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(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<ow and then). But one must
exercise wisdom in selecting what it
ems they choose to read, and also ex
ercise emotional control when reading
certain madenirtg accounts which are
considered “must” reading.
State Of Mind Is Important
Compared to what it should be,
the effect of the Negro Press upon the
white man’s world, in the matter of
helping us with our problems, has been
almost negligible; so that heretofore,
our press has resembled a group of
Negroes chattering exclusively among
themselves.
The individual’s attitude of mind
toward himself and his problems is of
first and foremost importance. A
trip through Hell can be made profit'
able and instructive if one takes the
right attitude of mind. That attitude
must be the positive, constructive atti'
tude and not a negative, destructive at
titude. Each individual must decide
just how he will ALLOW or NOT AL
LOW people and the world to affect
him. Resident in every person, and
often more prominent in the Negro,
there lies a latent creative power, which
if arousd and used in harmony with
the law of change and the element of
time, will definitely solve ANY prob
lem. Our race has proven this and we
continue to prove it—ky the progress
we have made in this country, against
great odds.
But those responsible for this pro
gress never reached their high place by
yielding to any suggestion of defeat,
discouragement or bitter hatred, altho
the latter element may have in some
in)stancs,, become itself a positive, driv
ing force, and the hatred swallowed up
in constructive achievement.
Someone would do the Negro an
immeasurable service by writing a prae
tical, down to earth Guide Book on
“Constructive Circumvenltion of Rac
ial Obstacles in the White Man’s World
in two volumes, a primer for Negro
children, an advanced text for adults.
RUSHING FOR SOCIETY
(by William Henry Huff for ANP)
If one is in a hurry
For social preferment
He will have cause to worry;
There’s danger in such bent.
He drives away the people
On whom he hopes to hang;
Their frowns up in the steeple
Will blast him with a bang.
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in the male leads are John Wayne and Ray Middleton, two of
Hollywood's most famous he-men. The picture is lavishly produced
and ar£&enls a thrillina. hiahlv dramatic theme.
-TYP NEWS SYNDICATE
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budget production, “Lady For A Night," in which Joan Blondell and
John Wayne are co-starred, with a strong supporting cast headed|
by Ray Middleton, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka, Edith Barrett, andi
Leonid Kinskey. Miss Noel has been seen in many films, and is ore,
jpf Hollywood's most popular negro players.
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