Feast for Fall Days—Baked Beans
(See Recipes Below.)
Pulling Purse Strings
Today, let’s talk about budgets.
Food budgets In particular, because
they will De a
major item in
your life the next
s few months as
l prices slowly edge
f upwards, as the
j days slip into fall
' and winter and
the summer bargains in foods be
come fewer and you have to do
more juggling with figures to give
your family the right food, at the
best possible prices.
If you are Mrs. Average America,
you will be more nutrition conscious
this year than last. too. This will
be not only because nutrition news
has sprinted into the limelight, but
because the demands of wartime liv
ing upon energy have become so
great that you will have to have
right foods to do your most and your
best.
But, how can budgeting help you
to serve "right” meals, you ask.
That's simple. Buy the right foods
with your dollars and you can’t help
serving meals that are correctly bal
anced.
First, divide the food dollar into
fifths. One-fifth, or 20 cents, should
go for vegetables and fruits. Use
the next fifth for milk and cheese.'
The third of the fifths goes for the
basis of your important meals—
meats, eggs and fish.
Another fifth will be set aside for
breads and cereals, while the very
last 20 cents is allowed for acces
sory items such as butter, fats, sug
ar, tea, coffee and spices.
General Guide.
The 20-cent rule is not a hard and
fast rule. It is only a general guide
because prices of the different
groups of food vary from season to
season, from section to section. Use
youf judgment in spending.
Perhaps you get milk from the
milkman, vegetables from the ped
uier who comes
to your back door
three times a
week, eggs from
the farm, and
meat from a fa
vorite butcher.
Or. you may get
all your food
from one place.
There is no one
way to shop. Pick out what the best
way is from the facilities available,
but be sure to investigate those fa
cilities before you fall into one pat
tern.
Shopping Carefully.
Conservation's an important note
in these times. And it's mighty im
portant in this fascinating business
of stocking up the pantry. If you
plan meals for, say three days, or
better still, a week in advance, you
will not be trotting up to the store
twice every day, or calling up your
grocer whose time is at a premium
and whose delivery facilities have
been cut In the midst of cake bak
ing to tell him you simply must
have vanilla. Make out lists, and
then shop ... for everything you
need at one time.
When the snap of auturfin gets into
the air, use pumpkin, squash and
Concord grapes. When the drifts of
snow pile lightly against your door
or the weather gets at least uncom
fortably cold, use root vegetables
and those canned goods in the can
ning cupboard. In spring, straw
berries, asparagus, and broilers
should grace your menu. What I
Lynn Says:
The Score Card: Best of bar
gains are found in American
Cheddar cheese nt the present
time. Production for the first five
months of this year was over 50
per cent greater than for that cor
responding period last year.
Apples, absent from the mar
kets and frjjt stalls during the
summer, in greater quantities,
are coming into their own now.
Apples and honey are food affini
ties and will help you with sugar
rationed.
Fall’s bounty will also include
squash, grapes, and pumpkins
which add economy notes and fla
vorsome touches to menus.
This Week’s Menu
Cream of Celery Soup
•Baked Beans
Lettuce Salad
ChifTonade Dressing
Bread and Butter
Sliced Peaches
Beverage
mean, is, serve foods-in-season! It’s
more than economy, it’s food at its
best!
Cheese Bargains.
Right in line with buying what is
most economical at present are the
bargains you can find in cheese.
Cheese is much more than some
thing you put between slices of
bread or the golden orange wedge
you serve with pie or crackers. It
is the most economical source of
protein and as such can be used
as an excellent meat substitute.
Easily digestible and easily blend
ing with almost every kind of food,
it makes even the simplest dish a
distinctive one because of the flavor
it imparts to it And remember,
you’ll get not only protein when you
use it but those other essential diet
necessities like phosphorus, calcium,
iron, and vitamins B, D and G.
As American as apple pic, are the
American cheese stocks which we
now have on hand. You'll be kind
to your budget if you make use of
some of these ideas:
•Cheese and Baked Beans.
(Serves 6)
1 large can baked beans
1 cup American cheese, grated
i cup grated bread
1 tablespoon chopped green peppers
2 tablespoons chopped celery
1 teaspoon chopped onion
Place beans in baking dish. Then
add all other ingredients and three
slices lean bacon over top of dish.
Bake 30 minutes at 250 degrees.
Tuna and Cheese Souffle.
(Serves 6)
1 cup scalded milk
1 cup soft bread crumbs
*A cup grated American cheese
1 cup flaked tuna
2 tablespoons chopped pimlento
'A teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks
3 egg whites
I tablespoon lemon juice
Combine milk with bread crumbs
and grated cheese. Flake tuna and
add lemon Juice,
plmiento, salt and
well-beaten yolks.
Beat egg white ,
stiff but not dry |
and fold into mix
ture. Turn into a
buttered casse
role, set in a pan
of water and bake in a moderately
slow (325-degree) even 40 minutes or
until golden brown.
Sugar-saving apple recipes do de
lightful things to fall menus, and
help you get the mellow, autumn
note in meals. This revives eating
interest:
Honey Apple Crisp
(Serves 6)
4 cups sliced apples
Vi cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Vi cup honey
Vi cup flour
Vi cup brown sugar
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi cup butter
Vi cup walnuts, if desired
Spread sliced apples in a shallow
baking dish, sprinkle with sugar,
lemon juice and pour honey over
all. In a bowl mix flour, brown sug
ar and salt and work in butter to
make crumbly mixture. Spread
crumbs evenly over apples (and
nuts) and bake in a moderate oven
(370 degrees) for 30 to 40 minutes
until apples are tender and crust
crisply browned. Serve with plain
or whipped cream.
U hat problems or recipes are most
on your mind during these fall days?
Explain your problem to Lynn Cham
bers and she uill give you expert
advice on it. Address your letters,
enclosing a self-addressed stamped en
velope for your reply, to her os Miss
Lynn Chambers, If extern Newspaper
t nion, 210 South Uesplnines Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
Released by Western Newspaper Union
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
| Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
XTEW YORK.—Lieut. Gen. Ber
nard Law Montgomery, as com
mander of Britain’s Eighth army,
| is in supreme command of Allied
He’.'CalCoolidge’ ^Pt’con
Of the Britiuh testing Nazi
, Field Mar
High Command shal Rom.
mel's second major bid for the val
ley of the Nile. While General Mont
gomery won the DSO in World War
I, he is a newcomer to headlines or
citations in this war, having been a
divisional commander in Palestine.
He is known as a cautions,
reticent officer, highly esteemed
in Downing street, according to
meager accounts available here,
for his tact and skill in allaying
political unrest in Palestine and
in neutralizing among the Arabs
the clamor for a Jewish army to
fight with the Allies.
On November 18 of last year, there
was an army shakeup in which Gen
eral Montgomery succeeded Lieut.
Col. Bernard C. Paget as chief of
the Southeastern command. He is
only 55 years old and at the time
of this transfer British newspa
pers noted with satisfaction that the
army was calling on its “younger
men.”
In the years between the big
wars, he was busy with staff
work, said to be one of the keen
est students of traditional war
fare, and became a divisional
commander with the start of this
war. He assumed command of
the Eighth army August 18. He
is slight of person and sharp
featured, rarely on record with
a definite commitment and nev
er has been known to go off the
deep end or get out on a limb.
Born the son of the Rt. Rev. H. H.
Montgomery, he entered the army
in 1908, and fought through World
War I as a battalion major.
AT THE Versailles Peace confer
** ence, a pretty Chinese girl, one
of the secretaries of the Chinese
delegation, made an earnest plea to
At mm mm > , « the confer
Mru. Miniver ence She
Who'u Citizen of urged it not
China and World **
Shantung to Japan, insisting, almost
tearfully, that this would open the
way for Japanese aggression that
would some day “destroy the peace
of the world.”
she was then the first and only
Chinese woman to hold the de
gree doctor of laws, and is to
day Mme. Sourmay Tcheng Wei,
wife of China’s new ambassador
to Washington, Dr. Wei Tao
ming. Slender, smartly dressed,
speaking several languages flu
ently and correctly, she takes
rank with Mme. Chiang Kai
shek and other cultured and
brilliant Chinese women who
have first come to the attention
of this country in the war years.
She might be considered a Chinese
Mrs. Miniver, who could discuss
bombs from first-hand knowledge at
an embassy tea party. She not only
has dodged them but has used them.
^ It was in the revolution that
established the Chinese republic
that this modish little lady was a
bomb-toter. Her father was a
high official of the Manchu gov
ernment. She stepped across
ancient lines of class and tradi
tion to fight with the young Chi
nese, and her special assignment
was transporting and distribut
ing bombs. Thus aiding old
China to blast its way into the
modern world, she helped form
the new government and then,
realising that she and China
needed modern Intellectual
equipment, she went to Paris
and took her law degree at the
Sorbonne. This, she later ex
plained, was due to her deep
conviction that any enlightened
person of today should be a citi
zen of the world as well as of
her own country. She now says
she considers herself a citizen
of the world.
9
There might be an idea there—an
elite of world citizenry, after the
war, recruited by rigorous tests of
humane intelligence, forming a
nucleus of world co-operation, with
| out recreance to any given sov
ereignty.
Again, like the Minivers, Mme. Wei
and her husband saw their house!
I bombed piecemeal, and dodged be- j
! hind trees and rocks in the woods!
to avoid the machine gun bullets of:
the Japanese bombers. Her embas-'
sy teatime talk about war and peace, j
if and when given, will not merely '
be academic. Her husband, who |
1 studied law at the University of;
; Paris, and who is a former mayor
! of Nanking, comes to Washington
from Vichy, where he was sent, as
ambassador, last year. Mme. Wei
speaks English with a slight French
accent, having studied it in Paris.
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NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Revitwed by
CARTER FIELD
A Circular Letter
Stirs W ashington . . .
Freedom of the Press
. . . Reason for Japs
Pending Attack on
Russian Siberia . ..
Bell Syndicate—WNU Feature*.
WASHINGTON.—Washington, of
ficial and unofficial, has been hot
and bothered for weeks over a cir
cular letter sent out by an agency
here which has been supplying a
sort of "low down’’ on Washington
to bankers, business men and others
throughout the country for a num
ber of years.
This writer first heard about the
letter in New York, where it was
learned that a number of clients
for this service were so indignant
that such an attack should be made
on the government that they had
notified the agency to discontinue
its service to them at the expiration
of the present subscriptions.
This was a big surprise to the
writer, because, like most active
newspaper men and observers gen
erally in Washington, he had ad
mired this particular service for a
good many years.
So on returning to Washington one
of the first mandatory jobs was to
hunt up the letter which had caused
so much furor and read it.
There followed conversations with
officials and unofficial observers,
newspaper and magazine men
familiar with various parts of the
picture. The net result is that the
writer believes the criticism of the
letter was not well taken, that the
letter OUGHT to have said what it
did, and that the facts were not.
even exaggerated.
Matter of Public Record
The point of this discussion re
volves around freedom of the press.
It is true that this circular letter
does not pose as being part of the
'.‘Press.” It is not a matter of pub
lic record.
In general it pointed to certain
grave weak spots in the gov
ernment’s war organization. It
criticized President Roosevelt,
mostly for his good humor and
patience with squabblings among
his subordinates and with plain
downright inefficiency when he
liked personally the men and
women involved.
It went on to insist that not only
a shakeup was necessary, but that
certain individuals, some of them
of cabinet rank, should be thrown
out
It did NOT advocate the supplant
ing of Nelson, saying that he was
probably the best man for the job
likely to be found, but it warned
that if something were not done Nel
son might be thrown out eventually
and that thereupon the army would
take over.
Such things SHOULD be printed
if the writers believe them, regard
less of whether they are right or
wrong.
Nothing in the letter could pos
sibly be news to the enemy.
• • a
Selfishness Prompts Japs’
Action in China Zone
If that all-out attack by the Japa
nese on Siberia about which we have
been hearing so much is really or
dered it will be the first time in this
war that the Japanese army moved
in force. This sounds strange when
we remember Malaya, Singapore,
Burma, the Dutch East Indies, and
China, but comparatively it is true.
The best estimates in official
hands here as to the disposition of
the Japanese army do not total quite
a million men in all the war thea
ters named. In fact even including
China the strength of the Japanese
army in those regions probably is
not more than 750,000 men.
It is well known here that the
Japanese army numbered at least
3,000,000 men. Some experts put it
higher. Subtracting the full million,
which is the highest estimate of
Japanese troops so far employed,
this leaves 2,000,000 available for
something else.
Nearly everyone, in and out of
authority, and regardless of which
of the United Nations he serves, be
lieves that the big effort will be in
Siberia. Japan has long coveted
the northern half of Saghalien is
land, owned by Russia, and also the
maritime provinces of Siberia. Some
think she would like to extend her
sway from 500 to 1,000 miles inland.
Actually, with the conquests
already made, that would give
her all of eastern Asia, from the
North pole down to the Indian
ocean, and right up to the
boundary of India. Also she has
the rich Dutch islands, which
she would very much like to
hold forever.
But she knows that she cannot
hold them unless Germany wins the
war. If Germany should crack, j
whether in the near future or after
several more years of fighting, the I
Japanese war lords know perfectly j
well it would just be a matter of
time until the United Nations forced
her to disgorge everything she ha*
so easily conquered in this war—
and perhaps even some that she
had before, for instance Korea,
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Jewish Years
The Jewish calendar has years
cf six different types, owing to the
harmonious arrangement of festi
vals, etc., says Collier’s. Thus a
defective year has 353 days, a
regular year 354 days and a per
fect year 355 days; and a month
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war-time biscuits as Clabber Girl
plays its part in the nation's
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ONE to feed Nazi soldiers? Something’s wrong with that picture, Mussolini.
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•nd still have enough left for the home front.
Yes, it’s a job. We’ve never tried to feed half the world before and some equipment
is lacking. Our food-canning industry is taxed to the limit. But we have the finest
women iA the world, Mussolini; they’re fighting this war with kettles and spoons,
pressure cookers and home-canning jars . . . preserving food at home, each for her
own family. You see, it not only means a low food cost and a balanced diet—it means
that commercially-canned foods can be loaded on hundreds of "food ships” for our
fighting sons and brothers.
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• lesson.
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