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A a A THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C Washington, D. C. SIGNIFICANCE OF RUSSIAN BLAST Members of the diplomatic corps who have lived beside Russia and dealt with her diplomats for years point to some significant things about the Pravda report which set the world on its ear about the Brit ish negctiating a separate peace with Nazi Foreign Minister Ribben- trop. In the first place, diplomats point out that, had the report been pub lished in Izvestia, it would have been much more serious. Izvestia is the organ of the Soviet government, and anything appearing therein can be considered the gospel views of the Kremlin itself. However, Pravda, organ of the Communist party, is one step re moved, and anything published in it can be interpreted as close to but not necessarily representing the views of Stalin. Thus, it was Pravda which dropped a ton of editorial bricks on the unsuspecting, well-intentioned bead of Wendell Willkie, hitherto considered Russia’s best friend. That editorial rebuke came after Willkie had discussed the Polish boundary question—in a manner quite sympathetic to Russia. However, the Russians chose to rebuke their best friend as a warn ing to President Roosevelt and Sec retary Hull that they did not want the Polish question discussed at all —not even by their friends. They could not very well come out and rebuke Hull and Roosevelt, so they chose a prominent American, one step removed, figuring Hull and Roosevelt would take the hint. Therefore, remembering that Rus sian diplomatic moves are usually aimed obliquely at something on the other side of the billiard table, here is the diplomatic corps’ explanation of the latest Pravda thrust against the British. For about two years, it has been no secret that the British have hung back regarding a second front in western Europe. It is also no se cret that, right down to the Teheran conference, Churchill pulled for a Balkan front or almost any other front except a western front. • » • PUTTING BRITISH ON SPOT Stalin is a man who never for gets and, even if no friction had occurred at Teheran, he would have continued to be suspicious about British intentions of a second front, in view of the two years of second front debate. And on top of Tehe ran, plus Churchill’s long stay in Africa, Stalin’s suspicions may be boiling again. Therefore, point out the diplomats, what could be more adroit than to put the British squarely on th* spot by subtly accusing them of talking to the Nazis about a separate peace? In other words, after the Pravda article, the British now have to prove they want no separate peace by pushing ahead with the second front. If they delay it, then the Russians can point to the suspicion —no matter how untrue—that per haps the British were talking to Kibbentrop after all — which, of course, they weren’t. The Pravda publication fits in, especially at this time, when there actually have been some hints in official circles that the Russians are doing so well that the Nazis will surrender soon, then we wouldn’t need a second front. It’s complicated, but the Russian mind is complicated, and Russian diplomacy even more so. * • • SOFTENING CASUALTY MESSAGES The war department has received many letters recently from minis ters and private families, suggest ing that, instead of sending casu alty messages by telegram to be reaved families, they be sent to a committee of pastors in each com munity, one of whom would then deliver the message and seek to soften the blow of the tragic news. So far, however, the war depart ment has faken the position that it should continue delivery of the casu alty messages by Western Union messenger boy. Army officials ar gue that delivery by a clergyman would cause confusion and delay, and that a clergyman might not be available at the time, or he might lack proper and immediate transpor tation. Also, the army argues that a casu alty message has a high priority, which means that its transmission is expedited, and this might be 'offset by delay at the receiving end if the message had to pass through the hands of a clergyman. * • t CAPITAL CHAFF C When diplomats run out of liquor, that’s a story. Carlos Campbell of the Chilean embassy burst into the office of Chilean Ambassador Mich els, saying, “Don Rodolfo, please lend me a case of wine for tonight; I’m having a party!” “I can’t do it,” replied the ambassador. “I have no wine myself!” C. In the Library of Congress, back numbers of Escuire are kept in the Delta Collection, a special collection of sex books and other erotica avail able to adults, not to adolescents. IF TACTICS AT HOME WERE COPIED AT THE FRONT Somewhere on the Italian Front.— American troops believed today that they were poised for a smashing attack but were not certain. “Our orders come from a high authority and are off the record,” stated a puzzled major. "We may be attack ing and we may not be.” * (Later—The army is said to be confident it is about to go into battle but can’t be certain. The trouble is said to be due to the fact that no body having the operation in charge wants to permit his name to be used. • Makin.—It is stated on a nigh au thority that American troops are in firm possession here after heroic fighting. Survivors sent up trial bal loons today to find out for certain. * “I wouldn’t care to say a word,” said a battered doughboy. “I think I know what happened but I ain’t anonymous enough to have any standing in print.” • Algiers.—Failure to take definite objectives north of Rome were at tributed today by a person of con siderable prominence in the army to the fact that the units involved were given their orders through an unidentified radio commentator. The units would not accept the orders until they got the newspapers and saw what the war correspondents thought. All the war correspondents could say was that they had been told by a “Mr. X” that a member of the high command in good repute had favored an attack, but not in his official capacity. • An Allied Bomber Base.—Accord ing to sources hitherto regarded as reliable, 300 planes left for an at tack over the continent tonight. An other 200 planes were to have gone along, but wanted the mission con firmed in writing. “Am I in an air attack or not?” demanded an American gunner. “I think I am.” “Washington is thinking along the same line. That’s the best I can give you,” replied a superior. • • • Menace to Peace Found I Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, German minister for Occupied territories in the East, blames it all on American skyscrapers. He calls New York the concentrated giant of chaos, with 50 or 80 story skyscrapers the sym bol of the destruction of the indi vidual. "An old German farm,” he says, "contains more spirit of free dom and creative force than all the skyscrapers of America put togeth er •* Now it’s all clear. The Chrysler Tower and the Empire State build ing started the war. Ah, those farms, so gentle, sweet and humane, with the people envying nobody, scorning violence and seeking no trouble whatever with anyone. Just contrast them with those skyscraper people, armed to the teeth, goose stepping in and out of elevators! • • • Candidates for the Delousing Squad The American who noisily buys war bonds, gives a patriotic talk at a soldiers’ canteen, whoops it up for the all-out war . . . and then takes a suite of rooms at a Florida hotel away from a serviceman and his family by offering ten times the nor- mnl rate. • • • William K. Vanderbilt’s death brought back stories of the Vander bilt Cup races, which he sponsored as a youth, and it was flabbergast ing to see in the papers that the speed of the auto that won the first race was 52 t miles an hour. Or about the pace at which most cars now turn a corner in traffic. • * • Cream From the Drugstore. It seems there is a new racket. Doctors are permitted to issue pre scriptions for cream. You’d be sur prised how many patients are get ting it for everything from a com mon cold to fallen arches. • And we heard of one man who was asked, as he tried to get a pre scription for a few pints of rich cream, “What seems to be wrong with you?” “I seem to tire easily in my at tempts to beat the ration rules,” was the reply. * * • Jet Plane It’s off the globe to circle! . . . All records out to crack . . . Whoosh! . . . Zippo! . . . Whee and Presto! . . . The gol-dinged thing is back! • • • Can You Remember— Away back when the football sea son ended in midwinter? • And when generals never an nounced where they would attack next or how soon they would achieve victory? • When the bartender was joking when he said “Name your poison”? • • • “OPA Runs Out of Resignation Blanks,”—headline. It may be nec essary to ration them. S ECRETARY KNOX of the navy recently advocated a plan for the training and development of our youth along competitive lines, in cluding a year’s compulsory mili tary service for those of 17 or 18 years. This is an essential plan that can’t be overlooked. While military training can’t be started before 17 or 18, we still be lieve that there should be a big advance along the lines of body building and com petitive sports at younger ages, in cluding those 14 and 15 years old, who in too many cases today are overlooked. These young boys deserve a far better pro- Secretary Knox gram through their schools or from their commu nities than they have ever received. “The time to start with these boys,” Hurry-Up Yost once told me after thirty years’ experience, “is in the high schools—not in the col leges. We need boys coming on with stronger legs and stronger bod ies, boys much better physically equipped in the mass.” One thing is sure—there will be a big demand for high-school talent in our colleges next fall, so far as football is concerned. High School Stars “Football will be almost entirely the development of hlgh-school play ers,” Frank Leahy of Notre Dame told me. “I think it would surprise many millions if they know how many kids of 17, just out of school, carried on so brilliantly this last season. Tulsa’s 147-pound Ford was just one of them. They were at In diana, Ohio State, Pittsburgh—all over our football map—tearing into veterans who outweighed them 20 or 30 pounds—and holding their own. Passers, runners, kickers, blockers —all steaming with spirit. And just out of high school. “These are the kids we must de pend on next season for our college football. And we’ll all get our share. It may not be the greatest football season ever known, but it will be full of fire and action and excite ment, played by boys on their way to war.” Frank Leahy might have men tioned a kid named Kelly on his own squad, a 17-year-old Chicago high- school entry who was one of the best backs of the year. He might have mentioned Glenn Davis of West Point who came to the Army with only high-school ex perience — or Bill Paschal from Georgia Tech, the best running back of the pro year with the New York Giants—five minutes freshman ex perience. There is one weakness in this set up. This is the pressure that is sure to be put upon high-school tal ent, the 17-year-old entries, all over the United States. I have already watched the beginning of this opera tion get its start. As a guess I’d say the best school football state in the country is Tex as. They are thicker than quail in that state. The next entry is Ohio. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Cali fornia are close up. New England isn’t so bad, either. In fact New England has given the game more than her share of high- school stars. What about the South? They are more scattered down around cotton- land. Too many southern schools lack the coaching and the money that other sections have. The ma terial is there, but a lot of it is still in the raw. Ask southern college coaches. The same is true in New York city, where the high-school kids get only half a chance. Don’t ever be lieve these New York kids couldn’t hold their own if they ever had an equal break. The idea is to get back of high- school or school football and give it a much bigger play and a much bet ter chance than it has known so far. As the Army doesn’t seem to be interested, this is another spot where Navy Secretary Frank Knox can do a world of good. • • • How It Looks for Baseball On a recent trip through the South and Southeast, one of the first queries offered was this— “What will happen to pro baseball in 1944?” There was only one answer to this: “It all depends on the progress of the war and the size of the casualty list.” The coming invasion of Hitler’s Europe will supply most of the sto ry. A German collapse would make a terrific difference, more to the lives of our fighters, but also in a minor way to all sport. But Ger many hasn’t collapsed yet. Admitting that all professional sport is a pin point in importance against the needs of war, only a German collapse at the rim of spring would help baseball. By April or early May there will be too many taken if the war is still setting the «ame furious pace. And none of these could be turned back in time. Cupid’s Share Hold on to your heart! Here comes Cupid ready to do tricks to your heart on Valentine’s Day! It’s time for a party with cute Dan Cupid reigning on a mighty throne. February’s a short, short month but with plenty of opportunity for party-giving. You can have a Lin coln’s or Wash ington’s Birthday party, or you can be extra gay and colorful with a Valentine’s par ty. These should be extra popular this year with the pepped - up pace of romance. If anyone in your crowd is about ready for a shower or wed ding you might take the cue from Valentine’s day and make Cupid’s decorations your theme. Pink-and-white or red-and-white are the gay color schemes and you can carry these out in both food and decorations. A simple but dramatic table picture is seen in the picture in today’s column. Three large, red valentine boxes are set on their side in a row to form the main interest for the table. If you want to enlarge on this, get other pink-and-white or red-and-white decorations such as nosegays of roses and tie with a swirl of ribbon. If you would rather carry this out in flowers, get a nice centerpiece of red-and-white flowers. But have a heart, somewhere along the way. If you have a valentine mold make a valentine cake or jelly mold and work out an arrow with a pastry tube or, if the cake is iced you might even put on an arrow made out of red paper. Here is a luscious salad that takes it easy on rationed foods: *Molded Raw Cranberry Salad. (Serves 6 to 8) 2 cups raw cranberries, ground 1 envelope orange gelatine 1 cup chopped celery cup chopped nuts 1 cup granulated sugar 2 cups water Juice of 1 lemon Pour % cup water in a bowl. Add gelatine to water. Add 1% cups water and sugar and stir until dis solved. Add lem on juice. Set aside to cool. Grind raw cran berries, chop nuts and celery fine. Add these ingre dients to gelatine. Place salad in Lynn Says Play Games, Too! Nothing’s nicer than having fortunes told at a Valentine party. If you can’t afford a professional, have someone dressed as a gypsy, arm her with a heavy glass crystal and booth, and let her go to town. Letter games are fine for start ing off a party. Give each guest a letter to tie around his neck as he enters, and as others appear, let each one dash around to oth ers to make up words. When words are formed, guests appear in front of a person who takes down their names. Prize goes to person appearing in most words. Novel idea for a scavenger hunt which needn’t take you outdoors. Select about 10 guests and make them have something unusual. For example, have a man with two unmatched socks, a girl with two different colored hair bows, someone whe wears his watch on the left arm, a girl with two dif ferent colored earrings, etc. Ev eryone is provided with a list of above so he knows what to look for. As he finds the person, he writes down the name. The one finished first gets the prize. Save Used Fats Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Valentine Party Menu '*Molded Raw Cranberry Salad *Heart-Shaped Chicken Sandwiches Beverage Strawberry-Rhubarb Tarts - ’Recipes Given one large or several individual molds and let jell until firm. Serve with Iqttuce or greens. These clever ham roll-ups add a colorful and festive note to your menu. They’re simple to make if you just follow directions: Ham Roll-Ups. (Makes 4 Roll-ups) 2 tablespoons fat 2V4 tablespoons flour 14 teaspoon salt Pepper 1 cup milk 14 cup grated American cheese 4 slices leftover boiled or baked ham, sliced thin 8 asparagus tips Blend fat, flour and seasonings. Gradually add the milk. Stir until thick and smooth. Add cheese and stir until it has melted. Cut ham in thin slices 4x6 inches. Roll two asparagus tips in each slice. Se cure with toothpick, place in a shal low pan and surround with cheese sauce. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 15 minutes. Insert sprigs of parsley at end of each ham roll. Serve at once. Get out your heart-shaped cutter if you want to make sandwiches. For a simple children’s supper party or for val entine refresh ments for grown ups, serve heart shaped sand wiches filled with chicken salad and garnish the plat ter with buttered beets cut in heart shapes. Strawberry and vanilla ice cream with little sugar cookies—a tiny motto candy heart placed in the center of each cookie—is effec tive. This chicken sandwich spread may be prepared the day before it is used to fit in the day’s schedule ; ’Chicken Sandwich Spread. 4 cups finely minced ehicken 1 can pimientos, finely minced 14 cup pickle relish 14 cup grated onion, if desired Salt and pepper to taste Mayonnaise to moisten Thoroughly mix all ingredients and store in refrigerator until ready to use. Cherries can make food decora tive for any Valentine party wheth er they are used in cake or pie: Champion Cherry Pie. Crust: 114 cups bread flour 10 tablespoons lard 1 teaspoon salt 5 to 6 tablespoons ice water Sift flour and salt together, add lard and blend. Add ice water grad ually and cool. Filling: 214 cups pitted sour cherries, drained 14 cup cherry juice 214 tablespoons fine tapioca 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon butter Soak tapioca, sugar and salt in cherry juice and let stand while pas try is being made. Then mix well with cherries, add butter and put in pie tin. Bake pie for 10 minutes at 450 degrees then reduce tem perature to moderate or 350 degrees and bake for 20 minutes. Turn off oven and let stand at oven tem perature for 20 minutes before re moving from oven. If you want sugar-saving suggestions, write to Lynn Chambers, Western News paper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chicago 6, Illinois. Don’t forget to enclose, a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. 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