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.
Send your order to:
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
564 W. Randolph St. Chicago 8», 111.
Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to
cover cost of mailing) for Pattern
No___
Name—---—
Address—--—
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than genuine, pure St. Joseph Aspirfa.
World’s largest seller at 10^. None safer,
none surer. Why pay more? Why ever
accept less? Demand St. Joseph Aspirin.
SNAPPY FACTS
— ABOUT
I I RUBBER
Latest government figures
show that 80 per cent of the
nation's war workers travel
•o and from their war jobs by
automobile. Still an important
reason why available tires
have to be distributed cau
tiously.
B. F. Goodrich has created and Is
now beginning to produce an im
proved general - purpose synthetic
rubber, the details of which must
remain confidential until after the
war. Introduction of a certain
abundant natural material has de
veloped a synthetic rubber that
approaches natural rubber in
characteristics during processing
and has proven superior In large
truck tires.
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Are Needed for Explosivee
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Foster D. Snell, Inc., well-known consult
ing chemists, have just completed a test
with a group of men and women suffering
from Athlete’s Foot. These people were
told to use Soretone. At the end of only a
ten-day test period, their feet were exam
ined in two ways: I. Scrapings were taken
from the feet and examined by the bacteri
ologist. 2. Each subject was examined by a
physician. We quote from the report:
"After the use of Soretone according to
the directions on the label for a period
of only ten days, 80.6?6 of the cases
showed clinical improvement of an infec
tion which is most stubborn to control."
Improvements were shown in the symp
toms of Athlete's Foot—the itching, burn
ing, redness, etc. The report says:
"In our opinion Soretone is of very def
inite benefit in the treatment of this
disease, which is commonly known as
'Athlete’s Foot’."
So if Athlete’s Foot troubles you, don’t tem
porize with this nasty, devilish, stubborn
infection. Get soretone! McKesson *
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