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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features—WNU Release. NEW YORK.-Lord Halifax re cently discovered Texas with great enthusiasm. Perhaps he had advance news of the appointment of r c, ci « Major Gen Lone Star State eral Son* Make‘Texas* D. Eisenhow Good Newt Tag mandinggen. eral of the newly established Euro pean theater of operations for U.S.A. forces. General Eisenhower was born and grew up in Texas, as did Admiral Nimitz, later of the Coral sea and Midway. Other sons of the Lone Star state are bringing fame to the name Texas. Two main facets of interest light up the general’s career. He was long an Intimate aide and protege of General Douglas MacArthur, and in his name and fame, the accent is on youth. In army shifts, rapid advance ments and adaptations, in which It was indicated that we weren’t going to have a muscle-bound army, his name frequently has appeared. General Eisenhower Is 52, of the younger school of army officers who make war a science rather than an art. In this connection, he has been characterized as a tactician, as well as a strategist, this, so far as we can learn, Indicating a capacity for quick improvisa tion, even if it breaks some clas sical rule-of-thumb. One reasonable deduction from the selection of General Eisenhower for the European command is that it indicates preparations for a land attack. While he has made special studies of co-ordination of land, sea and air forces, he is a land gen eral, one of the army's leading spe cialists in tank warfare. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the tank corps in the first World war and was com manding officer of the tank corps training center at Gettysburg. Graduated from West Point in 1915, he took a diploma from the army tank school and was an honor gradu ate of the command general staff school in 1926. His Distinguished Service medal came from his service in the Philip pines. When General MacArthur went to the islands in 1935, to build the commonwealth army, he took Colonel Eisenhower with him as his aide, and as assistant military ad viser to the government. He re mained until February, 1940, to re turn home as chief of staff of the Third army at San Antonio, Texas. He attained the rank of brigadier ~ general in 1941. He was assistant chief of staff of the war plans di vision before his recent departure for London with high-ranking officers to scout a European western front. "Alert, resourceful, dependable and adaptable" are prevailing char acterizations by those who know him. THIS John Ford, the moving pic ture director, who became a commander in the navy and got wounded at Midway, is an Irishman Film Director NotQ,Feinne Directing in Battle from Port That Isn’t Celluloid l!nd’ He got a bul let in his arm, grinding out a close up of the battle, on top of the Mid way power house. The filming was an official navy job in the midst of a lot of official shooting. Hollywood passes on the story with an unre hearsed cheer for its Mr. Ford. He got his start as a property boy and before he was 25 had made 206 Westerns. At 28, he directed "The Iron Horse,’’ He built his name on that of the film tag of his brother, Francis Ford, serial star of the silent pictures. He is known on the picture lots as quiet and tough, biting his pipe a lot and not say ing much. He is apt to throw the script away and Improvise a plot. His signal achievement in the film has been to get sharp characterization with a mini mum of stereotype and hokum. This year "How Green Was My Valley" won for him the Academy and Film Critics’ Circle awards for the best directing of 1941. He won the Academy award in 1935 for "The Informer,” and in 1940 for "The Grapes of Wrath.” He is big and bulky, with thinning, sandy hair and heavily rimmed glasses, 47 years old. a_ SOME years ago a famous sociolo gist said that since we were rap idly developing an “energy civiliza tion,” youth would have to acquire to much technical knowledge that it would be gray over the ears before it would be of any use. Many of today’s stand-outs disprove this. Here’s Abe Fortas, undersecretary of the interior at 32. When 23, he was a member of the President’s liquor control commission. In big legal forays and tournaments for the government, his record already would fill a fat biography. ‘ . -_I m Vegetable Preparation Required — Minute* Minutot Pound* Asparagus 180 40 10 BwnsSr gsjazr1""'-**_ ieo *o io Beans, Lima wo,K «”*“»>> * "”"**»■ 180 55 10 Beefs 120 40 10 ■ruttolt Sprout* Romovo outer leave*, wath, precook WA /a ia Cabbage 5 minut,*, odd froth water. _ Carrots ^0^ pr*coot 5 l"inut,t' 120 35 10 Cauliflower wo'K p,*cool‘ 150 35 10 Corn on Cob ^ ^ 210 80 10 Corn, whoii kwm! ^om **pf*coot3 210 80 10 Greens, «p kin* 180 60 10 Parsnips, Turnips y—>—*»«-» 90 35 10 Peas 180 60 K) Pumpkin, Squash 180 60 10 Sauerkraut 30 Vegetable Preparation Stock Those Shelves Well-j ustified pride is yours it you can gaze at the summer’s crop of vegetables, nicely f put up on your I canning shelf for, P comes the winter, ttyou have but to • open one of those > brightly colored f jars with toma toes, peas, beans, beets or carrots or any of the oth er vegetable fa vorites and part of that well bal anced meal is planned and on its way to tne taDie. Time was when canning was an unscientific and highly questionable process, but all this is past now, and you can now put up any of the vegetable and victory garden prod uce, and be certain that it will be attractive to look at, good to eat, and will not be spoiled if you take the simple precautions that make for successful canning. Safest method for canning vege tables is by the pressure cooker. Your concern here is to be sure to process the exact length of time the vegetable requires, as indicated by the table at the top. If not prop erly processed, the food will spoil. Selecting Vegetables. Young, tender vegetables, freshly gathered, give you the best finished product. Canning cannot remedy tough, over-mature produce, so do not expect it to. Nor, should you expect to can what you cannot dis pose of at the table while fresh. Commercial canners use vegetables grown to order, not leftovers, so it behooves you, homemakers, to take a tip from them. Cleanliness is important. You'll enjoy letting cool water trickle, trickle, trickle over the vegetables to free them entirely of every trace of soil. Any soil left on the vegeta ble can carry bacteria, and thus be a major factor in spoiling an other wise good product. Process the jars of vegetables as soon as they are packed, never al lowing them to stand around until you get to the serious business of canning. Spoilage Factors. Mold, yeast and bacteria cause food spoilage. They lurk in air, soil and water and must be de stroyed by proper processing if the food is to keep in perfect condition. Then to assure food keeping well be sure the jar cover is fastened as tightly as pos sible. This you can do by any number of available devices. It is also important when packing the jars, after vegetables have been precooked and you are spooning them into the jars, to wipe oft any excess before fastening on the cov er. Any small particles which lodge between cover and jar will cause spoilage. Cooling the Jars. Proper cooling is important to the good keeping of canned food. Do not Lynn Says: How many jars will it take? That’s the question many home canners are asking when it comes to figuring the number of jars she should have. Here are hints on some of the common canned goods: Tomatoes: 3 pounds yield a quart jar. String Beans: 1 bushel yields 17 to 20 quart jars. Greens: 1 bushel spinach yields 13 pints; 1 bushel dandelions | yields 15 pints. Corn: 100 ears of golden Ban tam makes about 14 pints. Beets: 12 pounds yields 6 pints in the stalk. 2 pint jars, if cut in pieces. Peas: 1 bushel pods yields 14 pints. and Processing Guide THIS WEEK'S MENU Raspberry, Cherry Fruit Cup Lamb Steaks Creamed New Potatoes Buttered Greens Onion-Orange Salad Raisin Bread Custard Pie Beverage ■ ■ - - - ■ set them in a draft, but rather away from one, with jars far enough apart to allow a free circulation of air around them. Stacking the jars or covering them with a cloth does not allow for free circulation of the air. Jars should not be packed in boxes or in the canning cupboard until they are properly cool. When the jars are cool, test to see if they are sealed properly, by taking a spoon and tapping the lid gently. If they give off a clear, ringing sound, they are properly sealed. If the sound is low and dull, there’s a leak somewhere, and you would do best to re-can the food, and prevent spoilage. Sterilizing Jars, Caps, Lids. To dip the jars, lids and caps in hot or warm water is not proper sterilization. Before placing in ster ilizer, wash all caps and jars and lids in soapy suds, then rinse thor oughly. Place in a pan on a rack or on a cloth laid on the bottom of the pan and pour warm water over them. Bring to a boil and boil for 15 minutes. The equipment may stay in the hot water longer, until you are ready to use it. Speed Is Necessary. The time from which the vegeta bles or fruit are picked and canned should be pared down to exceed not more than two hours. Changes take place in the composition of the food which makes it less desirable for canning, each hour it is allowed to stand without being canned. Packing the Food. Sandwiching the food down in the jars too tightly prevents the heat from getting around it and will re sult in improper processing. Espe cially important is a fairly loose packing with vegetables like com, peas, greens and lima beans. If liquid boils away or evaporates during processing, do not replace this other liquid before sealing the jar. Even though all the vegeta bles or fruits are not covered with juice, they will keep perfectly well, provided the contents are cooked properly and sealed well. Since tomatoes are technically a fruit and are acid, they are canned differently from vegetables. Tomatoes. Scald tomatoes in boiling water 1 minute. Soak in cold water 1 min ute.Peel, core and pack into steri lized jars. Add 1 teaspoonful of salt to each jar and cover with boiling water or tomato juice to within V4 inch of the top. Put on cap, screw tightly and place in pressure cooker for 10 minutes at 5 pounds, in a hot water bath for 35 minutes or in the oven for 75 minutes. Vegetable Soup Mixture. 1 large onion (cut fine) 1 quart tomatoes (cut fine) 2 cups okra (cut fine) 2 cups corn (cut fine) Combine the ingredients, stirring carefully to prevent scorching, for about 12 minutes. Pack loosely into clean jars and add 2 teaspoons salt to each jar Put on cap fastening it tightly, and process in pressure cooker 40 minutes at 10 pounds. If (he directions for the vegetables you wish to can are not given in today's column, or if you have any vegetable canning problems, write to Miss Lynn Chambers, explaining your problem to her. Address vour letters to her at Western Newspaper L'nion, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois. Clease enclose a stamped, self addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD United Nations Eating Away at Nazi Morale . . . India Still a Big Headache for England Bell Syndicate—WNU Featurea. WASHINGTON.—Reports of the pounding of German objectives by bombers, and air activities in gen eral against the Nazis, are not exag gerations. Nor are reports about aid to Russia. President Roosevelt seems to be playing a dirty sort of trick on the Japanese. He is doing exactly what he said he would! Meaning that he promised right after Pearl Harbor that he would not permit Hitler's Far Eastern ally to play the Nazi strategy by divert ing all American aid to the South west Pacific. As any Nazi spy who is active enough can find out, planes are still pouring to Britain and Rus sia, and this is the real explanation of Germany’s present troubles. The increased tempo of the air at tacks has diverted a tremendous amount of German air strength from the Russian front, and according to the London reports the United Na tions are using their newly obtained superiority. Frequently nowadays the British reports admit more losses of their own than of the enemy. Fortunate ly, these reports are not to be ac cepted without a bit of translation because of the extraordinary con servatism of the British claims about enemy planes shot down one can al ways be sure that the number of enemy losses claimed is a minimum, not a maximum. Once She’s Knocked Out: Obviously the United Nations are concentrating on Germany, certain that if they once knock her out, the remainder of the war is only a ques tion of time. With increasing air superiority, both on the Russian and the Atlantic fronts, it is not so much a question of military achievement as it is of destruction of German morale. In appraising the judgment of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in thus con centrating on Germany, and let ting Japan, for the time being, get away with murder, one should remember that it was the collapse of German morale in the last war which brought peace, rather than smashing military victories. The German armies were never driven back to their own soil. They were still on a line deep in France when the armistice was signed. In short the present campaign Is directed at bringing about a col lapse inside Germany. The effort is to take advantage of the weakness clearly shown in Hitler’s last broad cast, which incidentally merely re inforces all the grapevine reports extending across the borders. Hope here is that when December comes, and the gloom of another German winter, the end of the war, so far as Europe is concerned, may be brought about. • • • Enormous Racial and Religious Difficulties India is proving a bigger head ache for Britain than Palestine was before the war. In the huge area stretching down from the “Top of the World,” Mt. Everest, to the point opposite Ceylon, there are racial and religious difficulties even more dev astating to any proposed application of rhyme or reason than were those which so worried the British govern ment about "Zion.” There is one important difference, which probably makes the solution harder than the Palestine problem. It was generally recognized with re spect to Palestine that if the British government would simply take its hands off, and leave the whole thing to work itself out (self-determina tion, to use Woodrow Wilson’s phrase) there was no doubt about what would happen. The Arabs would have started programs which would make those of Poland half a century ago look like picnics. There would not have been any Jews left in Palestine in a little while. This picture made it obvious, even to the most cantankerous critic of British policy in Palestine, that Brit ain simply could not get out. But in India there is no such cer tainty. The Hindoos outnumber the Moslems roughly around three to one. But there are many shrewd observers, among them Rep. George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts, who has spent a great deal of time in India; they believe that one Moslem can whip at least five hindoos. So if a cat and dog fight should develop between these two great groups there is no certainty as to who would be the final victor. All that is sure is that millions of both groups would be killed before one side conquered, or both dropped from exhaustion. India is more complicated, on a big scale, than Ireland. The Free State people contend, of course, that they ought to have Ulster—the Brit ish, that they should not. There is a minority in Ulster who want to join the Free State, but it is very clear that a majority in Ulster do not Success Factors For Livestock Practice* Now Have Proven Their Value By P. E. JOHNSTON (Deportment of Agriculture Economics, University of Illinois College of Agriculture.) Here are some 36 “success” fac tors by means of which farmers can gear up their livestock production for wartime needs. All the practices have proved their worth in farm account records kept by farmers in co-operation with this college. BREEDING: (1) Flush at breed ing time, (2) reduce feed of sows at weaning time and (3) use proper type breeding stock and select in dividuals (mark litters and select from best and sort gilts from feed ing herd before they get too fat for proper use). FEEDING: (1) Feed proper ra tions to sows during gestation peri od, (2) provide plenty of pasture, (3) put sows and pigs on self feed er, (4) feed balanced rations to pigs and (5) provide plenty of fresh water. Most Important. SANITATION: (Eighteen of 24 farmers interviewed stated that sanitation was most important fac tor of all.) (1) Clean houses, (2) clean sows and (3) clean pastures. MARKETING: (1) Sell spring and fall pigs when prices are normally highest (August - September and March-April) and (2) deviate from normal if the outlook shows clearly that an abnormal situation prevails at the time. TIMELINESS: To conserve labor and to increase the production of pork, (1) breed sows to farrow at desired time, (2) have equipment ready and guard against rapid changes in temperature, (3) castrate before pigs are four weeks of age, (4) vaccinate at five to six weeks, (5) wean at eight weeks and (6) fin ish at six months of age, the usual time period. Farm Hazards Strangely, agriculture is the most hazardous American indus try, with the farm home contributing largely to this amazing total of accidents. Here are some safety sugges uons: Sharp-edged tools be kept away from play places. Stairways with more than three steps be equipped with hand-rails. Free use of both hands not to be sacrificed because of heavy load to carry. And stairways be kept clear of toys, tools, and boxes. The an nual cost of farm and rural fires is $200,000,000. Then, too, besides this property damage, 3,500 lives are lost in these fires. To combat this menace: Every open fireplace be equipped with a screen. Kettles, pails, and tubs of hot liquids be kept off the floor. House dry cleaning be done out of-doors. Matches be kept away from children. And saucepan handles be kept away from the edges of stoves and tables. Cuts, bruises, and infections should never be regarded as mi nor, as people have died as a re sult of a scratch becoming in fected. Lamb Fattening Tests In an effort to help sheepmen find ways to fatten lambs by adding protein to rations, the Cornell uni versity agricultural experiment sta tion tested seven “protein supple ments” on lambs. Each lamb re ceived, in addition to the particu lar protein-rich feed tested, a stand ard ration of shelled corn, corn si lage, ground limestone and salt. The lambs fed linseed meal in the ration had better appetites than did those fed the other supplements, which included soybean oil meal, whole soybeans, corn gluten meal. ; distillers' corn dried grain, brewers’ dried grains, and urea. Averaging the two experiments, the feeding value was slightly the highest for whole soybeans, followed by soybean oil meal, corn gluten meal, and linseed meal. Wheat Poultry Ration Bushel for bushel, wheat is the cheapest ingredient in the poultry ra tion today and more and more poul trymen are feeding wheat. The reason wheat is so cheap at the present time is that the U. S. de- '• partment of agriculture is putting about 100 million bushels of wheat on the market. This was done to help livestock, dairy, and poultry producers use this wheat for feed and attain Food for Freedom pro duction goals. NEW IDEAS tMome-mcJzefofc' By Ruth Wyeth Spears PAD ONE END OF STRETCHER DRIVE NAILS IN THEN FILE OFF HEADS • STRETCH AMD TACK WEBBING TRIM END LEAVING l“ TURN UNDER RAW END AND TACK AGAIN , OVER AND SOUNDER CROSS WISE MECES I JPHOLSTERY repair work is rather costly hand labor. How ever, if you can clear a comer where you may work on it a little at a time, it is easy to do. Use boxes or an old table to rest the piece on at a comfortable working height. Remove the outside cov ering first, keeping it whole to use as a pattern; then remove pad ding, springs and webbing, writ ing down everything you want to remember about how they were placed; also the amount of web bing used. When the last tack is out, re-web the bottom of the seat, as shown, with strong new web bing and a homemade stretcher. Use No. 4 tacks or regular web bing tacks, and a tack hammer. Patrick Discovered No Murmuring of the Crowd Patrick went to a funeral home to pay his last respects to a busi ness acquaintance, who had been a grasping fellow. The funeral service was an imposing one, and Pat Sat patiently through it. And when it was over he approached one of the mourners and inquired: “What did he die of?” ‘‘He died of a Tuesday,” was the reply of the mourner. ‘‘No, no,” said Pat, “I don’t mean when he died. I mean what was the complaint?” With that the mourner’s eyes lighted up. ‘‘Oh, I see what you mean. Well, to tell the truth, there was no complaint. Everybody is satisfied.” NOTE: You will find some upholsterers tricks clearly sketched in Book 7, and the new Book 8, of the series prepared by Mrs. Spears for readers, shows you how to make a simple chair frame. To get a copy send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for each book prdered. Name.... , Address. (v. fk. fv. (v. (v. (V. (v, (v. (v. (v. (v. {v. (v. {v. <v. (V# ? rfttf ME n ; ; ANOTHER f ? ^ A General Quiz * | ^ (V. {V. fv. fk. (v. (V. (V. (v. {v. (V.. (V. fu O" (v. fv- O-- fv. fw» The Question* 1. When was the U. S. Marin* Corps organized? 2. Where is the force of gravity felt the least, at the poles or at the equator? 3. What is another name for horse mackerel? 4. Who was the first man to be President of the 48 American states? 5. If an object has no definite shape, it is said to be what? The Answers 1. In 1775 (by an act of the Con. tinental congress). 2. The equator. 3. Tuna. 4. William H. Taft. 5. Amorphous. SS mg/lTS Surface Errors Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow. • Enjoy Better Results when you use Clabber Girl for quick breads, biscuits and other nour« ishing foods ... 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