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/ THE SUN, NEWBERRX^ S. C, DECEMBER 25, 1942 WHO’S NEWS A nn This Week ik 4F0 By Lemuel F. Perton Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. EW YORK.—Critics of Maxwell Anderson, the playwright, have sometimes suggested that he has his head in the clouds. That might ac- Cluster A bout Peak h^plrsfst- With a Faith That e n c e in Saves Mountains High To* the highest eminence of the Pali sades—making the world safe for cloud-fanciers and rainbow fans. However, he doesn’t make the mis take of Ibsen’s brand, which led his people up so high they froze to death. High Tor is to Mr. Anderson the symbol of resistance against totali tarian quarry companies which would grind the cosmos through their rock-crushers, and also the symbol of certain ideas with which he garlanded it in his play, “High Tor,” of 1937. It has high visibility and has rallied behind Mr. Ander son citizens far up and down the Hudson, and we know that remotely heard thunder is not Rip Van Win kle’s elfin bowling team. As head of the committee to save High Tor, Mr. Anderson is engaged in an effort to prove himself a poor prophet. In his play, he prophesied that the man who owned it ultimately would sell it to the quarry com pany, to be hacked down. Old Elmer Orden, the owner, died last April and High Tor was thrown on the market. Mr. An derson’s neighboring poets, art ists and playwrights are swarm ing out of their remote hideouts to save the mountain. Among them are Amy Murray, much beloved poet, who two years ago published a book of verse, poignantly beautiful, much of it about the mountain, and worthy of more attention than it received, and Henry Poor, the artist. Mr. Poor’s painting of the mountain hangs in the Metropolitan museum. He and Miss Murray head the fund-raising subcommittee to buy the mountain and turn it over to the Palisades Interstate Park commission as a permanent bird and game sanctu ary and a high hurdle for hikers— for Pegasus, too, it would seem as many a chaplet of verse has been hung on the mountain. Somewhat farther down toward sea level, Mr. Anderson is pro moting a prizefight for the Fight ing French Relief committee. He seems always to be asking him self “What prir ;lory?” Just now he is gathering in slathers of money from his hit play, “Eve of St. Mark,” ringing up $300,000 for the movie rights alone, and such glory always drives him to unforeseen en deavors. When he hits a jack pot he is apt to summon rela tives and friends and say: “Have a farm or an education on me.” Mr. Anderson and his fellow craftsmen of the arts have led the old-timers up our way to conclude that poets and artists are all right if they behave themselves. The lat ter meet them halfway. There has been a new community solidarity in Rockland county, New York, which has stirred it to more than its population share of war-winning ac tivities. Mr. Anderson has made High Tor a symbol of a common endeavor. W ITH college boys being pulled out of school, business men are sent back in. It is Dean Donald K. Shakespeare’s? David of the Ages Fall Into a New Sequence Harvard uni versity busi ness school who opens Harvard to 150 business executives, between the ages of 35 and 40, for a tuition-free course to retrain busi ness executives for war work. He says the aim is to aid in the “pro duction of goods necessary to win the war.” In 1922, Harvard university set up a consulting staff in Europe, which included Sir William Beveridge of London, for guidance of business in the reconstruction years. Sir Wil liam has been working in this field ever since, and is just now out with a ten-pound report and recommenda tion which is mainly a conclusion that there won’t be any business after this war—all will be social ized. Nothing like that for Harvard university this time. Dean David, who was named head of the business school last May, has staked out his curriculum on the old ground rules and the tradition that the pursuit of an honest dollar still will be a stim ulus to enterprise. From Moscow, Idaho, where Mr. David was born in 1896, he went to the University of Idaho and was graduated from the Harvard busi ness school in 1919. He was on the school faculty, in various posts until 1927, when he stepped into business, chiefly in large-scale food merchan dising, and made a brilliant success of it. His new pupils will soon get to know that he is no mere academi cian. His main prospectus of manage ment, salesmanship and administra tion carries over into the post-war world. | Christmas Rush Raises Problem For Big Stores Preparations for Handling Shoppers Begun in January. Christmas is a headache for man agers of big department stores. Not only must the demand for presents be anticipated months in advance, but more help must be hired, and the entire store reorganized. A big store faces a monumental task when it prepares for Christ mas. It is a task that begins right after New Year’s and ends on Christmas eve the following year. Every department store has sim ilar problems to meet, but the larg er stores have to make plans on a scale that will accommodate an enormous expansion of business. One large New York department store, for example, has as much floor space as a fair sized farm— 45 acres. During the Christmas rush it has sold almost a million dollars’ worth of goods. Actual planning gets under way immediately after Christmas when executives study errors that were made and draw up plans to avoid the same mistakes next year. Sales volumes of various departments are examined, and “bottlenecks” are re moved as far as possible by enlarg ing some departments and rearrang ing others. Spring finds the store placing or ders for the following year. Christ mas cards are bought in April. Con tracts for 2,000,000 Christmas boxes which are let in July are followed shortly by orders for many tons of holiday wrappings. Extremely important is the job of forecasting sales of goods. Certain staple lines can be predicted with considerable efficiency, but novelty goods have to wait almost until the following December. August finds employment begin ning its upward trend. The store is normally staffed with 11,000 peo ple, but 10,000 more are needed to handle the holiday rush. Thou sands of applicants must be inter viewed for these jobs that range from the man who cleans gum off the floor to red-cheeked Santa Clauses. Each employee must first pass a rigid physical examination before he is finally accepted and given instruction in his special tasks. The greatest problem of all is presented by the toy department, which expands from a staff of about 50 people to more than 1,500 work ers. Display cases and tables hold ing 12,000 different toys must be arranged and organized, to permit customers to buy their gifts with a minimum of confusion and effort. The 10,000 additional workers not only have to be trained, but they also have to be fed. Cafeteria sched ules are rearranged and set with clockwork precision to provide for the heavy seasonal load. Ordinarily 14 doctors, 18 nurses and four dentists are sufficient to take care of any accidents occur ring in the store. This staff is as sisted by eight additional doctors during the holiday rush. Wheel chairs strategically placed through out the store are ready to give in stant service for any customer or clerk who is overcome by the work or crush of the crowd. No detail can be overlooked to make the entire store function smoothly as a unit. For every clerk there are two other workers handling stock, wrapping presents, taking or ders and doing some of the multi tudinous tasks that are needed to run a big store. For example, can you speak only French, or Spanish, or Italian? The store has 700 interpreters capable of speaking at least one foreign lan guage who stand ready to accom modate you. Of course the planning is not per fect. Problems will arise and in convenient situations will exist. But you can be sure that every effort will be made to straighten them out before a single showcase is moved into position for next year’s Christmas shopping season. Select Children's Books Carefully, Teacher Urges Books given to children at Christ mas are a valuable element in the development of the child, according to Mrs. Mary S. Venable of the Uni- j versify of Tennessee Nursery school. ! Factors to be considered in the ! selection of children’s books, says Mrs.,Venable, are: suitability to the child’s age and development; choice of words contained in the story; amount of action; number of illus trations; and degree of repetition. She also says that there should be some humorous stories in a child’s collection. Ring in the New Year with a re solve to keep your chins up, your budgets balanced and your meals victory and vita min minded. Nev er mind trivial resolutions, just keep the impor tant ones, and you’ll be doing your part in the way you can best— and that’s the best job, you, Mrs. America, are qualified to do. Plan every meal so carefully that you will make use of every bit of food you have. That means doing the most by your leftovers and fit ting them into your meal program. Economy is the watchword—elabo rate food is out for the duration. Vi tamins, minerals and proteins are your cue to balanced meals. By way of initiating this program you will note that even the New Year buffet supper I’ve planned fits into the guide outlined above: the chicken may be leftover from your holiday dinner as may be your spin ach and beets for vegetable and salad. *Scalloped Chicken. (Serves 6) 1 cup cooked, cubed chicken cups buttered crumbs 3 bard-cooked eggs, chopped 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper V/t cups medium white sauce Cover bottom of baking dish with crumbs. Add chicken, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over all, cover with remaining crumbs. Bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven 25 minutes. The casserole of chicken is sim plicity itself and is especially fine with the spinach timbales because it provides a bit of sauce that goes well with them: *Spinach Timbales. (Serves 6) 3 cups cooked, chopped spinach 2 tablespoons butter, melted 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1(4 cups milk % cup soft bread crumbs Salt and pepper Dash of nutmeg Early Christmas Tree Christmas tree decorations in 1604 are reported in an early note: “At j Christmas they set up fir trees in the 1 parlors of Strasbourg, and hang 1 thereon roses cut out of many-col- j ored papers, apples, wafers, gold | foil, sweets and so on.” Christmas Cakes Christmas cakes, iced cookies and other goodies are survivals of the old custom of giving confectionery gifts to the senators of Rome. Lynn Says: The Score Card: More foods have come in under the ceiling price list. Foods exempt from March ceilings but under the new ceilings are poultry, mutton, butter, eggs, cheese, canned milk, onions, white potatoes, dry beans, corn meal, fresh citrus fruits and canned citrus fruits and juices. Take this list to the market with you and make sure you do not pay any more for these items than you paid for them between September 28 through October 2. The 2%-pound meat allowance must include meat for you, your dogs, cats and other pets. It includes meat eaten in your house by guests, meat eaten by you in restaurants, and bone gristle and waste that comes with edible meat. It includes bacon, sausage and canned meat. It does not include scrapple, or the variety meats like liver, heart, kidneys, tripe, and brains. The allowance includes beef, lamb, veal, mutton and pork— but excludes poultry, eggs and fish. Stretch your meat allow ance with these and meat ex tenders like oatmeal, cereal and bread crumbs. Coffee rationing will mean that you have to consider other sources for hot drinks these cold days. First, you can probably stretch your coffee by using a “coffee stretcher” — using half coffee and half stretcher. You’ll like fruit juices, hot and cold, milk for drinking, hot soups, bouillon and consomme. •Scalloped Chicken •Spinach Timbales •Victory Bread •Beet-Horseradish Salad Olives and Pickles •Pineapple-Cranberry Duff Fruit Cake Mints Nuts •Recipes Given Combine all Ingredients in order given. Pack in 6 well-buttered cus tard cups, set in a pan of hot wa ter, in a moder ate (350-degree) oven 45 minutes. Unmold and serve with casserole. A crisp gelatin salad that carries out the colors of the season and that is packed with vitamins and vigor is this: •Beet and Horseradish Salad. (Serves 8) lYi tablespoons gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water 2 cups boiling water Yt cup lemon juice H cup sugar lYt tablesppons horseradish 1 tablespoon vinefear Vi teaspoon salt V4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce *4 cup chopped cabbage Vi cup chopped beets Soak gelatin in cold water and dissolve in boiling water. Add lem on juice, horseradish, vinegar, salt and Worcestershire sauce. Cool un til slightly thickened. Add chopped cabbage and beets. Pour into mold and chill until firm. Serve with wa tercress or lettuce and mayonnaise. One of the vitamins in great de mand is vitamin B1—the vitamin re quired for healthy nerves and starh- ina. Here is a bread which draws its vitamin B1 from the whole grain cereals — wheat flour and wheat germ, and is delicious be cause of its sour milk, molasses and raisins: •Victory Bread. 1 cup flour 14 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup wheat germ 14 cup brown sugar 1 cup seedless raisins 14 cup molasses 14 cup sour milk 14 cup melted butter Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and soda. Add whole wheat flour, wheat germ, sugar and rai sins. Combine molasses, sour milk and melted butter and stir quickly into flour mixture. Pour into a greased oblong pan or two loaf pans. Bake in a moderate to slow (300- degree) oven for 1 hour. Easy does it! That’s what you’ll say when you whip together the fascinating cranberry and pineapple drink that looks so-o pretty with its swirls of pink fluff atop each glass ful. Serve it as the dessert with pa per thin slices of that fruit cake you put up before Christmas. The drink is a grand one to substitute for cot- tee, and requires no sugar either: •Pineapple-Cranberry Duff. (Makes 6 small glasses) 1 1-pint, 2-ounce can of unsweet ened Hawaiian pineapple juice 14 of I 1-pound can cranberry sauce Chill both juice and sauce thor oughly in the can before opening. Beat sauce with rotary beater until fluffy, add pineapple juice gradually, beating all the while. Pour into glasses and serve at once. Lynn Chambers can tell you how to dress up your table for family dinner or feslii ities, gice you menus for your parties or tell you how to balance your meals in accordance with nutritional standards. Just write to her, explaining your problem, at U estern Newspaper Union, 210 South Des- plaines Street, Chicago, Illinois. 1‘leuse enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelop- for sour answer. Released by Western Newspaper Urton. The Courageous Trooper —♦— By CLIFFORD SINGLER ■qirtrtrCrtrtrCrCririiit-titiiririt'biiii-Cl-ltittrtris B ILL was seven, going on eight. So was the Angel Child. There the resem blance ceased. The Angel Child had the privilege of seeing Bill’s father and mother every day. Not only that. The Angel Child was loved and caressed by these utterly adorable beings in a way that made Bill just sick with envy. Bill knew the members of The Same James Company very well, for they had played Kans’ City, where Bill lived with Granny and Aunt Ethel to a week full of very appre ciative audiences. He knew the play, too. Lines and lines of it by heart. The week that The Same James Company played Kans’ City he was permitted to stay up every night until the lights “out in front” were extinguished, and Dad an<f 1 Mother had come racing home to him. The fact that The Same James Company had played Kans’ City in November meant that at Christmas it would be moving eastward. Strangely enough, Bill’s father and mother, far away as they chanced to be, were the first to real ize what was the matter with Bill. “By George, Lucile, v Bill’s father was the first to put it into words, “that kid’s beginning to be jealous of the Angel Child! Gee-WHILLI- KENS, but I wish we could have him at Christmas!” Bill’s mother went to the window. “Well, we can’t, so why talk about it?” Her voice sounded very much as if she had suddenly taken cold. The matinee idol paced about the elaborately unhomelike hotel room in moody silence. “I’ll send the kid a good big check anyhow—large enough for him to get everything in the world he wants for Christmas.” He was writing as he spoke. It was a sort of postscript to his letter to Bill: “Your mother just had a great little idea. Not having you here for Christmas, we have de cided to adopt the Angel Child for the day in your plaie and have a tree for him with all the fixings. So when you are having your own tree with Grandmother and Aunt Ethel, you can think of your Mother and Dad playing around a similar one in a hotel room in Minneapolis, handing out presents to the Angel Child and wishing it were you in stead.” • • • It was Christmas Eve and The Same James Company, opening in Minneapolis that night, had its gloomy expectations quite fulfilled in an audience only two-thirds the number which that reputedly “good show town” usually affords. During the listlessly received first act of Tkr Same Japnes, the six forty-five from Kansas City was pull ing into the Minneapolis station, and a manly small boy with a shab by but business-like looking grip was assuring a fatherly and solicitous porter that he had plenty of money to taxi where he wanted to go if his father and mother failed to meet him. Of course, the second act of the comedy in which Bill’s father and mother were playing is conceded by all to be the best of the play. In j it the impeccable, but misjudged, friend of the family romps with the sweetly mannered child of his host and hostess, before the latter puts this Angel Child to bed with the usual appealing accompaniments of prayer to soft music and a sniffling audience. It was this scene which Bill’s mind had rehearsed on his way from the station to the theater. The stage manager saw Bill be fore his rushing entrance, but, being on the other side of the wings, was quite helpless. A streak of pale blue, and Bill was in the scene. When strong muscled arms swept the little boy close to a breast whose tumult of delight was held in check only by a perfection of technique, the audience sensed a moment somehow big. Wild applause covered the little fluttering mother-cry, as the other person in the scene ran to them swiftly. Never in the history of The Same James Company was there such a whole-souled reception of the sec ond act! The curtain was raised and lowered so many times that Bill’s father found it necessary to explain to his son that the audience wished the latter to take the curtain alone before the play proceeded. What was done about it made a great and momentous change in many lives. The Angel Child, it appeared, was pressingly needed in New York at once in “a gorgeous and magnificent spectacle” about to be filmed—while Bill Junior was be sought to finish out the season with The Same James. • * • But, of course, one must not neglect to record that the Christmas tree and the party came off that same Christmas Eve as planned— with minor changes in the cast. For Bill himself was host. Bill turned to his parents with an expression of huge distaste upon his mobile little countenance. “You can’t tell me,” he asservat- ed positively, “that a trouper who can’t stand a little bit of gagging and goes down with one biff on his nose, is going to make a hit in our profession!” IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for December 27 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts s* lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by peimission. DYNAMIC CHRISTIAN LIVING LESSON TEXT—Homans 12:1-3, 9-21. GOLDEN TEXT—Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.—Romans 12:21. Fringed Aster Motif For Beautiful Quill Dynamic—there is a word with an attraction for both young and old. It speaks of power, but not just brute force. There is personal ity with its winsomeness, challenge, accomplishment, all around attrac tiveness and usefulness as the essen tial element of this kind of power. It may surprise some of us to hear that this is the kind of life every Christian may, and ought, to live, by the grace of God. Not that each one will have the gifts of lead ership, or the personal qualifications which mack some for places of pub lic service, but that each may have divine power working in and through his life. Such a life can be lived only as God’s power is able to flow through a surrendered life. This must begin in the individual, and in the depth of his own heart. Then it will ap pear in his relationship to his breth ren in the church, and ultimately in his life in the world. I. In the Heart (vv. 1-3). It is only the believer who is ready to serve God. The unregen erate man needs cleansing, not con secration. Having that, he is ready for the transforming work of God which will bring him out into a place of freedom and spiritual strength. Notice that this is brought about by an act of the will. We are to present ourselves as a living sacrifice. That is our part, God will respond in blessing. Conformity to this world (v. 2) is the blight on the churca and on the individual believer which so hampers the work of Christ in the world today. The worldly Christian Is an anomaly. The call then is for non-conformity to the world and surrender to the transforming grace of God. Then there will be both true humility (v. 3) and full confidence in God’s power. II. In the Chnrch (w. 9-16). The dynamic living of the Chris tian is not something to be paraded before the world, a thing of which we may be proud. It begins, as we have seen, in the heart, and then gives itself in gracious, affectionate, earnest living within other believers. Here we note that being dynamic does not mean only being a “live wire.” It may express itselJ in quiet ness which is graciously powerful; in goodness which overcomes evil; in love which weeps with the sor rowing; or in humility which is will ing to touch the lowly. These verses are full to overflow* ing with the kind of instruction which, if heeded, would make the fellowship of the church well nigh heavenly. For example, “in honor preferring one another” would put an end to church “fights”—blessed thought! If all were “fervent in spirit, serving the Lord” there would be no problem about getting the work of the church and Sunday school done, and done well. If Christians were “patient in trib ulation,” would continue “instant in prayer,” and rejoice “in hope,” we would at once be free from com- plainers, and weak or unhappy church members. We could go on, but the teaching of the Word is so plain that what we need to do is to practice it. III. In the World (w. 17-21). “Take thought,” that is, plan to have “things honest in the sight of all men.” Bishop Moule’s comment is particularly acute. He says the Christian “is to be nobly indifferent to the world’s thought and word when he is sure that God and the world antagonize. But he is to be seriously attentive to the world’s ob servation, were the world more or less acquainted with the Christian precept or principle, and more or less conscious of its truth and right, is watching, maliciously, or it may be wistfully, to see if it governs the Christian practice.” How then does the Christian be have toward the world? He does not return evil for evil. How often Christians have failed at that point, becoming involved in a “blow for blow” conflict with some worldly man or institution. How much bet ter to “live peaceably with all men” as far as it is possible to do so. The Christian is not to seek re venge. The injustice suffered may be confidently left in the hand of God. He will make it right in due season and in His own way. He will judge righteously, where we might be prejudiced. We might be too severe; He will be fair. The way to deal with such situations is by the “coals of fire” method (v. 20). It really works. We ought to use it more frequently. Verse 21 sums up the whole mat ter. Instead of letting the evil of this world get the best of him, the Christian will “overcome evil with good.” It seems just now that such a plan does not work, that evil has taken the upper hand, but let us wait a bit. The final accounting has not yet been made. A QUILT of surpassing is achieved with this new qwtt. block—Fringed Aster. Pieced dia monds of pastel—two harmonizjig: prints and a plain color—and white make up the 12-inch which are set diagonally for « fectiveness. All 30 blocks maty I of the same plain or print; or for a truly interesting spread, make each block of a different trio of colors; for example—t yellow prints and a plain make up one block, three green*I next, etc. • • • No. Z9498. IS cents, brings accurate < ting guides and complete di: 11 t w the Fringed Aster pattern: the nadi quilt is about 91 by 107 inches. See* y order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-W Kansas City. Enclose IS cents lor each desired. 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