WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
I- I
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Feature*—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK-There’s a nice al
literation in “Cape Town Clip
per," and an invitation to rhyming
which in other days might have in
terested Tin
Clipper’s Skipper: Pan Alley.
He’s a Topper; The tall,
Job’, o Whopper!
Capt. Harold E. Gray, who brings
the ship back from the Belgian Con
go on a round trip of 19.961 miles,
is smart and good looking and could
walk on in a Jerome Kern musical,
commemorating his exploit, but it
is a safe bet that he never will.
Just a glance at his work sheet for
the last 15 years shows that he had
to keep his mind on his work to at-:
tain this eminence.
There may never be a Casey
Jones of the air, the bucko lad
who will ride anything, any
where, on the slightest provoca
tion. Just a look at the dash
board of a modern plane is
enough to convince one of that.
Even the Lindbergh saga might
have been different if it had
been paced to differential equa
tions. But, of course, there will
be another Kipling with another
"Night Mail," who will find in
modern air transport an exalt
ed theme—this time fully real
ised. Just now there seems to be
no master or journeyman of
poetry or prose who is quite up
to It.
As to being a Clipper skipper, any
lad who starts to day-dream his
way into the job had better make
other arrangements. Here are a
few but not all of the qualifications
of 35-year-old Captain Gray:
He Is t master mariner, a
licensed engine mechanic, a li
censed airplane mechanic, a
graduate radio engineer, a li
censed radio operator, a first
class seaman and the holder of
certificates In International law,
maritime law and business ad
ministration. That’s about par
for the course on the ocean fair
ways for the men who command
the big flying ships.
Mr. Gray was born in Gutten
berg, Iowa, in 1900 and left the Uni
versity of Iowa to take flight train
ing at Brooks field in the army
school. He later went to the Univer
sity of Detroit and took a degree in
aeronautical engineering. He flew
first for the Ford Motor company,
and then joined the Pan-American
Airways for flights to the Canal
Zone. In 1931 he took up studies
for his master pilot rating and be
came one of the youngest men to
attain the highest flying rank of
“master of ocean flying boats.”
THIS department never has been
able to get It quite straight, as
to women owning 70 per cent of the
wealth of the country, and wield
ing propor
Women Out to Get tionate influ- j
A Play for Their «nce in pub
70% of Wealth »« ■«•*«.
Some per
sons informed in finance in politics
say they do and some say they
don’t. Miss Cathrine Curtis, the
tall, Junoesque lady who organized
women investors in America, a few
years back, not only insists that
women do have all this money and
say-so, but makes it a business to
see that they get a play for it—a
big new feminine pressure group if
you want to put it that way.
At Washington, Miss Curtis
leads her embattled 70 per cent
—if that’s what it is—into a fight
against price control legislation.
Her battle is one of many, on
various public issues, which she
has centered at Washington.
In her home town, Glen Falls,
N. Y., where her father ran a hotel,
the 18-year-old Miss Curtis saw Gus
Thomas' play, ''Arizona.’’ She fol
lowed it around the up-state circuit
and became so saturated with its
romantic glamour that she kept
right on going—to Arizona. There
Harold Bell Wright saw her and put
her in his moving picture, “Shep
herd of the Hills.” This was her
start in various moving picture and
ranching enterprises. It was in 1935
that, in New York, her present
home, she organized the women in
vestors. It appears that nobody ever
has figured out how much of that 70
per cent is merely something in the
wife’s name for safe-keeping.
IN 1840, the principality of Sara
* wak, in Borneo, was a safe re
treat where one might hide out and
let the world go by. James Brooke
of England, and his descendants
found it so, for 101 years, ruling
500,000 persons. There’s an end of
that, with Lieut. Gen. A. E. Perci
val, flying from Singapore to Sara
wak, 400 miles, to inspect and en
large defense operations on the Bor
neo northwest coast. Sir Charles
Vyner Brooke, white rajah, co-oper
ates. Sarawak is important in em
pire survival, as an air base.
Let a Star-Studded Ham Say Merry Christmas!
(See Recipes Below)
Deck the Table
Greetings, homemakers!
Here's my Christmas present to
you, a menu with recipes designed
to ring in the holiday season and to
crown your table with luscious food.
Just wonderful to eat. The menu is
worked out in the best colors of the
season.
THIS WEEK’S MENU
Christinas Dinner
•Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad
•Sweet French Dressing
•Baked Ham ‘Holiday Sauce
•Virginia Cranberry Mold
•Sweet Potato Pone
•Green Peas With Beets
Crescent Rolls
Celery Olives Jelly
Plum Pudding with Sauce Coffee
•Recipes Given
There's a touch of the traditional
in the menu in the baked ham and
sweet potato pone topped off with
the plum pudding, and then there's
a dash of newness in the cranberry
mold, the salad and its perky dress
ing and the holiday sauce.
Whether you’re welcoming your
sons from camp,
your daughters
from college,
make this their
gala feast, for f
Christmas din* (
ners are some
thing to cherish
and remember.
•Grapefruit-Persimmon Salad.
Be versatile with your grapefruit.
Peel, separate into sections, then
slip the thin peeling off the sections
being careful to leave the section
whole. Alternate the sections of
grapefruit wth thin slices of persim
mon, having the outside sections on
top so the fruit together gives the
appearance of a mound. Use three
sections of grapefruit per serving.
Lay this on a crisp bed of lettuce
and serve with dressing. Avocado
and pink grapefruit sections may
also be used in this way.
•Sweet French Dressing.
(For fruit salads)
8 tablespoons oil
3% tablespoons powdered sugar
ft teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons paprika
V4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
4 tablespoons lemon juice
Set all ingredients in icebox for
three hours before mixing. Com
bine in order given, blending thor
oughly. Chill again in mason jar.
Before using, let melt, then beat
until thick with wooden spoon.
•Virginia Cranberry Mold.
You’ll want something tantalizing
ly tart as foil to the bland sweetness
of the ham. Here it is:
1 17-ounce can cranberry sauce
Juice of two oranges
Grated rind of 1 orange
1 cup hot water
3 packages gelatin
Mash cranberry sauce fine; add
rind and orange Juice. Dissolve gel
atin in hot water and add to first
mixture. Pour into molds and put
in cool place to set
•Sweet Potato Pone.
(Serves 6 to 8)
Delicately spiced, heart-warming
and gracious accompaniment to
your dinner is
this sweet potato
pone. Satisfy your
desire for sweet
potatoes with
ham this new-old
way. It’s like
- grandmother used
j to make, homey,
ij tasty, just won
^ derful food!
2Vi cups grated raw sweet potato
Vi cup butter
Vi cup sugar
Vi cup milk
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
y« teaspoon mace
Grated rind of 1 orange
Blend sugar and butter. Add
sweet potato and milk. Beat well,
then add spices and orange rind.
Bake in a shallow, buttered casse
role in a moderate (350 degrees) ov
en, 30 to 35 minutes.
* Baked Ham.
You can depend upon your holiday
dinner to go over if you serve a
ham, glistening
and shimmering. «
baked in sweet. •
spicy Juices. Wrap ~
the ham in clean
wrapping paper.
Place fat side up /
on a rack in anl
open pan. Use no \
water. Bake in a
slow oven. Hams
weighing 16 to 18 pounds require
4 to 444 hours baking; 12 to 15
pounds, 344 to 4 hours; 10 to 12
pounds. 3 to 344 hours; and 8 to 10
pounds, 244 to 3 hours.
Remove paper and all rind. Cov
er with a glaze of pickled peach
juice or 1 cup honey and 44 cup or
ange marmalade, or 1 cup pureed
apricots for extra special goodness.
To make stars, cut slices of pineap
ple and form into a star. Use a
maraschino cherry in center. Bake
until brown (about 15 minutes) in
a hot (400 degrees) oven.
•Holiday Sauce.
For your masterpiece, the ham,
serve a sauce that’s rich and jewel
red. Ladle it over the ham gener
ously to bring out the best in the
meat. Like all good things, the sauce
is a simple, good-tasting combina
tion. Melt 1 small glass of currant
jelly in double boiler, add 3 table
spoons chili sauce, blend, and serve
hot
•Green Peas With Beets.
Bright red and green touch in the
best tradition of Christmas is your
beet and green peas vegetable com
bination. Boil the beets with two
Inches of their tops left on until ten
der, 25 to 35 minutes depending on
age and size. Plunge into cold wa
ter and remove skins. Scoop out
center, add salt and butter. Just
before serving, heat beets, fill cen
ters with cooked, seasoned green
peas, heated piping hot.
Don’t forget the big, overflowing
bowls of fruits and nuts for the
family to nibble on during Christmas
day. Cluster raisins, apples, yellow,
supple bananas, and nuts in the
shell—all these the family will want
to make their festivities complete.
The children will give you three
cheers if you string red cranberries
and popcorn on a string and hang
on the tree or in their stockings.
Steaming the Pudding.
Plum puddings are best when
served piping hot. This means they
should be steamed for at least l%-2
hours before serving. If the pudding
is in a mold cover with a lid or with
heavy waxed paper. Place on a rack
in a large kettle. Have about 2 inches
of water in the bottom of the kettle,
and have this water boiling all the
while. More water may be added if
necessary. A double boiler or a
pressure cooker may also be used
to good advantage for steaming.
To serve, unmold the pudding and
garnish the platter with holly or
other leaves and bright berries.
LYNN SAYS:
Few holidays can offer you the
same decorative possibilities as
Christmas season, so make the
most of the evergreens, berries,
cones, candles, ornaments, and
rich colors.
Here are some centerpiece
ideas which would be effective:
Use a green wreath on a mir
ror and fill with evergreen
branches dipped or sprayed with
white paint and place brightly
colored ornaments or fruits
among the branches.
Surround candles with pine
branches and cones and have sev
eral small silver bells around the
base of the centerpiece as though
they came out of the branches.
Make a gingerbread house, frost
with a thin powdered sugar icing
and sprinkle with silver snow.
Set this on a mirror or surround
with spruce or pine tranches and
cones.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
‘Peace on Earth . .
•‘DEACE on earth, good will to
* men!”
There seems to be precious little
of either on this Christinas day. Yet
that’s not so unusual. Glance
through the pages of American his
tory and you’ll And plenty of ex
amples of Christmas days given
over to war. instead of peace, and
to ill will, instead of good will.
It has been true since this repub
lic was founded. The first Christ
mas after the signing of the Decla
ration of Independence saw George
Washington and his Continentals
struggling to keep alive the fight for
liberty. On the evening of Decem
ber 25 he crossed the Delaware, at
tacked Trenton and spoiled the
Christmas celebration of Colonel
Hall and his force of 1,000 Hessians,
killing 22, wounding 84 and captur
ing 868. The American casualty
list was only four wounded.
But if Christmas, 1776, was bright
with victory, Christmas, 1777 was
correspondingly dark with despair.
For it was spent at Valley Forge
and that fact speaks for itself.
Christmas, 1786, was scarcely a
time of good will among the men
of the new nation, especially in
western Massachusetts where armed
men were marching over the hills
and through the valleys, ready to
plunge their state into the horrors
of a civil war. For on that Christ
mas day the incident, which has
come down in history as "Shays’
Rebellion,” was Counting to a cli
max because a people, driven to
DANIEL SHAYS
despair by poverty, high taxes and a
loss of faith in their government,
had resorted to armed force to right
their wrongs.
Their leader was Daniel Shays,
who had served with distinction
for five years in the Continental
army and came out of the Revolu
tion a captain. But the “Patriot”
of 1776 became a "rebel” in 1786,
was driven out of his native state
when the governor of Massachusetts
called out the militia to suppress
the "rebellion” and died a poverty
stricken exile in 1825.
In 1836 the Texans won their in
dependence from Mexico and for
a time there was peace between the
two countries. Then the Mexicans
began making raids on Texan terri
tory and the Texans, under Gen.
Thomas Jefferson Green, deter
mined to retaliate. Over the pro
test of Sam Houston, an army of
304 men invaded Mexico. On Christ
mas day, 1842, they met a force of
more than 2,000 Mexicans under
General Ampudia at Mier and after
killing nearly half of the enemy
were induced by false promises to
surrender. Thus the famous ‘Mier
expedition” ended in disaster, for
later, by order of Gen. Santa Anna,
every tenth Texan was executed.
Four years later the Americans
and Mexicans were at war again—
this time a formally declared war—
and on December 25, 1846, Col.
Alexander Doniphan of the First
Regiment of Missouri Mounted Vol
unteers was fighting a battle with
1,200 Mexicans at Bracito river
The Mexican loss was 63 killed and
150 wounded; the American, seven
wounded.
December 25, 1800, was a fateful
Christmas in American history. On
that night a little force of soldiers,
commanded by Maj. Robert Ander
son. stole quietly out of Fort Moul
trie and occupied Fort Sumter in
the middle of the entrance to the
harbor of Charleston, S. C. Four
months later the commander of the
Confederate forces in Charleston
called upon him to surrender; he
refused and when a shell went
screaming across the waters to
strike Sumter's brick walls it set
2,000,000 Americans against each
other in the greatest civil war in
history.
Happily, not all Christmas days
in American history have been dedi
cated to war. On Christmas Eve,
1814, John Quincy Adams, Albert
Gallatin, James Bayard, Jonathan
Russell, and Henry Clay, American
commissioners, met with represen
tatives from Great Britain in the
city of Ghent in Belgium, to try to
end the long-drawn-out negotiatipns
which had kept them there since
the preceding August. Perhaps the
spirit of Christmas filled them. At
any rate the wrangling ceased and
they signed the treaty which ended
the War of 1812.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Interference With Law
Of Supply and Demand
Results in Headaches
. . . Reorganization
Looms for SPAB . . .
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON. — Many theoret
ical gentlemen, who were confident
until just recently, that they knew
all the answers, are finding out that
when government interferes with the
old law of supply and demand the
result is headaches.
Never have better illustrations of
this been manifest than in the "Big
Brother" activities of the govern
ment, aimed at protecting the pub
lic from the dire consequences
which would result from the nation
al defense effort Price control, for
instance, and civilian supply.
To see the picture more clearly
it is necessary to imagine what
would happen if the government
went ahead full steam with its de
fense spending and commandeer
ing, but paid no attention to the ef
fects on ordinary non-defense busi
ness. It is never so simple as for
the government to want all of
something. That would leave no
problem. But when there is some
left over after the national defense
needs have been served—how to
divide that leftover?
Even in some cases where the
government wants practically all
there is difficulty. For instance take
copper. Copper has been used very
liberally in making lipstick contain
ers. After it has been processed for
this use it is of little use for anything
else. Recovering the copper so as to
make it fit for something else would
be too expensive. Not that the
government cares anything about
expense, but the process of getting
the pure copper out of the alloy used
for lipstick containers would re
quire too much labor.
So—there is agreement in the
government that such copper as al
ready has been worked into this al
loy for lipstick containers may be
used for that purpose.
Not So Simple
Simple? By no means. The trou
ble is that the Smith company has
enough such metal on hand, already
worked, and ready to be fabricated
into lipstick containers, to run it un
til say June 1. Whereas the Jones
company, its strongest competitor,
has enough to run it only until Feb
ruary 1. To permit this situation to
exist would give the Smith com
pany an unfair advantage over the
Jones company.
If this produces a headache with
respect to copper, it is a thousand
times worse with respect to steel.
The government has said flatly that
no more copper after January 1
shall be used for non-defense pur
poses—except such copper as is al
ready made unfit for defense use
(economically) as described.
But there is no such drastic deci
sion about steel. As a matter of
fact there will be some steel left
over, despite the pessimistic predic
tions of many New Dealers, even if
defense use of steel exceeds the
present most optimistic forecasts—
not enough steel to go around, of
course, but SOME.
What to do about that SOME!
Under the old law of supply and de
mand; if the government kept its
hands off, it would be simple. The
price of steel would skyrocket. The
buyers willing to pay the highest
prices would get it all. Every user
of steel who could use substitutes
would do ft anyhow, to save money
for his concern. So the surplus
steel (that is, surplus above de
fense needs) would go only into uses
for which it was very necessary.
But that might result in hardship
on the financially less fortunate
consumers. The price of steel in
civilian goods would be boosted out
of all proportion to the real value of
steel.
Trouble? You said it.
* • •
Reorganization
Of 1Super* SPAB?
Don Nelson’s SPAB is likely
to be revamped in the near future.
Just yvhat form the new super-super
body is to take no one knows. All
that is known for certain is that
President Roosevelt is giving all
the usual signs which forerun one of
his big reorganizations to end all
reorganizations.
Nelson is not the technical head
of SPAB That honor goes to Vice
President Henry A. Wallace. Nel
son is not the man on SPAB who
is closest to the President. That dis
tinction without argument belongs
to Harry Hopkins.
But since Wallace is the heir ap
parent to the •’Chief" and in all
probability will be nominated for
President by the Democrats in 1944
unless F.D.R. wants a fourth term
(in which event nothing would help
him anyhow) it would seem that
Wallace’s only motive would be to
have SPAB. and indeed everything
involved in the administration, suc
ceed. Failure of Roosevelt in his
national defense program would be 1
a black eye for Wallace as well as
for Roosevelt. It might easily re
sult in knocking Wallace off the
track he is now riding—a track that
leads straight to the White House.
SEWIN6 CIRCLE
1485-BMi m.
U ERE’S good news for belles
A on-a-budget who yearn for
the smooth smartness of a two
piece frock! Pattern No. 1485-B
offers a streamline version—sleek,
simple to make with a three but
ton cardigan neck topper, a skirt
with a front pleat and a dickey
collar which gives a trim touch
of white in a flattering line next
to the face. This dickey is easily
adjusted—doesn’t need to be even
pinned in place.
We easily can see the advan
tages of a suit of this type. The
jacket emphasizing width at the
shoulders and fitting smoothly
over the hips helps the average
figure achieve youthful slender
ness—the skirt is comfortable to
wear for walking, standing and
sitting. Make it now for yourself
in gabardine, twills, plaids, nov
elty rayons or serge.
* * •
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1485-B Is de
signed for sizes 32, 34, 36. 38, 40, 42, 44
and 46. Size 34 requires 5 yards 35-inch
material; 3 yards 54-inch. Dickey re
quires Ya yard 35-inch material. 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 ...
Pleasing to the eye and the
pocketbook, too, is the specially
designed Christmas-wrapped one
pound tin of George Washington
Smoking Tobacco. Smokers wh«
appreciate quality will be delight
ed with a gift of this great Ameri
can cut plug tobacco, in its color
ful holiday package, with gift card
all ready to be filled in. An ideal
smoker’s gift for the shopper
whose list is long and purse none
too full. Your dealer is featuring
it in his Christmas line.—Adv.
• In NR (Nature’s Remedy) Tablets,
there are no chemicals, no minerals, no
phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are dif
ferent—act different. Purely vegetable—a
combination of 10 vegetable ingredients
formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated
or candy coated, their action is depend
able, thorough, yet gentle, as millions
of NR’s have proved. Get a 251 box
today... or larger economy size.
'7/lowu.
CANDY
COATED
REGULAR!
MR TO-NIGHT; TOMORROW ALRIGHT
Failing of Pessimism
Pessimism leads to weakness;,
optimism leads to power. — Wil
liam James.
TICKLE?
Soothe that throat tickle which cornea from a
cough due to a cold! Quick—get a Smith Bros.
Cough Drop. (Black or Menthol—51.)
Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the
only drops containing VITAMIN A
Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of
mucous membranes of nose and throat to «
k cold infections, when lack of resist* $
f ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. id
Trunkfish
Trunkfishes, of the family Ostra
ciidae, which are found in warm
seas, are shaped like other fish,
but their bodies are encased in a
hard shell, like that of a turtle,
and only the jaws, fins, eyes and
tail are free to move.
\M NOTHING ]u
* HITS THE SPOT %
QUITE LIKE A CAMEL. ,
‘ THEY TASTE SO A
GOOD M
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
28% LESS NICOTINE
than the average of the 4 other
largest-selling cigarettes tested—less than
any of them—according to Independent
scientific tests of the smoke Itself!
_THE CIGARETTE
OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS
