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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1943
Washington, D. C.
MORE CANNED GOODS
Housewives who will get more
canned goods this summer can
thank the senate’s Truman commit
tee. No one announced it officially,
but it was due to their probing that
the army recently released 30 mil
lion cases of canned fruits and vege
tables for civilian use.
The Truman committee had re
vealed the fact that huge quanti
ties of canned goods were being
hoarded or unwisely used by the
army, when fresh vegetables were
easily available. Especially reveal
ing was the cross-examination of
Gen. E. B. Gregory, the army’s
quartermaster general, by Senator
Brewster of Maine.
“Why does the army feed canned
grapefruit to its troops in Miami,”
asked Brewster, “when grapefruit is
growing fresh all over Florida?”
“Because the men are too lazy to
prepare fresh grapefruit,” was Gen
eral Gregory’s frank reply.
He also admitted that green vege
tables and fruits were readily avail
able to army camps during a large
part of the year, but that army com
missaries purchased canned goods
because it was easier to prepare than
fresh vegetables.
The Truman committee also found
that as a result of this hoarding
the packers and canners were in a
quandary and expected to curtail
production. They knew the army
had overpurchased, could never use
its vast stores of canned goods. So
the canners figured the army would
dump this back on the market,
thereby causing an oversupply just
at the wrong time. That was why
30 million cases were turned back
to civilian use by the army now,
to ease the market while there is a
civilian shortage.
• • •
WHITE COLLAR MINERS
While the War Labor board had
John L. Lewis over a barrel for
asking a $2-a-day wage increase for
organized coal miners, another
branch of the government, the Bu
reau of Internal Revenue, okayed
various salary increases for non
union supervisory employees in coal
mines.
The matter was kept hushed up by /
secret-loving Internal Revenue bu
reaucrats, but here are the facts:
A special Internal Revenue
branch, known as the Salary Stabili
zation unit, functions in the salary
field like the War Labor board in
the wage field, to keep personal
earnings below inflationary levels.
The new unit must approve appli
cations for all salary boosts affect
ing business executives and white
collar workers.
While everything the War Labor
board does is open to public scrutiny.
Internal Revenue’s Salary Stabiliza
tion unit operates strictly behind the
scenes and doesn’t answer to any
body.
Recently, it leaked out, however,
that bituminous coal mine opera
tors, in a move to block union or
ganization of mine “sub-bosses,” had
requested government permission to
increase salaries of all supervisory
employees, including mine superin
tendents, managers, foremen, sub
bosses, etc. That white-collar in
crease amounted to an average of
$2 a day—just the increase the min
ers asked for.
• • •
GRAIN FROM CANADA
Food Boss Chester Davis has spent
days looking for a good transporta
tion man to solve that problem of
bringing in wheat from Canada.
Commodity Credit corporation has
bought 7 Vi million bushels of Cana
dian wheat, but not a bushel has
moved. Meantime, dairy and poul
try farmers in the Northeast are
running low on feed grains.
Great Lakes steamers got moving
a month late, on account of the late
thaw. They are loaded down with
ore for the steel mills, have no space
for grain. Rail movement is the
only alternative.
Grain stocks in the U. S. have been
the heaviest in history, but so is con
sumption of grain. Record-breaking
animal production is eating into the
stocks so fast that foreign imports
must be moved. This is one time
when farmers would welcome some
of that much abused Argentine corn
and wheat.
Behind this excitement about
grain supplies is one big question
mark which few people outside the
government realize, namely, the
feeding of occupied territories.
If and when invasion comes, the
civilians on the invasion front,
whether in France, the Low Coun
tries, or the Balkans, will have to
be fed from the American bread
basket. Quickest way to get food
to starving people is in the form of
grain.
• * •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
C, FDR has no love for the duke and
duchess of Windsor, saw nothing of
them when they conferred with
Churchill . . . The only time Church
ill ever was booed on the floor of
commons was when he made his
famous speech in the winter of 1936
defending Edward’s right to marry
Wally and remain king of England
. . . Only a handful of labor is com
ing up from the Bahamas to work
in the U. S. A., so this was just an
excuse to see Churchill. He wants
to get back to London.
IF WE GET CLOTHES RATIONING
(“Mr. Nelson warned that the ra
tioning of clothing might be neces
sary in this country.”—News item.)
OPA Chairman—Mr. Twitchell,
you know the charges. It is alleged
you were seen going around in a
new pair of pants. Inspector Binkle,
will you state the facts in this case?
Inspector—Well, the office got a
tip that Twitchell was going around
in new pants.
Chairman—What color?
Inspector—Gray. .
Chairman—Did your informant say
where he got these pants?
Inspector—Yes, sir, in a black
market.
Mr. Twitchell—You have your
facts twisted. They were black
pants and I got them in a gray
market.
• • •
Chairman—Proceed!
Inspector—Well, after getting the
tip I started to trail Twitchell. But
for the first week every time I saw
him he was wearing an old brown
pair, with a green coat.
Chairman—Did you determine if
the coat was a black market coat?
Inspector—No; there were two oth
er agents on that end of it.
Chairman—Proceed. What hap
pened next?
Inspector—Well, finally, on a Sun
day morning I saw Twitchell walk
ing in the park and he had on the
pants in question. I closed in on
him at once and took him to head
quarters for a grilling.
Chairman—Did he give any trou
ble?
Inspector—On the way down he
tried to take his pants off and throw
them away, thus destroying the evi
dence.
Mr. Twitchell—That’s a lie. I did
not take them off to throw away.
I suddenly founfl I had them on
backwards and was correcting the
error.
Chairman—Do you mean to tell
me a man could go around with his
pants on hindside-front and not no
tice it?
Mr. Twitchell—In these topsy
turvy days it’s easy.
• • •
Chairman (to inspector) — What
kind of a pants card did he have, an
“A,” “B” or “C”?
Inspector—He only was entitled to
an “A” card.
Chairman—An “A” card only per
mits short pants.
Inspector—Twitchell was using a
“B” card at the time.
Chairman—How did he get it?
Inspector—On a claim he needed
supplemental pants.
• » •
Chairman (sternly to Twitchell)—
Why did you need supplemental
trousers? Were they business or
pleasure pants?
Mr. Twitchell—Business. And the
business is tough on pants.
Chairman—What business are you
in?
Mr. Twitchell — I’m a paper-
hanger.
• • •
Chairman—Why don’t you wear
overalls?
Mr. Twitchell—I tried a pair but
I shivered so much I got the wall
paper on all crooked.
Chairman—What caused the shiv
ering?
Mr. Twitchell—They had been
frozen for the duration! .
• • •
THAT SUMMER VACATION
The summer vacation this year, if
any, will be a problem. The shorter
the distance the better, Washington
announces, even by train. To get any
where by automobile you will have
to be the discoverer of a new fuel.
So what it amounts to is the Ra
tioned Vacation.
• • •
There’s a ceiling on beach ro
mances, mountain fun, marshmallow
roasts, moonlight canoeing and ho
tel porch gossip. With everything
frozen except red ants.
• • •
But there will be no kicking. War
is war, and the public will realize
that it is lucky not to have to get a
book of coupons and select its sum
mer outings by the point system.
• • •
Up to the time when you have to
study a point chart to see how deep
a sunburn you are entitled to, or con
sult your ration board to determine
whether it will take red or blue cou
pons to take a swim, all will be well.
• • •
No matter how limited your vaca
tion may be in 1943, just bear in mind
that you don’t have to register for it.
• • •
And remember, too, that while you
are spending your two weeks in a
hammock in your own backyard no
neighbor is getting four weeks at a
swank reshrt through the black mar
ket.
• • •
Mr. Eastman, the transportation
boss, urges the public to do as little
vacationing as possible, and espe
cially to avoid starting or returning
on week ends.
» • •
He will have to do a little extra
harping on this point. The Ameri-
can public has become so accus
tomed to leaving on Saturday that it
has become a habit. Mr. Eastman
should get a few good slogans at
once. Something like:
“Do your patriotic part with a
Thursday start!”
Strawberry Jam . .. It’s the Berries!
(See Recipe Below)
Get in the Jam!
Bright little berries pushing their
noses out of the greenery surround
ing them makes you think of jam
and jelly time, and rightfully so, for
this is the time to start putting up
those berries!
Strawberries are usually the first
to arrive on the canning scene, fol
lowed very short
ly by the other
berries like rasp
berries, cherries,
and then the
fruits. Don’t wait
until the berries
you are canning
are too ripe, for those do not make
the best jams and jellies.
To insure success in jelly making,
use a commercial pectin. There’s no
sugar to waste on jelly that doesn’t
jell, and no time to spend re-cook
ing juices that won’t work for jelly
or jam. The recipes I’m giving
this year are for smaller quantities
of jam and jelly for most of us do
not have too much sugar to spare
on canning.
You’ll like this standard recipe
which can be used for making sev
eral different kinds of jelly:
•Strawberry Jelly
Red Raspberry Jelly
Blackberry Jelly
Boysenberry Jelly
Dewberry Jelly
Loganberry Jelly
Youngberry Jelly
(Makes 11 glasses, 6 fluid ounces
each)
4 cups juice
714 cups sugar
1 bottle fruit pectin
To prepare juice, crush or grind
thoroughly about 3 quarts of fully
ripe berries. Place in jelly bag or
cloth and squeeze out juice. (If ber
ries lack tartness,
substitute Vt cup
lemon juice for
V4 cup prepared
juice.) Measure
sugar and juice
into large sauce
pan and mix.
Bring to a boil
over the hottest
fire and add bottled fruit pectin at
once, stirring constantly. Then bring
to a full rolling boil and boil hard
for % minute. Remove from fire,
skim, pour quickly into glasses and
paraffin at once.
Do you like the new combination
jellies? You may use the above rec
ipe, preparing the required 4 cups
of juice from 3 quarts of berries in
cluding 2 or more of the berries list
ed above.
•Ripe Sour Cherry and Red
Raspberry Jam.
(Makes 8 glasses, 6 fluid
ounces each)
SVa cups prepared fruit
AVa cups sugar
1 box powdered fruit pectin
Lynn Says:
Jelly-Making: Don’t be too am
bitious. You’ll have more suc
cess and be less tired out if you
can only small quantities of fruit
at a time and “do it right.”
Unless you have all your neii.'h-
bors and cousins and fam.ly
helping you on canning, and have'
to tackle the job alone, do not
try to put up bushels of produce.
Have a day for jelly-making
and jam-making just as you set
aside a day for washing and iron
ing. Make it a rule not to have
housecleaning or any other big
job on the same day for you’ll be
loo tired to concentrate as you
should on canning.
Select your jars and examine
them for cracks or imperfections
the day before you do your can
ning. Get them all washed, too,
so sterilizing is the only big job
you have left when actual jelly
making day comes up.
In getting strawberries ready
for canning or jelly, wash them
before hulling. They won’t drink
up as much water that way.
Your Canning Shelf
•Strawberry Jelly
•Ripe Sour Cherry and Red
Raspberry Jam
•Strawberry and Pineapple Jam
•Rhubarb Relish
•Recipes Given
To prepare fruit, pit about 1 pound
of fully ripe cherries. Crush or
grind thoroughly. Crush about 1
quart red raspberries. Combine
fruits.
Measure sugar into dry dish and
set aside until needed. Measure
prepared fruit into a five or six
quart kettle, filling up last cup or
fraction of cup with water, if neces
sary. Place over hottest fire, add
powdered fruit pectin, and continue
stirring until mixture comes to a
hard boil. Pour in sugar at once,
stirring constantly. Continue stir
ring, bring to a full rolling boil and
boil hard X minute.
Remove from fire. Skim, pour
quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once.
Ever tried a rhubarb relish? You
can put this lovely fruit up in this
way:
•Rhnbarb Relish.
(Makes 4 pints)
1 quart diced rhubarb
1 quart onions, finely cut
4 cups brown sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon ginger
Va teaspoon pepper
1 pint vinegar
Combine all ingredients and heat
slowly to boiling. Simmer 45 to 50
minutes or until thick. Turn into
sterile glasses and seal with paraf
fin. Serve with meat.
One of the most delightful of jams
is the one combining our favorites,
strawberries and pineapple.
•Strawberry and Pineapple Jam.
(Makes 10 glasses, 8
ounces each)
2 cups crushed strawberries'
X cups crushed canned or fresh
pineapple
7 cups sugar
W bottle commercial fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, crush complete
ly or grind the berries. Cut fine or
grind the fresh pineapple or use
already canned fruit. Combine
fruits. Measure sugar and fruit into
large kettle, mixing well. Bring to
a full, rolling boil over high heat.
Stir constantly during boiling. Boil
hard 1 minute. Remove from heat
and stir in pectin. Stir and skim
by turns for just 5 minutes to cool
slightly to prevent floating fruit.
Pour quickly and paraffin or seal at
once.
You have often heard it said that
perfect jelly or jam can be ob
tained even with
out the use of a
commercial pec
tin. But, to make
good jelly, the
fruit must con
tain both pectin
and acid in the
right quantity to
jell—be it for jelly or jam. Straw
berries contain acid but usually lack
sufficient pectin. That’s why pectin
of the commercial variety is added
when making jelly or jam, or, as in
this next recipe, lemon juice is add
ed:
Strawberry-Lemon Jam.
4 cups washed, hulled strawberries
5 cups sugar
14 cup lemon juice
Combine sugar and berries, let
ting stand a few minutes, stirring
occasionally. Do not crush fruit.
Bring to a boil and boil 10 minutes,
stirring constantly. Add lemon juice
and cook 2 minutes longer. Pom
into sterilized glasses and seal at
once with paraffin.
Are you having difficultiet planning
meals with points? Stretching your meats?
Lynn Chambers can give you help if you
write her, enclosing a stamped, self-ad
dressed envelope for your reply, in care of
her at Western Newspaper Union, 210
South Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois,
Released by Western Newspaper Fnioa.
CPORT, being a large part of a
^ large section of the human race,
may need a number of changes and
improvements. So does the human
race. But one thing
sport doesn’t need
is a sport co-ordina
tor or any set of
sport co-ordinators
working in or from
Washington.
Sport can take its
share of punishment
—but there is still a
limit.
Sport, left under
its present guidance
Grantland Rice and direction will be
far better off than it
could ever hope to be under govern
ment direction.
Considering the amateur and pro
fessional side, sport still has such
experienced administrators as Judge
Landis, Ford Frick and William Har-
ridge for baseball—Herbert Bayard
Swope for racing—Major Griffiths
of the Western conference and Asa
Bushnell of the Eastern conference
in college athletics—George Blossom
and his USGA committee in golf—
Elmer Layden for pro football—good
men in tennis, bowling and basket
ball—including the AAU.
There is no perfect human being
in this long list. But it should be
remembered that there is no part of
a perfect human being in the world
we know today.
The Main Idea
Sport would be far better off, for
the game itself and everyone con
cerned which includes many, many
millions, if Washington would let
it work out its own destiny with the
war effort, naturally, the predom
inant point.
It those now in charge of various
sports, with their long experience,
can’t handle the problems that wait
ahead, then sport hasn’t * chance.
Many of these have made mis
takes. But those criticizing them
might have made even bigger mis
takes.
This is no world in which to seek
perfection and it is my belief that
most of those directing sport have
turned in a pretty fair job. Not a
masterpiece, just a pretty good job.
It seems to us that the government
in Washington already has its full
share of problems in trying to han
dle the workings of the army, the
navy, the marines, the air force, the
coast guard, the gasoline and rub
ber situation, the food tangle prices,
the tax bill, inflation, the unions, the
coal miners and ten or twenty other
matters, without attempting to pile
on another headache. There have
been various rumors around that
many of these problems have not
yet been settled to the complete sat
isfaction of the nation at large.
There have even been rumors that
many of these important matters
have been somewhat muddled.
It is difficult to understand where
any good could come from the addi
tion of a new snarl.
The Other Side
There are many who believe that
there is a strong organized influence
against competitive sport, and pro
fessional sport in general, on the
side of mass, muscle-making devel
opment, devoted largely to such
matters as calisthenics and non*
competitive training.
It can’t believe 'the country has
moved into any such state of com
plete insanity.
Competitive sport has been one of
the major factors in the develop
ment of this country, and it is more
needed today than it ever was be
fore.
We need this—not against the war
effort—but as a vital part of the war
effort.
It is my belief that most of the
leaders in Washington know this to
be true.
It might be that some ambassador
of sport might heip a trifle in making
his plea at court.
I doubt it. For I believe most of
those in charge at Washington un
derstand the benefits that can come
from a sporting program handled
entirely as a war-effort benefit.
• • •
Philadelphia Story
The true “Philadelphia Story” is
wrapped around the astonishing
Phillies of 1943.
When Bill Cox took over this
habitual inhabitant of the cellar a
short while back and brought in
Bucky Harris to handle the remains,
the general opinion was that it would
take about two years in which to
remove the winding sheet.
But when the Phillies lately played
to over 50,000 spectators in two
games, there was something new to
think about in a baseball way.
The season, which started darkly,
is still young. And yet in this
morbid beginning the Phillies have
already drawn out greater crowds
than 1940, 1941 or 1942 knew in mid
season.
They have a hustling young club
under a smart, hustling leader—the
type of ball club that probably won’t
finish in the first division, but will
no longer be the doormat for the
rest of the league.
The main answer is that the Phil
lies are almost certain to break their
attendance record for many years,
wherever they finish.
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