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McCormick messenger, mccormick, s, c,-Thursday, April id, imi ■ Government to Encourage Greater Food Production Prepare for Increased Aid to Democracies; . Newspaper Men From Small Town ‘Make Good’ in Washington. By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 ‘H’ Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.—Before long the government will take steps to give the American farmer an incentive for raising more animals and in creasing the egg and milk output for this arsenal of democracy, it can be safely predicted at this time. Fur thermore, with the incentive will un doubtedly go some type of guaran tee, as in the case of the manufac turer, that the farmer will be pro tected at least from possible loss in such undertakings. At most, he might even be guaranteed a profit. Here is the background of the situ ation, details of which government officials are not ready as yet to make public: Food is as much a munition of war as guns. The United States in pledging its aid to democracies is starting to send food supplies to them. important Food-Weapons. One of these food-weapons is wheat. We have plenty of that grain. The department of agriculture esti mates that at present there are more than 525,000,000 bushels in ex cess of domestic needs. Another food weapon, and a vital one for fighting men, is the proteins —meat, milk, milk products, poultry and eggs. Rationing of these prod ucts is becoming severe in England. American agriculture does not have surpluses of these things. But farms are the factories where they can be produced,’ and we do have surpluses of one of the chief raw materials t for the process, namely, corn. Pres- *ent estimates indicate that the corn surplus will reach 700,000,000 bush els by October 1. How many more cows, pigs and chickens do we need in order to be able to feed ourselves as well as the fighting democracies? That is a hard question to answer. The department of agriculture calls it an “unponder able.” It also admits that if every body in this country right now were getting a square meal we would not have enough of the protein foods to go around. Hence, the plans-in-the-making to encourage American farms to “manufacture” proteins in the in terest of national defense. • • * Rural Newspaper Men •Make Good 9 in Washington Two small town boys, both trained on weekly newspapers, have made good in the radio world in Washing ton and neither of them can get the country out of his blood and is proud of it. « One is a lanky, red-haired Hoosier, Robert M. Menaugh, and the other, scholarly looking D. Harold Mc Grath, who grew up in the Cripple Creek mining district in Colorado. They are the superintendents, re spectively, of the new house and senate radio galleries. “My favorite newspaper,” says Bob, “is the oldest in Indiana and the one I used to work on. It’s the Salem Democrat.” McGrath, who has owned two weekly newspapers, says: “I have made seven auto trips from coast to coast in the last seven years and I noticed that the weekly newspaper is on a much more solid basis than it was when I was a publisher 25 years ago. I still think the weekly is the best read news publication in America.” Bob is the veteran of the two in radio because it was the house of representatives which first recog nized that radio men needed the same facilities that the members of the long-established press gallery have if they are properly to cover the doings of congress. So in May of 1939 the lower chamber appropri ated money for a superintendent and an assistant and amended its rules so that radio newsmen had their own little corner—a pew railed off from the visitors’ gallery right next to the newspaper men’s seats above the speaker’s rostrum. Senate Follows Suit. The senate, being a more ponder ous body, followed suit some months later. When the question came up to the speaker of the house as to who would be his choice for the superin tendent on his side of the Capitol, there wasn’t any question about Bob Menaugh’s qualifications. He has been a well-known figure around the Capitol ever since he came to Wash- The cotton and steel shortage in Britain is threatening morale. A shortage of corsets—made of cotton and steel—is expected. A woman doctor has come out with the sugges tion that a roller towel can be used as “ersatz.” But a male doctor pro tests. He says the battle lines are not the only ones that must be se curely held if the nation’s morale is to be preserved. ington with Representative Crowe from his own Indiana district. Although his family roots go clear back to the beginning of Salem, Ind., history, there is an ancient tale which makes him a little uncertain as to who he really is. It seems that four generations ago two little boys were stolen from two different families, the Menaugh^ and Hins- leys, by the Indians. One was four and one was five. Later, a trapper reported that he had heard that one of the boys, he didn’t know which, had died. Still later, the other boy returned to the village. But which boy? Six years has passed. The little fellow had an Indian name and he had forgotten his own. Both fam ilies claimed him and finally a pub lic trial was held and he was award ed to the Menaughs. Bob is a great- grandson of that boy. High School Start. Bob started newspaper work in high school, buying an old press and setting the type himself. Later he worked on the Salem Democrat, the oldest newspaper in Indiana. He says that his greatest thrill came in speaking on the first national broad cast celebrating the opening of the radio gallery on June 26, 1939, an honor shared by your correspondent. McGrath, head of the senate side started work in 1910 at the age of 16 as a reporter, succeeding Lowell Thomas on the Victor (Colo.) Rec ord. The Record was a four-sheet daily and McGrath was to have other reportorial training in Boise and Wallace, Idaho, before he got the urge to own a weekly. He paid a hundred dollars down and fifty dollars a month for the Kellogg (Idaho) Record. Equip ment, one job press, one Cotrell flat bed newspaper press and lots of hand type. “Mrs. McGrath and I,” he says, “learned to peg type and with the help of one printer got out the paper until I joined the army in 1918.” After the war he secured the Je rome County (Idaho) Times which he ran until he sold out in 1922. He came to Washington with Senator Schwellenbach of Washington and was with him until he took over the gallery job. * • • Minority Party in U. S. % Is Still important . I walked along the corridor of the Capitol feiilding, turned down a nar row hall, got into a still narrower elevator and went up to the second floor. Opposite the elevator door is the dffice of a small town editor. The office was not a newspaper office and the editor was not editing at the moment—he has to do that by remote control most of the time nowadays for his newspaper is lo cated in North Attleboro, Mass. He is Joe Martin, minority leader of the house of representatives and be ginning his second term as chair man of the Republican national com mittee. The subject of our conversation had to do with what a minority party doep when a national emergency ex ists and partisan politics is supposed to be forgotten. Chairman Martin told me the Republican party has plenty to do. “The Republican party has two big jobs ahead of it today,” this Scotch-Irish Yankee said. “The first job is to keep congress from getting ahead of the people.” I asked him just what he meant. “I’ve been out in the country,” he answered, “and I know the people don’t want us here in Washington to do anything that will get the na tion into war. If it weren’t for con tinual unspectacular work on the part of the minority, especially in committees, the country would be in far worse shape then it is today.” But a still bigger task lies ahead, Joe Martin told me. “Our second job,” he said, “is to prepare for the situation when the chaos of the World war which has produced the present emergency is over. Then it will be the responsi bility of the Republican party to get back the democratic processes which are being sacrificed today by the emergency grants of power to the executive.” Of course, Chairman Martin be lieves the country will turn to the Republicans then, as what he calls a stabilizing force. Meanwhile, he says they must continue to police the majority party policies. Probably before this reaches the public the entire administration of the defense program will be changed. The Office of Production Management whose official birth was celebrated with so much fanfare as the organization which was to run the whole defense program, is now about to become just one of half a dozen departments of the new set-up. ^ CMho Scott Watuut (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! Founding of the G. A. R. S EVENTY-FIVE years ago the city of Decatur, 111., became the birthplace of an organization which for nearly a half century was to play an important part, in the political history of the United States. That was the Grand Army of the Repub lic, composed of veterans of the Union army in the Civil war. Founder of the G. A. R. was Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson, who had enlisted in the Fourteenth Illinois infantry in 1862 and served in it through to the end of the Civil war. Stephen son’s tent-mate and bosom companion was the chaplain of the regiment. Rev. W. J. Rutledge. Dur ing General Sher man’s expedition against Meridian, Miss., in Febru ary, 1864, Rutledge suggested to Ste phenson that men who had been so closely bound together by the hard ships of war would, when mustered out of service, naturally want to form .some sort of association to keep alive their friendships. After the war ended the two men corresponded with each other fre quently and in March, 1866, they met by appointment in Springfield, 111. There they spent considerable time working on a ritual for the or ganization which they named the “Grand Army of the Republic.” Finally they had their plans for the G. A. R. completed. When they were ready to have the ritual print ed, Gov. “Dick” Oglesby, another veteran whom they consulted, sug gested that, in order to secure se crecy, it be set up and printed in the office of the Decatur Tribune, since the owners of that paper, I. W. Coltrin and Joseph Prior, and all DR. BENJAMIN F. STEPHENSON of their printers and pressmen were Union army veterans. Accordingly, Capt. John S. Phelps went to De catur and sought the co-operation of his old comrades on the Tribune. Meanwhile Dr. J. W. Routh of De catur, a friend of Stephenson’s, went to Decatur to make some inquiries about his work and interested Capt. M. F. Kanan in the idea. Next they called upon Dr. Stephenson and urged him to found a Grand Army post in Decatur without delay. He promised to do so if they could se cure a certain number of signatures to a petition for a charter. They had no difficulty in doing this and hurried to the Illinois capital to be the first to present their application for a charter. The result was that Dr. Stephenson, assisted by Captain Phelps, on April 6, 1866, organized Decatur Post No. 1 of the Grand Army of the Republic. Immediately other posts were founded throughout the state, main ly through the evangelical zeal of Dr. Stephenson who was neglecting his practice as a physician to build up the G. A. R. So it was a great disappointment to him when his comrades in the new society, meet ing in Springfield a little later to or ganize the Illinois department of the G. A. R., passed him by and selected another man as departmental com mander. During the next few months the G. A. R. grew into a national or ganization and plans were being made for a national “encampment” at Indianapolis in November. Its founder felt reasonably certain that he would be chosen the first national commander but again he was dis appointed. For that honor went to a fellow-veteran from Illinois, A. S. Hurlbut, although Stephenson was made adjutant-general. The second national commander of the G. A. R. was Gen. John A. Lo gan, the “Black Jack” of Union army fame. It was General Lo gan who issued the famous Gen eral Order No. 11 on May 5, 1868, which resulted in the establishment of a national Me morial day for decorating the graves of the Civil war’s honored de®^ - - - — m Farm and Homilies . . . By Baukhage GOOD TIDINGS FOR THE EASTER BREAKFAST (See Recipes Below) EGGSTRAORDINARY! With the passing of winter and the arrival of spring comes the joyful Easter season, bringing with it new life and new hope . . . Why not ex press these good tidings in the traditional Easter Sunday break fast? Make your Easter breakfast the No. 1 breakfast of the year—the time when the whole family, and guests, too, perhaps, gather leisurely 'round a gaily decorated table laden with their favorite early - morn dishes. Let color-splashed eggs , be the centerpiece. You can use those that the children have “discovered” in their traditional pre-breakfast egg hunt. Pile them high in the center of a grass - filled Easter basket. Then, to complete the scheme, mark each person’s place at the table with an egg cari cature—Uncle Sam, an Indian Chief, Mr. Rabbit or even a pert young lady. “While they’re still “oh-ing” and “ah-ing,” serve “eggs in nests”— just to keep the theme in mind. To complete your menu, you’ll of course want glasses of cold fruit juice, crisp ham slices or bacon curls and steaming popovers. It’s taken for granted that you’ll make plenty of hot coffee. They couldn’t ask for more! ♦Eggs in Nests. (See picture at top of column) 1 egg Ya teaspoon salt Butter 5 bread sticks Separate egg, placing white in small, deep bowl and retaining yolk in one of the half shells. Beat egg white until sti# and slightly dry (when dry, it will have a slightly coarse appearance). Pile egg white in oven-proof cup or dish in which 5 bread sticks have been arranged. Drop yolk into depression made in center of egg white. Bake in a mod erately slow oven (325 degrees F.) until bread tips and egg white are delicately browned (about 15 min utes). Season with salt, pepper if desired, and a lump of butter dropped on yolk. Serves 1. Just in case you’re wondering how the bread sticks are made, here are directions. Because of their dainty arrangement in the serving dishes, I call them Bread Buttercups: Remove the crusts from a loaf of uncut bread. Cut lengthwise slices from the loaf. Trim the slices so that they are about l\k inches wide and the ends pointed. Brush with an egg and milk mixture and ar range in baking cups. It is best to brush the tips with a little melted butter so that they will brown more readily. ♦Pop-Overs. 2 eggs, beaten % cup milk * 1 cup flour Yt teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon melted fat Combine eggs and milk. Pour over sifted dry ingredients. Beat with a rotary beater until smooth. Add butter. Beat. Pour batter into hot greased muffin pans, filling one- third full. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees F.) for 35 to 45 minutes. Dry in oven about 10 minutes with LYNN SAYS: Eggs join with other foods to fill your needs and produce your health. They are among our best sources of the muscle building proteins. They are high in iron which is needed to build good red blood. They supply phos phorus which forms a part of ev ery active cell of the body. When “peeling” hard-cooked eggs, crackle the shells, then start the peeling at the rounded end of the egg. Holding the eggs under running cold water or dip ping in a bowl of cold water helps to ease the shell off, leav ing a smooth, unbroken surface of white. THIS WEEK’S MENU EASTER BREAKFAST Chilled Pineapple Juice •Eggs in NeSts Ham Slices ♦Pop-Overs Jam Jelly Beverages ♦Recipes given. heat turned off. Yield: 10 large Pop-Overs. * • * And now a word about the clever ly decorated Easter eggs that ap-, pear in the basket above. You’ll agree that even the most aristocratic rabbit should be proud to claim these origi nal eggs. Deco rating them is both easy and in expensive. You’ll need large white eggs, a package of dyes from the Five and Ten, a, spoon - shaped wire hook with an end to use as a handle (for dipping eggs into the dye), rubber cement and stickers. Buy gold and silver stars, dots in various colors, small red hearts, lin en reinforcements that are really meant for loose-leaf notebooks, flow er seals such as tulips, and red and blue legal seals. Most of these come in several sizes, but the small ones are the easiest to glue on a curved surface. After the well-known hard boiling process you use your imagination about covering the eggs with stars and dots. Then try arranging hearts in four-leaf clover patterns, or turn the points outward and stick them around a center dot, as flower pet als, All-over designs of blue legal seals and stripes of the red ones, pasted so closely that they overlap a bit, are quite effective. There are endless arrangements, and you have the advantage of being able to soak off and replace designs until you are pleased, without wasting an egg. * • * of hard-cooked eggs? I’m coming to that . . . Coarsely chopped or sliced hard-cooked eggs in superbly sea soned cream or white sauce be come CREAMED EGGS. They will give luncheon and dinner menus a lift when served on crisply fried cornmeal slices, potato cakes, oi waffles. With eggs and cheese such boor companions, and cheese a prime fa vorite, too, ESCALLOPED EGGS and CHEESE is another use for Eas ter eggs—after Easter. Creamed Eggs. 6 eggs, hard cooked 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons flour lYz cups milk Ya teaspoon pepper Yt teaspoon salt Dash of cayenne or nutmeg Melt butter, add flour and stir un til smooth. Add cold milk. Cooli and stir constantly until thick. Re move from fire and place over hoi water. Add seasonings and sliced eggs, cut lengthwise. Stir carefully, Serves 4. Escalloped Eggs and Cheese. IV2 tablespoons butter 1!& tablespoons flour 1 cup milk Vi teaspoon salt Ya teaspopn pepper Ya teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 cup soft bread crumbs 3 tablespoons melted butter Yz cup grated cheese 6 to 8 hard cooked eggs Prepare a sauce of butter, flour, milk and seasonings. Arrange in greased casserole in layers using three-quarters of the crumbs, the sliced eggs, cheese and sauce. Top with remaining one-fourth cup oi crumbs, mixed with the melted but ter? Bake in a moderate oven, (35C degrees F.) until sauce is bubbly and top nicely browned, about 4G minutes. Serve plain or with to mato sauce. Serves 4 or 6. (Released by Westcro Newspaper UntoJLj Transfer No. Z9272 A CARDINAL, robin and barn- swallow join with the red wing, chickadee, meadow lark, bluebird and indigo bunting in bringing color to your lawn or gar den. They come in natural size on this transfer, ready to be traced to plywood, wallboard or thin lum ber. Cut them from the wood with jig, coping or keyhole saw and paint according to suggestions on the pattern. Then place them in trees or on bushes to brighten the out-of-doors. * * • General cutout directions are on transfer! Z9272, 15 cents. Send order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address Music Around the Clock In the state of Bikaner, India, all music is grouped into moming.i afternoon and night pieces and it! is against the law to play a com-] position outside of its “hours.” Thus, for instance, a person wish ing to play or hear a night piece at one in the morning has to wait until the next night, which begins at four the following afternoon. / Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative Powder — an intestinal tonic-laxative—actually tones lazy bowel muscles. It helps relieve that sluggish feeling. 15 doses for only 10 cents. Large family size 25 cents. At all druggists. Dr. Hitchcock’s LAXATIVE POWDER Contagious Example Nothing is so contagious as ex ample ; and we never do any great; good or great evil which does notj produce its like. We imitate good actions from emulation, and bad! ones from the depravity of our] nature, which shame would keepj prisoner, and example sets at lib-1 erty.—La Rochefoucauld. :pain tC-2223 HASYOU DOSING & Doping 60'&*l. AT DRUGGIST tsss$$$$sistt$n We Can All Be EXPERT BUYERS # In bringing us buying Information, as to prices that are being asked for what we Intend to buy, and as to the quality we can expect, the advertising columns of this newspaper perform a worth while service which saves us many dollars a year. # It Is a good habit to form, the habit of consulting the advertisements every time we make a purchase, though we have already decided just what we want and where we are going to buy - It. It gives us the most priceless feeling In the world: the feeling of being adequately prepared. I # When we go Into a store, prepared beforehand with knowledge of what is offered and at what price, we go as an expert buyer, filled with self-confi dence. 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