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.
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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.
Room 1116
211 West Waclcer Dr. Chicago
Enclose 20 cents in coins for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No......Size.
Name...
Address...
Young Suitor Felt Sure
The Idea Was Correct
The young man had for some
months been calling on Helen.
Then at last he came to see her
father. Without a tremor he asked
for the daughter’s hand in mar
riage, and hardly waiting for a
reply, added this announcement:!
“It’s a mere formality, I know,
but we thought it would be pleasing
to you if it were observed in the
usual way.”
Helen’s father stiffened and
glowered, then:
“And may I inquire,” he asked,
“who suggested to you that asking
my consent to my daughter’s mar
riage was a mere formality?”
“Yes,” replied the young man.
“It was Helen’s mother.”
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