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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.
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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
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chocolate fudge cake, quick apple
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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. You
will be pleased with the pleasant
fresh scent it leaves behind.
Valuable Lesson
Perhaps the most valuable re
sult of all education is the ability
to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be
done, whether you like it or not; 1
it is the first lesson that ought to
be learned; and however early a
man’s training begins, it is prob
ably the last lesson that he learns
thoroughly.—Huxley.
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