For Supper Simplicity, Prepare It (See Recipes Below) in Advance Simple Suppers Feel rushed on wash day? Too tired to put together a big meal? X I la i S uic W a j m lot of our home makers feel, so you’re not the only one. But I have some nice cures for those washday blues with a number of quick dinners, or suppers, if you prefer calling a simple meal that instead of the other. The trick to making mealtime easy on washday is to get as much of the supper together before you become involved with washday. Make a Jellied salad while you're waiting for the breakfast stragglers to come down to eat, and prepare a casserole that can be refrigerated until baking time, and plan to have ■oft Banned, chilled fruit with home made cookies as a dessert. Round these main foods out with beverage, bread and butter and your dinner's prepared. There are loads of casserole dishes that won’t suffer any by be ing refrigerated before baking, and I’ve selected a few of these to pass on to you today. Cheese is good and very nourishing too, if you want a substitute for meat. Leftover veg etables combined with shreds of meat from the Sunday roast also whip up nicely into one of those all inclusive entrees for washday. How would you like to serve this Cheese and Noodle Pie? Yes, it’s actually made like a pie and is aerved simply by slicing in wedges. Cheese and Noodle Pie. (Serves 4 to Si t tablespoons shortening or ba con drippings I tablespoons chopped, green pepper 1 cup milk 1 bouillon cubes 1 cup soft bread crumbs * eggs, beaten % teaspoon salt * teaspoons grated onion t cups cooked medium noodles (4 ounces, uncooked) Wedges of American cheese Melt shortening in pan. add green pepper and saute for 5 minutes, then add milk and bouillon cubes. Heat until cubes are dis solved. Add re maining ingredi ents, except « cheese and turn into a buttered baking dish, a nine-inch pie plate. Bake in a moderately slow (325-de gree) oven for 35 minutes, or until the custard is set. Cut 3 slices of cheese, and then cut these into 6 wedges. Place on top of the hot pie, Lynn Says Eat More Eggs: They’re "in season" now, plentiful and eco nomical. You’ll like these savory ways for preparing them: Make eggs into an omelet, add ing lVi cups of soft bread crumbs (for 4 eggs) to the fat in the pan before pouring the egg mixture in to cook. This gives a crispy, crunchy omelet. Omelet with herbs? Yes, in deed, they’re fine. Use any one of the following: chopped chives or parsley; chervil, basil, thyme, tarragon, sweet marjoram or fennel. If you’re scrambling eggs, make them glorified by adding frizzled dried beef or ham; chopped sauteed mushrooms; leftover vegetables. While you're baking eggs, add little touches to make them more attractive. Partially cook bacon, fit around a muffin tin before breaking in the eggs. Or. sprin kle eggs in custard cups with grated cheese before baking. Line individual dishes with rice, break in egg and serve with mushroom sauce. Lynn Chambers’ Menus Baked Stuffed Fish Anchovy Sauce Fried Potatoes Stuffed Beets Lettuce Salad Rolls Chocolate Cream Pie Beverage the sharp points to the center. In crease oven temperature to moder ately hot (400 degrees) and bake 10 minutes to melt and brown the cheese. Cut pie into wedges and serve piping hot. Leftover vegetables need not fur nish good material for the garbage pail. If you have several of them, combine them into delightful tim bales for supper with a cheese sauce to go with them. A cheese sauce is easily made by melting % pound of cheese with ^ cup of milk in the top part of the double boiler while the timbales are baking. Vegetable Timbales. (Serves 4 to 6) 1H cups cooked peas 1H cups cooked, drained corn 1 cup drained, canned tomatoes 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1H cups soft bread crumbs 3 eggs % cup melted butter or substitute Salt and pepper to taste Mix all Ingredients with a fork and add seasoning to taste. Pour into seven buttered custard cups and bake in a pan of water in a moderate (350-degree) oven for 45 to 50 minutes. Serve with cheese sauce. If you are using all the eggs which rightfully belong to the diet, there’s no better way to prepare them than curried. Here is a dish that can be prepared in the morn ing—yes, stuff the eggs and make the cream sauce. Then 15 minutes or so before dinner, light the oven and pop them in to heat. Curried Deviled Eggs. (Serves 6) 12 hard-cooked eggs 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 teaspoon grated onion Mayonnaise or salad dressing Balt and pepper 3 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons flour lH teaspoons curry powder 3 cups milk 3 cups cooked peas 14 teaspoon sage 1 teaspoon sugar Halve eggs lengthwise. Remove yolks. Mash. Add mustard, onion, and enough salad dressing to moist en. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Refill egg whites with yolk mixture. Heat butter, blend in flour and curry powder; gradually add milk. Cook over boiling water, stir ring constantly until thick. Sea son to taste with salt and pepper and cook 5 min utes. Arrange 4 halved eggs in individual serv ing or baking dishes and pour sauce over eggs. Combine peas, sage and sugar and arrange in border around the eggs. Bake in a moderately hot (375-degree) oven for 15 minutes or until thoroughly heated. A dessert that can be started bak ing before the Curried Devil Eggs is this quick and easy Fudge Cake. It takes it easy on shortening. Fudge Cake. (Eight-Inch square pan) 2 squares chocolate cup shortening t cup sugar 2 eggs H cup sifted flour % teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts Melt chocolate and shortening to gether. Blend in other ingredients. Bake in a greased square pan, in a moderate (350-degree) oven for 35 minutes. Released by Western Newspaper Union. REPORT ON THE RUSSIANS. 'W. L White INSTALLMENT TWELVE The head of the Soviet labor movement was a very smart man of forty-three called Kuznetsov. He was really keen. He’d lived in America, graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with a mas ter’s degree in metallurgy, and if you tried to point out that his labor movement here wasn’t really free, he’d come right back at you with some American example trying to prove that ours was even less free. He outlined their set-up like this. All Soviet unions—representing 22, 000,000 workers—send delegates to the All-Union Trades Congress. This meets every year or so but hasn't since the war. This corresponds to our AFL and CIO national conven tions rolled Into one. It’s strictly labor—no soldiers or farmers are in It. This big Congress elects fifty five members to something they call the Plenum. These fifty-five elect eighteen to something called the Presidium. And these eighteen elect ed him its secretary, which makes him head of the workers. He said at least 90 or 95 per cent of all workers belonged to trade unions. Stalin stayed in Moscow when Ger many advanced on city. So we asked him who didn’t belong. ‘‘Well,’’ he said, “some apprentices are too young, and then in the re occupied regions, it takes a little time to convince all workers they should belong." He said the dues were 1 per cent of a worker’s sal ary. There is no initiation fee, but they sell you a book costing only one rouble. “Now, is this a perfectly free union movement,” we asked him, “or is it directed by your govern ment?” It was perfectly free, he assured us. Of course, he said, anyone they elected to their Congress must be approved by the government. He said, “in 1919 a strike in one steel mill lasted two days. And in 1923 there was another little strike in western Russia. We were chang ing over from the old czarist money to Soviet roubles, and it took time to get it all printed and out to the workers. As soon as the situation was explained to them, they went back to work. There have been no strikes since, and in the future there won’t be any because our workers understand they are all working for each other." “If a worker is discontented and gets discharged for any reason, would it be difficult for him to get a job some place else?” “Very, very difficult,” said Kuz netsov. "Do you have any absenteeism?” “We simply don’t have it without reason.” “But aren't workers sometimes a little late?” “Occasionally,” he said. “The first time he is warned. The second time he may be fined. If it happens again, he is discharged. If a work er fails to co-operate, damages too much material or does anything else which we consider serious, he may be arrested and tried before a judge, and if he is unable to prove his in nocence, sentenced to a number of years’ penal labor. The rules in the factories are very strict and rigidly enforced.” And the union officials encourage the workers to testify against a man guilty of these of fenses — maybe they themselves bring charges against him. "Joining the trade union in any plant is completely voluntary,” Kuz netsov said. “How do you account then, for the fact that practically everyone who is eligible joins?” “It is to their advantage in any country, and particularly in the So viet Union, Vhere the Trade Union Movement offers many benefits. Here a union member received greater sick benefits than a non union member. There is a housing shortage here and most factories own apartment houses which they rent to the workers. Union members re ceive first consideration. “All workers are entitled to vaca tion with pay, but non-union mem bers cannot spend their vacations in the rest centers maintained for workers. If a worker is sick, the physician may recommend an ex tra week’s vacation, and he can go to a special type of rest center equipped to care for invalids. But non-union members are not eligi ble.” ‘‘Usually about 6 per cent of an employee’s salary goes for rent in these factory-owned apartments,” he said. "Young apprentices live in rent-free dormitories. Older workers may live in them, too, but they pay. Skilled workers, or those who exceed their norms, are entitled to better quarters. Because their pay is more, their rent is propor tionately higher,” ‘‘What relations do you have with American labor?” we asked. ‘‘None at all with the AFL,” he said. “We're very much disap pointed. Also, their representative, Mr. Watt, criticized our Russian Trade Movement at the last meet ing of the International Labor Or ganization in Philadelphia. He claimed we were not a free move ment. You can see that we are. I don’t understand why your govern ment would permit this criticism of our trade unions.” "Russia is your ally,” he said. “I can’t understand why your govern ment would permit it, and we sim ply don’t understand the AFL. It probably isn’t the workers, but only the leaders who have these distort ed notions. Here we are sure that your workers really want to co-op erate with ours, only the leaders won’t permit it. We do have some relations with the CIO—letters from Mr. Murray and several others. It is more sympathetic, and desires to co-operate, and more nearly under stands the true position of workers in America and workers here. We hope some day we can co-operate with the American labor movement. After all, we are working for the same cause.” Until we reach the Urals, which divide Russia-in-Europe from Rus sia-in-Asia, the country we fly over is exactly as it was up from Teheran —the same thatched villages domi nated by white churches with fced painted onion domes. We crossed the Urals, which are, in this area, not mountains but low, rolling hills, wooded with birch, oak, elm, ma ple, but no pine. At this airport, as at all the others we are to touch, we are met by the local dignitaries and important Communists—all grave, cap-wear ing Russians, well-dressed by Com munist standards. Zeeses take us across the city to the house of the plant director, where we will spend the night. We-drive through teem ing, unpainted slums which are worse than those of Pittsburgh al though we keep in mind that Mag nitogorsk is crowded because many industries have been evacuated here. we leave me slums and go up a hill which, overlooking the slums and the blast furnaces, are the spa cious homes of the executives— even as it is in Pittsburgh. We come into a paved residential street with gutters, sidewalks and big yards. Except for architectural differences, we might be in Forest Hills, New York, or Rochester, Minnesota’s “Pill Hill.” Magnitogorsk was started in 1916. There are now 45,000 workers in his plant, of whom 25,000 are construc tion workers, for it is expanding. Twenty open-hearth furnaces and six blast furnaces are operating, two of which were opened during the war. The mountain they mine contains an estimated 300,000,000 tons of ore which is 60 per cent iron, and an other 85,000,000 tons which will run from 50 to 45 per cent—quite a stock pile! Eric tells me that we have only about 100,000,000 tons left at Hibbing, and are using these up at a wartime rate of 27,000,000 tons a year. After lunch we drive to the big steel plant. I am riding with a cor respondent. Suddenly our car turns to one side as we overtake a long column marching four abreast, on its way to work at the plant. Marching ahead of it, behind it and on both sides, are military guards carrying rifles with fixed bayonets. The sec ond thing is that the column itself consists of ragged women in make shift sandals, who glance furtively at our cars. The correspondent nudges me. Nick, the NKVD man, is riding in the front seat. I don’t know how those women got there or where they were going, so I leave them as material for some mightier talent with greater imagi native powers. Entering the blast furnace section, the director bellows two noteworthy statistics at us; the first, that hn a 1,200,000,000 rouble business this year, he hopes to clear a 50,000,000 rouble profit. Secondly, that in this inferno, they have per month only eight injuries per 10,000 employees. The armament factory takes the prize for the most sloppily organized shop we have seen in the Soviet Un ion. Stockingless girls with crude sandals, lathing shells for the Red Army, stand on heaps of curled metal scrap from their machines. Occasionally they are protected from its sharp edges by crude duck boards. Some attempt is being made to remove the scrap. We see two girls carrying out a load of it on a Rus sian wheelbarrow, which is a kind of homemade litter, with one pair of wooden handles in front and one be hind. It carries a modest wheel barrow-load but requires two people. They stumble along with it through the rubbish. We watch them milling shells for the Red Army. There is no as sembly belt but at one point they have devised a substitute. When one operation is finished, a shell is placed on a long, inclined rack, down which it rolls into the next room for the next operation. Only the rack is badly made and now and then a shell falls off. Instead of adjusting the rack, a girl is sta tioned by it to pick up the shells and put them back on straight. Now we go through a brick plant. We watch the women laboriously moving bricks by hand after each processing operation. As we are leaving the plant, we see another column of women marching under guard. A few hours on the plane brings us to Sverdlovsk, before the revolu tion called Ekaterinburg because It was founded by Catherine the Great. It was here in a cellar that the hard headed Bolsheviks shot weak-willed, well-meaning Czar Nicholas II, his wife and family, later changing the name* of the town. Sverdlovsk is another Soviet Pittsburgh, bustling with a million people. Sverdlovsk is the Soviet center for the manufacture of heavy machine tools. In one big shop we see a gigantic drop forge, made in Duis burg, Germany. I can well be lieve that there are only four like it in the world. It can apply pressure of 10,000 tons. The plant itself is the same old Soviet story we have so far seen— no light, dirty, bad floors, and in this one the roof leaks. Outside there is a summer shower and we watch the water pour down from the high ceiling onto the hot steel and get soaked ourselves as we walk through. But they have mended the roof over the most important ma chines. Across the street from our flve year-plan hotel Is the marble opera house. It is a little too ornate, but Russians like it that way. It seems to be the most substantial and care fully built structure in town. It ia the provincial opera house, built in 1903 under the czar. At Omsk the delegation of digni taries shakes hands with us and tells us that our bags will be left at the airport, where we will spend the night. The building is excellent, modern, simple and in good repair. Martial law was declared In Mos cow and ack-acks brought to city in great numbers. It seems substantially constructed. Omsk before the war had a popu lation of 320,000 and now has 514,000 —evacuated workers, of course. We inspect the Mayor of Omsk— Kishemelev Kuzma. This is his sec ond year in office. Before that he was Director of Automobile High ways, a confusing title since the So viet Union has few passenger cars and almost no highways. We ask him how he got elected and he answers promptly that the people did it and goes into detail. There were in all five candidates, each representing one of the vari ous trade unions. Everybody in Omsk could vote, he says, and of course the ballot was secret. In the empty airport waiting room, sprawled on the benches were two khaki-clad figures. One asked me something in Russian. The other one said, "Hell, Tex. he’s no Rus sian." I said, “I’m an American. You guys Americans too?” "I should hope to kiss a horse we are," said Tex. (TO BE CONTINUED) Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IF YOU’RE all agog about who’s going to portray whom in “Forever Amber,” here are the most recent casting additions: Peggy Cumming, the young Eng lish actress, has the role of “Amber,” of course, and Cornel Wilde is the dashing ‘‘Bruce Carlton.” Paul Guilfoyle, Clyde Cook and John Rogers are ‘‘Jim my-the-Mouth,” ‘‘Deadeye’’ and “Blueskin” respectively. Twentieth Century-Fox is doing it in techni color, and the production has al ready gone before the cameras, with John Stahl directing. -* Osa Massen, who has a featured role in RKO’s ‘‘Deadline at Dawn,” was a photographer and film cutter before she became an actress. Lat er, when she was a star in her na OSA MASSEN tive Copenhagen, she pitched in and cut and edited her own pictures. And she’s still at it—she now makes a weekly photographic rec ord of Susan Hayward's twins; the girls became friendly while in “Deadline at Dawn.” -* Cass Daley had a beautiful dream the other night. She dreamt that she was in the White House, singing as she never sang before. And her accompanist—President Harry Tru man, of course. Now her one am bition is to make that dream come true. Housewives, take a bow! Profes sor Quiz says housewives usually make out the best on his program, with doctors, lawyers and teachers on the rear ranks. And he should know. He’s had contestants from every state in the Union on his Thursday night radio show, and there have been some from Canada, Europe and South America. -* While Ingrid Bergman was mak ing "Saratoga Trunk” she also made an abridged version of it for herself, shooting it in color with her own 16 mm. camera. Gary Cooper was camera man for the few shots of herself which she Included. She began making her own pictorial rec ord of movie-making in Holly wood shortly after she arrived there; “Casablanca” turned out so well in her miniature version that she attempted a more ambitious record of “Saratoga Trunk.” Inci dentally, she read “Saratoga Trunk” aloud, when it came out, to perfect her English, and was so much im pressed by “Clio,” the Creole hero ine, that she envied the actress who’d play her—and got the role herself. -* Teresa Wright dreamed for years of having her name in lights on Broadway; then she made her de but in "Our Town”—and had to change her name, because her name was Muriel, and there was another Muriel Wright on the Equi ty rolls. Teresa’s her middle name. -- Ricardo Cortez is resuming bis acting career after four years’ re tirement from the screen. He’ll re turn In Republic’s “The Twisted Circle,” starring Adele Mara, and will play a suave villain. -« British actresses seem to be step ping into the lead in a lot of our pictures lately. Lilli Palmer, a Brit ish film star, has been signed to a long-term contract by United States Pictures, the new producing com pany headed by Joseph Bernhard and Milton Sperling. Her first as signment will be the leading role in “Cloak and Dagger,” in which Gary Cooper will play the lead. -* Grace Albert, a “Crime Doctor” regular, is a successful business woman as well. She’s purchasing agent and eastern sales manager for her mother’s fruit cake busi ness, operated in Minnesota. -* ODDS AND ENDS—Ted Collins, Kate Smith's manager, has lined up Hay Mil land, Cary Grunt, Dorothy Tumour and Olivia De Havilland for guest broadcast on the Kate Smith show. . . . Vnited Artists is so pleased with Tom Brene man's first picture, “Breakfast in Hol lywood," that he's been signed to make a picture a year. , .. Though Joan Caulfield's first film, “Miss Susie Sla gle's," is just being released, Joan's al ready been named in eight polls as the most promising new star of 1946. . . , Ellen Andrews and her Belgian shep herd dog started their theatrical careers in the same Orson Welles production . . . but the dog’s now retired. Handy Spice Chest; Labels for Drawers TpHE actual-size pattern for * making this spice chest is used like a dress pattern. Just lay the pattern on the material and trace the cutting lines. CHEST PATTERN INCLUDESi SPOLD ENGLISH LABELSj WITH SPICE AND HERB NAMES TO BE cut out and; PASTED ON DRAWERS OR JAR5 Also Included are detailed directions for assembling with brads and modern glue. This one-evening project may be made with the simplest hand tools as there are no difficult joinings. • • * Readers wishing to make this Spice Chest may get the pattern, which is No. 275, by sending name and address with 15c to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills, N. Y. 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