. Chill until
firm. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Gar
nish with mayonnaise and grated
carrots. Makes 32 portions.
Just in case you want to make up
a church supper menu of your own,
I’m listing additional recipes:
Meat Loaf.
10 pounds ground round steak
2 pounds ground pork or salt pork
4 eggs
pound bread crumbs
2 onions
2 tablespoons salt
2 teaspoons pepper
1 quart cold mashed potatoes
1 quart milk or canned tomatoes
Mix thoroughly, mold into five
loaves, and bake in a moderate oven
350 degrees F., until done. Makes
50 servings.
*»oilcd Coffee.
(Serves 50)
lV* pounds coffee (6Vi cups)
2Vi gallons water
2 eggs
Mix shells, whole eggs and 1 addi
tional cup of cold water with coffee.
When the water comes to a boil,
add the coffee egg mixture which
has been tied in a bag, to the boil
ing water, and boil for 3 to 5 min
utes. Test for strength. When ready,
remove bag, let coffee stand 10 to 15
minutes before serving.
The wife of one of our famous
football coaches, Mrs Lou Little,
likes to serve a simple but hearty
meal after the game. Jot this one
down as an idea for an after the
game supper or church supper idea:
Hot mulled cider, casserole of pork
and beans, buttered hot date-nut
bread, celery, pickles, and chili
sauce; jellied cole slaw; doughnuts
and coffee.
For the casserole, used canned
pork and beans with tomato sauce;
heat in the oven about 20 minutes.
\s a decoration use half slices of
date-nut bread. Put them around the
top of the beans for 5 minutes be
fore the casserole comes out from
the oven.
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NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Rtvitwtd by
CARTER FIELD
Japan’s Problem of
*Saving Face at Home
and Keeping Out of
Trouble With U.S. ...
Censorship and Reuben
James Incident Dis
cussed.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON. — Some careful
students of the Far Eastern situa
tion are convinced that the real rul
ers of Japan have decided to pro
voke a war with the United States,
although they—the rulers of Japan
—are confident that such a war
would result in a Japanese defeat.
This extraordinary view becomes
easier to understand when it is
explained, though there is no
thought here of trying to convince
anybody that it is an accurate pic
ture of the thinking of the men who
are deciding things in Tokyo. No
one in Washington pretends really
to know about that. We can only
speculate on the facts in hand.
But here is the theory: First we
must give the proper weight to the
Far Eastern notion about face
saving. Also that it is better to die
gloriously than to live ignominious
ly. With that as the premise of the
calculation, we then proceed to the
present situation, which is that
Japan has been failing badly in
China, though she had a tremendous
success in aggression in indo-China.
The latter is highly important in
the long-range view, and in econom
ics when the world war is over.
But it was not a triumph out of
which the army and navy could take
any satisfaction. It was achieved
simply and solely because Germany
ordered France to let the Japanese
have what they wanted.
Then, having obtained through
her ties with Berlin in Indo-China
what she had failed utterly to ob
tain by her own arms in China prop
er, and with a gateway opened to
Singapore and the Far Eastern is
lands of Holland which Japan has
so long coveted, Nippon finds the
way blocked by what amounts to a
threat of war from the United
States.
Japanese Strategy
Japan has been waiting and hop
ing for two things—first that Russia
would crumble under the Nazi
blows, and be able to offer no re
sisfance to Japanese aggression in
the maritime provinces of eastern
Siberia; and second, that the United
States would become so involved in
the Atlantic that Japan could risk
aggression to the South. Complete
defeat of Russia would also mean
that Britain would again have to
face the fight of her life, in North
Africa, in the region to the north
of Iran, and possibly on her own
soil.
She is still waiting, but there is
no assurance that Russia will not
be able to resist on her Pacific
coast no matter what happens in
Europe. (Japan probably made her
recent border attack to feel out
that situation.) And there is every
indication that Uncle Sam would get
very busy if Japan goes after what
she really wants.
So—stretched to the breaking
point by her efforts up to now—and
unable to satisfy any of the ele
ments of her population by her
achievements, the rulers may de
cide to gamble. There is 1 chance
in 10, or 20—however they figure
it—that the United States navy
could be defeated and the Philip
pines overrun. That would make
Singapore and the Dutch East Indies
easy picking, assuming the Jap fleet
were still strong and the British still
busy elsewhere.
But if the Jap fleet were crushed,
if bombers ravaged Japanese in
flammable cities and blew up her
oil supply (all of which is above
ground since the 1923 earthquake),
then Japan would be able to quit
with honor! She could depend on
the United States to make fair
terms of peace. And nobody would
lose face!
Reuben James Incident
And Censorship
Censorship is generally exasperat
ingly stupid. It is the stupidity,
far more than that natural desire
of any government to cover up its
blunders from an inquiring press,
which causes newspaper men to
worry about it.
So it will seem strange that the
writer should advocate more drastic
censorship than we are having, so
far as one particular kind of news
is concerned.
But—why was the sinking of the
Reuben James announced when it
was? Why could not the news of
that sinking have been delayed until
a complete list of the saved could
have been announced along with it?
The moment the sinking was an
nounced the mothers, fathers,
sweethearts and friends of the boys
on board the ill-fated destroyer re
ceived a blow that would be difficult
to exaggerate. Then came the
word, some six or seven hours later,
that 44 enlisted men had been res
cued. Accompanying this was the
assurance that this did not mean
hope should be abandoned for the
other enlisted men, nor for the of
ficers.
RABBIT FEVER COMES
DURING ‘OPEN SEASON’
The open season for cottontails is
Just beginning and therefore it
seems advisable to describe in some
detail the rabbit
fever disease to
which man is most
susceptible. First
of all, I want to
stress the. fact that
it is most common
ly contracted by
those who handle
diseased rabbits
_ _ shot for market or
- . food. While few
have died of this
disease, three out of four cases in
one family all of whom had what is
known as "conjuncitval’’ type died
inside of eight days. Therefore,
when you skin and dress cottontails
even though you shot them your
self, be sure that the rabbits are
healthy for the sick ones are easier
to hit than are those that are well.
Deer fly or rabbit fever (Tulare
mia) is an infectious disease caused
by the bacterium tularense which in
1912 was found to be the cause of a
fatal epidemic among the ground
DOTH RATES Per 1,000 Population I
(1935 RECORDS)
UNITED STATES
10 9
AUSTRALIA
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CHILE
2S0
ENGLAND 1
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FRANCE |
157
GERMANY |
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squirrels in Tulare county, Califor
nia. The disease is also epidemic
among the cottontail, jack and snow
shoe rabbits which constitute the
great reservoir of the infection. High
susceptibility is also found in man,
in monkeys, guinea pigs, mice, wood
chucks, opossums and coyotes.
Study of 121 Cases.
While man may acquire the dis
ease from the bite of the deer fly
which has bitten a rabbit or other
rodent that has the disease, he does
not acquire it from the rabbit tick
that carries it from animal to ani
mal in nature as that tick does not
bite human beings. Most human
cases are, however, acquired by
those who skin or dress diseased
rabbits. As a result, most of the
human infections occur during the
“open season” for wild cottontail
rabbits, the months of November,
December and January. A study of
121 case histories shows that 58 were
in people who would clean and dress
or cook the rabbits; 32 in farmers,
ranchers and sheepherders and their
help; 18 in laboratory workers who
were studying the organism; and
only 13 in all other occupations. Hu
man cases due to manipulating dis
eased jack rabbits have occurred
from April through September.
Those due to the bite of a tick that
infests man and rabbits occur in
March, April, May and June and
those due to the bite of the deer fly
in June, July and August
There is an incubation period of
about three days in most cases fol
lowed by a sudden onset, often while
the person is at work, of headache,
vomiting, chills, aching bodily pains,
sweating, prostration and fever.
During the active stage of the dis
ease which may last from two to
three weeks, weakness, loss of
weight, recurring chills, sweats and
prostration are common. In the type
with conjunctivitis there may be
convulsions, delirium and stupor but
fortunately no permanent impair
ment of vision has been reported.
In the typhoidal type, fever is the
only symptom and its course is very
similar to that of typhoid fever from
which ft can only be differentiated
by laboratory tests. Convalescence
is slow. Most people who have the
disease are unable to return to full
time work for about three months
and a few have been at least par
tially incapacitated for from six
months to a year yet few have died
because of it.
“In whatever diseases the
eyes weep voluntarily. it
is a good symptom. but
when involuntarily, it is a
bad."
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QUESTION BOX
Send questions to Dr. Nathan S. Davis III.
Winnetka, 111. (Enclose a self-addressed,
stamped envelope !
Q.—What causes recurrent cases
of hiccoughs? L. M. A.
A.—Irritation of the diaphragm,
gall bladder disease, pleurisy, stom
ach trouble, emotional disturbances,
and various toxins or poisons.
Q._My fingernails are brittle and
scale, but my teeth are in perfect
condition. Can you explain this?
1 E. A.
A.—Nail polish often causes the
| nails to become brittle.
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HINTS
When packing dresses for trav
eling lay tissue paper twice the
length of dress on table, place
dress on this and cover with tissue
paper. Fold, pack last in suitcase
and dresses will not wrinkle.
* * *
Tarnished rhinestone pins and
buckles will look like new if set
in gasoline (keep away from fire)
for about 15 minutes, then polish
with a flannel cloth.
* ♦ •
Fasten snaps on clothing before
putting through wringer and they
will come out in good condition.
• * *
To prevent nut kernels from be
coming rancid, they should be kept
in airtight containers in a cool, dry
place.
• • *
Wash clothes and hair brushes
in alum water occasionally to
keep them in good condition.
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There is no history worthy of
attention save that of free nations;
the history of nations under the
sway of despotism is no more than
a collection of anecdotes.—Cham
fort.
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