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. McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1941 Notes of an Innocant Bystander: The Story Tellers: The Sateve- post is publishing so-called humor ous stuff from Wodehouse, who wrote it between licks at Nazi boots. Humor that comes out of that form of environment doesn’t make you laugh. It makes you shiver . . . If you want a note of thanks from jrour mind—let it drink Willkie’s unarticle in Reader’s Digest. It’s common-sensational . . . William Allen White’s tug-at-the-hearticle in the same issue is a “must,” too . . . James W. Barrett’s exciting book, “Joseph Pulitzer and His World,” quotes the great publisher as say ing: “Every reporter is a hope, every editor' is a disappointment.” • • • — The Confession of the Week: H. Allen Smith in the Nov. Cosmopoli tan: “And talk about your gossip. Why, we’ve raised gossip to a fine art in New York. We put it in the papers and pay the experts fabulous sums of money. And I love it. I’ve always loved gossip. So have you. Maybe you won’t ad mit it. Maybe you’ll say gossip is not polite, not noble. But don’t try to tell me you stop up your ears or run or hide in the cellar when some one .begins whispering about the thing Joe Schwogie’s wife did at Fred Phlebby’s party Saturday night.” It was Friday night. • • • — Haw! Buddy Clarke of the Park Central’s Cocoanut Grove relays the j silly-dilly about the little boy who was run over by a steamroller while playing in the street. He was flat tened like a pancake. A passerby picked him up and brought him to the child’s mother on the third floor. “What is it?” she yelled in re sponse to his knock. “Your son,” he replied, “he’s been run over by a steamroller— he’s all flattened out!” “Well,” the mother grumbled, “I’m not dressed. You’d better slip him under the door.” ■r • • • — ■— i Man About Town: New York’s Horatio Alger Jr.: Marvin Schenck, the talent scout, likes hamburgers. So the other day, while munching on one in a Sixth Avenue beanery, he noticed a youth who impressed him as the “most typical good-looking young American” he had ever seen . . . The chap’s clothes indicated he could use a job . . . Schenck in troduced himself and took him to MGM’s Broadway offices, where a producer ejaculated: “That’s the handsomest guy in New York and Hollywood!” . . . After an ordinary camera test, it was rushed to the Coast . . . Magnate Mayer of MGM telephoned and ordered “the new find” rushed West . . On Friday, then, Jim Wittlig, 6 foot 4 nephew of Uncle Sam (who only the other day was hunting for a job on Sixth Avenue) will be riding in class out to Hollywood with a year’s MGM contract. His build-up will be “Movieland’s No. 1 Hero.” • • • — Henny Youngman would have you believe that this happened in Berlin ... A storm trooper carelessly stepped on the foot of one of Young- man’s relatives trapped in Germany . . . It so infuriated him he socked the trooper right on the nose . . . His pal took a sock at him, too . . . For which they were arrested . . . In court the judge asked the de fendant why he hit the Nazzy. “Judge,” said the man, “he stepped on my foot, the one with the corn, and it hurt me. I lost my temper and hit him.” “Your friend had a reason,” said ! the judge to the other fellow, “why ! did you hit this storm trooper?” “I thought,” was the retort, “it was being allowed again.” • • • — Then there’s the one about the visitor to Berlin who asked a na tive: “Is it true that Germans are eating horsemeat?” “Ah,” said the Nazi, “those were the good old days!” • • • — Jean Sablon overheard a couple of songwriters on Broadway . . . “Let’s go to Carnegie Hall,” said one, “they’re playing a Tschaikow- sky piece nobody’s swiped yet!” . . . Just before the Network-Ascap war ended, the song-writer group was boasting: “They’ll be coming around our way. We’ve got them crawling on our knees!” . . . How to Make Your Table-For-Two Com panion Feel Sappier: Ask her if she knows the meaning of the word “Twip” . . When she says she doesn’t know, tell her it’s a wide on a twain. • • • — Typewriter Ribbons: Robert Quil len: The press has the right to be free; but the more free it is, the less right it has to be wrong . . Os borne Enterprise: A critic is a per son who knows more than you know and wants you to know he knows it . . . Anon: She drove me to drink, the one thing I am indebted to her for . . . Ed Howe: Make a woman mad and she is no more polite than a man . . . Marjorie B. Greenbie: Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beau tiful old people are works of art Eleanor Roosevelt Ly Jlynn GUantbe/id PLEDGE AGAINST WASTE I have taken the pledge which Miss Harriett Elliott is asking all house-holders in the country to take during civilian defense week. Knowing quite well that, in the White House, it would be impossible for either Mrs. Nesbitt or me to sign this pledge honestly without the co-operation of the whole White House staff, I asked all those who were on duty to meet me. I explained its meaning, particu larly in not wasting anything. I urged them all to sign the pledge in dividually when it comes out, and to try to live up to it in the White House. I hope, also, that they will persuade their own families to join with us. They were most co-opera tive and my first suggestion came immediately from Mrs. Nesbitt, who said that we had certain things that were always left over after a big party, which could be sent to the self-help co-operative farm and fed to their animals. So we have found one useful outlet for leftovers which 'could not be used at all on our own table. CORRESPONDENCE COURSE We hope very ^hortly to have a correspondence course available in the Office of Civilian Defense. It is a fairly simple study on nutrition and the duty of the consumer. Many people who cannot attend classes may be able to read these courses and go to a volunteer bureau or consumer’s information bureau once to take a test. This will then make it possible for every household to feel it is part of the civilian de fense effort. c6st of living I had some quite appalling news on the rise in the cost of living last week. The average housewife must now spend 14 per cent more money for the food she will need for the family dinner than she did a year ago. In some cities, the increase in food costs is even greater, running to over 19 per cent. If you were preparing a meal 'oi ham and eggs, potatoes, white bread, butter, coffee and milk, the following prices show you what you would pay this year in comparison with last year: Increase % (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) No. 1 U. S. Naval Hero rOR more than 30 years the body 1 of John Paul Jones has rested in a marble tomb in the crypt of the United States Naval Academy chap el at Annapolis. Recently a pre cious relic was placed in front of his sarcophagus. It is a plaster bust of America’s No. 1 naval hero, made more than 150 years ago by Jean Antoine Houdon, the famous French sculptor. This bust, one of only five of its kind known to be in existence, was presented to the Naval Academy museum by an organization known as the Friends of the United States Navy. Back of this gift is an interest ing story. In 1779 Capt. John Paul Jones was placed in command of the American frigate Bon Homme Rich ard. Upon his arrival in Paris, Jones, who had been a Mason since 1770, applied for affiliation with La Loge des Neuf-Souers or the Lodge of the Nine Sisters (meaning the nine Muses). This lodge, besides be ing a fraternal organization, was also a club for artists, writers and other intellectuals. Benjamin Frank lin was its worshipful master and among its members was Houdon, the sculptor. Before the lodge could act upon Jones’ application, he had sailed away to challenge the power of the “Mistress of the Seas.” On Septem ber 23, 1779, occurred his historic victory over the stronger British man-of-war, the Serapis, during Ham (lb.) . . Eggs (doz.) . . White bread (lb.) Butter (lb.) . . otato Coffee (lb.) Milk (qt ) 1940 25.44 37.24 8.14 34.34 28.84 >20.84 12.34 1941 34.44 46.94 8.54 43.54 32.84 25.74 13.94 35 28 5 27 14 24 13 In other staple products, the prices have gone up very considera bly also. For instance, here is a table which may interest you. Sept. Sept. Increase 1940 1941 % Sugar (10 lbs.) . 51.04 60.04 18 Flour (10 lbs.) . 40.14 47.54 18 Lard (lb.) . . 9.34 14.64 57 Evap. milk (14H-oz. can) 7.04 8.44 20 Cheese (lb.) 25.74 32.74 27 OAions (lb.) 3.64 4.24 17 Salmon, red (16-oz. can) . 25 94 33.74 30 Corn (#2 can) 10.54 11.84 12 The greater part of these in- creases occurred since last Febru ary, and in October of this year prices were still rising. Some of these prices should undoubtedly have increased, particularly if the in crease reflects itself in the farmer’s pocket. I am wondering, however, if, in the case of milk, we will not have to resort to less handling, in order to keep the price on a level where children in cities can have enough. • • • HYDE PARK VISIT Miss Thompson and I caught the 4:30 plane one day for New York city. We were joined there by Mrs. Helm, and after dining at the house, drove up to Hyde Park. It was raining fairly hard, but I liked the sound of it as I sat on my porch and rejoiced in the coun try quiet. I was sorry, however, to wake to a gray day and steady downpour the next day in spite of the fact that we need rain badly. At 10 o’clock, I met the prime minister of Canada, Mr. Mackenzie King, and Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, with her two children, at the Poughkeepsie station. They settled down very quickly, and at 12 o’clock, our two small grand daughters, Sara and Kate Roosevelt, who are staying with friends in Rhinebeck, came down to lunch with the two little Princesses. The rest of us, with the addition of Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau, and several girls and their friends from Vassar, intended to have an outdoor picnic, but we ended by using the new playroom. It proved a great success and after lunch we sat around the fire and asked the President, the prime minister and the secretary jf the treasury, in numerable questions. Bust of John Paul Jones by Hou don. (Photo, courtesy United States Naval Museum.) which he uttered his immortal words of defiance—“I have not yet begun to fight!” When Jones reached Paris the next spring, all France was eager to honor him. Not only did the Lodge of the Nine Sisters welcome him and initiate him into its mem bership, but it commissioned one of its members, Houdon, to make a bust of the victor for the lodge. King Louis XVI was so delighted over the defeat of the British frigate by the Bon Homme Richard that he gave Jones the Cross of Military Merit, the first time it had ever been pre sented to a foreigner. Jones was proud of this honor and asked Houdon to depict it on the lapel of his coat when the sculptor made the original terra cotta bust of him in 1780, even though congress had not authorized him to accept a dec oration from a foreign monarch. Between 1786 and 1791 Houdon made 16 plaster copies of the bust on orders from Jones, who present ed them to ^Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Lafayette, Rob ert Morris, John Jay and others. The one presented to Jefferson was owned by the Boston Athenaeum for many years. But some time before 1900 it mysteriously disappeared from that museum and has never been found. Today the whereabouts of only five of the plaster copies of the original terra cotta, including the one recently presented to the Naval museum, are known, but sev eral scholars are trying to find out what became of the other eleven. In 1791 Jones ordered Houdon to make a plaster replica of the bust and on it, besides the Cross of Mili tary Merit, show the Order of St. Ann, which Catherine the Great, em press of Russia, had given him in recognition of his services during the Russian war with Turkey. Soon aft erwards Jones wrote to Jefferson, then secretary of state, asking Jef ferson to obtain for him authority from congress to keep the decora tion. At this time he stated that a congressman from North Carolina, his adopted state, had asked for a bust of him and that he had directed Houdon to prepare one, showing the Cross of St. Ann, and forward it to North Carolina. The state has no record of having received it and some of its historians are trying to determine what became of it be cause of the celebration in honor of Jones which is planned for 1942. We all argued with each other, which always brings out many points of view. Since Vassar is at present having a conference on the post-war world, there was much talk of both present and future defense. The rain was forgotten and I think, perhaps, it even added to the sense cf com panionship, for a gray outer world makes one all the more conscious oi a fire and cheerfulness within. After tea at the big house, the Vassar guests were taken back to college. We had no guests for din ner and the President and the prime minister settled down to a long talk. Houdon’s bust of Jones was de clared by some of his contempo raries to be a remarkably accurate likeness. President James Madison wrote to one of Jones’ first biogra phers: “His bust by Houdon is an exact likeness, portraying well the characteristic features stamped on the countenance of the original.” In criticizing a portrait which this same biographer had chosen for his book, President Thomas Jeffersor wrote: “Houdon’s bust of him is ar excellent likeness. Why have the\ not taken a side face of him fron that^ Such a one would be perfect Chicken a la King for Fifty (See Recipes Below.) Church Supper Ideas What is so gay as a grand, big get-together full of informal fun, the hum of pleasant conversation and plenty of good food thrown into the bargain? A church supper, of course! The fun will take care of itself and the food—well, almost if you get the right amount of it, for the cook ing’s as simple as only simple can be. Chicken’s a treat any way you serve it, but very easy to pre pare and serve if you do it this time-tried, old-fash ioned, favorite way ladled out of a big kettle with plenty of cream sauce onto feathery light hot biscuits: *Chicken or Turkey a la King. (Serves 50) 4 4-pound chickens, stewed, then , cut meat into pieces Or 1 18-pound turkey, stewed or roasted, meat diced 1 pound fat (chicken or turkey fat and butter mixed) 4 cups flour 2 gallons scalded milk 1 pound fresh mushrooms or 2 large cans 2 tablespoons minced onion 1% teaspoons or more salt % teaspoon white pepper 1V& teaspoons paprika 2 sweet green peppers, chopped (optional) 2 pimientos, chopped (optional) % cup egg yolks (6 eggs) Melt about three-fourths of the fat, add the flour, and blend thoroughly; add scalded milk, stirring rapidly with a wire whisk to keep well mixed. Cook until starch taste is gone—about 10 minutes. Cook the mushrooms, sliced, in remaining fat, until delicately browned and add to sauce with the onion. Beat egg yolks and mix with a small amount of the hot mixture to blend and add to the sauce, stirring thoroughly. Cook 4 or 5 minutes more. Add turkey meat. Season to taste (with paprika and pepper mixed into salt). Add peppers and pimiento, if used. Serve on hot biscuits. The simplest way to prepare the chickens is to cook them in sea soned water, to which a small on ion, 2 carrots and a small bunch of celery are added. Chickens are han dled best if dis jointed and the breast and back sections cut into convenient-sized pieces. Baking Powder Biscuits. (Serves 50) 4 pounds flour % cup double-acting baking powder 2 tablespoons salt 1 pound shortening (2^ cups) 5 cups milk Sift the dry ingredients together, add fat and mix lightly. Make a well in the center and add the milk. LYNN SAYS: Attractive salads pep up meals besides adding nourishment plus to menus. Salads in winter are a little hard to plan because of the scarcity of fresh fruits and vege tables, so I suggest you try these for solving your salad problem: Prunes stuffed with cream cheese and nuts, served with or ange sections and lettuce. Cooked beets and cooked car rots diced with celery, mixed with mayonnaise. Orange sections served with tiny cream cheese balls. Mari nate oranges in french dressing first. Canned pineapple and fresh or anges served in alternate sections on lettuce. Alternating orange and grapefruit sections are a good idea, too. ! Chunks of lettuce with crum- 1 bled hard-cooked egg and a few leftover peas, tossed together with ~nlad oil, salt, pepper, vinegar. THIS WEEK’S MENU •Chicken a la King •Scalloped Potatoes •Sunset Salad Bread and Butter Assorted Cakes •Coffee •Recipe given Mix just until the dough holds to gether. Divide dough into fourths and make % at a time. Roll on a floured board, pat to % inch thick ness, cut and place on baking sheet. Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a hot (450 degree) oven until golden brown. •Scalloped Potatoes. (Serves 50) 10 pounds (6 quarts) sliced potatoes 2 quarts hot milk % cup flour 1% cups butter 3 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon pepper Peel potatoes before weighing. Be fore measuring, peel and slice. If large, cut in two lengthwise before slicing. Into six baking dishes put a layer of potato, then a slight layer of flour, and repeat until all potatoes are used. Dissolve salt, pepper and butter in hot milk. Pour over pota toes, cover and cook in slow oven for 1% hours or until done. Best idea for a that’s made in ad vance and needs only to be sliced and placed on lettuce leaves for serving. It’s as gay and colorful as the get-togeth er itself. salad is this one •Sunset Salad. 18 ounces lemon gelatin 2% quarts hot water and canned pineapple juice 1% quarts grated raw carrots 1% pints canned crushed pine apple, drained 2 teaspoons salt Dissolve gelatin in hot water and pineapple juice which has been heat ed to 130 degrees F. Chill. Combine carrots, pineapple and salt. When mixture is slightly thickened, fold in carrot and pineapple mixture. Turn into individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Gar- ' nish with mayonnaise and grated carrots. Makes 32 portions. Just in case you want to make up a church supper menu of your own, I’m listing additional recipes: Meat Loaf. 10 pounds ground round steak 2 pounds ground pork or salt pork 4 eggs % pound bread crumbs 2 onions 2 tablespoons salt 2 teaspoons pepper 1 quart cold mashed potatoes 1 quart milk or canned tomatoes Mjx thoroughly, mold into five loaves, and bake in a moderate oven 350 degrees F., until done. Makes 50 servings. •Boiled Coffee. (Serves 50) W\ pounds coffee (6% cups) 2^ gallons water 2 eggs Mix shells, whole eggs and 1 addi tional cup of cold water with coffee. When the water comes to a boil, add the coffee egg mixture which has been tied in a bag, to the boil ing water, and boil for 3 to 5 min utes. Test for strength. When ready, remove bag, let coffee stand 10 to 15 minutes before serving. • * • The wife of one of our famous football coaches, Mrs. Lou Little, likes to serve a simple but hearty meal after the game. Jot this one down as an idea for an after the game supper or church supper idea: Hot mulled cider, casserole tof pork and beans, buttered hot date-nut ' bread, celery, pickles, and chili sauce; jellied cole slaw; doughnuts and coffee. For the casserole, used canned pork and beans with tomato sauce; , heat in the ovefi about 20 minutes. ; As a decoration use half slices ol date-nut bread. Put them around the top of the beans for 5 minutes be fore the casserole comes out fron? the oven. (ReleaseU by Western Newspaper Union.) ‘They Got Me Covered 9 Is Funniest Book of Year \ NEW all-around champion ** has been crowned ... in tha entertainment world. He is Hope. Not satisfied with being rated tops on the radio. Number One in screen box office receipts, he is author of one of the nation’s best sellers, which just about nails down this triple crown for Bob. “They Got Me Covered,” Hope’s autobiography, has been claimed by critics and readers alike as one of the year’s funniest books. It is a hilarious story, in narrative form, of Bob Hope’s life, gener ously illustrated with photographs, in addition to having cartoons de picting scenes from his life. The book is now available at drug and department stores throughout America at 10 cents per copy with the purchase of a Pepsodent product. This low price is possible because the sale of the book has been sponsored by the Pepsodent Company.—Adv. Influence of Chureh The churches are the greatest influence in this world of ours to overcome the present tendency toward greed.—President Frank lin D. Roosevelt. How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Customs Change The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and oth ers come.—Dante. INDIGESTION Gu may excite the Heart action At the first sipa of distress smart men and 'women depend on Beli-ans Tablets to set gas free. 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It gives us the most priceless feeling In the world: the feeling of being adequately prepared. # 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-confl- dence. It Is a pleasant feeling to have, the feeling of adequacy. Most of the unhappiness in the world can be traced to a lack of this feeling. Thus adver tising shows another of its manifold facets—shows Itself as an aid toward making all our business relationships more secure and pleasant. iiisisstsastistt