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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940 DIPLOMATIC TWIST WASHINGTON.—Fate has a way of playing pranks with the most carefully laid plans of diplomacy, and it has given two queer twists to Roosevelt’s diplomatic appoint ments. One was when he thought he was putting 70-year-old Wilbur J. Carr on the shelf by making him min ister to the then secluded country of Czecho Slovakia, but found in stead that he had sent Carr to the hottest hot spot in Europe. The other was when he sent Mrs. J. Borden Harriman to the peace ful and obscure capital of Norway, where a lady diplomat could make few mistakes, but recent events find Daisy in the middle of the war zone— and enjoying it. Furthermore, and according to a state department which is definitely MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN A 'quiet’ post in Norway? prejudiced against lady diplomats, Mrs. Harriman is doing an excellent job—in fact, a much better job than some of our other ministers pleni potentiary. Mrs. Harriman also is 70 years old, though few people who have ever watched her tireless energy would ever guess it. In those 70 years she has seen more riders come and go on the Washington mer- ry-go-round than almost any other dowager of capital society. * • • Scrambled Dinner Parties. “Daisy,” whose real name is Flor ence Jaffray Harriman, became fa mous during the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations as a lone Democrat who lived only for the pleasure of baiting the reigning Republicans. She made them like it. Her deliciously scrambled dinner parties became legendary. She in vited naive and unsuspecting Repub licans, placed them beside such ra pier debaters as Sen. Tom Walsh, Sen. Burton Wheeler and Charley Michelson, then after dinner, pushed back the chairs and made them go to it. • • » She Fought Roosevelt. It was a political paradox that having kept Democratic enthusiasm flaming during the lean and hungry years from Harding to Hoover, Mrs. Harriman at first should have been unrewarded by the Roosevelt ad ministration. There was an interesting reason for this. Daisy had been an ardent opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt before the 1932 convention. She had worked vigorously for Newton D. Baker, and led a faction of the Dis trict of Columbia delegation in vot ing against Roosevelt at Chicago. So when Roosevelt adopted the policy of awarding his “B. C.” (Be fore Chicago) friends, Daisy was out of luck. She remained out of luck for five years, despite many efforts by powerful friends to win her an appointment in the Roosevelt fold. Finally, thanks to the persuasive influence of Sumner Welles, Roose velt relented. Daisy Harriman was 1 appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway —a quiet and unimportant post to which it was considered safe to send a woman. • * * Will Rogers. Will Rogers has been demoted. His statue no longer stands in the rotunda of the Capitol. A few days ago the statue was moved out of the rotunda, and was not even given space in the adja cent Statuary hall. In this hall, where only one figure is admitted from each state, Rog ers was second comer to Oklaho ma’s famous Indian, Sequoia, in ventor of the Cherokee alphabet. Rogers was placed in a corner in the narrow hallway leading to the house wing. He has not lost his smile and his slouch, but he has lost the center of the stage. * • • POLITICAL CHAFF. New England, New York and New Jersey G. O. P. leaders are receiv ing letters from Midwestern col leagues warning that to win the farm vote the party platform must con tain a farm plank similar to that proposed in the recent Glenn Frank report. The Iowa state central Re publican committee thought so high ly of the Frank plank that it is cir cularizing a speech by A. M. Piper, of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, lauding the suggestions in it. . . . One of the latest to finally climb Kathleen Norris Says: Every Woman Should Make Some Plan to Avoid Dullness (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Sometimes a dreadful dullness comes into married life, for the woman. She re members other days, eager joyous days of girlhood. Now comes a pause. By KATHLEEN NORRIS S OMETIMES a dreadful dullness comes into married life, for the woman. Not illness, not trou ble, not money worry, but just in sufferable dullness. Life for Betty goes on without ex citement, without thriU. The kitch en routine proceeds placidly; the children go to school; Ed comes home and has his dinner and goes out to his lodge meeting. Betty helps the boy and girl with home work, turns on the radio, yawns, mends a sweater and then decides to go to bed. Sometimes this even flow of un eventful days frightens an intelli gent woman. Earthquake, flood or fire might horrify her, but at least they would find her active, ade quate, swept off her feet in the sud den new demand. But monotony scares her. She remembers other days, eager joyous days of girlhood, dances, laughter, the glory of her engagement and marriage, the fun of showing off the new house, of telling her friends that she and Ed were expecting a baby. The baby’s coming, too, was an occasion never to be forgotten; the flurry of getting him started; the happy, wearying absorption in his needs, and the needs of the second baby. All this might have been tiring, anxious, re sponsible, but it was satisfying and triumphant, too. Ten Years Later. But now, 10 years married, with the thirties beginning to slide by, with Ed taking everything quietly for granted, and only articulate when dinner isn’t satisfactory or little Ned sleeps too late in the mornings—now comes a pause. And somehow the wife and mother knows that it is a dangerous pause, and that something must be done about it or it may have lasting and serious results. “Floyd leaves the house at eight- thirty,” writes a Kansas wife. “I go to the door with him and kiss him good-by. Then I get the two boys off for school, and turn back into my quiet house for morning dust, planning of meals. At noon I have a cup of soup or malted milk and a sandwich, and afterward lie down and rest for awhile. Then perhaps shopping, a movie, a club meeting, a hospital call. “At five, I am occupied in the kitchen, with the table to set. Floyd is home, and there is quiet talk of what he did all day and what I did, not either interesting or important to either'hearer, and then we settle down to evening paper and radio, or, on rare occasions, have guests for dinner and bridge—very poor bridge all 'round, with nobody sure of the scoring—or Floyd goes out and I arn alone. Goes On—No Change. “Everything pleasant, friendly, just as it was last year and will be next year. Our income is small, but enough, we all have good health, questions of budget and allowance were long ago adjusted. My hus band is a trusted employee in a rubber firm; his salary is $38.50 a week. Recently he asked for a weekly raise of $7.50 and was re fused. It would have made some difference to us, but not an impor tant one. “What can I do' to make our lives more exciting and glamorous? I am a home woman; I know I should be more than satisfied with what I have. But I’m not. I’m restless and bored. Floyd’s people are straight American. My grand father was a general in the Spanish army 30 years ago; my mother Swedish. Is it the mixed blood that makes me at once shy and eager? I did not speak English until I was eight years old.” The obvious answer to Lola is that she has more now than nine-tenths of the women of the world have, and that ninety-nine hundredths of them would feel themselves rich with a steady husband, a steady income, two small sons, home, gar den, car, perfect health, and that security from aerial bombardment that is becoming a luxury in the world. Suggestion for Lola. But that isn’t fair. For she ad mits herself that she OUGHT to be content, and really wants to cure herself if it is her fault that she is not. So instead of reproaching her, I am going to make to her several suggestions that may help her ex tricate herself from the rut intp which she has fallen. To begin with, there is an inner spirit or subliminal consciousness or soul or entity in every woman. It is a correspondence with ele ments that are supernatural. Call this thing whatever you like—Kar ma, Yogi, mental healing, the in finite, Oneness—it means that you recognize some influence higher than a merely earthly influence, and your values in life are formed on something higher than a purely earthly scale. Most of us call this imponderable, infinite, intangible but very real presence, God. We don’t attempt to analyze Him, work Him out on charts and graphs; we merely go into that stillness called prayer now and then, and await with perfect confidence a renewal of life within us; a new sense of potentiality, trust, and above all delight and eagerness in the outwardly dull rou tine of every day. The Happiest People. The happiest persons in this be wildered world, in fact the only happy ones, are those who have found this secret for themselves, and revel in that unbounded glory of living which the orientals call “bliss.” You can live in three rooms in a crowded tenement, and possess it. You can be the wealthi est woman in the world and miss it completely. Yet it’s open enough to find, and it costs nothing. Ask, and you shall receive it, and to re peat, it costs you nothing. It can be yours. Once this is achieved, a thousand interests and indeed fevers possess you. You want to live forever, so that you may have time to read a thousand books; accomplish a thou sand prison reforms and live to see them work; establish a Spanish class at 25 cents a lesson and watch it grow until you are besieged with class and radio engagements; plan a garden, and glory in its beauty; build a backyard grill and enter tain the boys and their friends there; find an old country place and move into it, and have chickens and a cow; raise fine-bred Persian kit tens; gather a circle of their friends about your boys and be sune that the group in which they grow to young manhood is a safe group; study beekeeping, astronomy, book binding ; put up fancy preserves and sell them. Or, under state super vision, take three or four small chil dren to board. The state pays much more than they cost and the work of building little citizens is a valuable one. Or go into politics, by the simple process of attending a meeting or two, accepting a posi tion on some committee, and con tributing your mite toward a better and wiser administration of your local affairs. The country would be better off if more women did this. A Plan Is Necessary. Some months ago I was walking through a dark Boston slum with a young professional man. It was broiling summer, and the high tene ment rooms were like so many little hot boxes glaring into the crowded night. To my exclamation of pity and concern, the young doctor said, “It all depends upon whether you have a PLAN or not. People with out plans are to be pitied, no mat ter where they are.” General HUGH s. JOHNSON Jour: United Feature* WNU Senne* THE NEW WAR It is too early to begin drawing either military or political conclu sions from the sudden outburst of action in Scandinavia. It was not anticipated in the writings of the military experts that I saw, but that the action taken by both sides had been carefully planned and pre pared for is obvious. You can’t block up the territorial waters of a neutral by mine fields in three separate areas, the extreme two of which are 500 miles apart, without plenty of preparation—or do it in a day. You can’t launch such an assault as has been made on Den mark and Norway any more rapidly. It is curious that the allies would have so clearly invaded Norway’s neutrality on the exterior route when the disappearance of ice on the in terior route will so soon make that abels, yjet I an “Ameri- tionist”-!—al- IN C LO AIR RAID SHELTER —“The rights of neutrals are only what they have the strength to make them." > mine-sowing activity superfluous. There must have been another rea son. In other words, while both prepa rations were kept secret from the world, they were not kept secret from either belligerent to prevent the other from knowing and acting instantly upon their revelation. It is too early to blame Denmark for not resisting Hitler’s “prokec- tive” invasion. On the face of bur- rent reports, she could only Have crucified her country—as Finland and Poland did. • • • ‘AMERICANISTS’ The most cockeyed reaction to the outburst in Scandinavia is thqt it sets the “isolationists” back on t^ieir heels. It doesn’t even bear on | the question. I hate sloganeering labels, would rather be called an canist” than an “isolationist’ though I sincerely believe that |hey are the same thing and, if they, are, “what’s in a name?” My suggestion is addressed tp the am. teur military kibitzers who in sist in our taking partners in jthis dance of death and who call people of my opinion “isolationists” j be cause they believe in arming ' our own dugout to whatever extent is necessary and staying in it. r My suggestion is that these pfepple proudly label themselves “interlven- tionists”—and, since they glory in their opinions, be proud of the de scriptive title which far more aptly distinguishes them than the word “isolationist” describes our tr^in of thought. It is absolutely fair to label ^hem as “interventionists,” but maybe it isn’t fair without distinguish^ be tween two clear classes of therp. One group presses for American A inter vention on purely idealistic grounds. They are the do-gooders. They want to send other people or othercmoth- er’s sons or other people’s Imoney into this bloody shambles to main tain “decency” on earth. Even that statement might, on the surface, seem to carry an Element of unfairness. Some of thehp are willing to embark themselves and their own sons on such a crusade. But whatever unfairness springs from this is only superficial. , There is ample opportunity for this kind to do this right now. All they, have to do is to go across the Chadian border and enlist. , c But most do-gooders and r “great liberals” are not considering per sonal sacrifice. They get, if (they do not seek, the crown of public ap proval of their bleeding hearts with out bearing any cross or personal sacrifice to achieve it. They; want to make “government” do it-^which means to make everybody do it whether agreeable or not. • • • 4 C is Seizing Denmark doesn’t get the Germans any closer by air to ob jectives in Britain than shp_, is al ready but a seizure of Bergen in Norway would. If this push had ! been toward Holland, its;) object ; would have been much clearer. Air bases in Holland would threaten the whole west coast of England. But this move to the north doeft- not of itself threaten Holland. ist Germany with a superior Hind and air force can probably hfford a Scandinavian expeditionary^, force better than the allies can. ' Household Neius Strange Facts ! Reveal Fur Frauds Stimying Annoyers Expensive Checking ! C With the aid -of microscopes, microtomes, chemicals and spe cial lights, a New York scientist who specializes in the detection of frauds in furs has discovered sev eral counterfeit coats that have been passed as genuine by other fur experts. He can identify the | species of animal, the part of the world in which it lived and the season when it was killed by mag nifying to 800 diameters one of its hairs and a piece of its skir about the size of a pinhead. CHOCOLATE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE AN UNUSUAL DESSERT (See Recipes Below) Spring Menus Planning meals can be fun, if you’ll let your imagination and your conscience be your guides! Meal planning does require imagination and a bit of originality, too, if you don’t want the responsibility of three meals a day to be a bore, and three meals a day with out that touch of “something” dif ferent can be bor ing—to you as weU as to your family! A meal may be prcperly and carefully “balanced” from the standpoint of proteins and carbohydrates and vita mins and minerals—and stiff be a drab and uninteresting affair. That seems to be particularly true in spring, when appetites are likely to be jaded, and you seem to be running out of menu ideas. And that’s exactly the time to try some thing different, a little trick to add newness and interest to soups; a tasty and unusual meat dish; and a salad or dessert that makes use of some of the refreshing spring vege tables and fruits. Just for variety, for instance, when I want to serve hot soup as the first course of a meal, I combine equal parts of canned consomme and to mato juice, simmer the resulting mixture for about 5 minutes with a bay leaf for flavor, and serve it very hot with a spoonful of salted whipped cream sprinkled with chopped chives or green onion tops. And I serve green onions and crisp, succulent radishes in place of the relishes I’ve used all winter. I use rhubarb for sauce or for dessert, just as soon as the price comes down within reach of my budget; I shred young carrots, or cut them in thin slivers, and cook them with an equal amount of onion, sliced fine; drain them and season with salt, pepper and butter. Or I cook carrots and potatoes together and mash them just as I would for mashed potatoes, to serve with the rich brown gravy of a pot roast. Here are three spring menus that I like. Menu No. 1. Corned Beef Hash Patties Spring Vegetable Salad Hot Corn Bread Rhubarb Dessert Menu No. 2. Steak Roll Mashed Potatoes and Carrots Cabbage and Green Pepper Salad Hot Rolls Chocolate Upside-Down Cake Menu No. 3. Economy Bridge Menu Porcupine Meat Balls Potatoes au Gra- tin Grilled Mush rooms Nut Bread Plum Jelly Mixed Green Salad Rhubarb Tarts Corned Beef Hash Patties. 1 16-ounce can corned beef hash Vs cup chili sauce 8 slices bacon (cut in halves) Place can of corned beef hash in refrigerator and chill thoroughly. Open can at both ends. Push corned beef hash out of can, slicing it in %-inch slices. Place slices in but tered baking pan. Place 2 teaspoons chili sauce on top of each slice and top with two half slices of bacon. Bake in a moderately hot oven (400 degrees) for 10 minutes or until corned beef hash slices are thor oughly heated and bacon is crisp. Johnny Cake or Corn Bread. (Makes 1 Johnny Cake) or (12 Com Meal Muffins) 1% cups yellow (or white) com meal (uncooked) % cup general purpose flour V* cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon soda 1!£ teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 114 cups sour milk 3 tablespoons butter (melted) Mix and sift dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Combine beaten egg, sour milk and melted butter and add to dry mixture. Stir lightly and pour into greased shallow pan, muf fin tins or corn stick pans. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees) for 25 min utes. Steak Roll. (Serves 6) 1 slice round steak (% inch thick) 2 tablespoons butter % lb. ham (ground) Vi cup thin cream 1 tablespoon prepared mustard Salt and pepper Vi cup bread flour 1 cup canned tomatoes Wipe steak with damp cloth. Melt butter in frying pan and brush over one side of steak. Mix together the ground ham, cream, and mustard, and spread over buttered side of steak. Roll like a jelly roll and secure with skewers or string. Sprin kle roll with salt and dredge with flour. Saute in remaining butter un til golden brown. Remove roil to baking dish. Add tomatoes to fat in skillet and heat to boiling. Pour this tomato mixture over the roll; cover with a lid and bake in a mod erately hot oven (350 degrees) for 1% to 1% hours, or until tender. Chilled Rhubarb Dessert. For an extra-special fruit dessert try the following; To one pound of rhubarb (cut in %-inch pieces) add 1 cup sugar, Vi cup orange juice and 1 tablespoon grated orange rind and cook in a double boiler 30 minutes or ur.til tender. Serve cold. Rhubarb Cream Tarts. 1 tablespoon butter 2 cups rhubarb (diced) IVi cups sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 2 eggs (separated) Vi cup thick sweet cream Vk teaspoon salt Melt butter, add rhubarb, and I cup of the sugar. Cook slowly for about 10 minutes or until the rhu barb is soft. Com bine remaining fourth-cup of sug ar with the corn starch, the well beaten egg yolks, cream and salt. Add to fruit mixture and cook until thick (about 3 minutes). Pour into bake tart shells. Top with meringue made from the 2 egg whites, beaten stiff, with 4 tablespoons sugar beat en in. Bake in a slow oven (300 de grees) until brown (about 18 min utes). Chocolate Upside-Down Cake. Ibb cups cake flour % cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon salt 1 sq. bitter chocolate (1 oz.) 2 tablespoons butter Vi cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Vs cup broken nut meats Topping. 2 tablespoons cocoa Vs cup brown sugar Is cup granulated sugar % teaspoon salt 1 cup boiling water Sift and measure the flour. Then sift flour, % cup granulated sugar, baking powder and salt together into a mixing bowl. Melt together the chocolate and butter; mix with the milk and vanilla. Stir into the dry ingredients. Add nuts and blend thoroughly. Pour into a well-greased deep layer-cake pan. Topping.—Now mix together the cocoa, brown sugar and the % cup granulated sugar and salt. Spread this over the top of the cake batter. Over all pour the cup of boiling wa ter and place in a moderate oven, (350 degrees) to bake 1 hour. This is a rich chocolate cake with a chocolate sauce underneath. Turn it out for serving. It is best served slightly warm with whipped cream, , Porcupine Meat Balls. (Serves 6) 1 pound beef (ground) IVs cups rice (uncooked) % cup bacon (diced) 1 tablespoon onion (minced)* 1 tablespoon green pepper (chopped) % teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 No. 2 can tomatoes Mix all ingredients thoroughly in order given. Form into small meat balls. Place in greased baking dish and cover with tomatoes. Cover bak ing dish. Bake approximately 1V4 hours in a moderate oven (350 de grees). C. The telephone numbers used in stage plays, movie scenarios and radio scripts are fictitious and cannot be called. They are given to writers by the telephone com panies to prevent curious callers from annoying subscribers. C The men who are engaged daily in cleaning London’s 240 public statues require three years to learn the job because, among other things, they have to be able to answer any questions about the history of the statues put to them by passers-by. <L Complete, detailed audits of the books and other records of companies with extensive branches are rarely ever undertaken, be cause of the work and expense. For example one recent exami nation of a large corporation’s ac counts, although it was far from thorough, cost nearly $300,000.—■ Collier’s. Scented Divorce In 1700 an act was passed by parliament which laid down that any woman, whatever her age and whether she be married, single or a widow, who by the use of per fume, cosmetics, paint, false teeth, wigs, iron corsets, padded bust and hips, or high-heeled shoes, inveigles a male subject of his majesty into marriage, shall be guilty of having broken the law which prohibits the practicing of witchcraft and other arts of black magic, and any such marriage will be counted for null and void. THE MUL PRICE YOU K7 FOR OEIHGI Read These Important Facts! Quivering nerves can make you old. haggmrdL cranky—can make your life a nightmare of jealousy, self pity and "the blues." Often such nervousness is due to female functional disorders. So take famous Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to nelp calm unstrung nerves and lessen functional "irregularities." 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