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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.”
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• • • —
■— 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
%
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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. No laxa
tive bat made of the fastest-acting medicines known
for symptomatic relief of gastric hyperacidity. If the
FIRST TRIAL doesn’t prove Bell-ans better, return
bottle to ns and receive DOUBLE Money Back. 85a.
First Virtue
I think the first virtue is to re
strain the tongue; he approaches
nearest to the gods who knows how
to be silent.—Cato.
Don’t Namel&iir Husband
( if he’s “dead tired*’ when he comes from I
work and hatea going places. Mental M
or physical oyer-exertion occurs ■
easily if appetite for necessary body- ■
building foods is absent. VINOL with ■
Vitamin B1 and Iron helps promote 1
appetite. Druggists have VINOL. I
Sleep Heals
The long sleep of death closes
our scars, and the short sleep of
life our wounds. — Jean Paul
Riohter.
/MIDDLE-AGE)
WOMEN &
HEED THIS ADVICE!!
f you’re cross, restless, nervous
-suffer hot flashes, dizziness—
aused by this period ia &
roman’s life —try Lydia Pink-
lam’s Vegetable Compound,
lade especially for toomen.Helps
o relieve distress due to this
unctional disturbance. Thou-
ands upon thousands of women
eport remarkable benefits. Pol-
We Can All Be
EXPERT
BUYERS
# In bringing us buying Information, as
to prices that are being asked for
what we Iptend 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.
# 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.
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