WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
I- I
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
MEW YORK —There was a skinny
i-^ boy over on Coney Island who
in one day spent $100 popping off
ducks and clay pipes on the shoot
ing gallery
$100 Wad Shot conveyor
In Gallery Helps belts. He
Net Garand Ride did"'1
college and
if he had he probably would have
been voted the least likely to suc
ceed.
But, with young people, you
can't be too sure what is monkey
business or what isn't. This boy,
as above, really had his mind
on his work when he was bang
ing away in the shooting gal
lery. He got himself a work
bench and brought through the
Garand rifle, which has in
creased our army small-arm fir
ing power by two-fold, and
which has brought to the 53
year-old John C. Garand spe
cial commendation from Gener
al MacArthur.
Mr. Garand is still a gunsmith at
the Springfield armory, earning
around $5,000 a year. He has had
big commercial offers for his gun,
but has refused them and has wait
ed patiently for the army to make
up its mind, during the years of
controversy and many rigorous
tests.
He is an erect, lean featured,
mop-haired man, with alert, be
spectacled blue eyes which focus
sharply at about the distance of
a gun-sight. He seems rather
absent-minded about the medals
he has won and the money he
might have made and is puz
zled that anyone should suggest
that he ever had any thought
other than handing his gun to
the government. It was in 1923
that he offered the first rough
model of his gun. The bureau of
standards backed him, grooved
him into the Springfield armory,
and It was in 1939 that the war
department provided funds for
the manufacture of the rifle.
He was born in Montreal, was a
sweeper in a textile mill in a small
Connecticut town at the age of 12
and was working part time in a ma
chine shop when he found his lab
oratory in the Coney Island shoot
ing galleries.
/^\NE defect of a non-authoritarian
society is that people usually
don’t consult authorities before mak
ing up their minds. We have heard
_ many ex
Our Draft Army pressions of
Best Under Any alarm based
Flag, Dr. Winslow on something
“right out of
the feed-box," about the supposed
general physical unfitness of our
new army. It’s just a cream-puff
army if you listen to these croakers.
None of them took the trouble
to telephone the man who knows
—I)r. C.-E. A. Winslow of Yale
university. He has studied the
physical fitness of our recruits,
after a lifetime as a specialist
in such matters. He says: "Our
draft army is probably the most
physically and mentally compe
tent large body of young men
ever gathered together under
any flag." Dr. Winslow's suc
cinct finding is reported in the
"Fitness-for-Freec’.>m” issue of
the Survey-Graphic magazine.
Since 1915, Dr. Winslow has been
lauder professor of public health at
the New York Museum of Natural
History, as director of the division
of public health education in the
New York state department of pub
lic health and has been associated
with the Rockefeller foundation in
public health research and educa
tion. He has written a wide shelf of
books on subjects in his field, con
ducted innumerable surveys, con
tributed to countless forums and
conferences.
Dr. Winslow was the founder
of the American Hygiene move
ment. A 64-year-old Bostonian,
he schooled for his life-long bat
tle against physical unfitness at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Yale and New York
university.
He has furthered wider participa
tion among college students in
health-building sports and he has
been a pioneer in both “positive
health” and preventive medicine.
This department has noted a swell-;
ing tide of misinformation about the j
British stalling, the Russians get-1
ting ready for a fast double-cross, I
our war production a mess and our
army a push-over. It is possible
that somebody who doesn’t like us
is channeling this into dinner-table
talk. It might be a good idea if
every American newspaper would
run a standing "get it straight" box.
giving the names and addresses of
trusted authorities in each field of
war effort, and urging talkative citi
zens to hook up with headquarters
or else keep still.
A Birthday Cake With Candles—Goody!
(See Recipes Below)
Happy Returns
Birthdays the children have are
the ones which they usually cherish
most even though they may have
bigger cakes and more candles In
later years. So with this in mind,
I’m including a few suggestions.
Cake ’n’ ice cream are tops, and
a bit of candy to sweeten the tooth
dictate the party.
The cake can be
simple, decorated
with a ten-cent
pastry tube. If
you don't want to
take the time to
spell out the let
ters, you can buy
these tor a nominal sum, and have
a professional looking cake right out
of your own kitchen.
Have the children send out their
own invitations, even make them
up if they like—this will be grand
fun for them. Twirling crepe paper
for decorations and getting the
chairs in place will please them no
end, for these, though small, will
give them a wonderful sense of "do
ing something.”
For the cake I’ve chosen an in
expensive but fascinatingly red
Devil’s Food Cake.
(Makes 2 8-inch layers)
m cups sugar
V4 cup shortening
I egg, beaten
4 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon red food coloring
2 tablespoons strong, hot coffee
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup buttermilk
I teaspoon vanilla
Cream shortening and sugar until
light. Blend in egg which has been
beaten until foamy. Mix cocoa, col
oring and hot coffee into a smooth
paste, stir into mixture. Sift flour,
measure, then sift again with soda
and salt. Add to mixture alternate
ly with buttermilk, folding and beat
ing after each addition. Add vanilla.
Turn into two greased, waxed pa
per lined tins and bake in a moder
ate (350-degree) oven for 25 to 30
minutes. Ice with the following:
Magic Tarty Frosting.
214 cups sifted powdered sugar
*4 cup sweetened, condensed milk
214 teaspoons vanilla
Dash of salt
Stir powdered sugar gradually
into the sweetened, condensed milk.
Add vanilla and
salt. Beat until
smooth and
creamy. Spread
■ on cold cakes. A
clown's face to
glamorize the
cake, as shown in
the picture, can
be made with melted chocolate us
ing a water-color paint brush.
Candy, not too rich, but honeyed
and fruity, spell glamour for the
children’s party. Try substituting
fruit and honey in candy to make
it nutritious, but still good!
Fruit Candy.
V4 cup dried prunes
Va eup dried aprieots
Va eup dried llgs
>4 eup dates
Va eup raisins
H eup honey
Let dried prunes and apricots
stand in boiling water 5 minutes.
Run all fruit through a food chop
per, fine knife. Add honey. Butter
hands and shape candy into balls.
Roll in ehopped nuts, coconut or
coat with confectioners’ chocolate.
Honeyed Orange Peel.
Remove peel in quarters from 6
oranges. Cover with water and boil
This Week’s Menu:
Tomato Juice
•Perch Fillets with Lemon Slice
•Cabbage Creole
Julienne Green Beans
Frozen Fruit Salad
Nut Bread Butter
Apricot Upside Gown Cake
Coffee Tea Milk
•Recipe Given,
Lynn Says:
A birthday party’s a real party
with birthday games to play. Let
the children play their favorite
ones, and if they run out of ideas,
try some of these:
Take the words. Greeting and
Birthday, and give each of the
guests paper and pencil. A.sk
players to fill in as many words
as possible between each of the
two letters. First words begin
with B and end with G. Second
words begin with R and end with
I. Third words begin with R
and end with E, and so forth.
Allow 10 to 15 minutes for the
game, and give prizes to those
with longest lists.
Have children sit in a circle to
play this game called Birthday
Gifts. First player starts with
letter A, and makes a sentence
giving the name of the place he
is going and the gift he is bring
ing. For example, he might say,
“I am going to Appleton to get
him an Anchovy, or to Bermuda
to get him a Bon Bon,” and so
forth down the alphabet. No
words should be repeated.
Guests can also make a scrap
book together, cutting out maga
zines and papers to make an au
tobiography for the guest of hon
or. Include place of birth, pic
tures of mother and dad, school,
vacation trips, etc.
V4 hour. Drain. Cover again with
water. Boil V4 hour longer or until
tender. Drain. Cut peel in strips
with scissors. Cover with honey
(2 to 3 cups). Simmer gently until
peel is clear, about 45 minutes.
Spread on waxed paper to dry for
several days. Roll in granulated
sugar if desired.
Dress up the party with these gay,
good-to-eat pop corn balls. The chil
dren will enjoy making them, too:
Pop Corn Balls.
(Makes 24 balls)
3 cups sugar
1 cup corn syrup
1 cup water
5 quarts pop corn
1% tablespoons butter
Cook sugar, syrup, and water un
til the syrup reaches 242 degrees,
or makes a soft ball when tried in
cold water. Add butter and stir
through the syrup. Pour cooked
syrup over salted pop corn which
has been placed in a buttered bowl
and mix well. Shape balls with
hands, using only enough pressure
to make them stick together.
The fresh tempting and distinctive
flavor of perch makes this a nice
flsh for dinner. Plus that, it fries in
no time at all and spares you of any
disagreeable odors in the making:
•Perch Fillets.
Dip flsh fillets in slightly beaten
egg, then into bread crumbs to
which have been added salt and pep
per. Fry in shallow hot fat until
just a golden brown, and serve im
mediately. The whole process takes
less than 15 minutes.
As new, fresh and lovely as spring
itself is this cabbage dish done to
a turn with it*
food affinities, on
ions and toma
toes. Be clever
with cabbage this
Iway and your ta
ble will be gay
and bright in glo*
) rious red and
green, and your
family surely will be pleased:
♦Cabbage Creole.
(Serves 6)
3 pounds shredded cabbage
3 teaspoons salt
1 cup thinly sliced onions
'i minced green pepper
2 caps canned tomatoes
3 tablespoons salad oil
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon sugar
Dash of cloves
Cook cabbage in a small amount
of boiling, salted water about 7 min
utes. Drain well. While cabbage is
cooking, saute onions in hot fat un
til light brown, then add tomatoes,
pepper, bay leaf, sugar and cloves.
Simmer 18 minutes. Remove bay
leaves, toss sauce over cabbage.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Chain of Islands From
Alaska to Carry It ar to
Tokyo . . . Don't Fool
Ourselves About Japan
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
In view of President Roosevelt's
promise to carry the war to Japan,
there is plenty of speculation in
Washington as to just how this could
be done.
It is believed that this country can
' produce, in three months, as many
bombing and fighting planes as
| Japan possesses. The geographical
fact is that the chain of islands
stretching out from Alaska and
curving over the North Pacific af
fords a possible island by island ad
vance somewhat comparable to that
the Japs have been making in the
East Indies.
It is contended that our bombers
could be steadily advancing, sup
ported by surface craft which would
include carriers, and hence fighting
planes. Eventually we would be
within striking distance of Japan
proper.
It is not regarded as of the utmost
importance whether attacks on
Japan proper could then be made.
The point is that long before such a
stage was achieved the Japs would
have been forced to withdraw much
of their air power from the present
area of war in the Southwest Pacific
in order to resist this threat in the
Northwest Pacific.
Provided it achieved any success
at all, it might easily be in time
to save Australia and New Zealand. I
Help on Way
Numerous objections are obvious.
One is that if we can supply enough
fighting and bombing planes for such
an effort, backed by more old-fash
ioned sea power, why not aid direct
ly in the fighting already in prog
ress?
The answer to this was tersely put
by the President himself. The line
of supply to the East Indies is
flanked by the Caroline and Mar
shall islands, whence the Japs could
attack with land based planes. The
line of supply to this bridge of is
lands is not so threatened. For a
long distance—precisely the distance
which would be covered by the pro
posed highway to Alaska—it is in
protected waters, the inside channel
from Puget Sound well up into the
Panhandle of Alaska.
For all this distance the Japs
might attack by submarines, and
possibly long-range bombers. But
they could not send fighters save
by carrier, and would be subject to
attack by our land-based planes all
along the line.
This would be the first time in the
war, it is pointed out, that the
United Nations would be picking the
theater of war—fighting where we
wanted to fight instead of where our
enemies wanted to fight.
Assuming that the production fig
ures are right—and there is no rea
son to question them—this sort of
attack would not interfere with a
continuance of supplies for the Brit
ish and Dutch in the other war thea
ters. In fact it would impose little
burden on our shipping facilities, as
barges could be used very handily,
perhaps even the concrete barges
we are building so feverishly.
It might risk an all-out naval en
gagement, but that would of neces
sity cripple the Japs seriously in
their Southwest Pacific operations.
—Buy Defense Bonds—
Japanese Secrecy
Keeps Nations Guessing
When Will Rogers was making his
last trip across the Pacific, and
wirelessing a hundred-odd words a
day for a box feature in many U. S.
newspapers, war had broken out be
tween the Japanese and Chinese.
Will reported conversations with
the Chinese stokers. They pointed
to casualties of the last three days
reported. These figures are not
those used by Rogers, but they give
the idea: First day, 27 Japs killed,
188 Chinese; second day, 59 Japs
killed, 486 Chinese; third day, 204
Japs killed, 1,574 Chinese.
“Velly good," Will reported the
Chinese stokers as saying. "By and
by no more Japanese!"
The story, of course, brought
home the numbers of the Chinese
breeding faster than they could pos
sibly be killed. That phase of the
illustration is not applicable to the
present war, but the question of im
portant war supplies, particularly
ships, planes, tanks, etc., may be.
The Japanese fooled the world,
and the United States particularly,
very badly on its military equipment
at the outbreak of the war. We had
been wondering for several years
about their big battleships. We knew
they had built some new ones, but
we did not know how many, much
less their size, armor, guns, speed,
etc. Japan was the only-country in
the world about which Jane's Fight
ing Ships frankly acknowledged its
ignorance.
It was known they had something
in the way of fighting ships about
which we did not know details.
But we had no idea whatever of
the amount of her air power. We
were lulled into security by the ap
parent stalemate of her war against
j China.
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_ Farm
Topics |
GRAIN SOYBEANS
DEPLETE THE SOIL
But if Plowed Under They
Increase Soil Nitrogen.
By PROF. GEORGE D. SCARSETH
| (Soil Chemist, Agricultural Experiment
Station, Purdue University.)
Many farmers do not realize that
soybeans harvested for grain are a
j soil-exhausting rather than a soil
i building crop. If soybeans are
1 plowed under or cut for hay, and the
| manure therefrom is returned to the
soil, they do increase the soil nitro
gen and thus increase the com or
wheat yields that follow in the ro
tation. But harvested for commer
cial purposes such as oils, plastics,
etc., they represent a drain on the
soil.
A crop of 20 bushels of soybeans
harvested for commercial purposes
removes 15 pounds of phosphate
(equivalent to 75 pounds of 20 per
cent super-phosphate) and 20 pounds
of potash per acre.
Soybeans are certain to play an
increasingly important part in the
present war effort. At present very
little information has been obtained
on how to provide a profitable
means of directly fertilizing soy
beans at the time of seeding, but ex
periments now in progress at Pur
due university involving plowing un
der phosphate and potash indicate
that effective means are being found.
With a favorable price outlook, a
greater acreage will be planted to
soybeans this year. Farmers will
find it advantageous to fertilize
the crop, unless their soils have been
adequately treated previously in the
rotation. Based on experience at the
university, the following suggestions
may be of value:
If the soil is acid, lime it ade
quately this winter. This is impor
tant for otherwise the fertilizer will
be lost. In many cases about three
tons per acre will be effective. Then
just before plowing the ground for
soybeans, broadcast about 300
pounds of 0-20-20 or 500 pounds of
0-12-12 and plow under. Do not use
any fertilizer when planting the
beans. The benefits from the lime
will last at least 10 years, although
it has been found profitable to re
lime in about six years.
Indicative of the importance of
plowing down fertilizer for soy
beans, was a test at the Purdue ex
periment station last year. On an
unfertilized plot, the soybean yield
was 15.7 bushels of grain or 3,570
pounds of hay an acre. When an
equivalent of 1,000 pounds of 4-10-25
had been broadcast and disked into
the topsoil immediately before seed
ing, the yield increased only 1.9
bushels. But when this same
amount was broadcast and plowed
under the yield per acre was
23.4 bushels of grain or 4,653 pounds
of hay. When lime at the rate of
three tons per acre was used with
the fertilizer and plowed under,
the yield was 28.2 bushels of grain
or 5,377 pounds of hay per acre.
Feeding Laying Hens
Successful poultry farmers pay
nearly as much attention to the
way they feed their pullets and
laying hens as they do to the kind
of feeds they provide. For one
thing, abrupt changing in the diet
causes the birds to go "off feed”
and results in lower egg produc
tion and slower growth as will the
use of stale feed. If a change in
diet must be made it should be
made gradually and extend over
a period of a week or ten days.
One practice followed by many
of the better poultrymen is to pro
vide only a little more feed each
day than the birds can clean up.
The left-overs, if clean and dry,
can be mixed thoroughly with the
fresh feed in the hoppers.
In this way there will be no
accumulation of stale feed at the
bottom of the hoppers, reducing
likelihood of mold.
Some Mighty Trees
The tree with the largest circum
ference is the sequoia, 101 feet, 6
inches, in California, and the tree
given the widest spread (168 feet) is
a liveoak at Hahnville, La. The
wide-spreading liveoak on the Lien
do plantation in Waller county
seems to be unrecorded on the
banks of the Potomac. A California
redwood with an altitude of 364 feet
is given the palm for the greatest
height. The world’s record for girth
is given to a cypress in Mexico.
Probably the largest, oldest, slow
est and fastest growing trees now in
Texas, is the cypress. Its wood also
has had more home and industrial
use than any tree.
Less Spuds, More Eggs
People eat about the same total
quantity of food now as they did 30
years ago, but the composition of
the dietary has changed. Consump
tion of wheat and other cereals, po
tatoes and apples, beef, veal, and
tea has declined. But consumption
of vegetables (other than potatoes),
citrus fruits, sugar, poultry, eggs,
milk, manufactured dairy products
(especially ice cream), edible fats
and oils (other than lard and but
ter) and cocoa increased.
/"'ROCHET one or all of these
^ accessories for baby. They go
quickly in Shetland Floss in this
lacy stitch. Be sure to put on
Absorptive Sand
Silica gel, a processed sand with
a very high moisture absorptive
quality, is now being used in cup
boards to keep salt, sugar and
crackers dry, in drawers to pre
serve important papers and in
cabinets to prevent the rusting of
lier’s. By turning from blue to
liers. By turning from blue to
pink, the sand indicates that it has
reached the moisture limit and
must be dried in an oven.
the cute tassels that will catch
everyone’s eye. Use a color with
white.
• • •
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illustrations of it and stitches; materials
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Sewing Circle Ncedlecraft Dept.
82 Eighth Ave. New York
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-«# Home!
NO TELLING what tomorrow's weather may be. It fools the best fore
caster. But we do want chintz for the windows. We do need a car
pet sweeper, a new percolator, and a new end-table in the living-room.
And we don't want to slosh around rainy streets to hunt them. Problem:
How to thwart the weather man. Simple enough! Let's sit down by the
fireplace and read the advertisements. Here it's comfortable and snug.
We'll take the newspaper page by page, compare prices, qualities,
brand-names. Tomorrow, rain or shine, we'U head for the store that has
what we want, and home again in a jiffy.
• "Buying at Home"—through the advertising columns—gives you wide
selection, more time to decide, and satisfaction when you decide.
• MAKE IT ONE OF YOUR PLEASANT HABITS!
