LISTEN | i Please.f (by Patsy Graves for ANP) X THERE IS ONE MUST in the aily diet that many housewives seem 3 have trouble with, and that is the ;em of whole grain cereals. It is a bit ifficult because most people like cer als in a form that are no longer whole rain, but so highly refined that most f the wholeness has been taken away. rou know what I mean, shot through uns, flaked, and generally tampered /ith until nothing is left. GRAIN PRODUCTS are g00d ources of energy. Flour and cereals re not only cheap energy foods but re important for pi-otein too, and hose made from the whole grain are aluable for some of the vitamins and or iron as well. Vitamins7 Those re the things that make you sick if ou don’t get them. THE KIND AND FORM of cer al as well as the amount make a dif eren|pe in the cost and in the value, owever well we like them, and no mat er if they are convenient to use, the eady to eat breakfast foods are much lore expensive in proportion to weight nd to food value than the cereals that re cooked at home. So get on speak njg terms with bulk oatmeal, rice, /heat and many others. YOU DON’T HAVE TO use whole rains exclusively for breakfast you now. There are the brown flours that lay be used for at least a part of your aking. Take for example Whole Vheat Nut Bread: Mix and sift a cup nd a half of white flour, a cup and a alf of whole wheat flour, a cup of su_ ar, six teaspoons of baking powder, a ourth teaspoon of soda and a teaspoon f salt. Add a cup of chopped nuts, one nbeaten egg, a cup of sour milk, and istly two tablespoons of melted fat. ,lix to a smooth dough, turn into a 'ell greased loaf pan, and let stand 15 linjutes. Bake in a moderate oven, 50 degrees for 45 minutes. This bread "ill make a fine variation if you have inches to pack. BESIDES, GOOD OLD CORN IEAL IS A WHOLE GRAIN whether ou realize it or not. Remember how ou used to reply that you were big nough to eat corn bread without gett lg choked when asked how old you ^ 'ere. Especially if you were a female f the species. Here is a kind of fancy ornbread called JOHNNY CAKE: ift some flour and then measure a tip and a fourth. Add two teaspoons f baking powder, a teaspoon of salt, iree fourths of a teaspoon of soda and vo tablespoons of sugar. Sift it all a ain. Now add a cup of yellow corn leal. combirie two well beaten eggs, cup and a fourth of sour milk or but ermilk and three tablespoons of melted at. Add to dry ingredients, mixing "ell. Bake in a greased pan in a hot ven about 40 minutes or until done. IF HAVING BACON FOR REAKFAST is running your bill too igh, you’ll find that fried cornmeal lush is an excellent change. This may jund awful down home, but believe ie it’s not bad at all. Stir a cup of )rnmeal into three cups of boiling, dted water. When the mush stage is cached, pour in hot fat and serve wich /■rup. Grits, that southern standby, ’e (grits “is” as Bette Davis says in ittle Foxes) tops done the same way. don’t know and don’t care if “is” or ire” is correct. You know what I’m .Iking about. These are good, good >r you, and cheap to the boot. ANOTHER OF THE BROWN ?LOURS can be used to make Gra km Gems: Sift, and then measure a ip of flour, add a teaspoon of salt, ree teaspoons of baking powder, ur teaspoons of sugar, and sift again dd a cup and three fourths of Gralr n flour. Combine a well beaten egg, a cup and a half of milk, and a table' spoon of melted butter. Add to flour, beat just enough to dampen the flour, and bake in greased muffin or gem pans in a hot oven 25 minutes. I HAVE JUST READ an article in a national magazine called Recipe: Victory Pie. The author says “it is no exaggeration to say that in the con tents of your garbage pail lies the fu ture of the nation”. So don’t throw a' way nbthing, if I may ungrammat ically emphatic. BETWEEN THE LINES (by Dean Gordon B. Hancock) POLITICAL PIDDLING; DICTAT ORSHIP NEEDED HERE to FIGHT DICTATORS There is being enacted before our eyes one of the most brilliant examples of national and international piddling history has ever known. We talk a bout fiddling that Nero did while Rome was burning; but the way the democracies piddle wrhile the dream city of democracy burns is not only a larming but it is positively tragic. Many months ago this column contend ed that slow moving democracies could not measure efficiencies with swift" moving and regimented dictatorships; that democracy worked well in times of peace, but very poorly in times of crisis; that wherver democracy has met and successfully combated dictat orship, certain democratic notions had to be sublimated for the moment. t reeuom ct speech is a, tine thing in times of peace, but it becomes ex ceedingly dangerous in times of war. At a time when we should be concen trating everything on getting this na tion’s mind mr.de up to fight a war that is inevitable, we are still crying “free dom of speech” with the result that our councils are divided and the people are confused and th nation is just piddling around. Whether we have a dictator ship or nor, we certainly nteed one, and that very badly; and we must have one if the entire nation is not to become a vassal of Germany and a henelrriation like Vichy, France. The use of the democracies are making of the ideology raises the ques* - tion whther or not the United States ! and Great Britain really deserve demo cracy. Nation^ who play so carelessly with the vital matters involved raise grave questions by their proceedure. Our isolationist group is so sure of it self that they are positively defiant and proceed to embarass the President in every onceivable way. There can be no greater political tragedy than that our great President is handcuffed by a bunch of political piddlers who are gambling on the lives of millions of the nation’s youth for the sext election. It appalls us to think of what might have happened had not Hitler made the fatal mistake of invading Russia instead of England. England’s warwhoop has become a mere whim per. Only God knows what would have become of this once mighty nation had not Russia come indirectly to the res cue. It is even more appalling to sur mise what we would do if England and Russia were suddenly removed from the combat as there are reasons to fear they will. It is hard to tell just who is run ning this country, Roosevelt or Wheel er. Beside a lot of squabbling and “po litical piddling” we are not doing much in this country. The die hard Republ ican;. are trying to utilize the critical hour for their advantage; the nation is still trying to place prejudice above the welfare of the people. The nefarious attempt to circumscribe the Negro is too often taking precedence of nation al security. The Negro is still trying to break into the war we are almost cer tain to fight. The Negro is still this nation’s super-patriot for nonie but a super-patriot would try to force his way into the front lines of the battle for a democracy that has not function ed too satisfactorily. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Russia is being left to the des traction of the German armies because the democracies fear what may happen if communistic Russia survives. We are asking questions about Russia and her religion as if it were our business. Russia could with equal propriety ask us questions about our democracy and how it has not functioned in regard to the Negro. Or with equal propriety Russia could question our religion; for God knows that it has failed lament' ably in many a, 'color situation. To attempt to high-hat Russia because of her attitude towards religion is just a bout as silly as it would be for Russia to high hat Uncle Sam because of the way that democracy has been misused and abused in this country. When we begin investigating Russia’s religion, she could begin ask ing questions not only about our relig ion but our vaunted democracy. This would be equivalent to a quarrel be tween the kettle and the pot over the kitchen color question. We want Rus sia’s aid whether we admit it or not but if we do not want it we most cer tainly need it. Russia is our benefact or whether we acknowledge it or not for we verily need the time we are gett ing through her valiant defense. While the Germans are fighting the democracies are just piddling ar ound. Our congressional piddlers and their piddling makes a real patriot sick at heart. Whoever heard tell of a man whose house was on fire raise the ques tion as to the political or religious af filiations of the firemen? Calvin’s Digest DANGERS OF SELF SUGGESTION (by L. Baynard Whitney) Gentle reader, have you not at some time become heartily tired of the hatred, bitterness and mourning over racial injustices, discrimination and se gregation? Haven’t you sometimes wondered if our Negro Press does not “lay it on” much too thick? Did you ever get well nigh thru a full day feel ing grand, a song in your heart and feeling that God is in his Heaven and all’s right with the world? Then you pick up a colored magazine or news paper and read all about the worst of things, and a dark cloud came over your mind, you felt both blue and evil, ready to slit some white folk’s throat to avenge their hellishness? Also, reading about the cussed nfess and weaknesses of some of the Race, including the scandals and the assorted “skeletons” in sundry closets has, it seems to me, the effect of exag gerating our shortcomings, while news of defeats and shutouts on the racial or interracial front has a strong tendency' to encourage and intensify the Negro’s deep inferiority complex. And seldom are the stories and features of our tri umphs and good elements, which are meagerly or poorly presented, suffic ient to overbalance this negative sug gestion. Most of us are generally in clined to be more impressed with sor row and distress than with joy and sue cess. Many of us never read the Negro Press at all because of its blue 'note tone and quality. In fact, I have been guilty of this very thing, but soon dis covered my ignorance, however. After reading some of our publications, it gave me a feeling of being stifled or drowned (and it still gives me that feeling, n