WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Associated Newspaper*—WNU Feature*.
NEW YORK.—Possibly there will
be a touch of Sweden’s “middle
way” in Paul V. McNutt's new man
power coiqmission which is recruit
ing skill and
Man-Power Board brawn for
Appointee Rote to war produc
H'itht. on Pluck
appointment on the board is 36-year
old Wendell Lund. Michigan-born
ton of Swedish Immigrants, repre
senting the Labor Production divi
sion of the WPB, succeeding Sidney
Hillman in this capacity.
Mr. Lund emerges as a new and
powerful figure in the war-labor
lineup. Impressive in physical bulk
and with a record of achievement to
match—a record quite remarkable
for bis years.
Citizens of Swedish birth or an
cestry have been cheering for their
Wendell Lund for quite a few years
and picking him as the most likely
to succeed in the domain of useful
public service. He it the son of Dr.
C. A. Lund. Lutheran minister of
Escanaba. Mich., president of the
Augustana synod of Lutheran
churches.
Wendell Lund won the Michi
gan state high school oratorical
contest and was graduated at
head of his class, at the age of
16. Getting through Augustana
college, he worked as a laborer
in a flooring mill and foreman
in a railroad tie yard. On Sat
urday nights, be worked In a
store and earned 95 a week edit
ing college publications. Again
he was graduated at the top of
his class. He took his master’s
degree at Columbia university
and snatched a doctor’s degree
from Princeton in a brief two
years.
In 1934 he was co-operating with
the department of the interior in
conservation work and in reshaping
the depressed economy of the
Monongahela valley.
In 1935, he organized and directed
a section of the division of sub
sistence homesteads, engaged in a
wide range of similar governmental
projects and worked a night shift in
which be took a law degree from
Georgetown university, In 1937. In
January. 1941, Governor Van Wag
oner of Michigan made him secre
tary of the state administrative
board at a time when corruption
had been prevalent in the 922,000,000
state purchasing budget He cleaned
that up nicely and was appointed
executive secretary of the Michigan
unemployment compensation com
mission. This job was a stepping
stone to his new post In which get
ting the right man in the right job
is as important as getting the right
shell in the right gun.
'T'HAT air power will bring some
■“ drastic changes both in every
day living and in fighting, or pri
marily survival techniques, is the
Our Only Safety l» Ma^Ale°x
tn Better Planet, ander P. de
Severtky Believet Seversky’s
new book,
“Victory Through Air Power.” It is
a book which would stir even a
wooden Indian out of any undue
complacency about the shape of
things to come. His argument that
we will live in the future only by
bigger and better airplanes may be
refuted only by experts, considering
the major's professional standing as
an aviation engineer, builder and in
ventor.
Flying for Czarist Russia, he
got only a wooden leg out of the
First World war and thinks we
will be lucky to come off as well
in this one, unless we wake up.
Arriving here, in 1918, he ac
quired a 85,000,000 airplane fac
tory and a beautiful wife, the
former Evelyn Oliphant of New
York.
Dog-fighting the Germans, his
ship was dropped to the Baltic. One
of his own bombs exploded. Re
gaining consciousness, clinging to a
wing, he made a tourniquet of his
trouser leg. He had swooned again
when a Russian destroyer picked
him up, his leg blown away. In
Washington, he became consulting
engineer for the United States air
service, building amphibian planes,
a master of stunt flying with a dead
motor. He has filled out an illus
trious career as a designer and
builder of planes. He is no arm
chair air strategist
A FRIEND who recently tra
** versed North Africa and the
Near East told this writer he found
everywhere diligent and curious
British Intelligence officers but none
of the USA. He thought we ought to
be picking up more gossip in those
parts. Reports accumulate as to
the increasing efficiency of the Brit
ish secret service. They tag MaJ.
Gen. Hastings Lionel Ismay as the
man providentially at hand to guide
and stimulate these efforts. He is
credited with much swift legerde
main in getting at enemy secret*
Keep on Your Toes With Enriched Bread!
(See Recipe* Below)
Bread *n Butter
Bread ia one of our oldest and
best-liked foods. But bread, like
many of our other foods, has
changed considerably during the
last two years. You haven’t no
ticed? Well, it’s been enriched and
fortified with the B-vitamins, often
called morale builders because of
the fine things they do for your sys
tem, digestion and disposition.
Iron, the magic helper that peps
up your system by making hard
working red blood cells, has also
been added to bread along with vi
tamin B.
But not just bread has these new,
essential elements. Flour that you
use for your own
baking has been
fortified with the
B - vitamins and
iron. There isn’t
much difference
in enriched flour
or bread and in
ordinary bread or
Hour, except In some cases where
the color is slightly creamy. But
the nutritive value is so much great
er that it’s to your advantage to
use it.
Although Saturday baking and the
resultant shelves and pantries filled
with cruBty, sweet-smelling loaves
of bread are becoming things of the
past, perhaps you still feel the oc
casional desire to turn out a silky
textured, moist, delicious loaf of
good bread.
Rhythmical kneading is the secret
of good bread. Rock the dough un
der the palms of the hands in three
quarter time until it gets the satin
like sheen.
*Twlsted Loaf.
(Makes 4 1-pound loaves)
2 cups milk
4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons shortening
2 cups water
1 cake yeast
4 cup lukewarm water
12 cups sifted flour (about)
Scald milk. Add sugar, salt,
shortening and water. Cool to luke
warm. Add yeast which has been
softened in V« cup lukewarm water.
Add flour gradually, mixing it in
thoroughly. When dough la stiff,
turn out on a lightly floured board
and knead until satiny and smooth.
Shape into smooth ball and place in
a greased pan. Cover and let rise
in a warm place (80-85 degrees F.)
until doubled in bulk. When light, di
vide into four equal portions. Roll
each portion into a smooth ball. Cov
er well and let rise 10 to 15 minutes.
Mold into loaves. For a twisted
loaf, roll dough under hand to 2
rolls about 2 inches thick and longer
than the length of the pan. Twist
the 2 rolls around each other and
place in greased pans. Let rise un
til doubled in bulk. Bake in a mod
erately hot (400-425-degree) oven 40
to 45 minutes.
A nutritious coffee cake that is a
tried and true sugar skimper adds
zest to breakfasts. Made with ei
ther of the two dried fruit fillings
given here, it is delightful:
Sweet Yeast Dough.
(Makes 2 12-lnch rings or 34
dozen rolls)
2 cakes yeast
Lynn Says: ,
Good things come in little pack
ages. This little saying applies
perfectly to the concentrated
foods like dried fruits—prunes,
apricots, figs, apples, pears, rai
sins and peaches.
Now more than ever before
you’ll want to use more of them
because they can solve your
sweet tooth problem, in addition
to acting as important blood
builders and keeping your body in
good working condition because
of their important vitamin and
mineral values.
You can appreciate why they
do all this for you when you real
ize that to make one pound of
the dried fruit it takes several
pounds of fresh fruit. For ex
ample, prunes require three
pounds of fresh fruit to make one
pound dried; raisins, four pounds
fresh fruit, apples, six to nine
pounds fresh fruit, pears and figs
both require three pounds of fresh
fruit, while apricots and peaches
five and one-half pounds of the
fresh to make the dried product
This Week’s Mena
•Oven-Baked Chicken
Green Peas Parsleyed Potatoes
Grapefruit, Orange, Strawberry
Salad
•Twisted Loaf
Strawberry Sundae
Coffee Tea Milk
•Recipe Given.
K cup lukewarm water
1 cup milk
!4 cup butter or margarine
K cup sugar
% cup honey
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
5 cups sifted flour (about)
Soften yeast in lukewarm water.
Scald milk, add butter, sugar, honey
and salt. Cool to lukewarm. Add
flour to make a thick batter. Add
yeast and eggs; beat well. Add
enough flour to make a soft dough.
Turn out on a lightly floured board
and knead until satiny. Place in a
greased bowl, cover and let rise un
til doubled in bulk. When light,
punch down. Shape into tea ring
rolls filling with fig or apricot filling.
Bake in a moderate (375-degree)
oven 25 to 30 minutes for coffee cake,
20 to 25 minutes for rolls.
Fig Filling.
(Makes 2 cups)
1 cup chopped figs
K cup orange Juice
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
K cup sugar
K teaspoon salt
K cup chopped nuts
Combine figs, orange juice and
rind, water, sugar and salt Cook
until thick, stirring constantly. Re
move from heat and cooL Add nuts.
Apricot or Prune Filling.
(Makes 2 cups)
IK cups stewed, chopped prunes
or apricots
2 tablespoons sugar or honey
K teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Combine the fruit, honey, cinna
mon and lemon Juice. Mix well.
Do you have a yen for old
fashioned, oven-baked chicken swim
ming in a thick, creamy sauce?
Well, here’s a recipe for you that
you can fix early in the morning
and put in your refrigerator until
cooking time. You may use broil
ers, frying hens, stewing hens or
roasters, but the cooking time va
ries with the age of the chicken.
Broilers take about a half an hour
to cook while stewing hens take
about two hours.
*Ovcn-Baked Chicken.
1 roasting chicken cut up
Milk
Flour
Salt and pepper
K cup butter or fat for frying
1 tablespoon onion, chopped fine
K pound mushrooms
2 cups hot, rich milk
Dip chicken in milk and seasoned
crumbs and flour and fry in skillet
until a golden brown. Fry mush
rooms in butter until brown (about
2 or 3 minutes). Sprinkle chopped
onion over top of chicken arranged
in casserole. Pour hot milk over
top and bake in a moderate (350
degree) oven until chicken is tender.
Serve garnished with chopped pars
ley and a dash of paprika.
Dramatise the Salad.
Salad greens and fresh fruits oc
cupy an important place in our diets
in die spring, and a good salad is
a distinctive part of any menu.
Our salad today "features citrus
fruits and strawberries which are a
spring symphony themselves tossed
on a bed of greens—watercress, ro
maine and leaf lettuce are perfect.
A light french dressing will bring
out the hidden flavors in the greens
and fruits:
French Dressing.
3 tablespoons catsup
1 tablespoon vinegar
M cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon white pepper
2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup salad oil
1 onion, sliced
% teaspoon paprika
Combine ingredients in order giv
en and shake well in jar before
serving. ,
Hare you a particular household or
cooking problem on which you would
like expert advice? H rite to Miss Lynn
Chambers at Western News [taper Union,
210 South Desplaioes Street, Chicago,
Illinois, explaining your problem fully
to her. Please enclose a stamped, self
addressed envelope for your reply.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewtd by
CARTER FIELD
Collapse of German
Morale Seen Possible
In December ... IF
AEF Had Reached
Ulster Sooner . . •
Bell Syndicate—WNU Feature*.
WASHINGTON.—In view of the
clamor of Soviet sympathizers - in
Britain for the opening up of a sec
ond front against Germany to take
the pressure off Russia it is inter
esting to examine all the “facts”
we have in regard to what may hap
pen when the mud on the Russian
front becomes passable.
First we must remember the sur
prise of last summer. Both the
British and United States intelli
gence staffs were certain that the
Reds could not last much more than
four weeks. High army officers lost
bets on it with Russian enthusiasts.
One wager, made on army “in
formation.” was that the Nazis would
defeat Russia and win peace by
September 1. This writer won such
a wager, but must confess that he
figured the Russians would be driv
en back to the Ural mountains by
that time!
When it must be remembered that
at no time have the Soviet suc
cesses in driving the Nazis back
been anything like as great as most
of our people have assumed.
The best evidence of this is that
the Germans prepared a line of de
fense, after they realized they would
not make the break-through for
which they had hoped, and at only
two points along the whole line,
from the Arctic to the Black sea,
have they been actually forced back
to that line.
Soviet Generals Now Know
Assuming that the Nazis have no
important new surprise weapon or
method, the Soviet generals are fa
miliar with what they have to face,
know how to fight a sound retreat
ing action when attacked by superi
or force at any one place, and how
to make every Nazi gain expensive
in man power.
How long this war will last is
very likely to depend on the suc
cess of the coming German of
fensive. If their losses should be
as heavy as they have been this
past winter, and as they were
during their successful advance
last summer and fall, and, if
they should not make a really
spectacular success, the Ger
mans might surprise the world
by staging a morale collapse by
December—this year.
As a matter of fact this is the
confident expectation of some very
well-informed people. It should be
added that this is not wishful think
ing, on their part It affects some
manufacturers who are wondering
how they can protect themselves
from serious losses IF the war
should end, suddenly, before the
general expectation.
Even such a desirable develop
ment does not mean that the United
States and Britain would have peace
by the end of this year.
But a collapse in Germany would
leave British and U. S. power free
to concentrate on the Far East.
It is this conviction which has
led so many prominent persons,
In the United States and in Brit
ain, to urge the "second front"
against Germany. It is on the
Russian front, they think, that
the war can be won, and won
this year. They are figuring on
the state of morale Inside Ger
many when next winter closes
In, with no brighter prospects of
ultimate victory for the Ger
mans than they bad last winter.
“I know the Russians can go on
taking It, and can win if we give
them help,” said a high official to
the writer. "I am not sure the Ger
mans can stand a continuance of
their losses on the Russian front”
• • •
Reasons for British
Activity in N. Africa
Since Dunkirk, Britain has lived
in daily fear of a Nazi invasion via
Ireland. This is the key to the puz
zle which has caused so many up
lifted eyebrows — and worse — in
America since the announcement
that a strong United States expedi
tionary force had landed in Ulster.
"Why,” critics all over this coun
try have been asking, “have we not
sent troops to help General Mac
Arthur instead of to Ireland?”
There are two answers. It was
considered, during the period be
tween Pearl Harbor and the time
troops were landed in Ulster, that
to attempt to send transports loaded
with troops across the Pacific to Ma
nila would be inviting disaster—the
drowning of thousands of troops
without doing MacArthur’s heroes
any good.
The sending of troops to Ul
ster was motivated by strategy
which has been explained only
partially to the American peo
ple. Had those troops been sent
three months earlier, there
might have been a very differ
ent story in North Africa. Field
Marshal Rommel might be a
prisoner today, his command
killed or captured, had that been
done.
j
Pioneer Mother Honored
\4OTHER’S day this year had a
special significance for the
‘‘Middle Border"—that part of the
United States (North and South Da
kota, eastern Nebraska, Montana
and Wyoming and western Iowa and
Minnesota) where two frontiers met
and coalesced. A short time pre
vious to Mother’s day a painting by
a famous artist, who was born in
South Dakota, was unveiled at Da
kota Wesleyan university at Mitch
ell, S. D., headquarters of the
Friends of the Middle Border, an
organization founded to preserve the
rich cultural heritage of that re<
gion. This is the painting:
DAKOTA WOMAN
(Harvey Dunn, artist.)
which now hangs in the Dakota Gal
leries in Mitchell—a perpetual re
minder of one of the most heroic
types of motherhood the world has
ever known.
Perhaps, as visitors gaze upon
Dunn’s painting, they will recall this
tribute paid to just such a woman as
is depicted there:
THE PRAIRIE MOTHER
She came to rock the cradle of a new
empire. Adventure calls to men, but dutj
summons women. And so, when the tirrn
was ripe to breed new stars for the flag
she set forth from Maine and Ohio anc
Killarney’s loveliness and her Swedisl
village and her fjord home to mother tht
wilderness.
Only God and she knows the fullness
of her giving to the young Northwest.
She lived in sod houses and hay-roofed
huts, with the newest neighbor often a
day’s trudge away.
She had no decencies. She did not ever
know the luxury of floor or fireplace. Hei
meal was ground in a hand mill and hei
baking range was a make-shift oven in
the yard.
She helped in the fields—at the plowing
and the sowing, and she helped to scythe
the crop and bind the sheaves.
She watered stock and spun and knit
ted and tailored. She made a garden and
preserved the winter food, milked her
cows and nursed her children. The
sleepy-eyed sun found her already at her
tasks, and the midmoon heard her croon
the baby to rest.
Her ’’beauty sleep” began at ten and
ended at four. Year in and year out she
never had an orange, a box of sweets or
a gift of remembrance.
She fought drouth and dearth and sav
ages and savage loneliness, her "Sunday
bests” were calico and linsey woolsey.
She grew old at the rate of twenty-four
months a year at the grubbing hoe and
the washtub and the churn.
She bore her bairns alone and burled
them on the frozen prairies.
But she asked no pity for her broken
arches, her aching back, her poor,
gnarled hands. Or for the wistful mem
ories of a fairer youth in sweeter lands.
She gave America the great North
west, and was too proud to quibble at the
cost of the stalwart sons to whom she
willed it.
She mothered MEN!—Herbert Kauf
man in the Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune.
Or they may recall this poetic
tribute:
A WOMAN HOMESTEADER
I walked with quick steps up the coulee
trail;
I had to hurry lest the creeping dark
Would catch me and my nervous hands
would fail
To find the wire gate that closed the
park
Against stray cattle. Here my cabin
stood.
In a small wilderness of quaking asp;
Here I ‘‘homesteaded.” No one thought I
could
Two years ago, but now I calmly pass
A bristling porcupine, a rattlesnake.
The watching eyes of some wild, hid
den thing—
A coyote sneaking near the dried-up lake,
A row of stunted pines where finches
sing.
The mule-eared deer that often come to
sup.
And nuzzle one another at my spring
(Which, after cleaning, is but just a cup),
And yet, tonight, how glad I was to
bring
My hands in contact with the wire bight
That held my gate. I thought. “Real
homesteading!
I hate the dark; I only love the light!"
Quickly I shut the door and slid the
draw
Across the iron latch, and dropped the
clamp, .
Firmly in place, but not before I saw
Near Tiger Butte the glimmer of a lamp.
I stood a moment puzzled by the light—
Startled, perhaps, and curious as a deer
That lifts its head to catch the rushing
flight
Of a young grouse. And then my silly fear
Vanished like mountain mist. My
lamp! A match!
To cheer that other soul I knew had come
To plough and fence; to have a garden
patch;
To live with God as I and build a home.
—Lillian Leonard in Scribner’s Magazine.
Besides such tributes as these,
the memory of the pioneer mother is
perpetuated in various parts of the
country in bronze and stone. Several
years ago the Daughters of the
, American Revolution marked the
National Old Trails route from the
Atlantic to the Pacific with heroic
statues of the women who followed
; that trail across the country. Twelve
of these statues, each 18 feet tall,
are today standing along the trail in
the states of Maryland, Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Pattern No. Z9262
LJ ERE are some new tea towel
*■ designs that are truly differ
ent. Grapes and jampots, oranges
and a juicer, apples and a fruit
jar—from these and cross stitch
triangle backgrounds, tea towels
are to be decorated. Four more
tea towel motifs and two panhold
ers (one fruit, one vegetable)
Legal Holidays
According to the Constitution
neither congress nor the President
has the power to prescribe legal
holidays except in the District of
Columbia and the U. S. territorial
possessions, says Collier’s. Nev
ertheless, congress has recognized
the following days as public holi
days: New Year’s day, Washing
ton’s birthday, Memorial day, the
Fourth of July, Labor day, and
Christmas.
Since most of these holidays
have been declared local holidays
by the individual states, they can
be said to be national and legal
holidays. The President proclaims
Thanksgiving a holiday.
complete the set. It’s one youi
will want in your own kitchen, or
to make as a gift.
• • •
Pattern No. Z9262, 15 cents, brings
these 9 motifs in the new hot iron trans
fer that can be stamped several times.
Send your order to:
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No.
Name.
Address.
Do You Bake at Home?
If you do, send for a grand cook
book—crammed with recipes for
all kinds of yeast-raised breads
and cakes. It’s absolutely free.
Just drop a postcard with your
name and address to Standard
Brands Inc., 691 Washington St.,
New York City.—Adv.
/- I
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If functional monthly disturbances
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-try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
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and nervous feelings of women's
"difficult days.”
Taken regularly - Pinkham’s
Compound helps build up resist
ance against such annoying symp
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worthtrj/ine
Other’s Failing
We carry our neighbor’s failing:
in sight; we throw our own over,
our shoulders.
With men in the Army, Navy, Marines,
and the Coast Guard, the favorite cigarette
is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in
Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship’s
Service Stores, Ship’s Stores, and Canteens.)
Special Service Carton
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