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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1942)
WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.! NEW YORK. — Young Ezequiel Padilla of Mexico prepared for his country's revolt against Diaz by a course at the Sorbonne. He was back home Mexican Minister jn time for Dr. Padilla Looms much prac A. World Citizen ing and hard riding with Pancho Villa and other non-academic revo lutionists. He not only helped bring his country through, from the feudal Diaz regime, into the modern world, but at the Rio conference scored heavily in tooling the Latin-Ameri can republics into the world politi cal orbit of the United Nations. Padilla is Mexico’s foreign min ister, in Washington in the Interest of closer co-operation and better un derstanding between the two coun tries. Meeting the taU, handsome and engaging Dr. Padilla for the first time at a recent press luncheon, this reporter put him down as something new among political or diplomatic envoys. This Impression of unique ness is perhaps due to the fact that his mind is at once luminous and poetic, and shrewd, muscular and combative. He seems to vision a world in which it will be safe to be civilized—providing you are also wary. Dr. Padilla’s talk was "off the record," but with his permis sion we are allowed to report its main outline. The world can not and will not be reorganised on any basis of traditional im perialism. The alternative is co operation, on the basis of a just and ration-allotment of world re sources. This co-operation, Dr. Padilla is calmly assured, will come. It will mean a steadily rising standard of living, for all the peoples of the earth, au tomatically a safeguard against the glutting of trade channels and the rise of feverish national ism which lead to war. There will be a genuine "culture and science" of living. Dr. Padilla grew up in a remote mountain village in Guerrero, won a scholarship at the University of Mexico, and later one which took him to the Sorbonne. He continued his studies at Columbia. Returning to Mexico, as a deputy from his na tive state, he became secretary of public education, minister plenipo tentiary to Hungary and Italy, and in 1940, minister of foreign affairs. 'T'ALK of national defense in Wash *■ ington is highly personalized and is apt to center on this or that spark-plug of the army or navy, who touches off action and gets ef GenialGen. Jarman suUs° Pre Defuses All Drags clsely in Of Disorganization big. genial Maj. Gen. Sanderford Jarman, command ing the vitally important eastern area anti-aircraft artillery. His showing of achievement both before and after Pearl Harbor ought to be a good prescription for insomnia, if any considerable portion of the pop ulace is worrying about bombs. When General Jarman was sent to Panama in June. 1940, less than one fifth of the guns there could be fired, because of the lack of ammunition and personnel. By November of that year he had brought the artillery defense up to 100 per cent efficiency. When he began the organisa tion of defense in the Canal Zone region he was warned that jun gle workers would suffer dis astrous mortality from malaria and that the operations should be preceded by a survey of means to combat the scourge. Be called in the best available medical advisors, demanded a workable formula for Immunisa tion, got one, in a hurry—con sisting mostly of quinine—and started building his posts deep in the jungle, including large scale housing units for his men. The general’s whirlwind prog ress brought him a call to the States and upped him to the anti-aircraft command, under Gen. Hugh A. Drum, command er of the First army. He is tireless in exploring the ur gent requirements of his job and nothing is ever finished, so far as he is concerned. Morale is one of General Jarman’s specialties and his communications with his men are entirely colloquial. He likes to stroll through a mess hall and ask the boys how they like the food. If one of them replies that the chow is getting pretty schmalsk, or words to that effect, he listens, investigates, decides and acts, if need be, or, if he finds that the soldier is just grousing on gen eral principles, he tells the soldier to take wbbt he gets and like it. It works. The men regard him as their friend and emulate him as a self-starter. Baked Potatoes Do Right by Supper (See Recipe* Below) Supper Social The simple suppers at which a crowd gathers are pleasant for their warm friendli ness, for the cozy talk which they inspire. They are especially easy to give if you plan to have each of your friends bring a dish for the supper — a pot luck, as it were. This will save each woman the time and effort of making a whole meal, and then you will all be together for knitting, sew ing or defense work on the calendar for the evening. An assortment of attractive main dishes are usually received with en thusiasm. Try these for enchanting appetites: *Russct Half Shells. (Serves 8) 6 medium-sized Idaho bakers % cup hot milk Z tablespoons butter Salt and pepper to taste 1 large onion, chopped and cooked in butter until tender 12 small pork sausages Scrub and bake potatoes at 400 to 150 degrees. Remove piece of skin from top of potato, or cut large po tatoes lengthwise in two. Scrape out inside being careful not to break the shell. Mash thoroughly, or put through a potato ricer. Add butter, salt, pepper, milk and cooked onion. Beat well. Pile mixture lightly into shells, top with two small pork sausages that have been partially cooked (boiled in a small amount of water). Return to oven and bake at 350 degrees until sausages are cooked through and browned. If you want to provide everything for your pot-luck supper from in dividuals except the main dish, here is one that will fill the bill perfectly. Simple to put together and as colorful as it sounds, the salmon loaf does n’t need much watching if you are busy with other things: Salmon Loaf. (Serves 25) 4 cans salmon 1 quart fresh bread crumt s 3 cups diced celery 2 ounces butter % teaspoon salt H teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon onion juice , 1 teaspoon lemon juice 8 eggs 1 quart scalded milk 1 40-ounce package frosted peas 2 quarts medium white sauce Combine salmon, bread crumbs, celery, butter, seasonings. Beat up Lynn Says: Laundering Tips: With soap one of our prime, do not waste items, you will want to make the most of every scrap of soap you have. Save the small soap scraps from the bathrooms and kitchen, put them in a soap shaker so you will make use of them in washing dishes. To have clean clothes even in spite of economical soap usage use your washing machine wise ly. Use only just so much water in your machine as the water line indicates and do not over load your machine. Six to eight pounds of dry clothe^ are about right for the average washing machine. Mix the soap thoroughly with the water before putting in the clothes. About two inches of soap suds are necessary to do the job up right. Water temperatures play an important part in laundering. Do not use very hot water for white clothes. For colored clothes, wa ter comfortable to your hand is best. For synthetic silks, wool ens, rayons, water should be lukewarm. This Week's Menu Pot-Luck Supper •Russet Half Shells Fresh Asparagus Endive, Grapefruit, Strawberry Salad •Raisin Bread Lemon Pie •Recipes Given. eggs, add scalded milk. Add to salmon mixture. Make one or two salmon loaves. Bake in a greased pan placed in hot water at 325 de grees until loaves are firm. Make a green pea sauce by cooking frosted peas for 5 to 8 minutes in boiling salted water. Combine with white sauce. Pour over loaf when serv ing and slice the loaf. Whisk any of these baked bean combinations into the oven and you have a quickie dinner dish if you have just hurried home from your defense training courses: Pork Chops and Baked Beads. Casserole. (Serves 6) 6 pork chops 1 large can baked beans 1 teaspoon sugar % cup tomato catsup Fry pork chops until nicely browned on both sides. Pour baked beans over chops, add sugar and catsup. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 20 minutes. Nothing^ equals the charm of home-baked, freshly baked bread that fills the surroundings with a de licious fragrance. That’s why I give you this recipe for old-fashioned: *Ralsin Bread. (Makes 2 leaves) 1 package fresh granular yeast 1 cup lukewarm water % teaspoon sugar 1 cup scalded milk 2 teaspoons salt K cup brown sugar (solidly packed) % cup corn syrup SH to 6 cups (or more) flour 6 tablespoons melted shortening lti cups seedless raisins Pour the granular yeast into the cup of lukewarm water, add the half teaspoon sugar, stir and let stand about 5 minutes. Put the scalded milk, salt, sugar and corn syrup into mixing bowl. Let cool. When milk is lukewarm, add the softened yeast and 3 cups of flour. Mix well, then beat until smooth. Next add the melted (not hot) short ening and enough (lour to have the dough cling to gether in a ball. Add the raisins which have been covered for a few minutes with very hot water, then dried m a cloth, and dusted with flour. Knead the dough thoroughly, adding only enough flour to avoid stickiness. Let dough rise in a cov ered, greased bowl in a moderately warm place (82 to 84 degrees) un til doubled. Fold the dough down and let rise about Vi hour, then di vide and shape into two loaves. Place in greased bread pans and brush tops with melted shortening. Let rise until doubled. Bake about 50 minutes in a moderately hot oven (375 to 380 degrees). If desired, brush tops with honey just before taking from the oven. For an in-the-season, centerpiece note, besides its economical aspects, try this: A long, low, shallow bowl in pottery or glass such as you may have used for relishes, if large enough, use a snow-white cauliflow er banked with parsley, eggplant, radishes or tomatoes. If you like candles for the table, place these in little baking cuts or ramekins, at either side of the vege table bowl. , A simple setting like this calls for gay, unadorned china and soft or bright plaids in tablecloth and nap kins. Lynn Chambers curt give you expert adi ice on your household and food problems. If rile her at H estern News paper I nion, 210 South Desplaines street, Chicago, Illinois. I'leuse enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. iReleased by Western Newspaper Union.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) A New Flag Is Unfurled By that rude bridge that arched the flood. Their flag to April's breeze unfurled; Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. —Emerson "Concord Hymn.” ON PATRIOT’S day this year a new flag was unfurled to April’s breeze. It was highly appropriate that this should have been done on April 19. For this banner bears the symbolic likeness of those embat tled farmers who, on another April 19 nearly 170 years ago, fired the opening shots in America’s first fight for freedom. They call this new banner the Minute Man Flag and under it pres ent-day Americans are fighting an other battle for freedom—not with bullets but with bonds. For this is the flag which the United States treasury department is making available for purchase by employ ers when at least 90 per cent of their employees are participating in the payroll savings plan of buying Victory Bonds. It is also available to labor unions and other organiza tions when 90 per cent of their members are purchasing bonds through some regular and systemat ic method. Along with the flag goes a certifi cate, also adorned with the picture of the Minute Man surrounded by 13 stars (for the Thirteen Original States), and signed by Secretary Morgenthau, the state administrator and the state chairman of the de fense savings organization, to testi fy to the workers’ patriotic contri bution to America’s war effort. The model for the white figure on the blue field of the new flag is, of course, the statue of the Minute Man which stands on the site of the battle of Concord. Few if any stat ues on the soil of the United States are more familiar to the average American than this one. But how much does he know about the sculp tor who designed it and the unusual circumstances under which it was made? The sculptor was Daniel Chester French, the son of a New Hamp shire judge who moved to a farm near Concord when Daniel was 17. One day while young Daniel was harvesting turnips he suddenly yielded to an urge for creative ex pression. Picking up a large tur nip, he set to work with his jack knife and carved from the glisten ing heart of the turnip the image of a frog. Young French next began carving figures out of wood and when his father told Mary Alcott, a sister of Louisa, about the work of his tal ented son, she gave him some clay and one of her modeling tools. From that time on he was determined to be a sculptor. In 1871 the town of Concord de cided that a memorial of some sort should be erected on the site of the famous Revolutionary battle there. The sum of $1,000 was raised for this purpose and 21-year-old Dan French was asked to submit a de sign for the memorial. So he made a sketch for a statue and took it to two friends of his father—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Judge Hoar— and upon their recommendation it was immediately accepted. Then came the job of making the plaster model—a difficult one for the inexperienced young sculptor. But, with the help of his father, he prepared a mold, dissolved what he thought was enough plaster, stood the model on its head and poured the molten plaster into it. But alas! There must have been a hole un der the minute man’s hat for the plaster ran right through the mold out on to the floor. So they had to wait another day until they could get more plaster. The first model wasn’t especially successful, partly due to the fact that French was working in a poorly lighted room in a business building in Boston. But he persisted at his task and in 1872 the second and final model was completed. How ever, three years elapsed before the statue was cast and unveiled at Con cord. By that time French had gone to Italy to study. So he was not present for the ceremonies held at the dedication of the statue which was destined to become one of his best known works of art! The unveiling of the statue was set for April 19, 1875. The “April breeze” that morning was a bitterly cold one but more than 5,000 people were on hand for the event. Presi dent U. S. Grant and most of the members of his cabinet had come to Concord. There were bands ar.d marching and speech-making. The speaker of the day was George Wil liam Curtis and he spoke for two hours while his auditors shivered. Later a wag declared that more peo ple died from exposure to the weath er that day than were killed at the battle which they were celebrating! NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD ff ar Production Delayed By Desire for Perfection . . . Rubber Tire Sub stitute Possibilities . . . (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON. — The desire to make everything perfect—not to start until the last bug has been eliminated and every tool and every worker is just right—is causing more delay in our mounting war production than labor troubles, dis inclination of capital to take risks, propaganda, and any four or five other factors you may choose to add. That is the considered opinion of some very high officials in our war effort. The hardest thing in the world, apparently, is to get manu facturers to realize that a plane or tank or a gun is sometimes useful even if it does not keep up with the Joneses. The army and navy naturally are the worse sufferers from this. They always have been, in every emer gency. It is partly their own fault. In fairness this criticism does not now apply to the big producers who are turning out planes, tanks, guns and ammunition with a speed and ef ficiency which has delighted the gov ernment But It does apply with con siderable emphasis to those manu facturers who have been persuaded by the government to switch from peace time to war production. It should be stated that this criti cism also should exempt the auto mobile industry, which has changed over with a speed that has surprised everyone, including the motor peo ple. Machine Tool Jam However, it applies to far too many, and the government is trying various schemes to cor rect it. One of these is inter esting because this desire for perfection has run into a ma chine tool bottleneck. Everyone knows that there is a crying need for every possible ma chine tool. Who shall get them has to be decided for a long time now by the government. The manufac turer needing them most, from a war production standpoint, gets a priority order—or is supposed to get one. So Manufacturer A is asked to change over from his normal prod uct and take up the manufacture of machine guns. Immediately he be gins his plans, and pretty soon he notifies the proper authorities in Washington that he will require say 200 machine tools of varying descrip tions. Now the truth probably is that he could manufacture those machine guns with 75 new machine tools, using a larger number of machine tools already on hand for the other processes. He doesn’t think so. But enough tools for all of his kind are not available, and will not be available, for the simple reason that if we had ten times as many as we have we would merely en large our demands. We want all we can get, of almost everything in the war supply line. So the government is appointing committees of experts, in each local ity, to visit such plants and try to mark down the requirements of these manufacturers aoout to change over. Holland’s Invasion Pointed To Coming Rubber Shortage The responsibility for failure to do something about synthetic rubber production, when it was urged on the government by the oil companies, lies pretty high up in the adminis tration. All of which means that cer tain highly placed officials, in cluding the President of the United Stales, are desperately anxious to find a substitute for rubber used in making tires, so as to avoid their being blamed by the public for the inconven ience and worse that will be caused to the American way of living by the "mistake” of not having developed synthetic rub ber shortly after the war as sumed world proportions. The plain truth, as historians will see it, is that this government ought to have realized the day Holland was overrun by the Nazis that our rubber supply from the Far East was in jeopardy. We had no way of knowing that Japan was as strong as she was, but historians will not be lenient in appraising the judgment of officials who were so badly informed. This is what is clearly realized NOW in Washington. Hence there are various moves under way to prevent the shortage of rubber be coming so important here that it may become a major incident, to be noted by the historians. If some way can be found to keep most automobiles rolling in this country, historians are not going to criticize the lack of new cars, or even a shortage of gasoline. This being the situation, or rather the view of the situation taken by those whom the historians would be inclined to blame, the whole prob lem is now up to the resourcefulness of American inventors. 8094 is double easy to keep fresh and clean. 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