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    WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
^^EW YORK.—A corporation may
* ' get an "E" pennant now and
then, but there’s no Ebbets field
and no cheering mob for the incor
? m w _ , , . poreal home
A Topnotcherbut run Similar.
Lightly Touched ly man
behind the
By the Spotlight corporation
may bat a steady stream of steel
Ingots all the way to Tunis and still
the bands aren’t playing. A steel
mill and its master don’t fit easily
Into any pattern of high romance,
but it may win a war.
Witness the bulky and baldish
Robert W. Wolcott, president of
the Luken's Steel company, who,
since the war started has re
leased more steel and less pub
licity than probably any man in
America. His ingots and armor
plate output increased more
than 400 per cent in the last
fiscal year, while his column
inches In the newspapers have
slumped off, if anything.
At its Coatesville, Pa., plant, his
company rolls individual armor
plates weighing more than 100.000
pounds each. In addition to rolling,
instead of traditionally forging the
plates, it turns out plates 195 inches
wide as against the previous 155
inch limit. The 1942 output has
yielded enough armor plate for a
dozen big warships and hundreds of
army tanks, and large tonnages for
lighter-gauge armor plate. The com
pany reports, for the 1942 fiscal
year, which ended October 10, an
all-high, all-time record not only in
the production of the rolled armor
plate but in all other types of steel
lor this plant.
If he could somehow work Joe
D! Magglo and Rita Hayworth
Into his report Mr. Wolcott
might get a big cheer, east and
west. He Is a man of manage
ment rather than finance, stead
ily moving up with the Luken’s
company since 1922, elected
president of the 131-ycar-old out
fit in 1925.
Th First World war interrupted
his college term at Lehigh universi
ty and sent him to Boston where
he was a lieutenant in naval avia
tion. With the end of the war, he
apprenticed himself in the steel busi
ness with the Bethlehem Fabrication
company of Bethlehem, Pa. He
Joined Luken’s as manager of its
warehouse and fabricating depart
ment. When he became president,
at the age of 32, he was one of the
youngest top executives in the his
tory of the industry. Ho has kept
his mind on his work.
IN APRIL, 1932, the depression be
* gan gnawing at the vitals of the
United States congress. Congress
men suffered illness to an almost un
n ~ , . a. precedented
Dr. Calver Keep, degree (re.
Health of Solon, quently di
al wt j aRnosed by
On the Upgrade or George
W. Calver, congressional physician,
as worry ailments. While these af
flictions were varied, frequently
marked by a cold developing into
something worse, they were in the
general field of fatigue and frustra
tion, and frequently led to coronary
occlusion, or heart trouble, the men
ace of men who fret too much and
exercise too little—a common dis
ease of the “intelligentsia,” said Dr.
Calver, although that is a fighting
word to many congressmen.
Ten years later, after a year
af whr, burdened with perhaps
greater responsibility than any
•ther, this congress is as fit as
quarter horses. Only three
members died this year, against
an average of 12 during the 28
years in which Dr. Calver has
been attending physician. Trou
blesome, but not fatal illness, is
similarly away down. Dr. Cal
ver attributes this, In part, to
the lowered imminence of high
blood pressure, as incidental to
heated debates and congression
al milling in general. There is
much less of this now, as the
solons get together easier on
war Issues.
Dr. Calver also says the good
showing is attributable to steadily
improving health education in con
gress, with more careful attention
to diet, exercise, rest and healthful
mental attitudes. All this, he has
pioneered diligently, coaching con
gressmen on how to take care of
themselves.
The tall, genial Dr. Calver is a
captain of the navy medical corps.
Congressmen like him immensely,
but for some reason of their own
they turned down a bill, in 1936,
which would have given him the
rank and pay of a rear admiral. He
is not allowed to charge a fee for
his services, but gets it in his own
way in the form of the autograph
of each congressman whom he
treats. His office is fully equipped
and staffed to take care of anything
that might happen to our congress
men, even the laryngal casualties
of a prolonged filibuster.
HOUSEHOLD
iyJtynn$tmieht
Soup . . . Serve It Hot and Savory!
(See Recipes Below)
Savory Soups
Soup makes the meal! It used to
mean that soup set tone to what was
to come aurmg
the meal, but I'm
willing to wager
that soup will be
the meal on many
of these wintry
days. It can be
quick and easy to
fix, yet nourish
ing and full-bodied in flavor.
Serve substantial soup as a main
course for a luncheon or dinner with
a salad crammed with vitamins and
minerals, and a dessert.
Green split peas have long been
a favorite ingredient of soup. Here
they are combined with salami. Oth
er kinds of substitutes of meats or
left-over ham may be effectively
substituted if you so desire.
*Split Tea and Salami Soup.
(Serves 6)
1H cups green split peas
4H cups cold water
1 cup sliced onions
1 cup diced celery
U4 teaspoons salt
% pound salami
3 cups milk
Salt to suit taste
Dash black pepper
Soak peas in cold water for 2
hours, in large kettle; add onions,
celery, and 1V4 teaspoons of salt.
Bring to boiling point, cover, and
simmer 2V4 hours, stirring occasion
ally. Remove outer covering from
salami and cut in small cubes or
strips; add to soup (saving a few
pieces for garnish). Simmer 30 min
utes longer. Add milk and pepper
and additional salt to suit taste.
Bring to boiling point. Serve with
melba toast or crisp crackers.
It’s a nice custom to serye just
an old-fashioned Brown Onion Soup
with its garnish of toasted rye bread
and cheese.
Onion Soup.
(Serves 8)
6 (1 pound) onions
3 tablespoons butter
1 quart soup stock
6 slices bread
3 tablespoons grated cheese
Cut onions into Vb-inch slices. Cook
slowly in butter until tender and
slightly browned, stirring constant
ly. Add soup stock, heat to boiling
point, boil 2 or 3 minutes. Toast
bread, put toasted cubes in each
soup plate, cover with 2 tablespoons
cheese. Pour the hot soup over all
and serve with additional cheese if
desired.
Another soup that can take the
place of a main dish is a real Fish
Lynn Says:
Spots and Stains: Holidays
bring with them the inevitable
stains on your linens. Since you
can’t avoid stains, be prepared
to know what to do about them.
The American Institute of
Laundering releases the infor
mation that the best way to take
care of cranberry stains is to
spread the cloth over a bowl and
pour hot water on the stain from
a height sufficient to allow the
water to strike the cloth forceful
ly. It may interest you to know
that raw cranberries weaken the
strength of the cloth 25 per cent,
whereas cooked cranberries only
weaken It 21.1 per^ cent to 22.4
per cent.
Coffee stains, cocoa, and fruit
juice stains wash out if the cloth
is allowed to stand in a solution
of cold dilute potassium perman
ganate for a minute or two. If
the stain remains, reduce it fur
ther with an application of warm
solution of sodium hydrosulfite.
Milk, cream and ice cream
stains are best treated by being
soaked in cool suds before wash
ing in hot water. For candle
grease stains, use a solvent such
as carbon tetrachloride, sponging
it on with a small pad of cotton
on the cloth under which a blot
ter has been placed. Pat lightly
but do not rub solvent
This Week’s Menu
•Split Pea and Salami Soup
•Celery Slaw
Rye Bread and Butter
Sandwiches
Baked Pear
Milk
•Recipes Given
Chowder. This Chowder makes use
of haddock or cod and salt pork.
Fish Cowder.
(Serves 6)
3 pounds haddock or cod cut in
a solid piece
4 cups boiling water
2 ounces fat salt pork
3 medium-sized onions, peeled
and sliced
4 medium-sized potatoes, peeled
and sliced
1 quart milk, scalded
1 tablespoon salt
Vi teaspoon pepper
Simmer fish in 2 cups water until
tender; strain, reserving liquid. Dis
card bones, skin,
etc., cut pork fine
and brown slight
ly. Add onions,
potatoes and re
maining water
and cook until potatoes are tender.
Combine with fish mixture. Add
scalded milk, salt and pepper.
Beans are a good source of pro
tein and can therefore be usad as a
meat substitute. Here is a nutritious
soup with an attractive garnish of
hard-cooked egg and lemon.
Black Bean Soup.
(Serves 8)
1 pint black beans
2 quarts cold water
1 small onion, sliced
3 tablespoons butter
2 stalks celery, broken in pieces
% tablespoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
% teaspoon mustard
Few grains cayenne
1H tablespoons flour
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
Juice 2 lemons
1 lemon, thinly sliced
Soak beans overnight. Drain and
add cold water. Cook onion 5 min
utes with half the butter and add to
beans. Add celery, simmer 3 or 4
hours or until beans are soft, add
ing more water as water boils away.
Rub through sieve. Reheat to boil
ing point. Add lemon juice and well
mixed seasonings. Bind with re
maining butter and flour mixed to
gether. Garnish with lemon and
eggs.
A piquant and
colorful salad to
serve with a soup
combines winter
vegetables with a
sharp french
dressing and goes
well with soup.
♦Celery Slaw.
(Serves 4)
1 cup celery, diced
1 cup cooked beets, diced
cups cabbage, shredded
2 tablespoons onion, minced
‘i cup french dressing
Salt and pepper to taste
Combine celery, beets, cabbage,
onion, french dressing, salt and pep
per. Chill. Serve in lettuce cups.
Garnish with hard-cooked egg.
If you're too busy to make meat
stock out of a meat bone and vege
tables, called for in some of the
soups, make a bouillon, by dissolving
one of the concentrated cubes in
boiling water.
For quicky soups combine some of
your favorite canned soups like to
mato and green pea, mushroom and
chicken, bean and tomato, mush
room and celery, etc.
Try topping soups with a dash of
paprika, chopped parsley, popcorn,
grated cheese, toasted bread cubes,
and swirls of whipped cream.
l.ynn Chambers can tell you how to
dress up your table for family dinner
or festivities, give you menus for your
meals in accordance with nutritional
standards. Just write to her, explaining
your problem, at H estern Newspaper
Union, 210 South Desplaines Street,
Chicago, Illinois. I'lease enclose a
stamped, self-addressed envelope for
your answer.
Keleasea by Western Newspaper Union.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Henry Clay, Farmer
AS AMERICAN livestock breed
** ers spur their efforts to in
crease Uncle Sam’s war-time beef
supply, they can thank one great
American statesman—Henry Clay—
for providing this country with
Hereford cattle, a breed that pro
duces a major percentage of the na
tion’s beef. Many of the blood
strains in today’s Hereford herds
throughout America trace back to
the foundation stock which Henry
Clay imported from England in 1817
—the first White Face cattle ever to
land in the United States.
Henry Clay is remembered best in
history books as the “Great Paeifl
Henry Clay
cator, a Whig
leader who spent
most of his life
trying to prevent
strife over the
slavery question.
He is remem
bered, too, for
his famous apho
rism "I’d rather
be right than
President,’’ for
his association
with Daniel Web
ster and John C.
Calhoun and his
sponsorship of the Missouri Compro
mise.
An almost forgotten chapter in his
life was recalled, too, when Ameri
can troops landed recently in Li
beria, on Africa’s west coast, for
Clay w as one of the sponsors of this
Negro republic. In 1824 he helped
raise funds for the American Coloni
zation society's project of establish
ing the first settlement of freed
slaves in Africa, a colony that even
tually grew into the Republic of
Liberia.
Not so well known outside of Ken
tucky, however, is Henry Clay’s ca
reer as a farmer. Yet agriculture
was a prime factor in his life. He
saw generations ahead of his time
the future possibilities of farming
in America. He worked effectively
to make these possibilities a reality.
He was a pioneer soil conservation
ist, a practical, canny farmer and a
scientific livestock breeder. Clay
made his 600-acre estate of Ashland,
near Lexington, Ky., a progressive
demonstration farm where new til
lage ideas, new stock breeding
methods, improved crops and soil
rebuilding experiments were under
taken.
When Clay settled in Kentucky in
1798 as a hopeful, 22-year-old lawyer
fresh from his native Virginia, he
married Lucretia Hart, a woman of
unusual ability and possessing a
deep love of the soil. Friends often
remarked that "Mrs. Clay was the
best farmer in the Bluegrass region
of Kentucky and her husband the
second.”
The young lawyer became an en
thusiastic farmer. He loved and
enjoyed his rolling Bluegrass pas
ture lands, his field crops, herds and
flocks. Several generations before
the menace of soil erosion was gen
erally understood, Clay adopted a
system of farming designed to com
bat it. Unlike the farmer of to
day who can get advice from his
county agent, agricultural college
agronomist or state experiment sta
tion on the use of fertilizers, other
soil building measures and crop im
provement, Clay had to depend on
talks with his neighbors and his
reading of farm papers and books
published abroad.
Like other leading American
farmers of an earlier generation,
such as George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson, Clay carried out
experiments with primitive fertiliz
ers. He advocated legume crops
for pasture'as a soil-building meas
ure and urged the more effective
use of manure.
But it was his sponsorship of
“grass farming” and extensive use
of cover crops, that marked Clay
as an outstanding soil conservation
ist. Approximately 65 per cent of
the plowable land on his farm was
kept in grass for pasture and hay.
He had learned that good grassland
was the most economical means of
producing livestock and abundant
field crops.
The validity of his system of
farming is demonstrated in fertile
stretches of the Bluegrass today. It
is likewise demonstrated in the rec
lamation of farm areas which have
become impoverished through over
cropping. For modern experiments
in restoring soil through pasture im
provement by the use of lime, phos
phorus and potash and the growing
of legume crops, have shown that
such fields have supported three
times as many cattle and produced
three times as many pounds of meat
per acre at one-third the cost, as did
untreated fields.
Clay once wrote to a friend: "My
attachment to rural occupation ev
ery day acquired more strength and
if it continued to increase another
year as it has the past, I shall be
fully prepared to renounce forever
the strifes of public life. My farm
is in order and my operations for
the crop of the present years are in
advance of all my neighbors. 1 shall
make a better farmer than a states
man. And I find in the business of
cultivating, gardening, grazing and
the rearing of various descriptions
, of domestic animals the most agree
able resources.”
I
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Metro’s version of the stage
success, “Best Foot For
ward,” is like the old game of
“Button, Button.” Lana Tur
ner was announced for the
role, then she was out and Lu
cille Ball was assigned to it.
Then Miss Turner got it, and Miss
Ball was out. After which there was
another shuffle, and now—this seems
final—it's Lucille's.
-*
The role of “Smitty” in ‘‘Cry
Havoc,” that story of the nurses on
Bataan, is another one that’s been
in doubt. Merle Oberon, Greer Gar
son—one top notcher after another
was suggested for it. The beautiful
Greer couldn’t do it and really
didn’t care. She’s to be co-starred
MERLE OBERON
with Walter Pidgeon again, which
makes the third time, in ‘‘Madame
Curie,” based on the lives of the
famous scientists. Merle Oberon
and Joan Crawford head the cast
of “Cry Havoc,” with Mervyn Le
roy directing.
-Sit
Samuel Goldwyn’s had to borrow
a “Gone With the Wind” flag. A
Confederate banner was needed for
“They Got Me Covered,” the Bob
Hope-Dorothy Lamour picture, but
the flag-makers said that all bunt
ing and material were going into
modern emblems and nothing could
be done about making one.
v|/
Melvyn Douglas has got what he
wanted—he’s a private in the army
now. Which means that a new lead
ing man had to be rounded up for
“Gaslight,” starring Irene Dunne.
And Columbia’s “Port Said,” it’s
said, has had to be put on the shelf,
unless someone else can be found
to take the Douglas role. Gone are
the days when leading men were a
dime a dozen in Hollywood!
-*
It’s a long jump from tent shows
to the role of “St. Bernadette” in
“The Song of Bernadette,” but Jen
nifer Jones, a newcomer to the
screen, has made it. She’s been in
Hollywood just since last February;
David O. Selznick is responsible for
her discovery.
M/
It’s announced that Orson Welles
Is going to do a spot of acting
again, this time in 20th Century
Fox’s "Jane Eyre,” as “Roches
ter”—and it’s to be hoped that
audiences won’t giggle in remem
brance of Jack Benny’s valet when
ever the name is spoken. Joan
Fontaine has the title role. That
picture Welles worked on in Brazil,
"It's All True,” is still unfinished.
-*
"Der Fuehrer's Face,” the song
hit that has made so many of us
laugh, was written specially for
Walt Disney's picture of that name
in just one hour and a half—the
composer, Oliver Wallace, says so.
Disney had outlined his idea for a
picture, and Wallace remembered
a few arrogant phrases from Hit
ler, Goebbels and Goering, sat him
self down and dashed off the song.
-*
Sammy Kaye recently celebrated
the first year’s anniversary of his
song. “Remember Pearl Harbor,”
by donating another $1,000 royalty
check to the Navy Relief society.
That makes the tidy little sum of
$4,000 that the song has brought
them.
W
• ■
Joan Davis’ first song, written
with Dick Mack, producer of the
Rudy Vallee program on which she
is featured, has been recorded by
Donald Dickson and a full orches
tra, and may soon be spotted in a
motion picture; it’s titled "A Day
Closer to Victory.”
M/
-- •
ODDS A!\D E!\DS — The “Star
Spangled Banner" film short by Fred
H aring and his FennsyIranians is now
being shown by Fox Movietone . . .
Cleo Manning, younger sister of Lucille
Hall, starts her picture career in “The
More the Merrier,” which stars Jean
Arthur and Joel McCrea . . . Jerry
Hauser, who a few months ago icoj the
voice of Lum and Abner’s fou ndling
baby on the air, is now an aerial pho
tographer in the army . . . Ann Sheri
dan’s gardener, Arne Lindstrom, makes
his movie debut in Ann's picture,
“Edge of Darkness”; he’s never seen
any movies but the ones in which she
has appeared.
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• * •
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Let’s go to town
—at homes
NO TELLING what tomorrow's weather may be. It fools the best fore
caster. But we do want chintz for the windows. Wa do need a car
pet sweeper, a new percolator, and & new end-table in the living-room.
And we don't want to slosh around rainy streets to hunt them. Problem:
How to thwart the weather man. Simple enough! Let's sit down by the
fireplace and read the advertisements. Here it's comfortable and snug.
We'll take the newspaper page by page, compare prices, qualities,
brand-names. Tomorrow, rain or shine, we'll head for the store that has
what we want, and home again in a jiffy.
• "Buying at Home"—through the advertising columns—gives you wide
selection, more time to decide, and satisfaction when you decide.
• MAKE IT ONE OF YOUR PLEASANT HABITS I