WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Feature*—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—It appears to this
onlooker that there is a lag in
this war in issuing pencils and paper
to song-writers and putting them on
a full - time
!t*s Time We Call shift. We
Out Song Writers made a fast
To Help Beat Axil
First World war, with that one
about the little bit of the sunshine in
the YMGA almost beating the first
crack of the guns.
Possibly we are at least getting
under way with Geoffrey O’Hara
limbering up his writing-wrist with
a ditty calculated to start a rush of
bond-buyers to the neighborhood
post office. Mr. O’Hara is a veteran
song-leader of our 1918 singing and
fighting days and the author of
•K-K-K-Katy.”
He has a copyright on "The Star
Spangled Banner,” taken out and
duly recorded in 1929. This was his
stepped-down version of the Nation
al Anthem. The copyright is a bit
of a joke which, says Mr. O’Hara,
will enable him to bequeath a singa
ble National Anthem to his country
in his will.
He scouted some interesting
historical background in his pro
fessional Study of "The Star
Spangled Banner" and how we
got it. In England and Wales,
in the late Eighteenth century,
it was sung by tavern roisterers
as "Anacreon in Heaven." They
could reach the high notes
easily. The explanation, Mr.
O’Hara’s researches disclosed,
was that in a cold, foggy cli
mate the larnyx grows smaller.
In order to keep out the weather.
Therefore there are more tenor
voices.
Mr. O'Hara probed still further
and found that California had more
basses and baritones than colder
states. So he reset the anthem to
a steam-heated singing range.
He came to the United States in
1904, at the age of 22 and worked
four years as a clerk in the Cana
dian Bank of Commerce. All that
time he was writing songs, surprised
and happy when Caruso suddenly
featured his "Your Eyes Have
Told Me," and A1 Jolson did the
same for his "Tennessee.”
Last month he was elected to
membership on the board of the
American Society of Authors, Com
posers and Publishers. He got his
nautralization papers in 1919, and
has been a diligent expounder of our
democratic faith.
WE’VE asked a lot of philoso
phers, but we never could get
it straight as to whether there could
be any humor in a perfect universe.
It is some
Gets More Money thing to wor
Kidding Baseball ry about, as,
Than Playing It ,wit{1 th£KAt*
J 8 lantjc Char
ter millenium moving in after this
war, there might not be any place
tor A1 Schacht. His errant foolish
ness wouldn't do in such a perfect
ly ordered world.
But, in our present state of some
what ostentatious imperfection, he
still belongs, and today's good news
is that the “Clown Prince of Base
ball” is still clowning over in New
Jersey just now, still touring the
baseball circuits, making everybody
happy with his durable pantomime.
We have an Idea that if Al
Schacht were shrewdly used he
might be worth a brace of bat
tleships to this country. As we
see it many of the invocations
of democracy which come from
the Washington founts of erudi
tion do not quite get the public
ear; that they need a bit of
••corn,’* in the Broadway lingo,
or at any rate a widened public
appeal and a dash of humor. If
Al Schacht should take to rib
bing Hitler before the baseball
mobs, with an appropriate anti
climax for Der Fuehrer at the
finish, it ought to help a lot In
getting over the news that there
is a war on.
He was a top-bracket player,
bought by the Giants in 1917, and
can still put a hop on a fast ball.
He was literally born in left field—
in the left field territory of what is
now the Yankee Stadium. He was
a whirlwind pitcher in high school
baseball and was three years with
Newark before the Giants bought
him. He and Nick Altrock formed
their famous comedy partnership
with the Washington club.
He is a bom comic and one of
the best pantomimists in the coun
try. When "Cash and Carry” Pyle
of Bunion Derby fame was staging
Suzanne Lenglen in tennis matches
around the country, Al Schacht's act
was a part of the program. It was
a burlesque of Suzanne which set!
the crowds wild. Suzanne didn't1
happen to see it for the first few
matches but when she did;
"Meester Pyle, deescharge at
once zees clown or deescharge me!”
He had no trouble in making other
engagements, his “take” rounding
out about $50,000 a season.
Perfect Close for a Meal—Apricot Jelly Roll
(See Recipes Below)
Mother-Daughter Luncheon
~
Once a year it is becoming for
Daughter to don the cook’s cap and
uniform ana come
out with a whole
meal cooked to
please Mother.
And the day Moth
er appreciates it
most is on her
day of the year—
Mother’s day! So,
today, I’ve planned a menu which
even the youngest cooks can make
into a glorified meal to which they
can invite their mothers.
Now, young cooks, on your toes
if you would gather laurels at Moth
er’s day luncheon time! Bring out
the measuring cups and ingredients,
first. Then read the recipes over
several times and visualize each
step before you start. Ready? Good.
Your first course—served in small
glass cups with a sprig of mint, if
you can get it—will stimulate the
appetites and brighten the table:
•Fruit Cup.
(8ervcs 8)
S oranges, peeled
1 grapefruit, peeled
1 pint strawberries, hulled
2 bananas
Section the oranges and grape
fruit Peel the bananas and dice.
Mix with fruit sections. Sprinkle
lemon Juice over the fruit, sweeten
to taste. Let stand and chill. When
ready to serve, place in fruit cups.
Eggs are plentiful now because
the government asked farmers to
have their hens work overtime to
increase egg production that they
might be sent abroad and have
enough for home use.
So, bring out the eggs and their
surplus of nutrition to menus by
choosing one of
these two recipes
for your main
luncheon dish. ,
Eggs are noted
for the facility '
with which they
can be cooked,
and there is but
one major rule to follow in cooking
them: use as little heat as possible
to get a tender product.
•Eggs a la King.
(Serves 6-8)
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons of (lour
2 cups hot milk
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper
$4 tablespoon chopped onion
1 tablespoon chopped green pepper
Lynn Says:
The Score Card: The nation’s
sugar bowl is due to be some
what smaller than last year’s be
cause we will have to get along
with a third less sugar than we
had before. This means we will
be using several substitutes.
You smart homemakers will
learn how to use maple sugar,
where you like maple flavoring.
One and one-third cups of maple
sugar may be substituted for one
cup of granulated sugar.
Honey, oldest sweetening, has
versatile uses. Use it on your
breakfast fruits, cereals, sauce
for ice cream, in cakes, quick
breads, cookies, even in sugars,
Jams and jellies. Since honey has
a distinctive flavor, use half hon
ey and half sugar in recipes or
the consistency and color of the
product you make may be
changed considerably.
Corn syrup may be substituted
cup for cup for granulated sugar,
but when using it, cut the liquid
in the recipe down by one-third.
Molasses makes your ginger
breads, baked beans, brown
bread, cakes and even cookies.
Besides these substitutes you'll
have dried fruits which are high
in sugar content. When stewing
fruits, add sugar toward the end
of the cooking period: it will take
less to sweeten ^the fruit.
Make desserts with fruit juices,
both canned and fresh, and you
will f. Ti it bridges the sugar ra
tion well. Above all, do not waste
sugar. You can probably get
along with less in the morning
coffee and tea. Try it
This Week’s Menu
Mother-Daughter Banquet
•Fruit Cup
•Eggs a La King
Asparagus
•Orange Frosted Berry Salad
Biscuits and Honey
•Jelly Roll Tea or Coffee
•Recipe Given
% tablespoon chopped pimiento
6 hard cooked eggs
% cup sliced, cooked mushrooms
Melt the butter, add the flour and
stir until smooth. Combine with hot
milk. Let cook eight minutes over
hot water (in a double boiler). Stir
with egg beater. Add onion, green
pepper, pimiento, sliced eggs and
mushrooms. Let cook five minutes.
Serve hot on buttered toast.
Eggs a la Rockefeller.
(Makes 1 serving)
1 slice bread
1 thick slice tomato
1 soft cooked egg
2 tablespoons cheese sauce
Parsley
Toast the bread slightly and
spread thinly with butter. Place
the slice of tomato on the bread,
then on the tomato, put the soft
boiled egg. Over this pour the
cheese sauce and garnish with pars
ley.
Cheese sauce: Add 94 cup finely
grated or finely cut cheese to 1 cup
hot white sauce, and stir until
cheese is dissolved.
*Orange Frosted Berry Salad.
(Serves 6)
1 tablespoon gelatin
2 tablespoons cold water
94 cup orange juice, heated
94 cup orange juice, unheated
94 cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon Juice
1 cup orange pieces
94 cup berries or seedless grapes
94 cup sliced peaches
Orange sections
Frosted berries
Soften the gelatin in the water 5
minutes. Dissolve in the heated or
ange juice. Cool and add the un
heated orange juice. When slightly
thickened odd the orange pieces,
grapes, and sliced peaches. Pour
into individual molds. Chill until
firm. Unmold and garnish with or
ange sections and clusters of frosted
berries. (To frost berries, dip in
slightly beaten egg white and roll
in granulated sugar. Spread on pa
per to dry.) Serve salad with lemon
flavored mayonnaise.
As you go into your sugar-ration
ing period, are you keeping your
eyes peeled for recipes that take it
easy on the sugar without sacrific
ing any of their appetite appeal?
For that very reason you’ll like this
one of jelly roll because it uses nat
urally sweetened apricots for the
filling and eliminates the powdered
sugar sprinkled over the top.
•Jelly Roll.
(Makes 10-12 slices)
3 eggs
W teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1 cup sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
5 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
Add salt and vanilla to eggs, beat
until light and fluffy. Add sugar in
2-tablespoon portions, beating after
each addition. Add sifted flour and
baking powder. Fold in carefully
and quickly. Stir in water and but
ter, heated together until butter is
melted. Pour into a jelly roll pan,
about 16 by 11 by 1 inch that has
been greased and lined with paper,
then greased again. Bake in a mod
erately hot (375-degree) oven about
18 minutes or until nicely risen and
delicately brown over the surface.
Loosen edges and turn onto a piece
of waxed paper or a towel sprinkled
with powdered sugar Remove pan
and peel off waxed paper. Spread
with dried fruit—cook your favorite
dried fruit (apricot, prunes or
peaches are good) in a minimum of
water, then put through a sieve,
cool and spread. Roll lengthwise,
cool on a cake rack.
If you ivoultl like expert advice on
your cooking and household problems,
urite to l.ynn Chambers, Western
Newspaper I ’nion, 210 South Desplaines
St., Chicago, III. Please enclose a
stamped, selfmddi essed envelope for
your reply,
'Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Rtvitwed by
CARTER FIELD
More Important That
Captain Doesn't Go
Down With Ship . . .
Morale of Nation to Be
Noted at Election Time...
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON.—This business of
the captain going down with his ship
has got to stop. About 90-odd times j
out of a hundred it is more impor
tant to save the captain than to j
save any other person aboard—man,
woman or child, the old doctrine of
“women and children first" to the
contrary notwithstanding.
It is just another case of the war
turning ordinary things upside down.
In normal maritime life there is an
oversupply of captains. Many men
with masters’ papers are working
as first, second, and sometimes even
third mates, just to get a job.
But too many men capable of
navigating ships—of directing
them safely from one port to an
other—of acting quickly in emer
gencies—of maneuvering a ship,
for instance, under torpedo or
bomb attack—are being killed.
Admiral Emory S. Land of the
maritime commission is crying
aloud for a speed
up in ship con
struction, so that
the lifeline to
Britain can be
kept in operation.
He is absolutely
right, and should
be getting more
vigorous backing
when he runs up
against certain
Adm. Land
dimculties, particularly of the union
labor variety.
But it is also necessary to have
men capable of commanding those
ships. It would seem that the prob
lem of crews was just as vital, but
the business of running ships, for
the period of the war anyway, has
turned to mass production methods.
It is not quite as simple as an
assembly line, but it approaches it.
The idea of each man being trained
to do just one thing, almost as sim
ple as tightening* a bolt, is car
ried out in essential.
Maritime Schoola Helped
Nor is the maritime commission
to be criticized for the shortage in
competent captains. It established
schools several years ago,and really
has done a pretty good job in train
ing young men as navigators. So
far as the engineers are concerned,
most of the new ships have the old
reciprocating engines, which means
that almost any man who has had
any experience whatever with en
gines, in saw mills, on farms, in
small plants, can learn very quickly
to perform the necessary duties.
Firemen present even an easier
problem. Many owners of office
buildings have been learning this to
their embarrassment, for men
whose only experience has been
turning valves in oil-burning heat
ing units of big buildings are now
working on ships, with much better
pay, of course, as should be the
case in view of the terrible risk.
Incidentally, there is no dis
position anywhere to criticize the
pay schedules of the men who
go down to the sea in ships these
days. Some of the union rules
have caused problems, but these
related more to the question of
interfering with a proper flow of
recruits than to wages.
Most of the torpedoings of mer
chant ships off the Atlantic etiast
have not been as heavy in their toll
of human lives as in naval warfare,
where in so many instanced—the
cruiser Houston and the battle cruis
er Hood for instance—there were
practically no survivors.
But something ought to be done to
impress everybody that it is a mili
tary necessity—vital to the winning
of the war—to save the captain if
possible. Men can be trained fair
ly quickly in navigation, but there
is tremendous value in the experi
ence which guides a good captain in
emergencies.
And there is not only the lifeline
to Britain to be kept open—there is
the much longer one to Australia!
* * *
Coming Elections Will
Show National Unity
Between now and the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November
the American people will give a
demonstration of national unity
which will make all this talk about
morale building seem rather silly.
The prediction is simply this:
No member of the house or son
ate will be defeated because he
was strongly in favor of the
war, of prosecuting it vigorous
ly, and of never agreeing to
•peace until victory is achieved.
No candidate against any sitting 1
member of the house or senate,
either in primary or convention will
be nominated or elected because he
advocates quitting—on any terms i
whatever.
Now if this prediction were made
as to a majority of the seats to be
filled it would be important. To look
back into history, Abraham Lincoln
had to make a tremendous fight to
prevent his own defeat, in 1864.
Dairy Production
Climbing Steadily
Fluid Milk Consumption
In Cities Is Still Off
Combined production of cheese,
creamery butter, and condensed and
evaporated milk in the United States
in 1941 exceeded the 1940 output by
7 per cent. The January, 1942, pro
duction of these dairy foods was 9.6
per cent greater than in January,
1941, according to Ohio State uni
versity rural economists.
The 1942 production goals for
dairy products call for approximate
Courtesy U. S. Department or Agriculture.
Wisconsin Dairy Queen Miss Ruth
Krumheuer, knows of the dairy ben
efits obtained from the modern, well
tinned pail which she is holding. The
two weeks’ old Holstein calf looks
like a coming winner, too.
ly 12 per cent greater production
than was obtained in 1941. The re
quired increase in cheese and con
centrated milk can be secured by
a 7 per cent increase in all manu
factured dairy products if some of
the total production is shifted from
creamery butter to the concentrated
forms.
Need Will Be Met.
Creamery butter made up approx
imately 70 per cent of all manufac
tured dairy products in 1941, so any
significant diversion of milk from
the manufacture of butter will meet
the needs for more milk to be made
into cheese or to be condensed or
evaporated. The production of dried
milk in 1941 was less than the 1940
production, but a larger share of
the total was prepared for human
consumption.
The consumption of fluid milk in
cities has not increased at the rate
expected. Increased payrolls and
greater quantities of milk available
do not induce urban citizens to con
sume the amount of milk needed for
adequate diets.
Rural economists believe that the
best interests of the dairy industry
at present require a definite policy
as to price and of quantities of prod
ucts to be purchased and stored, if
increased production is to be main
tained with the least expenditure of
productive facilities.
Tractor Trouble Advice
If the farm tractor lacks pep,
better check up on valves and
valve mechanism. If there is re
bound on each compression
stroke when the engine is cranked
slowly, the valves are closing
properly. Lack of compression
means waste of fuel and loss of
power.
Sticky Valves.
Lack of compression in the
farm tractor may be caused by
sluggish or sticky engine valves.
Engineers say this cause of pow
er and fuel waste can often be
remedied with a little kerosene.
Start the engine, and after it has
idled a while apply kerosene to
the valve stems so that it works
down between the stems and the
guides.
Adjusting Discs.
To prevent overloading the
farm tractor, adjust the size of
discs and disc plows to the power
of tractors. If less draft is de
sired, the width of cut may be
reduced or one or more discs
may be removed. In operating in
hard ground, weights should be
used at the rear and front fur
row wheels rather than on top of
the frame or beam.
Leaves Show Soil Needs
Through methods developed by
horticulturists at the Pennsylvania
State college it may be possible in
the future to determine the soil re
quirements of crops by foliar or
leaf diagnosis.
For instance, plants may become
sickly as a result of too much of a
certain fertilizing material in rela
tion to the supply of others, or be
cause of a shortage of certain other
soil foods, according to a bulletin
frnm that university.
NEW IDEAS
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS —
i BACK COVER
L SEWN TO
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PIECE
'T'HE covering of many chintz
-*■ chairs today is hand sewn to
the chair padding. Such covers
have trim lines and may be ripped
off easily for cleaning or washing.
The sketch at the lower left shows
how covered cord welting is bast
ed and stitched to outside pieces
of the cover which have been cut
on the chair with an accurate
seam allowance. When the seam
edges have been pressed back the
piece is pinned on and sewn with
matching heavy duty thread, as at
the lower right.
NOTE: Clip and keep this article as
this sketch is not in any of the homemak
ing booklets prepared by Mrs. Spears for
our readers. But Book 8 contains direc
tions for making the chair frame as well
as 30 other things to make from what the
average household has on hand, or from
inexpensive new materials. Send your or
der to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer 10
Enclose 10 cents for Book 8.
Name .
Address ...
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Just drop a postcard with your
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Maker of Jest
A jest’s prosperity lies in the
ear of him that hears it.—Shake
speare.
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