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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. CU THURSDAY, AUGUST !, 1940 IT'S PICNIC TIME! (Recipes Below) Summertime is picnic time, and you pack up your troubles as you unpack your picnic kit. Perhaps one reason why a picnic is such a popular outdoor sport is because its preparations are so easy on the lady of the house . . . sandwiches, stuffed tomatoes (or just small whole toma toes) with hard cooked eggs and a steaming cup of tea, are a tradition al picnic lunch—and that’s an easy meal if there ever was onel ' No dishes to wash afterward . . . paper cups and plates eliminate all such labor. Carry the tea in a ther mos bottle, if you like, or brew it “fisherman style" over an open fire. One hot dish is important at a picnic; it might be stew, or chow der, baked beans, or a macaroni dish—but do have something hotl There are pic nic hints and menus that you’ll like, in my cook book, “Easy En tertaining"; there’s a menu for a beach party, a hiking trip and a steak fry, too—with all the recipes you’ll need for this simple form of entertaining. Broiled Baked Bean Sandwiches. Bread, sliced Baked beans Cheese, sliced qr cut in strips Bacon slices, cut in halves Arrange bread on broiler. When bread is toasted on one side, turn. Then cover the untoasted sides of the slices of bread with baked beans. Place cheese over the beans and top each sandwich with one-half slice of bacon. Place under broiler and broil until bacon is crisp and brown and cheese is melted. Ginger Creams. (Makes 3 dozen 1%-inch squares) Vi cup shortening 2 tablespoons sugar 2 cups flour % teaspoon soda % teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger 1 cup dark molasses 1 egg (separated) 1 cup boiling water Cream shortening and sugar to gether. Sift flour, soda, salt and ginger, and blend with the creamed mixture, using a pastry blender or a fork. Add molasses and egg yolk, and beat well. Then add boil ing water, gradually, and beat well. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg white. Spread batter in greased jelly roll pan (about 11 by 16 inches) and bake in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for approximately 18 min utes. Cool, and frost with boiled icing or confectioners’ sugar icing. Cut in squares. Deviled Eggs. 4 eggs, h^rd cooked Vk teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 tablespoon butter, melted Vz teaspoon vinegar 1 teaspoon prepared mustard Cut the hard- cooked eggs in halves crosswise. Remove yolks, mash, and add salt, pepper, melt ed butter, vine gar and prepared mustard. Refill whites with this mixture. One-Dish Meal for a Picnic. 1 pound country style sausage 2 medium size onions (sliced) 1 can lima beans 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 teaspoon chili powder Shape sausage into flat cakes and fry with the onions until the sau sage is well done. Drain off all but % cup of the fat, add remaining ingredients, and simmer for 30 min utes. Baked Macaroni—Creole Style. (Serves 4) Vt package macaroni 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons onion (minced) 1 green pepper (chopped) 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 teaspoon salt ft pound country style sausage Vi cup soft bread crumbs (but tered) Cook macaroni in boiling, salted water. Brown onion slightly in the Remember the wonderful ice cream you used to love, as a child—the kind you had at par ties and picnics and Sunday school socials, too? Eleanor Howe has a collection of her favorite ice cream recipes to give you, next week, and recipes for frosty drinks, as well. Watch for her column next week—and then serve one of the delicious des serts or beverages the next time you entertain. butter. Add green pepper, and to matoes. Add sugar and salt and cook until the green pepper is ten der. Make sausage into fiat cakes. In a buttered baking dish place a layer of macaroni, then a layer of sausage cakes, and another layer of macaroni. Pour the tomato mixture over the macaroni and top with buttered crumbs. Bake in a mod erate oven (350 degrees) for about 45 minutes. Raisin Drop Cookies. % cup butter Vi cup granulated sugar 2 eggs cups cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup seedless raisins 1 tablespoon milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter and add sugar grad ually. Add eggs, well beaten, and mix thoroughly. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk and vanilla, beginning with the flour mixture. Add raisins. Drop from a teaspoon on a greased bak ing sheet and place a raisin on the top of each one. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees) for 12 to 15 min utes. Crazy Cake. 1 cup sugar 1 egg % cup cocoa % cup lard Vz teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder Vz teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 1% cups flour (sifted) % cup boiling water Place all of the ingredients in a bowl in the order given. Do not stir until boiling water is added. Then beat 3 min utes, using a ro tary beater, or 2 minutes if an electric mixer is used. Place in greased 8-inch square pan and bake 35 to 40 minutes in a moderately hot oven (325 degrees). Let ‘Better Baking’ Solve Your Baking Problems. True it is we all have baking problems. Yet, if solved correctly, we save time because fallen cakes don’t have to be made over again and we save money too—because the family simply won’t eat tough, chewy pastry, heavy, soggy cakes, etc. In fact, it is to avoid just such baking failures as these (and many more) that I have compiled this cookbook, “Better Baking.” “Better Baking" brings to you a whole se ries of baking hints, as well. as a compilation of many of my own fa vorite baking recipes, including such unusual good-to-eat ones as a frost ed nut spice cake, gumdrop cake, chocolate fudge cake, quick apple cake, and even a maraschino cher ry cake. To secure your copy of this book, simply send 10 cents in coin and please address, “Better Baking," care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Gives It Tang A little horseradish added to salad dressing or white sauce makes a piquant sauce for fish. Horseradish also may be added to whipped cream and served with baked, boiled or fried ham. Use Chicken Fat Chicken fat may be substituted for butter in cakes and cookies or for creaming or browning foods. Beef drippings may be used for season ing sauces, meats or fowl stuffings or meat leaves. ^ . FDR-Wallace Ticket Choice Of Democrats Third Term Tradition Is Broken by Delegates At Convention. By GEORGE A. BARCLAY A TRADITION of 152 years standing was shattered when President Franklin De lano Roosevelt was nominated for a third term by the Demo cratic convention in Chicago. It was the first time in his tory that such an event has occurred. 1940 STANDARD BEARERS From start to finish at the convention it was evident he would be nominated. Even when speak ers proposed the names of other candidates, it was apparent that when the vote was finally taken, President Roosevelt would be draft ed. A surprise to many convention attendants was the fact that when the nominations started, Alabama did not yield to New York, but gave its junior senator, Lister Hill, the honor of nominating the President. Greatest speculation centered around the nomination of a vice president. It became known on the final day that President Roosevelt’s choice was Henry A. Wallace, secre tary of agriculture. As in the case of the renomination of the Presi dent, the delegates knew for whom they were to vote before entering the hall. But it was only after a neck-and-neck race with Speaker William B. Bankhead and a noisy demonstration by groups of dele gates and spectators who shouted objections when Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, asked withdrawal of his own name, that Mr. Wallace was nominated. His selection is expected to appeal to agriculture and to act as an off set to the same appeal of Sen. Charles McNary, Republican vice- presidential nominee. Acceptance Speech. In accepting the nomination for a third term, Mr. Roosevelt showed himself once more a tradition smasher. In a radio address broadcast from the White House to the delegates he said that he accepted the nomina tion only after deep conflict between his personal desire to retire and the urgings of his conscience. But now, he said, the European war had cre ated a public danger in the United States. “In the face of that danger,” he told the delegates, “all those who can be of service to the republic have no other choice but to offer themselves for service in those ca pacities for which they are best fitted." It was an apparently united party that made the ballot unanimous for Roosevelt after the vote of the state delegations had given the President 946 13/30 of the 1,100 votes in the convention and the other candidates a combined total of 149 2/30. These candidates included Postmaster General Farley, Vice President Gar ner and Senator Millard Tydings. Secretary of State Hull, although not a candidate, had received 5% votes. One after another the names were withdrawn and finally Mr. Farley, By HOWARD JARVIS NOTHER tradition was broken by the Democratic party when it gave women delegates an equal voice with men on the party plat form committee for the first time in American political history. This action was taken at the fourth session of the convention. More than 2,000 women delegates had decided to put up a united front to demand this equality. The women didn’t hesitate to use their new-found power. They intro duced several amendments to the party platform, and those amend ments were passed. Foreign policy and women’s rights received partic ular attention. • At the insistence of Mrs. Arthur Condon of Washington, D. C., the plank on foreign policy which had already been accepted by the com mittee was changed to provide a warning to foreign dictators. Five words, “except in case of attack" were added to the pledge not to send troops to fight in foreign lands. The new committeewomen put through a plank which had been re- C. More women delegates cast their votes in the various state delega tions than ever before in the history of conventions. One state delega tion—Utah—had more women than men, the ladies outnumbering the gentlemen nine to seven. In the Florida delegation the representa tion of the sexes was equal. The New Jersey delegation had Rep. Marv Norton as its chairman. Franklin D. Roosevelt spearhead of the opposition to the third term, moved the nomination of the President by acclamation. Aside from the balloting and the reading of the planks in the plat form, three things stood out in sharp relief in an otherwise unemotion al and unexciting convention. One was the candidacy of James A. Far ley and the speculation over his future role in the party. The other was the reading by Permanent Chairman Alben W. Barkley of Ken tucky of a statement summarizing President Roosevelt’s views on the nomination the night before the bal loting in which he said he had no desire or purpose to continue in of fice and released all delegates pledged to him. The third was the dramatic appearance of 82-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia from a sick bed to inveigh against breaking the third term tradition as he nominated Mr. Farley. Roosevelt vs. Farley. The approaching dissolution of the partnership between Mr. Farley and President Roosevelt was evident as the chairman of the Democratic Na tional committee raised his gavel on Monday noon, calling the convention to order. Those who remembered the situation in 1932 and 1936 when Farley was the organizing genhis felt the contrast. No longer was Jim Farley the general-in-chief di recting the strategy that would re nominate his chief. He was in an other role—that of a candidate for the presidency himself and an avowed opponent of the third-term idea. For months it had been apparent to political observers that the Pres ident and Mr. Farley no longer saw eye-to-eye. The President’s silence on the third-term question and Far ley’s known opposition to it in creased the difficulties. Their his toric conference at Hyde Park, N. Y., a week before the conven tion at which Mr. Roosevelt made known his views and pledged Far ley to secrecy, pushed the question of their future relationship further into the limelight. To many, it seemed virtual confirmation of the long-standing rumor that Mr. Farley would resign his national committee and cabinet posts after the conven tion to take over the majority stock of the New York Yankees’ ball club. Complimentary references to Jim Farley by President Roosevelt in his radioed acceptance speech and by Mrs. Roosevelt who appeared personally to speak on the closing night were interpreted as a gesture of friendship to Mr. Farley. jected by the all-men members of the Republican platform committee. This was a statement which pro vided that a woman’s marital status should not interfere with her right to hold a job. The plank was de sired because 26 states at different times have had bills proposed to dis criminate against married women. Another victory for the women re sulted when the Democratic party was pledged to promote equal op portunity for women through the ef forts of Congresswoman Mary T. Norton of New Jersey. It pledged the Democrats to work for “equality of opportunity for men and women without impairing the social legisla* tion which promotes true equality by safeguarding the health and eco nomic welfare of women workers." Women delegates concerned them selves primarily with the business of the convention and forgot their social activities, according to Mrs. Elizabeth A. Conkey, national com- mitteewoman from Illinois. As con vention hostess, she pointed out that most of the social activities had been concluded before the convention got down to its serious work. C. One-eyed Connolly, perennial gate-crasher, failed to crash but at tended the convention wearing the badge of an assistant sergeant of arms. He assisted Andy Frain, in charge of ushers. C. Hollywood was represented by screen star Melvin Douglas and his wife, Helen Gahagan. He was a California delegate, she his alter nate. Henry A. Wallace With evidence mounting that Roosevelt would be drafted when it came time to ballot later in the week, there was little opportunity for suspense or excitement the open ing day. The keynote speech of Tem porary Chairman William B. Bank- head on opening night warned both political parties that the American 'people are in no mood for petty politics in the forthcoming race, that the major objectives of both parties must be unity and solidarity of purpose in preserving the struc ture of our government and the per petuation of the people’s freedom. Fire at Republicans. Heavy guns were turned on the Republican party in the speech of Permanent Chairman Barkley, the following night. Senator Barkley held their platform up to scorn, de nounced Wendell L. Willkie, at tacked statements of Herbert Hoover at the Republican convention and pointed to the record of Republican congressional voting on various pre paredness bills. One mention of President Roosevelt’s name brought a demonstration lasting 22 minutes. The statement from President Roosevelt which Mr. Barkley read at the conclusion of his speech, had no effect in halting the draft-Roose- velt movement, although Mr. Bark ley had said “The President has never had and has not today any de sire or purpose to continue the office of President, or to be nominated, by the convention for that office. He wishes in all earnestness and sincerity to make it clear that all of the delegates to this convention are free to vote for any candidate." A demonstration lasting an hour followed the statement and it was a foregone conclusion that nothing could stop the delegates demand for Roosevelt when balloting took place. This was abundantly clear on Wed nesday night, as state after state seconded the nomination speech. Glass Gets Ovation. Dramatic was the appearance of Senator Glass on behalf of Post master General Farley. Rising from a sickbed and attending what may well be his last convention, the Virginia statesman was eloquent in his praise of Farley and won foi himself a personal ovation. “Farley," he said, “is a man who never broke a pledge once given, who believes in the unwritten law as advocated by Democrats ever since the days of Thomas Jefferson, who less than three years before his death ap pealed to his party never to nomi nate a man for a third term.” But while the delegates cheered Senator Glass, it was a personal tribute only. Their minds were made up. Tradition or no tradition they wanted President Roosevelt for a third term. With the nominations out of the way, the Democrats faced their campaign opponents from a plat form built on a strong defense of the New Deal against the Republi cans and of the Western hemisphere against all aggressors. In its planks on foreign wars, defense and aid to the allies the platform was a close approximation of similar planks adopted by the Republican conven tion at Philadelphia recently. Concerning foreign wars, the plat form stated: “We will not partici pate in foreign wars and will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas, except in case of at tack." Concerning defense the platform pledged to “enforce and defend the Monroe doctrine," “provide Ameri ca with an invincible air force, a navy strong enough to protect all our seacoasts and a fully equipped and mechanized army." The platform is pledged to safe guard the farmer’s foreign markets, expand his domestic markets for all domestic crops, to promote farmer- owned co - operatives, marketing agreements, extend crop insurance and safeguard the family-size farm. In other planks, the party pledged extension of the Social Security act to “millions of persons not now pro tected," but without specifying them. A provision calling for “early reali zation" of a minimum pension for the aged was considered an appeal for votes of the Townsendites. The party devoted considerable space to its declaration for continu ation of public hydro-electric projects and condemning the “Power Mo nopoly" in one paragraph mention ing indirectly Wendell L. Willkie’s long duel with the Tennessee Valley authority. Democratic Women Gain Voice In Party’s Platform Council Random Notes of the Convention HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Camphor will remove the white rings left on tables by water glasses. * • • When rag rugs are washed they should be rinsed thoroughly be cause soap left in them makes them catch dirt more easily. * * * To dice or cut marshmallows easily, dip a dry scissors into pow* dered sugar. * • • Small size bath towels which are light in weight but firmly woven are easier for children to handle and are easier to launder. • • • Select pot-holders that are easy to launder and large enough to protect your hands. Hang a gen erous supply of them near the stove—or keep them in a nearby drawer. • * * If one-half cup of butter is re quired in making a cake and you have only one-fourth cup, add three tablespoons of sour cream and you will have a light, fluffy cake. * * * Keep spice boxes away from the stove to prevent the essential oils and flavor from drying out. • IK • Iodine stains can be removed from washable fabrics with a di luted ammonia solution. • • • • To keep cream fillings from soaking into cake layers, sprinkle a thin layer of confectioner’s sugar over the cake. Then add the filling and sprinkle it with a little more sugar before the next layer is put on the cake. To avoid excess sweetness, use less than the usual amount of sugar in the fill ing. * • * To clear the living-room of stale tobacco smoke: Prepare a jar with a few drops of oil of lavender on a lump of crystal ammonia. Pour on a little boiling water and leave the jar in the room. 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