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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940 .Ask Me Another 0 A General Quiz The Questions 1. What country in Europe has always been at peace? 2. Why will not asbestos burn? 3. How much does a cubic foot of solid gold weigh? 4. What is a horse opera? 5. Do barking frogs have a tad pole stage? 6. Diamonds and coal are both carbon. What is the difference? 7. What is the oldest example of printing still in existence? 8. How many geese must be plucked to obtain one pound of feathers? The Answers 1. The Republic of Andorra, lo cated in the valley of the Pyr enees between France and Spain. 2. Being a mineral, asbestos is noncombustible. 3. A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,204 pounds. 4. Movie pictures known as "Westerns” are sometimes re ferred to as “horse operas.” 5. Development into adulthood of the barking frog takes place within the egg. 6. Coal is impure carbon. Dia monds are pure carbon crystal lized. 7. A Buddhist prayer printed in 756 A. D., owned by the Art In stitute of Chicago. 8. About six geese. I LIKE FAST HORSES AND A SLOW-BURNING CIGARETTE! THAT MEANS CAMELS. THEY'RE MILDER, COOLER, AND MORE FRAGRANT-' NEVER WEAR OUT' THEIR WELCOME Peggy McManus, Expert Horsewoman P EGGY uses plenty of horse sense in picking her horses... plenty of common sense in pick ing her cigarette. Like millions of others, she finds that a slower- burning cigarette gives more mild ness and coolness, and smokes with a full, rich flavor and £ts> grance. So Peggy smokes Camels, for Camels burn slower, give more pleasure per puff end more puffs per pack. In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 2S% slow er than the average of the 15 other of the largest-sell ing brands tested — slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a ailing plus equal to FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR- Camels SLOW- BURNING COSTUER TOBACCOS GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jays': United Features WNU Servtaa NLRB ‘STENCH’ The House labor committee proposal to fumigate the stench in the national labor relations board is of itself a stench. A quasi-judicial body has discredited itself by becoming not at all judicial but biased, prejudiced, partisan and unfair. How can that scandal be relieved by creating two additional vacancies a be filled by the same authority that appoint ed the first one? The proposal on its very face and of itself admits the charge that the board is devoted to partisanship unsatisfactory to all three principal ly interested parties—employers and both sides of the divided house of organized labor. On only one possible theory can this partisan ship be reversed—the selection and appointment of men who can be re lied upon in every case, or at least in a majority of cases, to follow a contrary bias. This is the very vice of court packing, jury-rigging and all simi lar schemes for paying lip service SENATOR WAGNER—“He did not originate the labor board.” to principles of democracy and jus tice and betraying them at heart. If two, or even one, of the new appointees turn out to be of like mind with the members who have smirched and perverted the pur poses of the labor act, this proposal can only keep its shocking injustices intact or at best make them worse. And what chance is there that any number of additional judges would change this situation? There remains the philosophy of whatever reigning influence' worded the law. It still defends the board it attempt ed to shield from investigation. After the board’s conviction upon the facts and at the bar of public opinion, it is still unwilling freely to acknowledge its errors and offers only this futile and tricky clever little scheme, to calm the public clamor against its evils. It is difficult to see why Senator Wagner’s opinion is to be greatly considered in this matter. He did not originate the labor board. That was done by NRA in 1933 while he was abroad. The idea of that board was for a strictly unprejudiced um pire to decide the controversy in the application of the provisions of NRA for collective bargaining, in dependent labor representation and maximum hours and minimum wages. Senator Wagner was sug gested in 1933 by the NRA adminis trator and appointed by the Presi dent during Wagner’s absence in Europe. But it was under the senator’s administration that the idea of a strictly impartial tribunal was scrapped and the board became a government pressure bureau to or ganize industry, not in whatever form workers might select, but in particular forms favored by the board. That new policy is at the root of the bad repute of NLRB. • • • ‘100 PER CENT’ HOOVER The political smear artists who are out to get Chief G-Man Hoover realize that they can’t do it on any legitimate charges of inefficiency or ill-boding. The guy is 100 per cent cop and 100 per cent honest. But there is always the weapon of ridicule which is so effective that a man can be hurt by merely hear ing his good points mentioned too much—like Aristides who got him self kicked out of Athens partly because some people got tired of hearing him called “The Just.” So they call J. Edgar Hoover “The Glamour Boy of the Beaches.” That is based on the following episode in Miami: Shortly after the Pendergast cleanup in Kansas City, the then attorney general, Frank Murphy, who is a real glamour boy both in politics and among the gals, made a crack about cleaning up corrup tion in American cities. He was not then on the Supreme court, and he didn’t want to go there. He thought he had an outside chance of becoming heir-apparent to the Great White Throne. This may have had nothing to do with Attorney General Murphy’s proposed city cleaning crusade, but if Tom Dewey could become a leading can didate by cleaning one city, what couldn’t Frank Murphy do by clean ing ten? So he ordered Hoover and six G- Men to Florida and later announced that he had done so to cleans* Miami. GrantlandRlce CT. PETERSBURGH, FLA.—The ^ Red Bird engraved upon the shirts of the St. Louis Cardinals has turned into a hawk, seeking its prey. A year ago these Cardinals were net sure whether they might finish second or fifth. They caught your eye in this sun- flooded city that now lays claim to the World Series training spot. But too many of them had just begun to wield a razor along downy cheeks. They were Red Birds then — not hawks. They needed the hammering experi ence of a hard campaign. It was in the shade of a sheltering oak, ash or palm tree that Branch Rickey advised me to pick the Reds for 1939 and the Cardinals for 1940. "We have quite a number of young fellows,” he said, "who need just one more season. The Reds will get the jump on this young team but we won’t be far away in the stretch. It will be different next year.” This happens to be the “next year” mentioned by Mr. Rickey. If he is as sound a prophet in 1940 as he was in 1939, the Cardinals are already in. Sound Pitching Staff They have that year’s experience stnek under their belts and they have the same speed and the same spirit. More than that, in addition to such veterans as Curt Davis, Lon Warneke and Big Bob Weiland, they also carry along the younger pitch ing arms of Cooper, McGee, Lanier, Bowman, Sunkel and Barrett—the soundest all-around pitching staff in the National league and one of the best in baseball. It has both quantity and quality. From the nine pitchers mentioned Ray Blades should be able to get at least five moving briskly along, which is well above the average. There are those around who will advise you not to climb too far towards the end of the limb in this Cardinal matter. They mention the fact that Davis, Warneke and Wei land are no longer kids—that most of the younger pitch ers have yet to pr ove their place— and that Pepper Martin can’t retain Curt Davis * he iro " his fl s y s ' tem and the flame in his soul forever. Temperamental Medwick They also bring out the fact that Joe Medwick hasn’t been any too happy under the St. Louis setup for some time. And Ducky Med wick happens to be one of the best ball players in either league. He may be high-strung and tempera mental, but he can hit, field, run and throw—the four main essen tials. Ray Blades figures there are six teams that can win the National league pennant. I can’t agree with him. The race should be between the Cardinals and Reds, with the Dodgers and Cubs making the main challenge. Frank Frisch will need at least a year to get the Pirates untangled and headed forward. I can’t figure Giants, Braves or Phillies with anything but a miracle chance. Most of the old Gas House Gang have left the scene. They are scat tered far and wide. Only a few years ago at Braden ton there were the two Deans, Jim my Wilson,* Rip Collins, Leo Du- rocher, Bill Hallahan and several others. Now Pepper Martin and Joe Medwick are about the only ones left. Baseball has seen better teams, but none with so much color. There was the time when Jimmy Wilson, the crack Cardinal catcher, began missing his silk shirts from the lock er. Dizzy began wearing them. Dizzy was then a rookie. When Jimmy put the blast on Diz for pil fering his favorite shirt, Diz only grinned. “Listen, Jimmy,” he said. “I came down here with only one shirt. I knew you wouldn’t want the great est pitcher baseball ever knew to go around with the same shirt for a month. Now, would you?” “I guess you’re right, Diz,” Wil son said. So Dean kept the shirt. But there is still enough color in this present Cardinal outfit. It’s a young outfit, in the main, an outfit that is keen to go somewhere. A Whiff of the Series “We got a sniff of that World Series cash last fall,” one of them told me. “We didn’t quite make it, but it was a fragrant smell. “But it will be different this year. We think we can win. But whether we win or not no team is going to get any 12 or 14-game jump on us by June. Nor any other time. We learned a lot last summer, enough to make us a much better ball club. The Reds will have to be better than they were a year ago to head us off.” NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Renewal of heavy spend ing is topic of White House discussion... Harrison and Bilbo bury the last senate hatchet. HouseholdNeuis =,15] a Senator Wagner (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON.—Hot arguments at the White House in the last few days have revolved around the ex pediency of renewing heavy spend ing. President Roosevelt is willing, but wants the expenditures outside the budget In short, he wants to stop federal grants to state and local communities, but is willing for the gov ernment to lend considerable amounts. Thus would be avoided the two horns of the dilemma which forced the drastic budget cuts in the budget’ message last January — in creased debt limit on one hand and In creased taxes on the other. Important in these White House discussions were the future activi ties of the Federal Works agency. The rate of disbursement on its present program is $248,000,000 a month but will drop to $188,000,000 by December. In this connection there was much discussion of the proposal of Sen. James M. Mead of New York, to make $300,000,000 available for long term government loans for hospital, water and sewerage construction— about 20 per cent of PWA’s 1938 program. Sen. Robert F. Wagner of New York is willing to combine this with the proposed $10,000,000 hospital construction subsidy. This hospital item, incidentally, is the only excep tion the President seems willing to make in cutting off direct grants* He has been much interested in the problem of small communities which apparently cannot afford to finance their own hospitals. Up on Capitol Hfll there has not been an equal interest in the Presi dent’s public health ideas, but for such a small amount, and in con nection with the bigger spend-lend scheme, the reaction may be dif ferent. NO CUT IN WPA FUNDS Under the circumstances it is be coming extremely dubious whether congress will accept or that the White House will insist on a cut in WPA funds to one billion dollars for the next fiscal year, as tentatively proposed in the Roosevelt budget message. Already definite lines are forming in congress to boost this figure should F. D. R. himself not do so when he submits a definite estimate. Farm bloc members, pleased with the big boost in their appropriation, have been much in conference with the pro-PWA spend ing bloc, and an understanding is in the making. The President probably took a good deal of quiet satisfaction in questioning ■ congressional leaders about the tax situation. He asked if, in view of the boost of the farm appropriations, anything had been done about his suggestion for taxes to meet “extraordinary” national defense appropriations. The lead ers told him they had been too busy with other matters to consider it. This was far from the truth, unless the word “consider” is taken to mean formal consideration in a committee. There is scarcely a sen ator or a representative who has not thought and talked a, lot about it. And the answer is still “No.” No new taxes will be imposed this year. BURY LAST SENATE HATCHET Feuds seem to be old-fashioned— threatening to pass into history—so far as the senate is concerned. With the cordial handshake and actual political co-operation be tween Pat Harrison and Theodore G. (The Man) Bilbo, the last of the hatchets between colleagues has been buried. There is nothing resembling—for the moment at least— the old hatred be tween John Sharp Williams and James K. Vardaman. When the brilliant Williams spoke Vardaman would walk out into the cloakroom. But now all is good humor and good feeling. In fact, if one ex cepts the bitterness of some of the unpurged senators, notably Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith and Millard E. Tydings, against the President, there is a surprising lack of hos tility so far as personalities are con cerned. - The Harrison-Bilbo feud was per haps the bitterest in the senate and the bitterest since that between the other two Mississippi senators of World war days, Williams and Vardaman. Close behind it, how ever, was the hatred, political and personal, between the “Boy Sena tor,” Rush D. Holt, and his col league, Matthew M. Neely, of West Virgini SAUCE MUST COMPLEMENT THE FOOD (See Recipes Below) 'Sauce for the Goose* Senator Harrison The function of a sauce may be either to accent or to soften a flavor; It may be used to enrich a food, or tp moisten it; the sauce may be tweet or savory; it may be hot or cold. Whatever its purpose or clas sification, the sauce must be smooth Ip flavor as well as smooth in con sistency. It should, in addition, of fer contrast in color, flavor, in tex ture, or in temperature. Sauces are “sweet” or “savory,” depending upon whether they are used for desserts, or are served with meat, vege tables, egg dishes or macaroni. French cooks, to whom sauces are sacred, use two basic recipes or “mother sauces” from which all their savory sauces are developed; no simple white sauce or sauce merely thickened with browned flour, for them! To serve its purpose, a sauce must complement the food—rather than disguising it. That means subtle seasoning, and just the right con- •istency. Plain white sauce—the standby of to many cooks—should seldom be served "as is.” It’s a foundation, really, which is quite likely to be flat in flavor, and very much too thick! Judiciously seasoned, it can be used in dozens of different ways. Flavor it with sharp, grated cheese, or add condensed tomato soup to it, for character; use a drop or two of Worcestershire or a half teaspoon of prepared mustard; or—and this is a secret we might well borrow from our French cousins—substitute soup stock for part of the milk, in making the sauce. Orange Sauce. V\ cup sugar 1% tablespoons cornstarch Vs. teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water V\ cup orange juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice % teaspoon orange rind 1 tablespoon butter Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add boiling water slowly to this dry mixture, stirring constantly. Place in saucepan and cook over low flame until mixture is clear. Remove from fire and add orange juice, lemon juice, orange rind and butter. Delicious Sauce. % cup heavy cream (whipped) 1 egg V* cup sugar Vs teaspoon vanilla extract Beat white and yolk of egg sepa rately. Add sugar to beaten yolk, then add beaten egg white. Last of all add whipped cream and vanilla extract. Serve at once. Italian Tomato Sauce. Into a deep frying pan place a No. 2% can of tomatoes, 1 green pepper chopped fine, 1 large onion chopped fine, % lb. ground round steak, 2 table spoons Worcester shire sauce, 1 teaspoon tabasco sauce, Vs tea spoon ground allspice, % teaspoon salt, Vi teaspoon black pepper, 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese and 2 cups water. Cook slowly for approximately 2 hours. Cover cooked spaghetti with sauce and sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese. Easy-to-Make Hollandaise Sauce. Into top of double boiler place the juice of 1 lemon, 4 egg yolks, % cup butter and a dash of paprika. Beat constantly over boiling water until thick. Barbecue Sauce. 1 large onion 1 clove garlic Vi cup catsup Vi cup Worcestershire sauce 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon sugar Vi cup vinegar Red pepper, black pepper, salt and mustard—to taste Cut the onion and garlic into fine pieces. Strain the tomatoes and add one can of water. Add the other ingredients and bring to a boi] Serve over any meat. This is also good for any fowl or game. Cheese Souffle With Tomato Cream Sauce. 3 tablespoons butter , 3 tablespoons flour IVi cups milk % teaspoon salt % teaspoon dry mustard Vi pound sharp cheese 4 eggs Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour and cook until frothy. Then add the milk and cook together un til the sauce has thickened. Meas ure out Vi cup of cream sauce and set aside to use in the sauce. To the remaining cream sauce in the pan add salt, dry mustard and cheese and heat until the cheese is melted. Add beaten egg yolks. Cool. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture. Pour into a casserole (about 8 inches in diameter) and bake 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 min utes in a very moderate (310-de gree) oven. Serve at once and put a spoonful of tomato cream sauce over each portion. Tomato Cream Sauce. I can condensed tomato soup Vi cup cream sauce (saved from first part of recipe) Combine the tomato soup and sauce and heat, but do not boiL Hot Butterscotch Sauce. 2 cups light brown sugar Vi cup coffee cream Vi cup light corn syrup Vi teaspoon salt Blend all the above ingredients and place in saucepan. Cook slow ly, stirring at frequent intervals, un til mixture reaches the soft ball stage (236 degrees). Serve very hot over ice cream. Are You Planning Your Spring Cleaning? Before the housecleaning season arrives (and it’s just around the cor ner!) be sure you send for a copy of “Household Hints.” You’ll find it a handy reference book when you begin to clean and polish and reno vate the house. Just send 10 cents in coin to “Household Hints” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 N. Michigan Ave nue, Chicago, Illinois, and get your copy of this useful book, now. ‘Busy-Day Meals.’ Are there busy days in your house hold, when there’s very little time for preparing and serving meals? If there are, you’ll be interested in what Eleanor Howe has to tell you about “Busy-Day Meals.” Watch for her column next week—and for the menus and tested recipes you’ll find in it. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ‘Magic’ Butter Rolls Speaking of “busy-day” meals, here’s a recipe that will make one and one-half dozen “magic” butter rolls in a hurry. This is what you need: 3 cups general purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt % cup butter or other shortening Vi cup evaporated milk Vi cup water 2 cakes yeast I tablespoon sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Vi cup sugar 1 cup nuts (cut fine) To XVi cups flour add salt and shortening, combining as for pie crust. Combine milk and hot water. When lukewarm add the yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar, blend well and then stir into the first mixture, beat ing until very smooth. Cover and let stand 20 minutes. Then add the eggs and beat vigorously. Beat in the vanilla and remaining 1% cups flour. Stir until smooth. The dough will be stiff but slightly sticky. Tie the dough loosely in a square of cheesecloth and drop it into a pail of cool water (70 to 80 degrees). In about an hour the dough will rise to the top of the water. When it does, remove it from the pail. Knead lightly. Cut into small pieces, roll in sugar and chopped nuts. Twist pieces as desired and let stand for 5 minutes. Bake in hot oven about 20 minutes. Pretty Frocks for Your Lamp Shades By RUTH WYETH SPEARS A CHANGE of lamp shades gives any room a lift, and here is a smart, new transforfna- i tion trick. You start with a plain parchment paper or bristol board shade, preferably white; then you make a full skirt of some exciting fabric to cover it. By sewing snaps inside and also to the top of the shade, it is easy to remove these for laundering or cleaning. Taffeta, lawn, net, organdy, swiss, gingham—all are used and the imagination runs riot in trim mings. Frills or double ruchings at the top and bottom are favor ites. Edges are pinked or ma chine stitched in heavy contrast ing thread. Contrasting shirring holds the fullness at the top; and color is added by means of fancy braids, ribbons or bias tape, ac cording to type. Sewing Book 1 and 4, contaiA directions for mak ing a foundation frame, or you may use a shade that you already have. • • • NOTE: Each of the four book lets Mrs. Spears has prepared for our readers contains an assort ment of 32 pages of curtains; slip covers; rag rugs; toys; gifts and novelties for bazaars. Books are 10 cents each—please order by number—No. 1, 2, 3, and 4—With your order for four books, you will receive a FREE set of three Quilt Block Patterns of Mrs. Spears’ Favorite Early American Quilts. Send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford HiUs New York Enclose 10 cents for one book, ox 40 cents for four books and set of quilt block patterns. Name Address John—Don’t listen to her. Tragedy Is sure to result. Read “A Girl and My Husband” in May True Story Magazine and be warned. It’s on sale now.—Adv. Strength of Love Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neith er can the floods drown it.—The Song of Solomon. ACHING CHEST COLDS Need More Than "Just Safvtf* To Relieve DISTRESS! To quickly relieve chest cold misery and muscular aches and pains due to colds— it takes MORE than “just a salve”—you need a warming, soothing "counter- irriranr”likegood oldreliable Musterole —used by millions for over 30 years. Musterole penetrates the outer layers of the skin and helps break up local con gestion and pain. 3 strengths: Regular, Children’s (mild) and Extra Strong, 404. Better Than A Mustard Plaster! Word in Season A word spoken in season is like an apple of silver, and actions are more precious than words.— John Pym. MINOR SKIN IRRITATIONS S< AMD m Wealth in Health Better a healthy peasant than a sickly king. Read This Important Message! 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