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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Thm HOME TOWN REPORTER in Washington By VALTER A. SHEAD WNU Staff CorrwpotuUtU THE TRIAL OF HERMANN Pasture Practices GOERING Increase Returns Those Absentee Lawmakers WNU Washington Bureau €21 Union Trust Building JF YOU had been with me on a recent visit at the Capitol build ing, you would have noted several significant circumstances which would have given you cause to won der. As a matter of fact this particular day was a routine day at the capi- tol. Most legislative days are routine, nothing spectacular but when visitors from over the na tion become dis turbed over an un spectacular day in the national legisla tive halls, folks out in the country and the small towns of this land of ours may well shake a speculative head. On this day you would have watched from the galleries in the house of representatives as the members voted themselves a $2,500- a-year-tax-free salary increase un der the guise of an expense allow ance. Over on the senate side of the beautifnl old building, you would have noted tier upon tier of emp ty seats and watched a half- dozen members of ‘‘the most august body in the world” fiddle around for more than an hour attempting to get a quorum of its membership into their seats so business could go on. And if you had stepped with me into a senate subcommittee hearing you would have blushed with shame at the spectacle. For there you would have watched a witness be fore this subcommittee heckled, taunted and derided . . . assailed with sarcasm, his motives impugned, bullied, even as a trial lawyer seeks to confuse and hifuddle a defend ant in a court of law. You would have wondered, "with what crime is this man charged?” . . . “can things like this happen here in the capital of the world’s greatest de mocracy?” For that witness was not there of his own accord ... he was subpenaed ... he was a busi ness man from a small town and he came to his capital at the instance of the senate subcommittee to give of his knowledge of the matter. Not all senate or house commit tees are like that, of course. But many are, even though they are sup posed to be fact-finding hearings pertaining to some measure up for consideration ... to ratification of some presidential nomination. Many committee hearings, say a full-press hearing of the senate agricultural committee, are conducted in a dig nified atmosphere of democracy. Then you would havfe remembered that the government is doing every thing in its power to “hold-the-line” against inflation and to prevent wage increases and higher prices for all our citizens and yet these congress men, our lawmakers, voted to in crease their own pay, tax free. And you would have heard one congress man say that his taxes and ex penses took all but $3,000 of his salary . . . and another one say that “we voted those taxes ourselves, didn’t we, and we oughtn’t be grant ing ourselves any allowance or spe cial privilege to take care of our taxes.” And you would have left the house chamber with wonderment on your face at this example. And in the senate your expecta tions were dashed, too. All those empty seats. You expected some thing different here, but you were disheartened as the monotonous roll call went on and only a few an swered and finally as time passed ... 53 senators afiswered roll call, 4 more than the legal quorum of the 96 members. Of course some senators are necessarily absent for committee hearings and other legiti mate reasons, but the majority are in the cloak rooms, their offices, or elsewhere. Some come running when the signal bells announce lack of a quorum, and remain long enough to vote, then dash out again. Others pay little attention to the signals ex cept upon repeated rings. This sig nal system is so arranged that upon pressing a button, the bells ring in the corridors and cloak rooms, com mittee rooms, the senate dining room and in each senator’s office in the senate office building a long block away. They could be in their seats with in a few minutes if they answered the bells promptly but day-in and day-out hours are wasted merely getting enough senators in their seats to do business. Some newspaper men have figured out that time wasted in the senate alone in obtaining a quorum in one I year, at the senate rate of pay, would almost pay the salary of two sena tors. These are routine and unspec tacular things you admit, the vot ing of salary increases totaling $1,640,000 annually in the house un der present-day circumstances, the lolling attitude of the senate and the undemocratic procedure in the sub committee hearings, but still, you wonder if they are not misuses oi power . . . unrepresentative of their constituents. Q.—You are charged with being instigator and full supporter of near ly every foul ^rime committed against civilization in the European war. A.—(In surprise)—Who? Me? Q.—You are further charged with being the righthand man to Adolf Hitler, with concurring in all his de cisions and with directing the ruth less use of airplanes against de fenseless peoples and communities. A.—It must be some mistake, gen tlemen. I am a good-natured man, a good fellow and at heart merely a costume jewelry collector. Q.—Name one instance in which you opposed Nazi ruthlessness. A.—Well, I was once so outraged by the blitzing of civilians that I had to quit my banquet table after the twelfth course. And I remem ber an occasion when my sensibili ties we?e so disturbed by a de portation of Frenchmen as slaves that in dressing I forgot nine of my twenty-two medals. Q.—Do you deny guilt for Coven- ' try, Plymouth, Rotterdam, Warsaw j and the horrors of London? A.—I was against such acts. Q.—What did you do to stop them? ' A.—I spoke very sharply to Hitler, j but you know what a low-lived, bru- ! tal, unspeakable, vile fellow that monster was. Q.—You hold Hitler alone respon sible? A.—That filthy, merciless skunk was to blame for everything. Q.—Do you think Hitler’s dead? A.—If I didn’t do you think I would talk about him like this!!!! * Q.—You were associated with Der Fuehrer from his earliest days; you were in on every project; you heard and approved every proposal to de stroy Europe, did you not? A.—I may have been present, but I desire to announce that I never heard well. I am quite deaf. Q.—This is the first time anybody has ever heard that alibi from you. How do you explain it? A.—This is the first time it seemed necessary to use it. —*— Q.—High in the councils of the Nazis at all times, you approved the book burnings, the persecution of Jews, the pogroms, slave labor op erations and blitzes, did you not? A.—Nein! They broke my heart. The thought of each act of that na ture outraged me. Q.—Name one instance of your op position. A.—I protested a thousand times to Hitler by telephone. Q.—How many times was the wire busy? A.—A thousand times! • Q.—What did you ever do in any way to stop the atrocious treatment of war prisoners? A.—I remember distinctly once cancelling a wild boar hunt, for getting where I had put three stolen masterpieces and putting the pants of uniform B-345 on wrongside out. Q.—Do you sit there and deny you were as guilty as Hitler and the rest of his henchmen in every foul out rage against human decency? A.—How can you gentlemen look at me and even suspect such a thing? The Entire Tribunal—LOOKING AT YOU MAKES IT EASIER! • • • Quisling complained that the cell into which he was put was of a common sort and kicked because a bag containing chocolate and cognac was taken away from him. That jusf. gives you an idea. • • • Peter Widener has named a race horse after “Happy” Chan dler, the new czar of baseball. That’s what we call pretty em barrassing. But Mr. Chandler can always retaliate by naming a shortstop after a horse. German hopes appear to have been knocked higher than a Keitel. • » • It struck us that it was somewhat of a boost for democracy that the surrender of Germany was signed for our side by an American named Smith. Walter Smith. And the name sounds pretty good up against all the German Vons-This-and-Vons- Thats. • • • If Hitler were not dead, the sight of the Stars and Stripes flying over Berchtesgaden would kill him. • • • After the war in Europe and Ja pan there is still a job to do. This country still has the job of making peace with John L. Lewis. • • • THE GOOD OLD DAYS Clarence Smedley Thompson, who died the other day at his Irving Place home in New York, was our first boss. He gave us our first job as a cub reporter back home— and beyond that gave us the benefit of his patient training, sage advice and warm friendship. We still treasure a faded note which gave us a never-to-be-forgotten thrilL It said that “without solicitation on your part I am glad to increase your pay from S3 a week to SS, effective this week.” Three a week was the starting wage in those days and it seemed a lot of money. Five dollars was something that made one feel in the upper brackets. Experiments Show Value to Farmers R ESEEDING of pastures, applica tion of fertilizer and weed con trol are three better farming prac tices which may be expected to have a favorable effect on milk pro duction and feed values, according to the War Food administration. Experiments carried on by USDA scientists during the last three years offer proof that increased Pastures Are Essential. grazing returns result from seeding pastures to proper mixtures, giving them appropriate fertilizer treat ment and keeping weeds down by orderly mowing. They pay off, says WFA, in an increased milk and but- terfat yield, indicating that cared- for pasture has a dollars and cents value just as does any cash crop such as cotton, corn or tobacco. It is pointed out that when re turns in milk production per acre can be increased as much as $95 by reseeding pastures to suitable mix tures and applying fertilizers, more dairymen should be making use of such practices. At Lewisburg, Tenn., 12 pasture plots containing more than two acres each were seeded to various combinations of grasses and clovers, including lespedeza, white clover, hop clover, crimson clover, orchard grass and ladino clover. In most plots, the seeding was done on a pre pared seedbed but in some plots it was sown on bluegrass sod. Manure and commercial fertilizer were used in various combinations. A plot that had been limed and fertilized was seeded to a mix ture of orchard grass and ladino clover. It produced grazing at the rate of 166 cow-days per acre, with a production of 5,996 pounds of milk per acre, containing 244 pounds of butterfat, and valued at $171. Grain was consumed at the rate of 964 pounds per acre. After $24 was deducted for the cost of the grain, and $5 for the cost of mowing weeds and the fertilizer used, the net value of the milk was $142 per acre, the highest return for any of the plots. The next highest return was furnished by a plot seeded to or chard grass and white clover, which also received lime and manure. The return above feed and management costs was $130 per acre. Bark Beetle Damage Bark beetles cause greater yearly damage to certain types of forests than do forest fires. At present, a bark beetle outbreak is devastating the spruce forests of the Central Rocky mountain region. More than 250 million board feet of high value spruce timber has been killed dur ing the past two years. This means that bark beetles have destroyed in this region alone enough wood to build more than 2,000 homes of aver age size. T»t M'l DOII + -R. \80%0F eWtYMnX DKTm- urn's oouAUGOMOFAWiai Ipp W l Walter Shead Fresh Fruits, Berries, Sugar—Easy Pies Satisfy Appetites Easy Dessert: You need go no further than a bowlful of luscious, rosy-pink strawberries, plain or sug ared with cream for a perfect sum mery dessert. Desserts are nutritious but they are served mainly for morale. Fruits, sparkling with their glori ous colors, give a fitting close to a heavy meal. On the other hand, heavier desserts give a rich flavor to an otherwise simple meal. Desserts take care of the sweet tooth, that craving for something ut terly delicious. No longer do they require only sugar. Substitutes have been developed that give pies, cakes and puddings all the goodness of former times but do not dip into the sugar canister with a big scoop. Desserts can give you part of the important protein requirement for the day if they’re made with cereals. Add fruits to cereal and you have a nourishing as well as appetite-appealing dish. Apricot Torte. 94 cup melted shortening 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup sifted flour 1 teaspoon soda 94 teaspoon salt 2 cups quick-cooking oats Sift flour, measure, then sift again with soda and salt. Add sugar and oats. Mix in melted shortening and blend well. Press half of the mix ture into a shallow pan. Make a filling by mixing 294 cups of cooked, slightly sweetened apricots with V* cup of the fruit juice and flavoring with 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Pour this mixture over the oatmeal mix ture and top with remaining oatmeal mix. Bake for 35 minutes in a mod erate (350-degree) oven. Cool and cut into squares and serve with cream or lemon sauce. *Frozen Strawberry Omelet. (Serves 6) 1 pint strawberries, hulled and washed 1 tablespoon sugar 2 eggs separated 6 tablespoons powdered sugar Mash strawberries and granulat- ed sugar. Let stand to draw off juice. Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon col ored, and egg whites until stiff. Drain juice from berries and add berries to egg yolks. Fold powdered sugar into egg whites and combine the 2 mix tures. Add about 4 tablespoons of the berry juice. Pile lightly in the tray and freeze. Date-Nut Pudding. (Serves 6 to 8) 2 eggs 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 94 teaspoon salt 94 cup sugar 1 cup dates, chopped 1 cup nuts, chopped 94 teaspoon vanilla Beat eggs until very light. Com bine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Add to beaten eggs, dates, nuts and vanilla. Stir until well blended. Spread evenly on a well- greased paperlined pan (square). Lynn Says: Thrifty Tricks: Cream leftover vegetables and serve them piping hot over split, buttered biscuits. Stretch out the strawberries by adding a bit of rhubarb when you make them into a sauce. The color will be rosy-red, the flavor delicious served over cottage pudding, plain cake or dump lings. If you are low on fruits for coffee cake fillings use last win ter’s jams, jellies or marma lades. For a quick coffee cake batter, butter the pan, line with orange marmalade and pour bat ter over it. Cook potatoes with their skins on whenever possible to save val uable iron. Experiments show that potatoes lose about 10 per cent of their iron in the cooking water. Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving Menus Fried Sausage Cakes with Corn Jellied Cabbage Slaw Biscuits with Honey or Jam •Strawberry Omelet Beverage •Recipe Given Bake in a slow (325-degree) oven 40 to 50 minutes until well browned. Serve warm with top milk or whipped cream. Two favorite, novel pies come in for their share of honors as desserts. Notice the use of just the single crust to save fats: Chocolate Chip Pie. (Makes 1 9-inch pie) 1 baked pie shell 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatine 94 cup cold water 194 cups milk 3 *KK yolks 94 cup sugar 94 teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon nutmeg 94 teaspoon vanilla 3 egg whites 3 tablespoons sugar Soak gelatin in cold water. Scald milk. Add slowly to beaten egg yolks. Add the 94 cup sugar, salt and nutmeg. Cook in a double boil er over hot water, stirring constant ly until mixture coats a spoon. Add soaked gelatin and vanilla. Chill until slightly thickened. Beat egg whites until stiff, then add 3 remain ing tablespoons of sugar. Fold into gelatin mixture. Pour into baked pie shell. The top may be piled high with whipped cream and sprin kled with semi-sweet chocolate, grated, or just topped with the choc olate. Note: 94 cup of strong coffee may be substituted for 94 cup milk, if so desired. Moderately Easy Dessert: Top simple cupcakes with fruit or ber ries and serve with plain cream or I whipped as a finishing touch to a light meal. Pecan Pie. (Makes 1 8-inch pie) 94 cup butter or substitute 94 eup sugar 1 cup light corn syrup 3 eggs 1 eup shelled pecans 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream the butter, add the sugar, syrup and beaten eggs. Mix well and add pecans, is-cU vanilla. Pour into an unbaked pie \ shell and bake for 45 minutes in a L'ji' moderate oven. jT—These cookies eCrffo are dark, spicy and sweet. The combination of sugar and molasses will help save the sugar stamp: 94 cup shortening 94 cup sugar 1 egg 94 cup molasses 94 teaspoon baking soda 94 teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon allspice 94 teaspoon cloves 94 teaspoon mace 94 teaspoon cinnamon 94 teaspoon ginger 294 cups sifted flour Cream shortening and sugar, the beat in egg. Mix soda with me lasses until the latter foams and add. Sift salt, spices and 294 cups flour together and add to first mix- ; ture. Force through cookie press or j drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in a hot (275 to 400-degree) oven. “Brown and Whites” are the an swer for a sugar-easy confection, j These are attractive and better- than-good tasting sweets and yet they don’t use a speck of your lim ited sugar supply. Older people ara extraordinarily fond of this confec tion because it isn’t too sweet. Brown and Whites. 24 cooked prunes 6 marshmallows 2 (1-ounce) squares dipping choco late Pit prunes, lay open and place on waxed paper. Cut marshmal lows into strips, about four to each. Melt chocolate; dip strips of marsh mallow, one at a time, into choco late to half cover, then place in center of prune. FJetensed Western Newspaper Union 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 June 3 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by Interns tional Council ot Religious Education; used by permission. BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS LESSON TEXT—Malachl 3:1-3. 16, 17; Lauke 1:68, 2. 77 . 78: Galatians 4:4. S. GOLDEN TEXT—1 am the way. the truth, and the life.—John 14:6. Four hundred silent years—such is the period between the Old and the New Testaments. There was no voice from God during those years, and spiritual darkness prevailed largely in the land. But there were those who kept their lamp of faith in God brightly shining even in the darkness. The political history of Israel dur ing this time is partially known from secular sources. Palestine was successively under the rule of the Gentile powers until at the time of Jesus’ birth they were under Roman domination. Spiritually that age may well be described by the words used in II Timothy 3:5, “having the form of godliness but denying the power thereof,” referring to the last days. There is much here that fits our day’s decadent churchliness. I. Looking for the Lord (Mai. 3: 1-3). Although they had reached the state of spiritual pride and self-suf ficiency where they talked back to God (see the “whereins” of 1:6, 7; 2:14, 17, etc.) Israel still talked about looking for the Lord to come. They knew from their prophets that He would one day come to judge their enemies, and they longed for that day; but they failed to see that it would be a day of judgment for them (vv. 2, 3). How much like those of our day who like to talk about the love of God, His mercy and His long-suf fering, but who minimize or forget that He hates sin and demands holi ness of life from His people. The forerunner of Christ, John the Baptist, is in mind in verse 1, but the “messenger of the covenant” is doubtless the “angel of Jehovah,” one of the Old Testament names for our Lord Jesus (see John 8:56). Christ is coming! Such is *he message to Israel, and He will come as a refiner’s fire. Christ has come! That is our message to men now, and He has come as a divider of men, a cleanser and refiner of hearts, that we, too, may be ready for that day of judgment which is to come when He appears again in all His glory. II. Living for the Lord (Mai. 3:16, 17). When others forgot or misrepre sented the Lord, when they were content with a formal worship with out the power of godly living, there were a faithful group who “spake one to another” about the Lord. How exceedingly precious! Notice that the Lord “hearkened and heard.” He knows when His people so much as talk to one an other about Him, and He notes it in His book of remembrance. When men are forgetting Him, He is remembering those who are true to Him. They are His precious jewels! How vitally important Christian fellowship is in a dark and troubled day. Do not miss the joy and strength which will come into your life as you join others in God’s house to speak of Him and to think “on His name.” He may be all we have (that was true in Israel), but He is always and eternally enough. III. Light from the Lord (Luke 1:68, 72, 77, 78). me silence of the 400 years was broken, and the spiritual darkness which beclouded the land was pushed back. God, who had in the past spoken through the prophets, now spoke through the coming of His Son (Heb. 1:1-3). Being the Light of the world (John 8:12; 9:5, He shone forth with the “brightness of His glory.” Little wonder that godly Zachari es, the father of the forerunner John, sings, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people” (v. 68). He of whom all the prophets give witness, to whom every one of the sacrifices pointed forward, the Saviour and Redeemer, has come to show forth God’s mercy and to give, not only to Israel, but to all men, “the knowledge of salvation” and the remission of their sins. The “dayspring” is at hand; a Light, has shined forth into the darkness of men’s hearts. Jesus the Christ, the Saviour, has come! IV. Liberty in the Lord (Gal. 4: 4, 5). Men who had been servants under the law became. s<jns of God in Jesus Christ. Redemption sets a person free from the bondage of the law and brings him into the family of God as His child (Rom. 8:14-17). How does one become a child of God? By accepting God’s only way of cleansing from sin (Heb. 9:11- 14, 22)—the shed blood of Christ. Believing in Him and making con fession of Him before ihe world (Rom. 10:9, 10), we are saved and have the right to caU ourselves the sons of God (John 1:12, 13). That blessed liberty’ In Chriat Is for you who read these line*. If you will but turn to Ohri*t nowl Will you do it? It’s Easy to Paint Or Stencil Roses IF YOU would like to add real * charm to any room try your hand at painting roses. With a guide for either stenciling or trac ing, they are as easy to do as any' other flower—just fill in the pet als with lovely rose tones and the leaves with soft greens, add any flourishes or shading that may ap peal to you, and there you are. 1 • * * I The room shown here should give you a start toward your own rosy future. | Graceful rose patterns are painted around the window frame and on the window shade, on the old rocker, the foot stool, the chest of drawers, the lamp base and shade and a tin tray. With this one flower theme an assortment of odds and ends may be brought into harmony. • • • NOTE—Pattern 260 gives seven different rose designs—large and small, borders, sprays and single flowers for every pur pose. For stencils or tracing. May be ' used over and over. Complete directions and color guide included. To get Pattern , 260, send 15 cents with name and address I direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Kills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 260. 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