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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1944)
Keep Cool With Frosty Ice Box Pudding (See Recipes Below) Summer Favorites If appetites are dawdling, a real Job confronts the-cook. Summer or winter, the body needs nourish ment, and the basic seven foods must be Included in the diet. What, then,, must be done? a Well, for one thing, the appetite must be coaxed with new and dif ferent combinations of food. Even In summer there should be one hot food in the meal, but the cold ones should be very cool and tempting. Attractive serving can help con sumption, too. If there are cool, crisp looking tablecloths, napkins and dishes, the appetite will natur ally perk up. Add to this, green, crisp garnishes, pleasing color com binations and well prepared foods, and there need be no diillculty in having the food eaten even on the warmest day. Sava Vied Fait! Today’s round-up of recipes will help in planning palate-pleasing menus for hot summer days: •Veal-Cheese Sandwich. (Makes 6 sandwiches) H pound prepared veal loaf H cup cottage cheese S stuffed olives I teaspoon grated onion 1 tablespoon mayonnaise Butter 12 slices bread Chill veal loaf and slice thinly. Mix cottage cheese, chopped stuffed olives, onion and mayonnaise. Place veal slices on buttered bread. Top with bread spread with cottage cheese mixture. A leaf of lettuce may be placed in between. Serve with pickles and potato chips (or lunch. Jellied Chicken and Vegetables. (Serves 6) 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin K cup cold water or stock 1% cups hot chicken stock H teaspoon salt 1 cup chicken, chopped 1 cup cooked vegetables (peas, string beans, beets, aspara gus, carrots) K pimiento or green pepper Soften gelatin in cold water. Add to hot stock and stir until dissolved. Rinse a square mold in cold wa ter. pour a thin layer of liquid jel ly. Let stiffen ' slightly and dec orate with pepper and other vegeta bles. Arrange the thickening jelly. chicken and vegetables in layers and chill. Unmold on lettuce. Lynn Says The Score Card: Potatoes and onions are coming into the mark ets. They are very much usable in summertime menus Plan to use plenty of peaches, apricots and melons this year. Crop supplies look plentiful. Ice cream consumption has in creased from eight pounds per person in 1924 to sixteen pounds in 1942. Homemakers are urged to can as many fruits and vegetables this season to give themselves point-insurance for the winter. Last year, more lard was pro duced than at any time during the nation's history. Egg supplies are still plentiful. Use at least one a day to fortify your diet. Sugar stamps 30 and 31 (bools 4) are each good for 5 pounds of sugar. Sugar stamp, number 40, will give you 5 pounds of sugar for canning. An extra 20 pounds of canning sugar is available with stamp 37, upon application to your local board. This will give you 10 pounds now and 10 pounds later. Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menus •Veal-Cheese Sandwich Pan-Fried Potatoes Carrot Salad Pan Rolls Marmalade •Fig Ice Box Pudding Beverage •Recipes Given Barbecued Frankfurters. (Nerves 6) 1 medium-sized onion, sliced 3 tablespoons salad oil 1 tablespoon sugar I teaspoon dry mustard Halt and pepper H cup catsup W cup vinegar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce I>rop of tabasco sauce 12 frankfurters Lightly brown onion in salad oil. Add combined remaining ingredi ents, except frankfurters. Simmer 15 minutes. Split frankfurters and place in shallow baking dish. Pour over barbecue sauce and bake in moderate oven (375 degrees) 30 min utes, basting several <imes. From main dishes and salads we go to desserts. These are designed to be perfect foil, light endings to meals. You’ll find them flavor-per fect and easy to make: Red Currant and Raspberry Ice Cream. (Makes 2H cups) 2 pounds red currants, stemmed 1 pint red raspberries 1 cup granulated sugar 1 pint cream or evaporated milk, whipped % teaspoon salt H teaspoon vanilla Stem currants, wash and drain. Wash, pick over, hull raspberries. Combine both fruits, crushing coarsely. Sprinkle sugar on fruit, then let stand 1 hour. Then turn, mix in enamel saucepan, cover and cook over low flame 10 min utes, stirring occasionally to pre vent scorching. Remove, squeeze through double cheesecloth. To this add the following syrup: H cup granulated sugar H cup cold water Stir sugar and water, bring to boiling point and boil 5 minutes. Remove, stir into first mixture, then strain again through cheese cloth. Chill, fold in whipped cream, salt and vanilla and freeze in hand freezer. Use three parts ice to one part rock salt. Freeze until solid, then pack in four parts ice and one part rock salt and let mellow for two hours. •Fig Ice Box Pudding. (Serves 10) 2 cups dried white figs 1H cups water 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon Few grains salt 1 tablrspoon plain gelatin cup cold water 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1H cups cream or evaporated milk, whipped Lady fingers Cornstarch custard Cover figs with boiling water, let stand about 10 minutes. Drain, clip stems and grind or chop figs fine. Add 1V4 cups cold water, bring to a boil and cook about 5 minutes or until water is evaporated. Remove from heat, add gelatin moistened in V« cup cold water. Stir to dissolve. Cool, add lemon juice and blend. Whip cream and beat into fig mix ture. Line sides of a 1V« quart ring mold with lady fingers. Pour fig-cream mixture into mold. Chill until firm. Unmold onto serving plate and fill center with cornstarch custard or serve plain. If you wish more detailed instruc tions on vegetable canning, write to Miss Lynn Chambers, ff'estern News paper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, Illinois. I*lease don't forget to enclose a stamped, self-ad dressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Benefits of Social Security Could Be Extended to Farm Owners and Their Employees, Officials Say All Difficulties of Administration Can Be Smoothed Out Wages today are high, and jobs plentiful, and there is a ready market for all farm produce and manufactured goods. Most people probably realize, however, that the present prosperity is a result of the war, and that a down turn is almost certain to come with peace. There may be no depression, at least not for several years, but the present very high level of activity is not likely to be maintained. But in any case, there comes a time in everyone’s life when he has to slow down. Whatever stage the business cycle is in, those who are unable to work get no income. Everyone who has to make his own living must be somewhat concerned about the future. A very large group of wage and salary earners have found a partial answer to these troublesome ques tions. They are the workers in pri vate industry and commerce, those In so-called "covered’’ employment, to whom the old-age and survivors insurance program of the Social Security act applies. These workers are building up rights to monthly insurance payments when they grow old and retire, and for their fami lies, when death comes to the bread winner. Others, not so fortunate, look upon the group that has social insur ance protection somewhat enviously. The Social Security board receives many letters from the self-employed —professional people, small busi Young and strong, this Maryland farmer shouldn’t need retirement benefit payments for many years— unless sickness or an accident should Incapacitate him. But the time will come when he will be too old to work. During his good years, he should have a chance to accu mulate a retirement fund through Social Security. His family too, should be protected under the sur vivor’s benefit provisions. Under present provisions, however, the farm family is excluded from the system. ness men, gas station operators, restaurant keepers, operators of cleaning and pressing shops, of beauty parlors, and so on, wanting to know why they can’t get old-age protection. They pay premiums for their employees’ insurance, but themselves cannot build up rights to benefits. "Why this discrimina tion?” they ask. "We have no more security than our employees.” Few From Farmers. Very seldom among these letters from the self-employed is there one from a farmer. Yet farmers have fully as much reason to seek social insurance protection as others of the self-employed. The notion that farmers are an independent and self-sustaining group is no longer true. It is a hangover from earlier times, when most farms were self sufficient. Today farmers are much more vulnerable. They have to buy more and sell more; operating costs are higher, and falling prices often mean serious losses. Then too, sections differ as to agricultural prosperity. North and south, west and middle-west are widely unlike, while in each there are plenty of spots that present a quite different picture from the rest. In 1939, the last year before the “war boom,” nearly one-half of the farm operators in the country had a gross annual money income yield (allowing for food consumed by the farm family) of less than $600; two thirds had less than $1,000, and 89 per cent had under $2,500. It is difficult for farm owners to save much out of these small cash incomes. Even a farmer with an average net income of $2,000 a year finds it hard to put much aside for old age or misfortune. The constant demands for maintenance of fer tility, repairs, buying machinery and livestock, and so on,. all re quire cash, and there is often little left at the year’s end to build up a retirement fund. Often, when the farm operator has to quit work, his family is in difficult straits, and may have to depend on public aid or charity. The tenant farmer and the farm laborer generally are in worse cir cumstances than the mar. who owns his land, once they have to quit working. With little or no savings, the tenant and the farm hand who cannot earn anything are soon hard up indeed. They and their families suffer humiliation and want. War Changes Things. The war, of course, has made a great difference in the farmers’ situ ation. The Incomes of many are double, in some cases treble, what they were before. But the war—and perhaps our present prosperity—is temporary. Farm people were left out of the social insurance program not be cause they were thought to be al ready secure. The reason for ex cluding them was that in 1935 the program was new and the adminis trative hurdles looked very high. But now the Social Security board is convinced that old-age and sur vivors insurance can be adminis tered for farm people simply, at low cost, and without being unduly troublesome to them. What would it mean to farm operators and farm hands to have this insurance? It would mean the same protection it means already to those who are under the system. A couple of examples will illustrate the protection old-age and survivors insurance offers. Back in 1936, when Harry J. was nearly 60, he got himself a job with a construction company. After eight years, he wanted to stop working and retire to his small place in the country. He hadn’t felt he could do so, however, because he wasn’t sure he could earn a living from farm ing his few acres. Upon inquiry he found that his monthly retirement payment would be about $27, since he had earned an average of $100 a month. His wife, who was also past 65, would get half that much; so that would make the family income over $40 every month, sufficient for their needs. Widow Got $79 a Month. Mr. C. was a newspaper linotype machine operator and had always earned high wages. He hoped to give all five children a good education. The two elder ones were attending the university. Suddenly Mr. C. got pneumonia and died within a week. The widow was left with three children still at school and no in come save what Mary and Jean could earn by leaving school and taking jobs. She went to the Social Security field office, thinking that perhaps there would be a small lump sum going to her, probably be no more than a couple of hundred dollars. She was amazed to learn that she was entitled to monthly payments for herself and the three younger children! She received A midwestern farmer smiles with satisfaction as he reads the figures on a check received for his produce. Agricultural income is now two to three times the 1939 level, but this happy situation won't last, econo mists warn. Unless this middle aged man is fortunate, however, his savings will dwindle away, and he will face old age without security. about $79 a month under the old-age and survivors insurance program I Mrs. C. is one of 765,000 persons— workers past 65, their aged wives, widows, and children and depend ent parents—who today are receiv ing monthly payments on account of old-age and survivors insurance. To date the system has paid out nearly half a billion dollars. The mechanics of old-age and sur vivors Insurance are simple. Every pay day every worker in a covered job pays, under present rates. 1 per cent of his wages as a premium on his old-age and survivors insurance. This is deducted from his pay by his employer, who pays an equal sum. Four times a year the em ployer sends both contributions in Many men are able to work even in old age, like this sturdy Florida farmer. He knows, nevertheless, that he will have to quit in a few years, or maybe much sooner. If he could anticipate a regular flow of Social Security checks he could face the future with much less concern. to the federal government. Together with the money he sends a report of the amount of wages paid the worker, to be duly entered in his social security account in Balti more, Md. On the basis of these wage records, the insurance bene fits are figured. Farmers Could be Protected. Could the system be applied to farm people? Farmers are scattered over a very wide area. Could the premiums be collected without the costs of administration mounting un duly high, considering the small amounts paid in? And how would farmers figure out what their pre miums ought to be, seeing that lots of them don’t keep any books? The Social Security board is con fident that the extension of the old age and survivors insurance system to farm people is now feasible. Ways have been devised to overcome the difficulties. As a basis for determining farm ers’ social insurance premiums, the reports they are already making to the government for income tax and other purposes can be used. For the farmer who is not required to file income tax returns, would figure his Income on the basis of the estimated “market value of his services.” In doing this he could guide himself by the wages received by his highest paid farm hand. If he employs no labor, the monthly wage rate for farm labor in his locality would serve. Farmers could pay their pre miums at times most convenient for themselves. Some might find it con venient to pay a lump sum annually, and others might prefer to pay in four annual quarterly installments. Low-income farmers could pay their premiums In social insurance stamps if they chose. They would buy these currently and put them in a social security stamp book which could be turned in from time to time as payment toward their premiums. Collections Through Stamps. For farm help, the stamp method might be best, the board thinks. The farmer could buy social insurance stamps from any post office or rural letter carrier, and insert them in the stamp books furnished him by his workers when he paid their wages. Half the cost of the stamps would be deducted from the work er’s wages as his social security pre mium. When the worker’s book was full, or at the end of its period of validity, he would bring or mail it to any office of the board so that : it could be added to his record. With the stamp system the “small” farmer would find it unnec essary to keep books or file reports about the wages of his paid help. On the large farm the stamp method could be used for temporary or casual workers not carried on the regular pay roll. Wages paid in the form of room and board and the like might be included in the work er’s total wage, and the value set on them could be based on data gathered and published from time to time by the department of agri culture. Farm people have every claim to be included under the old-age and survivors insurance program. Their claim is all the stronger because many of them are already partly under the system. In the wintertime, or in other off-seasons for farm work, many farm people work in industry and pay premiums on so cial insurance. In a lifetime, their payments amount to substantial sums. And yet very few people ever get benefits because they don’t work in covered employment long enough or often enough to qualify for the monthly payments. The inclusion of farm people under the program would at once both rectify the in justice to these workers and plug a big gap in the social security program. (Left) An elderly woman cashes her old age insurance check in a New York bank. Since February 1. 1940, persons over 65 are eligible to receive the benefits of Social Security payments, even though they have worked only a short time under the system and have contrib uted little to the fund. (Right) This New York couple was the first to apply for monthly payments to which they were entitled under the Social Security system. The checks began to flow out in 1940. ijoiL /TO HAKE, Pattern No. 671 npHIS chubby-cheeked dolly with movable limbs is in for lots of loving. Three pieces form her soft, Cuddly body; the arms and legs are each made from two pieces. Her hair is soft yarn and her pretty clothes may be chosen from the contents of your -xrap bag. I Voile, lawn or organdy curtains will wash more easily if the dust is first shaken loose, then the cur tains dipped in cold water before using warm water. Warm water sets the dirt, cold loosens it. • • • Waxing curtain rods not only protects them from rust but makes it easier to slide curtains back and forth. • • • • “Frosting” Glass may be done easily by simply painting the glass with white lead and oil. This can be painted on smooth, or given a stipple effect by twisting the brush. • * • If a paper towel is used to line the bottom of the vegetable hydra tor in the refrigerator it will ab sorb excess moisture and prevent spoilage. • • • If you are baking a number of pies and the last one won't quite fit into the oven, place a small deep lid or tin cup in the available space and put your pie on it. This raises the pie above the others, thus all may be baked at one time, saving considerable fuel. Pattern 671 contains transfer pattern and directions for doll and clothes. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. 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