The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, November 06, 1942, Image 7
f
THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, NOVEMBER 6, 1942
Kathleen Norris Says:
What a Job in Washington Holds for You
Bell Syndicate—WNU Feature*.
A JIFFY knit jerkin—just the
thing for college! Knitted in
straight rows tacked together in
a contrasting color to resemble
cable stitch, it goes fast in rug
cotton or wool.
Pattern 418 contains directions for
jerkin in sizes 12-14 and 16-18; illustrations
of stitches; materials required; color sug
gestions. Send your order to:
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
82 Eighth Ave. New York
Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to
cover cost of mailing) for Pattern
No
Name
Address
COLDS'MISERIES ^
PENETRfl
For colds' coughs, nasal congestion, muscle
aches get Penetro—modern medication i n a
mutton suet base. 25i, double supply
Name-Calling
Sticks and stanes may break me
banes, but names will never hurt
me.—Scottish Proverb.
RHEUMATIC PAIN
8ET
AFTER
Wilt a Mtdielns Its! will Pmt llsslt
If you suffer from rheumatic pain
or muscular aches, buy C-2223 today
for real pain-relieving help. 60c, $1.
C-2223 at druggists. Buy it today.
Caution: Use only as directed. Pur
chase price refunded if not satisfied.
Without a Care
The loss of wealth is loss of
dirt, the happiest man is without
a shirt.
CALLOUSES
To relieve painful callouses, burn
ing or tenderness on bottom of feet
and remove callouses—get these
thin, soothing, cushioning pads.
D-Scholls Zino pads
Being Virtuous
Be virtuous and you will be ec
centric.
Your Baby
Needs These
Vital Elements
—because they help develop
proper growth, strong bones and
sound teeth! Scott’s Emulsion is
rich in natural A and D Vita
mins*—and so good-tasting. Also,
l times easier to digest than
plain cod liver oil! Buy today!
' Recommended by Many Doctors
PUT HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS
TO WAR WORK
HOARD YOUR
PENNIES TO
BUY WAR
J&L SAVINGS
STAMPS
IMPORTANT COGS
There’s nothing particularly
exciting about being a cog, even
if you are a cog in an extremely
important machine. That, says
Kathleen Norris, is what you
would be if you went to Wash
ington to work at one of the hun
dreds of necessary, but not glam
orous, jobs girls and women like
yourself think they want. In an
swering a 34-year-old mother this
week she points out the fact that
there is still much work to be
done in the home and on the
farm. Not all this war’s battles
will be fought overseas, you
know. There is still the home
front—remember?
To abandon a prosperous dairy farm and land herself and her three children in
Washinglon whose every inch of living space is fiercely disputed, would be insanity.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
F OR the consolation of thou
sands of women who want
desperately to get into some
sort of dramatic war work, let
me state definitely that most
war work in these tremendous
days falls very rapidly into the
routine, not to say drudgery
class, and that Washington it
self is far from the exciting cen
ter that everyone who isn’t there
fondly imagines it to be.
Washington was essentially a
small town, with all the delightful
features of a small town, until war
preparations began. In tne last
year it has grown—spread out wildly
in every direction, blossomed with
great office buildings and hurriedly
constructed apartment houses.
Transportation is difficult for the
thousands of new workers who
crowd into the city; street cars and
busses are jammed, restaurants are
suffocating, the romance and beauty
of the Capitol are dimmed for the
time.
Girls who get jobs in Washington
have their fun and glory before they
leave home. The family treats them
with new respect; the other girls
and boys frankly envy them.
Merely One of Many Cogs.
But on reaching Washington the
lucky job-winner immediately dis
covers that she is merely one of a
great number of eager, willing, un
important cogs in a great machine.
No, not unimportant, no cog is un
important. But a cog may be use
ful, and still not have a very ex
citing time.
She gets to Washington and re
ports somewhere. She is given a
desk in an office, and to that office
she repairs every day. She walks
miles, climbs stairs, lunches in a
packed cafeteria, shyly makes
friends of her associate workers. To
be sure her letters home are dated
“Washington,” but as far as any
sense of being on the battle front,
being a witness to great events, hav
ing a share in the destiny of the
nation goes, she might as well be
anywhere else.
The conduct of a war, like genius,
depends on an infinite capacity for
taking pains. No longer do hand
some captains of cavalry dash up
at the critical moments, with flags
flying, to report that the reinforce
ments are here. General. No longer
do hoop-skirted women slip through
the lines to kneel beside soldiers
on the field. War, as the young
clerks in Washington know it, means
bookkeeping, filing, typewriting, an
swering telephones, climbing s.'airs;
it means complete subjugation to
orders from superiors; it means see
ing others preferred to onese’i; it
means sacrifice of good times.
For there are few dances in Wash
ington this winter, and there are
few theaters—two or three at most
—and only a few first-class picture
houses.
Lonely Girl’s Pr*blem.
Friendships are difficult for the
lonely girl who goes on there to live
in a boarding house in a small,
square, impersonal room, because
what our uniformed men want now
is home life and simple hospitality.
It is no treat to them to take a girl
to a second-class restaurant, and
afterward to stand in line for an
hour to get into a movie. The first-
class hotels are expensive, and often
both girl and boy are tired and don’t
feel up to the exertion of dressing
formally for the evening. Motoring
is out, of course.
Now this is not to say that
pleasant things, like evenings in
some friend’s home, contact with
other working girls, the novelty of
a new job and a new place, don’t
exist. They do. But they strangely
enough have nothing to do with the
war; they are just the diversions
that exist everywhere, curtailed,
more expensive and much more
limited in war times, but inevitable
wherever youth meets youth.
The point I am trying to make is
that Washington will offer you noth
ing just now that any other job in
any other city doesn’t offer.
You may be boarding in the house
next to the secretary of labor or
the English ambassador, but you’ll
know no more of world affairs than
your father is reading in the eve
ning paper, or your mother is hear
ing on the radio, at home.
And added to all its other dis
advantages is the constant sense of
hurry and pressure, the keen com
petition for places, the nagging
sense that one has volunteered for
the wrong work after all, that per
fectly new, untried recruits are
pushing in to far more advantageous
positions.
Eager to Help.
"I am desperately anxious to get
into all this,” writes Lily Davis from
an Ohio town. “I am 34, and have
three small children. When we
married, Oliver was a lawyer with
political ambitions that I shared.
But ill-health and a series of busi
ness misfortunes sent us out to this
rambling dairy farm, 20 miles from
the nearest town. I have help in
the house, and on the farm he has
three men continually, and more in
summer. We prosper, but I am
feverish to do something to help,
and plan this autumn to go on to
Washington to see whether the serv
ices of a former school teacher can
be put to use. Should I obtain a
job I must then make some ar
rangement there for my boys, now
aged eight, seven and three. I
would not want to live in the city,
but near by, where there are good
schools and nursery schools. My
husband has consented to this plan.
Will you advise me as to the first
steps toward accomplishing it?”
This is typical of the attitude of
many women. But surely it is ob
vious to us all—and in saner and
less restless moments it must be
obvious to Lily herself—that to
abandon a prosperous dairy farm,
land herself and her children in a
city whose every inch of living
space is being fiercely disputed,
burden her shoulders with the re
sponsibility of managing a delicate
man and three small children, a
house, a servant and a new job,
would be insanity. How many thou
sands—millions—of women in the
world would thank God on their
knees for the security and peace of
a farm for the children they love,
far away from bombs and battle
fields!
Ay,
Eleanor Roosevelt
TREASURY PROGRAM
WASHINGTON.—One afternoon I
went to make a recording which is
to be part of one of the treasury
programs. It will be an interesting
program with messages from vari
ous women in different parts of the
world. Most of them, however,
were not available/ to speak for
themselves.
I like to make recordings and hear
the results played back, because I
discover things I do incorrectly. In
the first place, I learn exactly where
I take a breath when I shouldn’t.
In the second place, I have a curi
ously artificial way of speaking,
which annoys me terribly when I
hear it afterwards. Still, I can not
find out exactly what I do that is
wrong.
I think I found that one of my
troubles is pitching my voice too
high at the start, and talking too
slowly. Problems like this always
interest me and each time I try to
speak a little differently, in the hope
that eventually it will all turn out
better than it has before.
On my return to the White House
I had a few people come in to tea.
Among them was Mr. Kingsley Mar
tin, who is one of the people who
has long been active in the British
labor movement.
» • •
MISLEADING PICTURES
That evening we had a party
which we planned primarily for the
children—an early supper and a
movie, the title of which sounded as
though they would enjoy it. Unfor
tunately, it turned out to be the
type of song and dance affair which
I imagined was produced and sent
very largely to other countries be
fore the war. It depicts life in
this country as it was never lived
by any people I know.
My diplomatic friends tell me that
this is one of the things which
have helped to create strange im
pressions of life in the United States
of America. Such stories never
have had much basis in reality and
will have less and less as the war
goes on. Every day life has
changed for people all over the
world. It has changed for us in that
everything we buy for our families
and homes costs more, but I doubt
if we have yet felt the complete ex
tent of the change which will take
place as the years of war continue.
• • •
BRITISH WOMEN IN WAR
I have just had a letter from a
British woman, who tells me she
thinks in some ways they managed
their employment of women rather
badly at first. They did not make
it clear that women with young chil
dren should stay in their homes as
long as possible, since they were
more important there until all other
manpower needed for general serv
ices was exhausted.
This woman warned me that it
had meant a rather indiscriminate
rushing into different war services,
when communities were inadequate
ly organized to take care of home
needs.
Of coarse, the alternative is
to employ older women first,
married women without chil
dren, and people who are handi
capped in various ways but who
are nsable for special activities.
Really to do a good job of plac
ing people, not only in the
places where they should be, but
In the order in which they should
enter new services, it seems to
me that we shall find it neces
sary to register ail women.
They will have to fill out rather
complete questionnaires, so that it
will he possible to recognize their
skills and capacities, to know their
backgrounds and experience and the
present conditions in which they and
their families live.
I was told some time ago it would
be quite unwise to register women,
because, if that were done, they
would immediately expect to obtain
jobs when they were not available.
I think it could be made quite
clear that this was being done en
tirely for efficiency in the future,
not because any particular woman
may obtain a job tomorrow.
• • •
EMPLOYMENT REGISTRATION
I still receive letters from older
men and women, some of whom are
actually in need of jobs and do not
seem to be able to find them. Oth
ers are simply tremendously anxious
to make a contribution to the coun
try’s welfare at this time and can
not find a place where they can be
really useful.
In either case, it seems to me
that registration and then co-ordi
nation of the information, so that dif
ferent parts of the country would be
made cognizant of supply and de
mand, would mean a great deal at
the present time.
• • •
RUSSIAN YOUTH
( I was very sorry not to be able
to go to the meeting sponsored by
the Youth division of the Russian
War Relief, at which the young Rus
sians, who came over here as dele
gates to the International Student
assembly, were tendered a final
farewell. They came down to my
apartment in New York when the
meeting was over, however, to say
good-by, and sat around for a few
minutes drinking coffee and eating
coffee cake.
Honey Pumpkin Pie Inspires a Harvest Supper
(See Recipes Below.)
(
Harvest Supper Social
One of the nicest things about fall
are those harvest supper socials when
folks throughout the land gather to
gether with the fruits of their sum
mer labors and heap high the table
with steaming chicken fricassee or
beefsteak pies, fruits and vegetables,
and pies, anything good to eat!
It’s partially the food that makes
these suppers unforgettable and par
tially, too, the way
it brings old friends
together before the
long winter pulls
in. Whether it’s the
local grange who
sponsors the affair
or the ladies’ aid,
or groups, the affair will be a tre
mendous success.
Remember the chicken fricassee?
*Chicken Fricassee.
(Serves 8-10)
2 3-pound chickens
Salt, pepper, ginger
3 quarts boiling water
cnp each, onion, carrot, celery
1 bay leaf
4 tablespoons chicken fat
4 tablespoons flour
Juice of Vi lemon
2 tablespoons minced parsley
1 can mushrooms
Clean chickens, cut into pieces for
serving. Sprinkle with salt, pepper
and few grains of
ginger. Coverwith
boiling water and
cook slowly
for one hour. Add
vegetables and
bay leaf and con
tinue cooking un
til tender. Drain
off liquid and sur
plus fat. Add flour
to melted fat and cook until brown.
Gradually add 3 cups chicken broth
or 1V4 cups chicken broth and 1V4
cups rich milk. Season and cook un
til smooth. Add lemon juice and
mushrooms. Place chicken in gravy
with minced parsley and heat.
*Baking Powder Dumplings
2 caps flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
V4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 eggs, well beaten
Milk
Sift dry ingredients, and chop in
butter. Add eggs with enough milk
to form a heavy drop batter. Drop
quickly by spoonfuls into chicken
broth. Cover closely and cook 10
minutes without removing lid.
'Cabbage and Apple Coleslaw.
(Serves 6)
2 caps crisped, dried, shredded
cabbage
Salt
1 cup diced apple
V4 cup cooked salad dressing
Mix cabbage and apple with salad
dressing and salt. Chill thoroughly
and serve from a large bowl.
A highly prized and cherished
favorite for these fall harvest sup
pers is Steak and Kidney pie, the
meat floating in delicious gravy,
topped with a flaky, crisp and golden
crust:
Steak and Kidney Pie.
(Serves 6)
2 pounds beef steak (cut Vi
inch thick)
2 pork kidneys
2 small onions, minced
1 teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon pepper
LYNN SAYS:
Sndsy Facts: Higher industrial
activity and consumer income
contribute to larger soap con
sumption, according to a Depart
ment of Agriculture report, mak
ing last year’s soap consumption
the largest on record.
Domestic oils and inedible tal
low will take the place of import
ed and tropical oils for this year’s
soap supply.
Healthfulness dictates cleanli
ness, and that means not only in
clothing and personal hygiene but
in clean surroundings in the
home, especially in the kitchen
where food is prepared. Light or
white floors insure cleanliness.
You can restore freshness by
laundering draperies, walls, rugs
and upholstery by using a soap
jelly made by dissolving 1 part
soap to 5 parts hot water, letting
cool, then whipping to a fluff with
a beater.
This Week’s Menu
•Chicken Fricassee
•Baking Powder Dumplings
•Cabbage and Apple Coleslaw
Spiced Crabapples
Bread-Butter Pickles
•Sauteed Corn and Green Pepper
•Honey Pumpkin Pies
Coffee Milk
•Recipes Given
1 cap flour
V4 cup fat
2 teaspoons Worcestershire
sauce
Cut steak into 1%-inch pieces.
Dredge with flour, salt and pepper.
Saute with onion until brown in
heavy kettle. Add sufficient water
to cover meat well. Add sauce and
seasoning. Place on heat to sim
mer.
Remove every trace of white
tubes from kidneys and cut into
cubes. Place in
kettle, cover with
cold water, bring
to a boil and
drain, and repeat
a second time.
Add kidneys to
meat in kettle
and simmer to
gether until tender, about two hours.
Continue to add a littla liquid and
stir from time to time to keep meat
from sticking. Remove meat to a
casserole, add enough liquid to cov
er, and set aside to cool. Cover
with a crust of plain pastry and bake
in a hot (450-degree) oven 12-15 min
utes.
There are so many good foods at
this autumn banquet that unless
your vegetables are pointed up, their
consumption may lag. There’s no
danger of that if you have either of
these combinations:
•Santeed Corn With Green Pepper,
(Serves 6)
3 tablespoons butter
3 cups corn, cooked
2 tablespoons green pepper
Salt, pepper
Vi cup cream
Melt butter in a frying pan. Add
vegetables and seasonings with
cream. Cover and cook slowly until
liquid evaporates.
Savory Cabbage.
(Serves 6)
1 head cabbage
1 tablespoon chicken fat
1 tablespoon flour
Salt, pepper
Hard-cooked egg
Cook cabbage in boiling salted
water until tender but crisp. Drain
and chop. Brown flour in melted
fat, add stock, cabbage and sea
sonings. Cook slowly for 10 min*
utes. Garnish with egg.
•Honey Pumpkin Pie.
(Serves 8)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
Vi cup cream
IVi cups pumpkin
V4 cup honey
Vi teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon ginger
1 recipe all-bran pastry shells
Prepare pastry shells. Beat eggs
slightly, add remaining ingredients
and mix thoroughly. Pour into in
dividual, unbaked pie shells and
bake in a hot oven (4J0 degrees) for
15 minutes. Reduce heat to mod
erate (350 degrees) and continue
baking 45 minutes or until knife in*
serted comes out clean.
Pastry Shells.
(Makes 8)
Vi cup all-bran
IVi cups flour
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi cup shortening
4 tablespoons cold water (more
or less)
Roll cereal fine. Combine with
flour and salt. Cut in shortening.
Add water, little at a time, until
dough is moist enough to hold to
gether. Roll out on a lightly floured
board to about one-eighth inch thick
ness. Place in individual pie tins.
Trim edges, leaving one-half inch
beyond rim of pan. Fold under and
flute. Fill with pumpkin filling as
directed above.
Cake Making? Bread Making? Cookie
Baking? Budget Firing? Housekeeping?
You name the problem and explain iu
Miss Lynn Chambers will be glad to give
you expert advice if you write to her, en
closing a self-addressed, stamped envelope
for your reply, at Western Newspaper
Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chi,
cago, UL
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
RAZOR BLADES
KENT BLADES
Blade Valne
Ivy will grow in water in the
house. It requires light but no sun.
* * *
To make pumpkin pies bake a
rich golden brown, add a table
spoon of molasses to the filling.
• • •
Place your silk stockings over a
glass tumbler when repairing a
ladder. The light shows up the
cross-threads, which can then be
picked up easily .with a fine steel
crochet hook.
• • •
The trick in ironing sheets and
pillowcases is to keep the hems
straight and even, and pillowcases
should be ironed away from the
closed corners.
• • •
Shoes that are old and do not
polish satisfactorily should be well
rubbed with methylated spirit or
petrol. Allow to dry thoroughly
out of doors, apply paste, and pol
ish in the usual way.
• • *
When mending sonny’s sweater
or woolen scarf, use a bodkin in
stead of a needle. It will weave
in and out much easier and do
much more satisfactory work than
the sharp-pointed needle.
* • •
Cocoa tastes best when the co
coa, sugar and salt are mixed well
with the water, and then boiled
for from 5 to 10 minutes before
adding the scalded milk, and all
heated together.
IRRITATIONS OF
EXTERNAL CAUSE
SKIN
acne pimples, bumps (blackheads), and
ugly broken-out skin. Millions relieve
miseries with simple home treatment.
Goes to work at once. Direct action aids
healing by killing germs It touche Use
Black and White Ointment only as di
rected. 10c, 25c, 50c sizes. 25 years success.
Money-back guarantee, tzr Vital la
cleansing is good soap. Enjoy famous
Black and White Skin Soap daily.
Identity of Ideas
Language is the expression of
ideas, and if the people of one
country cannot preserve an iden
tity of ideas they cannot retain an
identity of language.—Noah Web
ster.
Double-Purpose
Laxative Gives
More Satisfaction
Don't be satisfied Just to relieve your
present constipated condition. Meet
fills problem more thoroughly by
toning up your intestinal system.
For this Double-Purpose, use Dr.
Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative
Powder—an Intestinal Tonic Laxa
tive. It not only acts gently and
thoroughly, but tones lazy bowel
muscles—giving more satisfaction.
Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder
helps relieve Dizzy Spells, Sour
Stomach, Gas, Headache, and that
dull sluggish feeling commonly re
ferred to as Biliousness, when caused
by Constipation. Use only as di
rected. 15 doses for only 10c. Large
family size 25c. Adv.
ACHING-STIFF-SORE
MUSCLES
HUSTEROl:
WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROM*.
HOT FtASHES
If you suffer from hot flashes, dizzi
ness, distress of “irregularities”, are
weak, nervous, irritable, blue at
times—due to the functional
“middle-age” period in a woman’s
life—try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound—the best-known
medicine you can buy today that’s
made especially for women.
Pinkham’s Compound has helped
thousands upon thousands of wom
en to relieve such annoying symp
toms. Follow label directions. Pink
ham’s Compound is worth trying!
WNU—7
44—42
Kidneys Must
Work Well-
For You To Feel Well
24 hours every day. 7 cays every
week, never ^topping, the kidneys filter
waste matter from the blood.
If more people were aware of how the
kidneys must constantly remove sur
plus fluid, excess acids and other waste
matter that cannot stay in the blood
without injury to health, there would
be better understanding of ichy the
whole system is upset when kidneys fail
to function properly.
Burning, scanty or too frequent urina
tion sometimes warns that something
is wrong. You may suffer nagging back
ache, headaches, dizziness, rheumatic
pains, getting up at nights, swelling.
Why not try Doan’s Pills’! You will
be using a medicine recommended the
country over. Doan’s stimulate the func
tion of the kidneys and help them to
flush out poisonous waste from tho
blood. They contain nothing harmful.
Get Doan’s today. Use with confidence*
At all drug stores.
DOANS PILLS