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HOUSEHOLD ms Mas.. y&t Substantial Quality Food a Necessity on Winter Social Menu Fiesta punch Is delicious served either hot or cold. No sugar is re quired when one of the suggested substitutes is used, and the bever age can be quickly made a short tine before guests arrive. i With so many families returning to the old home town, and couples who married dur* mg uie win iiiitii* Ijr getting settled together, wel come parties are ^ becomip'* quite the style. Social engagement books which looked blank are now filled again. Yes, entertaining is due for a re vival. This is the time, because the holiday season is approaching in full glory. Food is not the problem it was last year although there still are restrictions, and It’s fairly easy to ■erve something nice and make the table look Its prettiest. If the group is mixed and there • re a number of men (big eaters, now Unit they have learned to have lots of chow or go to mess regular ly!), plan to have a substantial cas serole dish with some hearty trim mings like big salads and rich-look ing cakes or pastry. Or, if the affair is to be just a snack, serve bread with a choice of fillings and the usual accompani ments like potato chips, pickles, olives, relishes, and punch or some favorite beverage. Suggestion I. ( Assorted Bread: Oatmeal, Raisin, White and Rye. Sandwich Fillings: Nippy Cheese and Peanut Butter. Relishes: Olives, Radishes, Car rot 8tlcks and Celery Hearts. Beverage: Orange Juice or Fiesta Punch. Nippy Cheese Filling. Combine equal parts of cream cheese and butter. Add salt and paprika to taste and 1 teaspoon each of finely minced parsley, pick lea, stives and green pepper. Fla vor with sardine paste. Peanut Rutter Filling. Peanut butter may be served alone or it may be combined with any of Uie following for a delicious Ailing: Jam, chopped bacon or grat ed raw carrots. Fiesta Punch. (Makes 4 gallon! 1 cup strong tea 4 cup sugar, honey or corn s; rup 4 cup lemon juice 14 cups orange juice 1 eup grape Juice 1 quart water Make the strong tea by pouring 1 cup boiling water over 4 teaspoons ui lea. Dissolve sugar or substi tutes In the hot, strained tea. (The tea should steep first for 5 min utes.) For a hot punch, combine the tea with the fruit juices and add the water which should be boil ing hot. Serve at once. For cold punch, chill the tea and combine with well-chilled fruit juice* and iced water. Garnish the punch with slices of orange and lemon. LYNN SAYS Care for Your Silverware: Clean, hot, soapy water is recom mended for both flat serving pieces and tableware. Rinse in boiling water after washing and wipe dry as soon as possible. To remove tarnish, use a good silver polish or wet a little sifted whiting with ammonia and apply with a soft cloth Let stand until dry, rub off with soft cloth, rinse and polish with a second cloth or chamois. Silver tarnished with egg should be cleaned immediately. A small soft brush is best for cleaning ornamental pieces. Silverware should never be heated directly or placed on the range. Serving dishes may be heated over hot water or kept warm on the radiator if an as bestos pad is placed under them LYNN CHAMBERS' IDEAL MENU Oyster Rarebit Crackers Jellied Vegetable Salad Apricot Cobbler Cream Tea. Coffee or Milk Suggestion II. • Farm Sausage Casserole Combination Salad Crusted Rolls Favorite Cake Beverage The main dish for this hearty snack can be made ready before company comes, and then heated about half an hour before serving time rolls around. Farm Sausage Casserole. (Serves 6) 14 cups broken macaroni H cup diced American cheese 1 tablespoon minced onion % teaspoon salt 1H cups thin white sauce 1 cup green peas, rooked M cup sauteed mushrooms !4 cup chopped pimlento 1 pound pork sausages, broiled Buttered bread crumbs Cook macaroni in boiling, salted water until tender. Drain and rinse. Combine with all remaining ingre dients, except sausages and bread crumbs. Place in casserole which has been greased. Top with sau sages and sprinkle a few bread crumbs over the top. Heat in a slow (325-degree) oven for 25 minutes. Combination Kalad. (Serves 6 to 8) 1 head lettuce 1 cucumber 2 to 3 tomatoes I hunch radishes 1 bunch small onions 1 green pepper Celery curls Carrot curls French dressing Wash all vegetables carefully and allow to chill. Break lettuce into chunks and line salad bowl. Toss in all oth«r ingrc dients which have been sliced or cut into pieces and sprinkle french dressing over them. iavorlte Cake. 1 cup whipping cream 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla ltk cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Whip the cream until slightly thickened but not stiff enough to hold a peak. Fold in the sugar gently, the beaten eggs and vanilla. Add the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder and a speck of salt. Mix only until smooth. Place in two shallow cake pans and bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven for 25 minutes. Cool. Frost with seven minute icing and sprinkle with coco nut. Or, frost with whipped cream and sprinkle with coconut For Impromptu entertaining, there’s nothing easier to prepare than a tray of sandwich spreads with assorted bread and health drinks of citrus fruit juices in colorful glasses. Seven-Minute Icing. 1 egg white, unbeaten 3 tablespoons cold water % cup granulated sugar Y* teaspoon cream of tartar H teaspoon vanilla Place all ingredients in top of dou ble boiler. Beat with rotary beater until mixed, then place over hot wa ter, and continue beating until frost ing stands up in peaks (about 7 min utes). Ahead of the other foods the re turned G.I. will look forward to are the good, homemade desserts. What ever was his favorite when he left is sure to be his favorite when he returns. He has spent many hours thinking and dreaming of that des sert. Chocolate has been a favorite of the serviceman. His favorite may have been chocolate ice cream, chocolate pie or chocolate cookies. The sizes of portions should be man size, he has learned how to eat in a big way and will not be at home when dainty portions are passed out. Milk seems to be the favorite bev erage of returned servicemen. This might be served with the addition of chocolate or in form of a malted or egg malted drink, all of which will be welcomed. Give him a try with bread, raisin, nut. potato, or best of all a real home baked loaf He may be tired of dark tack and stale white bread, and anxious to try something new and different. Released by Wesiern Newspaper Unioi Inflation Stiff China Problem Situation Most Critical of Postwar Questions, Says Finance Minister. By PAULINE FREDERICK (WNU Staff Correspondent) CHUNGKING. CHINA. — How would you like to pay $500 for one ordinary handkerchief, or $350 for a towel, or $4,000 for a blouse? These are some of the prices the Chinese are paying today, in Chinese dollars of course. I know, because I have walked through the streets of this Chinese capital and priced some of the wares in the shops along the way. And Chung king. situated on steep hills along the Yangtse and Chia^ing rivers, is rebuilt and doing business even though the Japs bombed it many times. Inflation is one of the many criti cal problems China has to deal with as a result of the war. When I en tered the country, the black mar ket rate of exchange in which every one deals, was 1,800 Chinese dollars to one American dollar. Two weeks later, it was 3,000 to 1. I talked with Finance Minister O. K. Yui, and former mayor of Shanghai, about the matter. He told me: "Inflation has reached the point where it demands action, but almost anything we do now will be tem porary. There can be no permanent cure for the situation until the rich areas and ports the Japanese hold are opened and more goods can be brought in to relieve the shortages. Even after the ports are open it will be five or six months more be fore we will get much consumer goods, for the military will probably need all the supplies up until that time.” Improvement Essential. wnen me goods do come in. Minister Yui went on, "transpor tation and communication will have to be improved in order to get them properly distributed.” But more than goods are needed to steady China's wobbling cur rency. “We can’t increase taxes now,” the finance minister explained, “be cause of low incomes. But we are renovating old taxes and trying to open up new sources of income. An other obstacle in raising revenue is the difficulty of floating bonds be cause of the high profit in specula tion. An investor asks why he should take 6 per cent from the govern ment when in two weeks in specu lation he can double his income.” “Would a new loan from the United States help?” I asked Mr. Yui. “A new loan from the United States would be helpful,” he re plied, "but we need more than dol lars. We need assets to which we can link our currency so as to give it stability.” I asked the finance minister wheth er price control and rationing would not help to counteract the inflation. But he said that because of China's decentralized economy, each farm er growing and transporting and marketing his own goods, it would be impossible to enforce such a pro gram. Exchange Rate 20 to 1. The official government rate of ex change has been fixed at 20 Chinese dollars to 1 American dollar, but this is expected to be increased. The government rate applies to all offi cial transactions, and for individ uals who want to go to the United States and desire to change their money into dollars. The black mar ket exchange rate is not recognized by the government. In fact, there is a penalty for dealing in it, but the market flourishes since the penalty Is not enforced. A Chinese general draws a salary of $30,000 (Chinese) a month, or $10 gold, roughly speaking. In addition, he receives $10,000 worth of free rice. Cloth and oil are provided for him at the official rate. All other military and civil employees are paid on the same basis. A junior government official receives $1,500 (Chinese) a month. Although China s economic and financial condition is Minister Yui's primary concern these days, there is another subject very close to his heart. As I said he was the former mayor of Shanghai — he still con siders himself the mayor, for he held that position in 1937 when the Japs came in. He then went to Hong kong and five minutes before the at tack on Pearl Harbor, he was sum moned to Chungking to be vice min ister of finance Last year he suc ceeded Dr. H. H. Rung as minister. Mr. Yui is going back to Shanghai one of these days, so I asked him what he would do first in that event. "I will direct the rebuilding of Shanghai and help it to regain its position," he said. "This will need foreign co-operation.” Cost of Liv’ng Index At War’s Top in July WASHINGTON. D. C. - The bureau of labor statistics cost of living index reached its highest level of the war in the month ended July 15 when it reached 129 4 per cent of the 1935-'39 av erage, or 31 per cent above the August, 1939, level. In the last year the index has advanced 2.6 per cent ■■ Oboe Radar Guided Pilot to Target Even Told Him Just When To Drop His Hombs. AN RAF BOMBER BASE, ENG LAND. — The British air ministry has made known the workings of a highly effective form of radar called “oboe,” which led bombers to tar gets in Germany on beams sent out from ground stations in England, and even told bombardiers when to release bombs. These stations, it was disclosed, were able to “watch” planes along the entire route, in fog, storm, or darkness, and were a major factor in blasting Hitler’s war plants. If the Krupp armament works at Essen was the target, a radar beam 17 feet wide would be aimed at the city from a ground station near Dover. That is believed to be one reason for so much German cross channel shelling of Dover. The beam would hit Essen right over the Krupp works, just like an imagi nary wire rope hanging in the sky. Bombers would take off and make a beeline for Essen. Wherever they intercepted the beam, automat ic signals would start flashing and coded dots and dashes begin com ing over the earphones. All a pilot had to do was turn squarely onto the beam and follow it to the target. When he reached a certain point, so many seconds from the assigned target, he received a coded "release bombs" signal from the ground op erator back in England. When the pilot returned he could see his bomb run recorded in black and white on a graph made by an electrical instrument similar to weather graphing machines. Airmen say “oboe” gives them virtually automatic accuracy to within eight yards of the smallest target. American 8th and 9th air forces adopted much of the RAF radar technique and developed some new methods of their own. The Germans had a radar system but alway lagged behind the Allies in new developments, and were nev er able to solve the mystery of how to counteract it for defensive pur poses. Asks to Allow Atomic Rocket Service to Moon CHICAGO. — R. L. Farnsworth asked the government to grant him the first civilian permit to put atomic energy to peacetime use. He wants to develop a solar transporta tion system providing regular eight hour flights to the moon. Mr. FarnswortH| president of the U. S. Rocket society, wrote a letter to the research council on national security at Washington asking for permission to use atomic energy to make a rocket in which earth dwell ers could travel through the uni verse at a rate of seven miles per second. “The discovery of atomic power means that rocketeers who have been shooting at the moon can raise their sights to the planets beyond,” he said, in an interview. “It means that some day there will be a regu lar rocket service to the moon and other planets. “I want to see a solar transpor tation system that would make the man in the moon our next-door neighbor.” Visualizing the moon as the Chi cago of the universe — a shuttle station for rocket service to points beyond — Mr. Farnsworth said atomic power can solve most of the problems that have vexed his fel low rocketeers. His principal difficulty, he said, would be in harnessing atomic pow er. Plans for $200,000,000 Hospitals’ Growth Given WASHINGTON. D. C. - Plans for a $200,000,000 hospital construction program to meet all anticipated vet erans’ requirements were made pub lic recently by the veterans’ admin istration. Tlie two-year program is now before the federal board of hos pitalization for approval. It calls for building 40 new hospitals and for additions to many existing institu tions. Officials said that if the plans were endorsed by the board and funds were appropriated by con gress, the administration would have hospitals with a total bed capacity of 300,000 at the end of the 1947 fiscal year. “We believe that will be enough for all our needs,” one offi cial said. The bed capacity of present vet erans’ hospitals and those which are under construction or authorized, is 123,931. The new program would add approximately 29.000 beds. The remaining hospitals neces sary to bring the total capacity to the 300,000 bed mark are expected to be transferred to the administra tion by the army and navy as their own needs diminish. Magnesium Is Smelted D.rect Under New Method WASHINGTON.-Magnesium, the light metal that has revolutionized airplane construction since the be ginning of the war, can be smelted directly out of magnesium-silicate ores by a new process. U. S. Patent No. 2,379,576 has just been issued here to Dr. Fritz J. Hansgirg. Dr. Hansgirg is at present car rying on his magnesium research at Black Mountain college, in North Carolina. MOPSY by GLADYS PARKER K don't think dehydrated FOOD RATIONS ARE VERY PRACTICAL IN WET WEATHER.' - <R«I««m<I by,Tl>. U«lt~8^J[ciuTn]ol "Oh!—A DUDE, huh?" 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