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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, C„ DECEMBER 11, 1942 Released by Western Newspaper Union. Farewell, Old ‘Oregon’! 'T'HE USS Oregon is headed for a scrap again! But this time it’s different—it’s a “scrap pile” instead of a “scrap” with the enemy that she’s heading for because the navy department has issued orders to break her up for the essential metals which she contains. But, as the gallant old battleship sets out upon her 1' t journey, thou sands of America: will remember another journey which she made 40- odd years ago—a dash through two oceans which was followed With breathless interest by the entire na tion and which ended in her partici pation in a great naval victory at Santiago, Cuba. Back in March, 1898, there were rumblings of war between Spain and the United States. At that time the Oregon was at San Francisco. When her captain was disabled for service by illness, command of the vessel was given to Vermont-born, Annapolis-trained Charles E. Clark, who had served under Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil war and who had risen to cap tain in 1896. On March 16 Clark received or ders to join Admiral Sampson’s fleet in Florida waters with the greatest speed possible. He had just 48 hours in which to make his preparations for the trip and, when he started op March 18 he was strictly “on his own.” For there was no radio in BEAR ADMIRAL C. E. CLARK 1898 by which he could keep in con stant touch with his superior offi cers. When he arrived at Rio Janeiro on April 30 he was told that war with Spain had been declared and that the whereabouts of the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera was unknown. There the navy depart ment placed upon him the responsi bility of deciding whether he should remain safely at Rio Janeiro or pro ceed to Key West, and risk meeting the Spanish fleet in a battle in which the Oregon would be hopelessly out numbered. Clark was not long in making his decision. He immediately started north! Ever since he had left San Francisco the prayers of the na tion had followed the Oregon as she steamed forth upon her lonely voyage and when he left Rio Janeiro the national anxiety was increased. Then on May 24 there was nation wide rejoicing when the word was flashed that the Oregon had arrived safely at Jupiter inlet in Florida. Here he was compelled to make an other momentous decision. In or der to join Admiral Sampson’s fleet he would have to over-ride the opin ion of his chief engineer who ad vised him to go to Norfolk navy yard to have the Oregon overhauled. The navy department had author ized this action, but again Clark decided to get to the scene of action as quickly as possible. Twice he had been authorized and almost invited to step aside for the moment from the hazards of war and twice he declined to do so. Had either decision resulted disas trously it is probable that the na tion would have been as quick to damn him as it was to acclaim him when th« event turned out as it did. On May 26 the Oregon arrived at Key West. Clark had covered the 14,000 miles of water in 67 days, the longest and quickest trip of any bat tleship then afloat. Despite the strain that had been put upon the Oregon’s machinery by the killing pace, she arrived at Key West fit for immediate service and a few days later joined Sampson’s fleet. The nation had only a few weeks to see the result of the efficiency of 'lie Oregon in both the care of the ship itself and the training of her crew, for in the great naval battle of Santiago on July 3, the Oregon played a leading part. Kathleen Norris Says: Sometimes We Have to Hurt Mama Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. George wants me to marry him at once, bring my children with me. But he insists we leave my mother behind. By KATHLEEN NORRIS T IS the penalty of loving a large family group that sometimes you have to hurt somebody’s feelings. Sometimes you have to tell Bill’s wife that because Sarah and her boys are comipg down for the weekend there won’t be a spare bed. Sometimes you have to indi cate to dear little Patricia that because Jean is going to have only one bridesmaid she nat urally wants her sister to be that one and so cuts out Cousin Pa tricia. Sometimes you tactfully nave to inform darling sensitive Mother that you took the rug back to Brown’s and changed it for a kitchen table. More than that, sometimes as chil dren grow older, follow their own destinies, find their own work and mates and homes, they have to take stands that to the old people seem unfeeling and inconsiderate. Many a dutiful daughter puts off her mar riage because she is needed at home; puts it off so long that her young man drifts away to some body else. Many a son goes on supporting parents, who could per fectly well support themselves, un til the years when he could have carved out a happy life for him self have gone by. And believe me, a withered little complacent mother hanging on a big son’s arm is a very poor substitute for a fine, lov ing young wife and a houseful of children. Here is the problem of a good daughter who finds herself faced for the second time with the diffi culty of breaking away from home. Tied to Mother. “I am 34,” writes Ann Rogers, “and have two children, Betsey who is nine and Philip, six. My hus band seemed when I married him to be a trustworthy person, but he proved to be anything but that. As my mother is not very strong and my father retired many years ago, it was a condition of my marrying at all that I live at home, and with the exception of my honeymoon and a few summer weeks each year, I have had my own old room all my life. Mother had nice rooms fixed for Phil and me, and I was glad to give up office work and devote my self to housekeeping and to my chil dren as they came along. Phil pros pered and finally at a bargain bought a nice house, but at that time my father became ill and died, and during his long illness and after his death I could not leave my moth er. We had been married about ten years when Phil left me absolutely without warning, got a divorce and married his office assistant. This blow shattered me for awhile, I had very little money and my baby was not yet four. But last year I got my job back, and as my moth er had an opportunity to sell her old place advantageously, we moved into a small cottage she owns and get along very comfortably. “Last year Phil was killed m a motor accident, and I went back to office work; in the course of that work I met a physician of means, in every way a wonderful man. We fell deeply in love and a few weeks ago he asked me to marry him. He is 44, and as far as war service is concerned has been placed on the ‘indispensable’ list, as he is head of a large public hospital and lectures to undergraduate students at the university. Which Road to Take? “George wants me to marry him at once, bring my children with me —he really loves and understands them, and they love him, and take ' ONE FOR ALL Those who are lucky enough to be born into a large family have the advantage of companionship missed by those who must grow up alone. But they also have the disadvantage, if you choose to call it that, of having to learn very early to compromise. They must often sacrifice what they want for something that is better for all. Giving up a chance to see the last thrilling chapter of “Deadeye Dari’ to take care of little sister is a major childhood tragedy. But it makes so much easier the process of growing into a generous, unselfish adult. over the management of his own home out in the country. But he insists we leave my mother behind. He will see that she always has plenty, and of course I can come and go as I please, but he will not consent to her coming to us. He says that any one of a score of fine nurses will gladly rent the extra rooms in my mother’s house, which is across the street from the big hospital. But when I only suggest ed this plan, my mother was so agitated and angered that she told me not to allow him to enter the house again. I am distracted be tween the fear of losing the man I love and respect, and destroying my mother’s last happiness in life, for she is not a club or card-playing or even church-going woman, her one child has been her world, and if I take away her grandchildren and myself she will very probably never forgive me, or wish to see us again. “Please tell me where my duty lies and what my course ought to be.” Here, Ann, is a perfect example of the predatory parent. Your moth er never gave you a brother or sis ter, a background of old friends and a circle of young ones. She kept you selfishly her own, trying to shut away everything that she could not control and share in your life. When young love came to you, she must make the conditions under which you might accept it; you say it was a condition of your marrying at all that you live at home, and I can imagine exactly who made that stip ulation. Now, old and cranky, and cut away from all the normal inter ests of age; books, friends, clubs, games, charities, war activities, having seen your first marriage wrecked because of her selfishness, she would calmly deny you another and a more promising union and condemn you to the position of a servant to her and to the children. Move to Home of Own. What you ought to do and what 1 know your good sense will prompt you to do, is to marry your George quietly, paying no attention to the scolding and whining at home, move your children into a younger and more normal atmosphere in the new home, resent nothing, remember nothing disagreeable, constantly come to see your mother, bring the children in, and so wear down her resistance and win her to the new order of things in spite of herself. And when the time comes, Ann, and it comes fast, prepare yourself to treat your own children with gen erosity and understanding. Get it through your head once and for all that young families don’t like to have old men and old women quar tered upon them. There are excep tions of course; there are mothers whose services to sons’ or daugh ters’ families are simply indispensa ble; there are old fathers and moth ers who are the most beloved and essential members of the group. by, Eleanor Roosevelt WOMEN IN WAR WORK Since my return from abroad I have had a number of letters asking me if I would give our women some idea of what type of war work wom en are doing in Great Britain. That would require almost a book and I hope eventually to do it on the radio in detailed form, but I think I can divide the work the women are doing over there roughly into five categories: One: Work within the military forces. This is highly varied and takes in a great many fields. Two: Factory work, work in of fices, work in essential industries where men have been used, but where women are replacing them during this war period, since the in dustry is necessary although not ac tually connected with the war ef fort. Three: In civilian defense protec tive services, such as fire-fighting, air raid wardens, emergency can teen workers, ambulance drivers, police women. Fourth: In what is known in Great Britain as the women’s voluntary services, and here as civilian mobili zation. In this category every other type of service in a community is done by volunteer workers. It is the equivalent of our community serv ices. Fifth, but far from being the least important, is the work of women in the agricultural field. In Great Britain there are hardly any men left on the farms except fairly old ones. Women and girls, who for merly had been typists, beauty par lor operators, shop assistants, do mestic servants, are now doing farm work and loving it. • • • STUDENT HOLIDAYS There is a great appeal to the young people who are still kept in schools and colleges, to use their holidays also in work in the rural areas. If these vacations can be made to coincide with piecework on the farms, they can be trained dur ing the university year to do really useful work. Universities and col leges are being realistic in their courses and are falling in with the needs of the government in as many fields as possible. In addition, in Great Britain, courses for all types of government work, as well as industrial work, are set up throughout the country. Candidates must take these courses before they are eligible to take a position. The government prescribes the pay and working conditions, which means in many cases a great improvement on what might have been in the old days. • • • RED CROSS CENTERS An old friend lunched with me and late one afternoon I visited Mr. Nor man Davis at the American Red Cross headquarters to tell him what I could of the numerous Red Cross centers, which I had seen in Great Britain. I think that every Ameri can worker for the Red Cross in this country must have a grant sense of pride when they realize whet their contributions have meant to the peo ple who have been blitzed in Great Britain, not only in warmth and practical assistance, but in the lift ing of morale that something really attractive to wear will give when a woman’s spirits are rather low. This, I think, goes for man and child as well. With mobile canteens, ambu lances, medical supplies, the Red Cross has greatly helped, as have all the other agencies and even in dividuals in this country. But the Red Cross contribution is the result of the work of so many people in the United States, that I think it truly represents to the people of Great Britain the heart of our peo ple. Of the work that the Red Cross is doing for the men, nurses and offi cers, wherever they may be in the world, I can, of course, only speak of what I saw in Great Britain. If having places filled with boys is any indication that you are providing them with something they need, then the Red Cross can be very well sat isfied with the work which it has done. There are things which I am sure they hope to improve, but they and we can be proud of their accomplishments. In the Red Cross clubs, of course, the army quite rightly insists that the men pay for their beds and food. However, the charge is very nomi nal, “two and six,” which is about 43 cents for bed and breakfast, and 20 cents for a meal consisting of three courses and either tea or cof fee. In addition, there is always a snack bar where a man can get special food at special times. • • • One morning I slipped over to New York city for a few brief hours. I did not do anything special, but had a look at my apartment and saw one or two friends. We had some good talks and one came back on the train with me, so I had a very pleasant day. It is wonderful what a lift to one’s spirit it is to spend a few hours with people with whom one is happy to be. I felt enormous ly repaid for the hours spent on the train, because I was able to read so many things which otherwise might have stayed for a long time unread. Jellies Lend Their Sparkle to. Christmas Presents! (See Recipes Below.) Christmas Jelly Gifts Don’t you like the sight of bright ly colored jelly flirting gaily with red, green, silver and gold Christ mas wrappings? There’s not a nicer present to give at Christmas time to many of your homemaker friends whom you have met at Red Cross meetings, nursing classes and knitting sessions this past year than a small box of assorted jellies and jams—fresh from your own kitchen. Jelly-making in winter? Yes, in deed. Chances are that you put up a lot of fruit juice during the sum mer—without sugar—and now you have saved enough from your sugar ration to make up a few batches of jelly. It’s perfect for gift-giving and fine for boosting your fast dwin dling supply shelf. You can use winter fruits, too— cranberries, grapefruit, lemon and oranges. Whatever you make, the results will be received with real holiday cheers! Remember if your sugar supply is slender, you can use com syrup and honey. Just follow directions care fully. Let’s start the gift making with this tart, brightly colored marma lade: Tangerine Marmalade. (Makes 9 6-ounce glasses) 4 cups prepared fruit 7 cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, remove skins in quarters from 8 to 10 tangerines and discard white fibers on inside of skins and on peeled fruit. With a very sharp knife, cut rind in to fine shreds. Add % cup wa ter and Vs tea spoon soda, bring to a boil, simmer, covered for 10 minutes. Dice peeled tangerines, add with juice to cooked rind, simmer, covered 20 minutes longer. Measure sugar and prepared fruit into a kettle, filling up last cup with water if necessary. Mix well. Bring to a full, rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire. Stir in bottled pectin. Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool slightly to prevent floating fruit. Pour quick ly. Paraffin hot marmalade at once. You’ll be dressing up many a meat extender and meat saver dish with pretty accompaniments during the coming months. Try this bright jelly with your lamb dishes: Mint and Honey Jelly. (Makes 5 6-ounce glasses) *A cup boiling water 2 tablespoons dried mint leaves ZVx cups strained honey Lynn Says: Boughs of Holly: Let’s deck the house and the table with ever green and bright berries. Here’s how. Weave those extra branches you trimmed from the Christmas tree around wire—if you can still find some—and perk up with bright colored berries. Hang this on the front door or in the win dow—or place on the mirror on the table. Interesting wreaths can be made by dipping boughs in soap suds or white paint. Nestle fruit or cones inside the wreath for the table and your centerpiece is ready! Shape freshly popped white popcorn into cone shapes and set on a green pedestal to look like a Christmas tree—this is lovely for the table. Stick cranberries or gumdrops among popcorn trees for color. Christmas tree decorations will be fewer this year than before, but you can string sugared cook ies and cranberries and use fluffs of cotton for the tree. Old fash ioned candles are nice too. This Week’s Menu Brown Onion Soup •Meat Balls with Sour Cream Sauce Green Beans Carrots Boiled Potatoes Lettuce with French Dressing Cranberry-Apple Compote Cookies Beverage •Recipe Given Green food coloring y 2 cup bottled pectin Pour boiling water over mint Cover and let stand15 minutes. Strain and add enough water to make % cup. Add honey and heat to boiling, adding coloring to tint a light green. Add pectin, stirring constantly. Heat to full rolling boil. Remove from heat at once, skim and pour into sterile glasses. Seal with paraffin. Poultry of all kinds will be a fa vorite on your menus during the meat rationing period. And what is chicken or turkey without cranber ries or cranberry and orange rel ish? It’s like meat without salt, pie without a good crust, in other words, incomplete. Cranberry-Orange Relish. (Makes 1 quart relish) 2 large oranges 4 cups cranberries 2 cups sugar or 1V4 cups honey Cut oranges into eighths and re move seeds. Force cleaned cran berries and orange (rind and pulp) through a food chopper. Mix well, add sugar or honey and stir until mixed. Make several hours before using. Pack in sterile glasses and seal. Short on butter? You’ll enjoy the sunny citrus fruit marmalade that makes toasted breads, muffins and biscuits really delicious: Orange-Lemon-Grapefruit Marmalade. (Makes 3 pints) 2 large oranges 1 large lemon y 2 medium grapefruit VA quarts water per pound fruit 3 cups sugar Wash fruit and cut into eighths. Remove seeds and white core and cut into thinnest possible slices. Weigh. For each pound of fruit, add IVi quarts water. Bring slow ly to the boiling point and cook % to % hour or un til fruit is tender. Set aside over night. The next day measure pulp and juice—there should be 1 quart for each pound of fresh fruit. If there is more juice, boil it down. If there is less, add water to make it up. Add sugar and boil rapidly until syrup gives the jelly test— jells on a saucer, or two drops fall off spoon at same time as it is held in air—220 degrees. Cool 3 to 5 minutes. Turn into clean, dry glasses and seal with paraffin. •Meat Balls (Serves 4) 6 slices enriched bread Vi cup milk y 2 pound ground beef Vi teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon minced onion Vi cop sour cream Pour milk over bread and let it stand 15 minutes. Press excess milk out of bread. Combine meat, bread, onion, salt and pepper. Shape into round, flat cakes. Fry in skillet in which a little fat has been placed. When brown, on both sides, add cream and simmer 5 to 7 minutes. Arrange balls on a platter with green beans, carrot strips and potatoes Serve sauce from meat. Does the whipped cream get sulky? The cake fall at the crucial moment? The table decorations look flat and pointless? Ex plain your problem to Lynn Chambers and she’ll tell you what to do about it. Write her at Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago, III. Please enclose a tel I-addressed, stamped envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. NOTHING CAN DO MORE FOR YOU in the entire field of aspirin than St. Joseph Aspirin. None faster, none safer. The world’s largest seller at 10c. Also sold in economy sizes — 36 tablets, 20c, 100 tablets, 35c. Demand St. Joseph Asphin. Collecting a Living The men who start out with the idea that the world owes them a living generally find out that the world pays its debts in the peni tentiary or poorhouse. — W. G. Sumner. Pull the Trigger on Constipation, with Ease for Stomach, too When constipation brings on discom fort after meals, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, and bad breatji. y our stomach is probably "crying the blues” because your bowels don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels, com bined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect ease to your stomach in taking. For years, many Doctors have given pepsin prepa rations in their prescriptions to make medicine more agreeable to a touchy stomach. So be sure your laxative con tains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Cald well’s Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pepsin. See how wonderfully the Laxative Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your intestines to bring wel come relief from constipation. And the good old Syrup Pepsin makes this laxa tive so comfortable and easy on your stomach. Even finicky children love the taste of this pleasant family laxative. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative Senna com bined with Syrup Pepsin, as directed on label or as your doctor advises, and feel world’s better. Get genuine Dr.Cald well’s. Haste to Forgive A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.—Samuel Johnson. /t For Over 60 Years * * Rtconmendei b Many Doctors! TRY scon’s MULSION A Great Year-Round Tonic Others’ Business I tend to the business of other people, having lost my own.—Hor ace. RHEUMATIC PAIR lu< •at Spall yssr Day—flat altar it Daw Don’t put off getting C-2223 to re lieve pain of muscular rheumatism and other rheumatic pains. Buy C-2223 today. 60c and $1. Caution: Use only as directed. First bottle purchase price back if not satisfied. 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