WHO’S NEWS THIS j WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features—WNU Release. XTEW YORK.—At Londonderry, in 'Av Ulster, the U. S. A. has its first naval base in Europe—the first in history. It is an operating base and it is now op Had Abiding Faith erating. This Freemen Would is a remind Make Free World that the ancient and adaptable "Londonderry Air," obtainable in any one of many guises at any song shop, never failing to re-align rag ged basses and tenors and bring them through to a valorous finish. It was over half a century ago that John Addington Symonds, great English literary critic, wrote his adaptation of the "Londonderry Air." He made the old song "News Today.” Here are his words: Come day of joy, when lustier men and nobler Than ere the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their spirits, And light of knowledge in their eyes. They shall be gentle, brave and strong of heart, TV, spill no drop of blood, but they shall dare. All that may plant man's lordship firm and free On earth and fire and flood and sea and air. Till race with race and people blent with people, Unarmed shall live as comrades free. In every heart shall beat the love of human kind. The pulse of one fraternity. New arts shall bloom, of lustier mould more beautiful. And mightier music thrill the skies. And every life shall be a song of pure delight When all the earth’s a paradise for all. In school we took a lot of punish ment from on aggressive pedagog, assaulting us with Symonds’ "Pred ecessors of Shakespeare." It was not until years later that we understood that Symonds had been fanning up that "flame of freedom” of pre Elizabethan England, and that in Webster, Marlowe, Green, Dekker, Peale and Heywood, he found unfet tered spirits, making a great litera ture and a great England. If the teacher had had us sing the "Lon donderry Air," as above, we might have understood. COMEBODV is always giving Dr. ^ J. C. Hunsaker a medal, so turn about is fair play when he gets on the sending end and hands one to . Brig. Gen. Rate$ an Aimf James Doo When Our Plane* little, for ob Score a Put-Out vious rea: sons and with appropriate sentiments. As chairman of the national advisory committee for aeronautics, he con ferred on the Tokyo bombardier the Daniel Guggenheim meda) which he himself received in 1935. Most people would be willing to settle for Tokyo in honoring General Doolittle, but Dr. Hunsaker, a care ful scientist, weighs in the general's other achievements and emphasizes the award as “not given for any single act.” That puts both the gen eral and Tokyo in a long perspec tive, which is characteristic of Dr. Hunsaker. He Is the head of the faculty of aeronautical and mechanical en gineering ut the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a for mer commander and aircraft de signer In the navy, and co-ordi nator or navy research. He de signed for the navy the NC4 fly ing boat which made the trans Atlantic flight in 1919, made the first wind tunnel for experimen tation in aerodynamics and de signed the Shenandoah, the big gest dirigible built in America. From Creston, Iowa, he went to Annapolis, and was graduated in 1908. He studied aeronautics in Ger many, getting some interesting close ups of Zeppelin design, and returned in 1912 to begin his wind-tunnel re search at MIT. There he gained his degrees in science and engineering and was an instructor from 1914 to 1916. He was in the construction corps of the navy from 1909 to 1926, advancing to the rank of command er, retiring from the navy in 1927. He became a director of the Good year Zeppelin corporation in 1929 and vice president in 1935. In addi tion to the Guggenheim medal, his awards include the Navy Cross and the Franklin medal. A FTER a battle of many decades, ** Britain takes over her under ground coal deposits from the an cient ownership of dukes, mar quesses, earls and the Church. Na tionalization is for the war period only. The transfer is a victory for Sir Ernest A. Gowers, who has made more or less of a career in the cause of public ownership of coal mines. He becomes chairman of th*» commission of five members in which ownership of the mines is vest ed. He is little known in British public life outside of coal issues. H ■> 04} Jliftui GltambeM Prepare for Winter With Delicious Canned Fruit (See Recipes Below.) Fruit Canning Plan now to put up those fruits from the market or your victory garden while you can atill capture their garden freshness and summer sweet ness. This year’s canning will re quire more care nil planning than ever Deiore, tor waste in the fruit itself, canning jars, rubbers or sugar is highly un desirable. Chart your plans before embark ing on the canning program. Con sider first how much sugar you will have available, with the five pounds per person allotment for people who are canning. Plan this amount so it will do for the jams, jellies, pre serves, and sugar syrups for fruit canning. If possible, can in the early morn ing hours when you are rested and your mind free from too many oth er thoughts. You will then be able to follow recipes more carefully, to work with more energy and spirit. The day before you will, if you are the bright and alert homemaker, have gathered together your jars, washed them, bought necessary sup plies of rubbers and covers and oth er equipment. Bring out the preserving kettles and pressure cookers, too. See that they are well scoured, that you have the racks, petcocks, pressure gauge, and steam-tight cover on the pres sure cooker well in order. A hot water bath is best for pro cessing fruits because they are acid. They can safely at high tempera tures, and tex ture, flavor and color are best Oven canning is good also. For the hot water bath, ^ use a large wash boiler or vessel with tight fitting cover. Fit this with a rack at least Mi inch from the bottom. Fill the rack with enough water to cover Jars at 4east one inch over the top. Count the processing time as soon as water surrounding the jars begins to boil. There should be free circu lation of water around jars. For oven canning, set the tempera ture at 250 degrees. Set jars on a rack in the cold oven, however. Start counting time when the oven is switched or turned on. Do not al low the temperature ever to exceed 250 degrees as this causes liquid to boil away and evaporate. In placing your jars in the oven, allow for free circulation of heat be tween them. Do not allow the jars to touch each other, as this will often cause breakage, and do not allow them to come in contact with the sides of the oven. If liquid evaporates during the processing in the oven, do not fill the Jars after you take them out. Some evaporation does not affect successful canning of the fruit. The Sugar Question. Fruit may be canned successfully without sugar or sugar syrup with water or fruit juice used in its place. Sugar, however, does mellow and ripen the fruit, giving it a better flavor. You might try making your fruit syrups for fruit canning less sweet than usual if you are short on sugar. Honey may be used in place of sugar in making the sweet syrup, but the fruit will be somewhat more dark than if sugar is used and the fruit flavor will be intensified. Use honey for each cup of sugar in the substitution. Lynn Says: How many jars are you putting up of the fruits? Here’s a guide to help you pick out jars: Cherries: 9 baskets yield 2 pints pitted. 7 pints, if whole. Peaches: 2Vi pounds (small basket) yields 1 quart Plums: 1 14-pound basket yields 25 pints. Strawberries: i crate yields 26 pints, if canned whole; 31 (7Mi ounce) glasses of jam. THIS WEEK’S MENU Smothered Steak With Onions Green Beans Scalloped Potatoes Tomato-Lettuce Salad Bran Muffins Whipped Fruit Gelatin Beverage White corn syrup is another ac ceptable substitute, but since it is less sweet than sugar, substitute 1V4 cups of corn syrup for 1 cup of sugar. Syrups to Use. Thin syrups (No. 1) are used for small, soft fruits such as cherries and berries. Make the syrup by us ing three parts of water to one part of sugar. Medium syrup (No. 2) does best by sour berries, acid fruits as cher ries and rhubarb, and peaches. Boil two parts of water with one part of sugar. Heavy syrup (No. 3) is prescribed for the large, sour fruits in which you desire extra sweetness. Measure one part water to one part sugar and bring to a boil. Apples or Pears. (Hot Pack) Wash, pare, core uniform-sized ap ples and cut to desired sices. (If fruit it to stand long enough to discolor, drop in to water which has been slightly salted, until ready to use.) Drain from brine. Boil 3 to 5 minutes in a medium syrup and pack into clean jars, filling with syrup to % inch of the top. Put on cap, screw band tight, process in hot water bath 25 minutes, or in the oven (at 250 degrees) 75 minutes. If using a pres sure cooker, process at 5 pounds for 10 minutes. Apples or Pears. (Open Kettle) Select uniform fruit, wash, pare and core. Cut into halves or slices. Drop into boiling No. 1 syrup, and boil for 20 minutes. Pack into clean, hot, sterilized jars and seal tight. Peaches. (Open Kettle) Select firm, ripe peaches. Peel or dip peaches in hot water, then in cold and slip off peel. Leave whole or cut in halves or slices. Boil 20 minutes in No. 2 or 3 syrup, and pack in clean, hot, sterilized jars. Seal tightly. Peaches. (Hot Pack) Prepare as above, removing peel and pits. Precook for 3 minutes, then pack into clean jars, add syrup to within % inch of the top. Put on top, screw on firmly, and process ii\ a hot water bath for 20 minutes, or in the pressure cooker for 10 min utes at 5 pounds, or in the oven (250 degrees) for 68 minutes. Plums. (Hot Pack) Use the same method and time as for peaches, except do not peel the fruit, merely prick the skins. Berries. (Cold Pack) (Except strawberries and cranber ries) Wash, stem and pack berries. Pack into clean jars and add No. 2 or 3 syrup. Put on cap, screw tightly. Process in hot water bath 20 minutes or in pressure cooker 8 minutes at 3 pounds or in the oven at 250 degrees for 68 minutes. Cherries. (Cold Pack) Wash, stem and pit cherries, if desired. Pack into well cleaned jars, fill with No. 2 or 3 syrup depend ing on the sweetness desired. Put on cap and fasten tightly. Process 20 minutes in a hot water bath, 10 minutes in the pressure cooker at 5 pounds, or 68 minutes in a 250 degree oven If the directions for the fruit you de sire to can are not given here, or if you have any query on other canning prob lems, write to Miss Lynn Chambers, ex plaining your problem to her. Address your letters to her at Western Newspa per ( nion, 210 South llesplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois. I'leuse enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Wealern Newspaper Union. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Rtviewtd by CARTER FIELD Senate Boosts Appro priations for Non-fPar Purposes . . . Can the British Develop Good Generals? . . . Bell Syndicate—WNU Featurea. WASHINGTON.—The senate is by far the worse offender of the two branches of congress in refusing to curtail governmental expenditures not connected with the war, accord ing to a report made by the Citizens' Emergency Committee of Washing ton. In all six departmental appro priation measures acted on up to early this month, the senate boosted the totals. This was done despite the valiant efforts of certain Democratic senators, led by Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, to enforce economy. The aggregate In crease in appropriations, through inclusion of new items and in creases for existing items, amounted to $292,428,623. More than a quarter of a billipn dollars added by the senate to what the house of representatives thought was ample! Not startling contrast ed with appropriations for air planes, tanks, guns, ammunition, ships, and the supply and pay of the men in the armed forces, but re member that these appropriations here considered have nothing to do with the prosecution of the war. Bear in mind that no one has dared accuse the house of repre sentatives of failing to vote a single penny asked for war purposes. And these increases, amounting to near ly three hundred million dollars, were added to the house figures. House Not Blameless Now actually, while the commit tee lays the burden of blame, and quite properly so, on the senate, the house is far from being blameless. It is about as economical as a wife on a shopping binge after hearing that her husband had a fat pay raise! It is only by contrast with the senate that the house shines. Actu ally the economy group, more vocal in the senate though less potent in influencing rollcalls, regards the house performance as little short of a spending org3#-and this, keep re membering—on spending which has nothing to do with the war effort A great many voters obtained an entirely wrong impression from the agreement of both house and senate to eliminate the CCC. There had been so much favorable comment on the training camps for young men—in fact some said it was the best thing the New Deal had done— that headlines announcing its aboli tion struck many taxpayers as in dicating a real economy move on the part of congress. Not exactly. The death knell of the CCC appropriation was sounded by a flood of mail from indignant farmers. It was bad enough, the farmers wrote their congressmen, to have Jim, and George and Joe drafted, while Harry and Bud enlisted in the navy. But on top of that for the government to take George and Bill in the CCC camps, who in the dickens was going to work the farm? Didn’t we need some food for the soldiers? Not to mention our allies and our own civilians? Large British Forces Have Been Poorly Directed Not only in Britain, but through the United States, there is a growing conviction that for some reason the British have failed to develop any good generals. There is little understanding ol this, because actually the planning and military skill used, for example, in the Commando raids, has been excellent so far as we have been able to learn. But from the very beginning the direction of larger British forces has been, as well as we can judge from here, very poor. So when one of the most impor tant peers. Lord Strabolgi, com mented that if Rommel had entered the British army, as he entered the German, he might by this time have reached the rank of sergeant, there was a chorus of agreement in this country. This became even more a general criticism of the whole British mili tary system when a Socialist mem ber of parliament added, paraphras ing the duke of Wellington's remark that the battle of Waterloo was won on “the playing fields of Eton,” that the North African campaign had been “lost on the playing fields of Eton." It may very well be that both statements are true—those of the duke of Wellington and of the pres ent day Socialist member of the house. In the days of Napoleon the qualities developed to a high degree at Eton—that “die for the old school" attitude which led men to endure anything rather than to let their class down—were of the ut most value in a battle. There have been cases in our army of men working up from the ranks to important posts, though none in our navy. Milk Distribution Changes Pending Labor, Transportation, Material the Reason By T. G. STITTS (Chief of Co-Op Research and Service, Farm Credit Administration, Washington, D. C.) Shortages of critical materials and resources threaten to bring about more dramatic changes in milk distribution methods within the short space of a few weeks than the combined forces of competition and industrial ingenuity have brought about in the past few years. Shortages of rubber, labor, trucks, machinery, paper and possibly oth er materials may accentuate the trend away from home delivery, speed up every-other-day delivery, cause zoning of sales areas and may spell the end of special deliv eries and particular special services. These war-time factors overshad ow temporarily the longer-run trend toward new methods of distribution which have been going on for sev eral years in the fluid milk Indus Courtesy U. S. Department of Agriculture This little miss from Washington, D. C., knows what is good for her. The millions of gallons of milk con sumed each week, both here and abroad in those nations to which Uncle Sam has sent it, is preventing malnutrition which so sorely afflict ed war time nations during the last war. try. These longer-run developments, however, retain a basic importance not only during the war but in the post-war period. Paper Instead of Metal The introduction of paper contain ers, growth of gallon and half-gallon containers, increase in store sales, increased sale of special milks, growth of peddlers, use of retail price-quantity discount schemes and development of all wholesale deal ers are among the more important recent changes that were well under way in several larger cities before the defense and the war emergency developed. From experiences so far. it is dif ficult to conclude how many of these changes will be permanent. Many of them will be, but others may prove to be unsatisfactory for one reason or another. AGRICULTURE •INDUSTRY Cotton By FLORENCE WEED (This is one oi s series ot articles show ing how farm products are finding an im portant market in industry.) Cotton seed will soon be more im portant than cotton lint, according to a cotton economist. This change has come about since science has discovered new uses for linters, hulls, oil and meal. Linters are the short fuzzy fibers left by the gin. They are used for gun cotton, varnishes, mattresses, fine writing paper, kodak films, smokeless powder and shatter-proof glass. Mixed with chemicals, the linters form plastics that can be molded into thousands of useful ar ticles from radio cases to knife handles. Linters, spun into yam, make the new rayon fabrics. Cotton hulls go into bran for cat tle. blotting paper, packing materi als, baseballs and horse collars. Oil pressed from the seed is sold for food uses and goes into auto cup grease, roofing tar, cosmetics and in emulsifying medicine. Cotton cake and meal, left after the oil is extracted, is used for stock feed and fertilizer. Cotton cloth has been used experi mentally in making hard surfaced highways in 25 states. Research has produced a cotton cloth that looks like wool and is be ing used for blankets. A new cord ing, strong enough for parachute harness and bomb slings, is taking the place of linen, once imported be fore the war. Rural Briefs For best production milking should be done at regular hours. After milking is started. It should be com pleted without interruption and as j rapidly as possible. • • • A new method of cheese-making developed at the Virginia Polytech nic institute cuts the customary time in half and has been selling ; at a premium on the market. Sterns SEWING CfHRCLE IX/’HAT a practical idea there ’ * is in this cunning small outfit for little girls! Off with the jacket and you have a cunning play dress without sleeves—so that it permits rollicking freedom and plenty of healthy sun tan. It is a dress which your daughter can wear in comfort for hours bf back-yard play, beach games and farm life! The jacket which dramatically transforms the princess frock into a smart street outfit is just waist length, has tiny short sleeves and a simple square neck. You’ll like the effect if you apply to the skirt two bands of the material you use Bathing Their God Once every 15 years, more than 500,000 members of the Jain sect in India gather in the city of Sravana Belgona for the bath and ceremonial worship of the 57-foot statue of their god Gomateshvara, says Collier’s. From various stations on the scaffolding on three sides, scores of Jain priests pour milk, ghee and water over the colossal figure and then shower it with such offer ings as dates, poppy seeds, sugar, coins and gems. in the jacket. Band the panties, too, to complete the cheerful en semble. Pattern No. 1607-B gives you complete instructions for making each of the three pieces. • • * Barbara BeU Pattern No. 1607-B is de signed for sizes 2, 3. 4. 5 and 6 years. Size 3 years dress requires 1% yards o£ 35- or 39-inch material, bolero plus bands for dress and panties. 3/t yard and panties, *4 yard. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 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