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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. MAY 7, 1943
American
Submarines
By Frank Gervasi
(WNU FtMtuie—Through special arrangement
with Collier-a Week’?)
Dozens of American submarine
commanders have made records in
the Pacific. Their roster grows ev
ery day. There are proportionately
more Navy Crosses in the subma
rine service than in any other
branch of the navy, and for this
there are many reasons.
The submarine is an American
weapon, invented and now perfected
by Americans. Our men understand
what the submarine can do, and
they employ it as what it is—an of
fensive weapon of irresistible hitting
power.
Most important of all, however, is
that fact that German U-men are
ordered or “sent” into action in
ships lacking even elementary com
forts and unequipped with any safe
ty devices.
Our men "go.” They love the
snbmarines, and spend as much
time telling yon how safe they
are—"safest ships afloat”—as
fliers will say in describing the
good qualities of our planes.
Submariners and fliers are the
most weapon-proud men I’ve
met in this war.
There' is evidence of the subma
riners’ contention concerning the
safety of our submarines. Since the
war began, the navy has reported
the loss of only six undersea boats,
including the Argonaut.
Submariners Quiet About Exploits.
Concerning their exploits, how
ever, submariners are invariably
mum, and no matter how well you
might be prepared to contend with a
submariner’s economy of words, his
reticence will still surprise you.
A quiet “Very well” is the accus
tomed acknowledgment of all orders,
disasters, communications and mis
sions aboard ship. A torpedoman
might come to the control room with
news that the aft and the forward
torpedo room is flooded, and he
would probably obtain from the skip
per nothing more than a “Very
well.”
This reticence, however, as ad
mirable as the submariners’ cour
age and ingenuity and calm efficien
cy, has contributed to the neglect
which was the lot of the service
until war came. Hidebound naval
traditionalists with limited imagina
tion couldn’t see the submarine as
anything more than an adjunct of
the battleships and cruisers. To
the horse-and-buggy naval strate
gists of yesterday, the submarine
represented merely a scouting and
observation auxiliary weapon which
might, with luck, sometime surprise
and sink an enemy ship.
Oar Sub Force December 7,1941.
And on December 7, 1941, we had,
for a major sea power, a third-
string submarine force. Theoreti
cally we had 113 submarines, with
73 building and 23 more scheduled
to be constructed. Actually, how
ever, there were substantially less
than 100 submarines in service.
Thirty-five subs were of the S-type
which were found to be unsatisfac
tory and had been withdrawn for re
fitting.
Out of the total of submarines
available for duty, roughly only one-
third could be spared for action
against the Japanese.
With our declaration of war on
Japan, the picture changed rapidly,
although not fast enough t<T suit our
submariners. In May, 1942, an addi
tional appropriation was made by
congress for the construction of 200,-
000 tons of submarines which are
now coming off the ways in yards
on both coasts at a rate surprising
to the layman but still unsatisfac
tory to submarine commanders.
U. S. Sabs Sink 82 Jap Ships.
Even the publishable figures ap
pear to support their point of view.
Up to August of last year, American
submarines had sunk or damaged
82 of the 219 Japanese ships sunk by
all weapons. This represented 37
per cent of the total. Our subma
rines accounted for 27 per cent of
all enemy warships sunk, and for
60 per cent of all noncombStant ship
ping sent to the bottom.
The submariners’ record im
proved as more boats entered
service. The navy department
has credited our submarines
with having sunk approximately
180 Japanese vessels of all cate
gories.
Written down beside the total num
ber of United Nations ships sunk by
German U-boats, the admitted 180
sunk or crippled by our own subs in
the Pacific might not seem so star
tling. But every Jap ship sent to
the bottom represents a proportion
ately higher loss than the equiva
lent in American or British tonnage.
The reason is simple: The Japs
send supplies to their overseas
troops only when absolutely neces
sary. The Jap soldiers fight on less
food, medicines and other nonmili
tary supplies than their American or
British counterparts.
Put Health Into Menus
With Vitamins Plus
Crisp greens give you plenty
of vitamin A, B and C. Assemble
them in your salads and get plenty
of health insurance—you don’t need
points to shop for these.
What’s the pep appeal of your
meals these days? It should be bet
ter than ever be
fore with spring
vegetables dotting
the markets col
orfully in greens,
yellows and reds.
Many vitamin
and mineral laden fruits are just
coming into season so you home
makers should have no trouble get
ting your quota of two fruits, two
vegetables and a citrus fruit into
your family's diets.
In winter it is sometimes extreme
ly difficult to meet that nutrition
requirement because of the scarcity
of vegetables and fruits and their
consequent high prices. Now, though
prices are higher than last year at
this time, they are abundant, and
most of us can afford to spend the
extra money required to buy them.
Perhaps, you have a garden this
year. You’re probably planning to
put up most of the produce, but you
always have some crops available
for immediate consumption such as
lettuce, tender green shoots of on
ions, etc. In some parts of the coun
try it’s a bit early for some of
these to make their appearance, but
when they do, up and at them!
Homemakers are fortunately be
coming more and more conscious of
the importance of fruits and vege
tables in the diet, and the more so
they become, the more healthy will
oecome each generation of Ameri
cans. Even those of you who have
seen deficient in these foods during
the growing years will get much
benefit from including these foods in
your diet. A heavy meal calls for
the light, crisp, “just right” feeling
which fruits and vegetables supply.
Remember vitamins and minerals
work hand in hand to give your
body health and
to keep it in good
workable order.
Most vegetables
have many of
both minerals and
vitamins. It is in
teresting to know
that greens (let
tuce, parsley, watercress, turnip
greens, etc.) are rich not only in
iron that makes for good, rich blood,
but also in vitamin A which pro
motes good health of skin, eyes, and
keeps you buoyant and full of en
ergy. The greens get a nice big
star for being rich in Vitamin C,
necessary for health of teeth and
bones, and for quick healing of
wounds.
Don’t be surprised when the
greens come in for a nice share of
honors for vitamin B, also. That’s
the vitamin necessary for normal
nutrition.
Easiest way to keep most of the
vitamins intact is to serve the vege
tables raw—as you would in a sal
ad. The same goes for fruits. Don’t
let either of them soak in water or
stand uncovered in the refrigerator
—the vitamins seem to evaporate
quickly, especially in the case of
vitamin C, so easily lost by cooking
or leaving exposed to air.
Lynn Says:
Fresh as a Day in May: So will
be yVmr foods if you keep them
properly refrigerated. Desserts
to cool you off and keep your ap
petites unjaded, if they’re to be
frozen, belong right in the freez
er. Meats and fish are safest
kept right under the freezer in a
meat-keeper if you have one.
Milk, cream and beverages are
stood alongside the freezer unit.
Custards, puddings, butter and
staples fill the middle section
nicely, are easy to get at.
Leftovers, foods prepared
ahead, salads, some fruits and
berries are well refrigerated
when kept on one of the lower
shelves. The humidor or crisper
means just that for it keeps those
fresh fruits and vegetables crisp
and well refrigerated.
The storage bin at the bottom
of the refrigerator is usually non
refrigerated, and gives splendid
storage to cereals, crackers and
extra beverages.
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Menu
Braised Liver and Onions
Whipped Potatoes
Parsleyed Carrots
Green Salad
Enriched Bread Butter
•Orangeade Refrigerator
Pudding
•Recipe Given
Keeping vegetables well refriger
ated insures at least a good degree
of vitamin preservation. Keep them
covered, too!
Arrange your crisp raw fruits and
vegetables attractively. If you’d like
to have some fun, really, then take
out'the old geometry text, and fol
low some patterns you find therein
—they’re fine inspiration for attrac
tive appearing vegetable and fruit
dishes.
Cottage Cheese-Vegetable Salad.
(Serves 6 to 8)
2 cups cottage cheese
1 garlic clove (optional)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons chopped chives or
green onion
2 tablespoons chopped pimiento
14 cup chopped celery
Paprika
2 cucumbers
1 medium sized onion
2 large tomatoes
2 carrots
French dressing
Salad greens
Rub mixing bowl with clove of
garlic. Add cottage cheese, salt,
and paprika. Fold
in chopped chives,
pimiento, celery.
Turn into a bowl
that has been
rinsed with cold
water. Chill in
refrigerator. Un
mold on center of
large salad plate, surround with wa
tercress, thin cucumber slices, on
ion rings, carrot flowers, tomato
wedges. Serve with french dress
ing.
A salad bowl that’s popping
fall of health with its tomato slices
(vitamin C) lettuce (vitamins A and
C), bananas (A, B, C), green pep
pers (A and very much C).
Here’s a vegetable that makes a
main dish when combined with mac'
aroni:
Green Pepper Stuffed With
Macaronil
(Serves 6)
6 green peppers
1 cup cooked, elbow macaroni
14 pound grated American cheese
1 cup soft bread crumbs
H teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
!4 teaspoon salt
Cut a slice from top of green pep
per, scoop out, and cook in boiling
salted water for 5 minutes. Drain.
Mix remaining ingredients, saving
% of cheese for top. Fill peppers
with mixture, stand upright in pan
and sprinkle remaining cheese over
top. Bake in a moderate oven 25
minutes.
Jaded appetites will respond
quickly if you serve this delectable
cool pudding:
•Orangeade Refrigerator Padding,
(Serves 9)
1 tablespoon gelatin
14 cup cold water
114 cups orange juice
14 cup sugar
14 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon joice
2 egg whites
14 cup sugar
4 cups oven popped rice cereal
14 cup melted butter
14 cup sugar
Soften gelatin in cold water. Heat
orange juice, sugar and salt to boil
ing point. Add softened gelatin and
stir until dissolved. Add lemon juice
and cool. When mixture begins to
thicken, fold in stiffly beaten egg
whites to which sugar has been
added.
Crush cereal crumbs fine and mix
with melted butter and sugar. Dis
tribute evenly in bottom of a square
pan and press-down firmly. Pour in
orange mixture. Chill in refrigera
tor. Cut in squares when firm, and
serve with whole orange slices and
whipped cream, if desired.
Lynn Chambers welcomes you to sub
mit your household queries to her problem
clinic. Send your letters to her at Western
Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines
Street, Chicago, III. Don’t forget to enclose
a stamped, self^tddressed envelope for
your reply.
Released by Western Newspaper Unloa.
E'OR a while they had golf reeling
1 and hanging on the ropes but with
the arrival of spring the old game
has bounded back again.
Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen,
duffers, dubs, the tired businessman,
defense workers and
many others who
make up our aver
age society today
are once more
swinging away with
the driver and
brassie or keeping
the niblick blazing
hot.
There was a spell
when many thou
sands, who needed
the exercise and the
recreation, were
ashamed to be seen with a bag of
chibs. Today, in clubs that are close
to transportation centers, there is a
rush to play, an increase even
above last April.
Clubs off the beaten track are tak
ing a trimming. The others are
doing extremely well. Which is bet
ter for those able to get out once
in a while than to sit brooding re
plete with alcoholic stimulation.
It is surprising to know how many
clubs, which can be reached without
gasoline or rubber, are doing as well
as they ever did.
The Old Story Returns
Unless the situation changes, we
are quite likely to have again the
old story of the “vanishing hus
band,” the oJB “sport of missing
men.”
I know of no one who told that
story better than J. P. McEvoy did
many years ago.
It was to this effect—
"Who’s that stranger, mother
dear?
Look! He knows us—ain’t he
queer?”
“Hush, my own, don’t talk so
wild.
That’s your father, dearest
child.”
"That’s my father? No such
thing.
Father died'away last spring.”
“Father didn’t die, you dub.
Father joined a golfing club.”
“Now the club is closed, so he
Has no place to go, you see,
No place left for him to roam,
That is why he’s coming home.”
“Kiss him—he won’t bite you,
child,
All these golfing guys look wild.”
The Important Side
The important part of golf isn’t
the tournament side. That happens
to be only the window dressing.
The part of the ancient game is
the hand-to-hand grapple among
some two million or three million
average players, whose scores may
range from 85 to 120.
The 90 to the 110 player has always
been the stout backbone of the game
some dour Scot invented over 500
years ago.
These pay most of the dues, keep
most of the courses going and have
most of the fun. Most of these to
day are middle-aged or beyond mid
dle-age. Many of them range be
tween 70 and 90. There is a big
class between 40 and 60.
Golf as a so-called "rich man’s
game” is out forever. This is the
day of the municipal course. There
has been a sweeping trend in this
direction and it will know a new
boom when the war Is over.
From reports received from many
places around the bunkered map, it
is surprising the amount of golf now
played in so many localities.
Especially over municipal courses
that so often are easily reached.
Durocher’s Challenge
“So the Cardinals and the Yankees
are going to fight it out again next
fall,” Leo Durocher said. “The
Cardinals and the Yankees. No one
else. And the Dodgers can’t do any
thing about it. Well, I can’t agree
with that. The Dodgers will have a
lot to say about it. And we’ll say
it with high-class pitching and a
flock of base hits. I think we have
every bit as good a chance to win
the National league pennant as the
Cardinals have. Yes, they have the
edge on us in speed. But we’ll get
just as good pitching and better hit
ting.
"I doubt also if there will be any
other clnb as well-conditioned. I
know there won’t be another willing
to hustle more. We still remember
that ten-game lead we blew late last
summer. That’s something to re
member—and we haven’t forgotten
it.”
Dodger Pitching Strength
Overlooking his busy squad, Duro
cher saved the major portion of his
eloquence for his pitching staff.
“Last summer,” he said, “Wyatt,
Higbe and Head together won 45
games. I honestly believe this same
bunch, through this new season, will
come close to 60 games. Wyatt and
Higbe are normally 20-game win
ners. And this time I think Head
will hang around that mark. Re
member, he is only 23 years old.
I’d say he is the most improved
young pitcher I’ve seen for years.
Grantland Rice
Spread Made From
Your Old Bed Sheets
A NY pretty flowered print may
be combined with the side
Strips of sheets that are good after
the center part has worn out. A
good section may be cut from the
center bottom too. The diagram
at the left gives all the dimensions
you need for making a spread for
a double bed from the good parts
of three old sheets put together
with six-inch strips flowered cot
ton material of about the same
weight.
Here, the figured goods is in a
pink and white pattern that is
especially effective with the white
muslin. It is also used to trim
the curtains made from old sheets.
Another interesting color note is
the mats of the pink and white ma
terial used for the row of framed
photographs over the bed. It also
edges the full white lamp shades.
• • •
NOTE—The new book 9 which Mrs.
Spears has prepared for readers shows
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model things for the home. It contains 32
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The Questions
1. The littoral of a country is its
what?
2. An army pursuit squadron
usually embraces how many
planes?
3. George Washington belonged
to what political party?
4. What city is known as the
Russian Pittsburgh?
5. How many pounds of V...—
film are required to send a ton of
letters to our boys at the front?
6. What is the largest single
printing job to date?
7. The longest baseball game by
innings played in the major
leagues lasted how long?
8. How many Minute Men were
killed or wounded at Lexington on
April 19, 1775?
9. Is it true that animals were
ever tried in law courts as if they
were human beings?
10. What are battleships named
after? Cruisers? Destroyers? Sub
marines? Aircraft carriers?
The Answers
1. Coastal region.
2. Twenty-five planes.
3. Federalist.
4. Kharkov.
5. Twenty pounds.
6. Printing the government’s
new point-system ration books No.
2—150 million books.
7. Twenty-six innings—Brooklyn
vs. Boston, May 1, 1920.
8. Seventeen (eight killed, nine
wounded).
9. Yes. France was the scene of
most of these affairs in the Middle
ages. There are authentic records
of trials that no writer in fiction
would dare to present.
10. Battleships are named after
states; cruisers after cities; de
stroyers after naval heroes; sub
marines after fish; the new car
riers after famous battles.
Paul Bunyan in Wood
Hewn from a huge Sequoia log,
a statue of Paul Bunyan, mythi
cal giant of the woods, stands at
the roadside near Three Rivers,
Sequoia Park, Calif. The figure
of the legendary lumberjack is be
lieved the largest sculpture ever
made from a single piece.
St-Joseph (Tjh
WORLD S LARGEST SELLER AT
Density of Satarn
The density of the planet Saturn
is only seven-tenths that of water.
WHY PUT UP WITH
COHSTIPATION?
If you suffer from that com
mon form of constipation
due to lack of “bulk’’ In
your diet, dosing yourself
with harsh cathartics and
laxatives will give you only
temporary relief.
However, adding kxllooo's
all-bran to your regular
diet and drinking plenty of
water will not only get at
the cause of such constipa
tion, but will correct It.
KZLLpGO’S ALL-BRAN is a
delicious breakfast cereal
that, unlike medicinal
purges, doesn’t work chiefly
on you-but works princi
pally on the content* of
your colon.
Try KZLLOGO’S ALL-BRAN,
eat as directed, see If It
doesn’t help you, tool
Hage Arctic Wolf
The arctic wolf weighs five
times as much as the Texas wolf.
SKIN
IRRITATIONS OF
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miseries with simple home treatment.
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healing, works the antisepUc way. Use
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THE
POWER
OF THE PRESS
• Manufacturers and merchants sense the
power of the press. Early they began using
it to carry their advertising facts and ideas
into homes. And they found it a most
profitable way in which to tell their story
to buyers. And the buyers in turn found
it profitable to deal with those who were
willing to state in print the values and
services they offered.