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Meanwhile Secretary of State Acheson and Secretary of De fense Johnson are engaged in a tug of war regarding our Chinese policy, with President Truman stamping his foot on the sidelines and demanding definite action, one way or the other. Actually, a firm and definite pol icy regarding that heterogeneous mass of 400 million Chinese people speaking 23 different dialects is enything but easy. But there is one policy which the United States has never tried—namely, the tact ics used by the Chinese against us. This is the age-old policy of pas sive resistance coupled with the boycott; and probably it is the only policy which will work either in China or against China. Reversing Weapons It sounds so simple that sophisti cated diplomats probably won’t -consider it. But it has been used scores of times by the Chinese against the western world, and it will work just as effectively if the western world uses it against the Chinese communists. This weapon merely consists of cutting off all trade, all communi cations, all contact with the Chin ese and letting them stew in their •own juice. In one respect, this would be cruel retaliation. For thousands of Chinese would starve; there would be unemployment, fioting and up heaval in Chinese cities. But it is the only way by * which the Chinese Communist government can be taught that it cannot seize our consuls, im prison our aviators and treat us as the Japs once treated Formosans. Furthermore it is the only way we can prevent the southward rush of communism to the Philippines, to French Indo-China, Burma, the Dutch East Indies and India. Today, old-fashioned demonstra tions by a few extra warships in Chinese waters won’t mean more than a flea-bite to the vast and stirring continent of Asia. Nor can we invade any part of China with an army. On the other hand, it will take novel and world-shaking ac tion to halt the southward rush of communism, and the use of China’s own tactics in the form of a boy 5 cott-blockade is about the only thing that could do it. Otherwise most of Asia will gradually go under Moscow’s wing. Boycotting West This writer was in China when such a boycott was applied to the western world in 1925. Chinese stu dents had been killed by British marines, and in retaliation the for eign colony of Shameen at Canton was boycotted by the Chinese. As a result, grass grew in the streets. All food had to be imported. Not a servant remained on the island. Every morning you saw the American consul sweeping his own office and the Italian consul haul ing ice on a child’s express wagon. In the evening, the French consul mixed the salad, the British consul cooked the meat and the Italian consul fixed the dessert at a com munity dinner. If the Chinese had been smart enough to tighten this anti - western boycott around other cities instead of chiefly Canton, all foreigners would have been ousted. But, as us ual, Chinese factions rowed be tween themselves, and the western powers practiced the old policy of divide and rule. Today the reverse is true. The Chinese are now united. FDR Considered Boycott Nearest approach to a western large-scale use of the boycott came in 1936 when Adm. William Leahy, then chief of naval operations, pro posed to .President Roosevelt that the American and British fleets blockade Japanese waters and cut off all supplies of oil, cotton, copper and scrap iron. To put it across, FDR invited the nine-power pact nations which had guaranteed the sovereignty of China to meet at Brussels in Octo ber 1936. MIRROR Of Your MIND I ^ ^ How Important Are Souvenirs? By Lawrence Gould — SCRIPTURE: Acts 8:4—11:18. DEVOTIONAL READING: Romani 3:21-30. Is cherishing “souvenirs” neurotic? Answer: That depends on how important they are to you. We all hate to see happy moments pass, and cling to anything that we think will preserve them, though we usually end by finding that our “souvenirs” are soon forgotten and are thought of only when we “run across them” when we’re going through a bureau drawer or closet. The more they mean to us, the more nearly cherishing them is to being neurotic, since a healthy-minded person seeks his satisfaction in what he can do next, not in memories of past pleasures. Can you love someone you disapprove of? Answer: Certainly, provided that your disapproval is at bottom a defense against your own uncon scious feelings. A person who “stands for everything that you dislike” may have a special appeal for you if the “dislike” represents an attitude which you have as sumed because conscience re quires it of you, not because you really have it. But to marry under such conditions is a risky business because if you cannot give up your “dislike,” you may end by proving its “sincerity” by turning it against the person you “thought you loved.” Is “greediness” the main cause of overeating? Answer: As a rule, not if what you mean is simple devotion to the pleasures of the table—or the ice box. A few gourmets may be oVer-stuffed, but the average, per son who eats too much hardly seems to know what he is eating. Possibly our earliest “association” is that of a full stomach with se curity—with the sense of mother’s nearness and protection. And it’s the unconscious effort to regain that feeling which is most likely to make you eat when you’re not really hungry. Too much food won’t even “tempt” a secure per son. LOOKING AT RELIGION By DON MOORE A WAZrHENAMB OFANBARLY AMERICAN FEUGIOUZSBCT. -THEY HAD NO SABBATH BECAUSE EVERY DAY . WAS PERFECT. Over 1,350 church bells,still hidden IN GERMANY WILL SOON BE RESTORED TO THEIR BELFRIES... At$&L XMAf cmKTMAf 7 TH/S IS AN ANCIENT CUSTOM FROM THE DAYS WHEN THE MENTION OF CHRIST WAS ENOUGH TO CAUSE TROUBLE. THE'*' WAS A CODE USED BY CHRISTIANS.. . Unto All Men Lesson for January 29, 1950 ##JY|ARK TIME, Christian Sol diers,” is not a Qhristian hymn. The word is “Onward, Chris tian Soldiers!” The command was given by no less a person than Jesus himself: “Go and make dis ciples of all nations, baptizing them . . . teaching them . . .” (Matt. 28:19, 20) Do you know some one in the church who says h e doesn’t bejieve i n mis sions? Such a man does not take Christ seriously. If you do believe in _ _ Christ then his Dr. Foreman commands are for you to obey, not to ignore. When Men Delay U P TO NOW, the church has been playing around with Jesus’ command. Very few denominations are actually putting "any large amount of money or manpower into obeying Christ! s command to go into all the world. One fairly typical American de nomination contributed last year to all benevolences, that is to all causes not in their own local cor gregations, the sum of $9,137,065. That sounds like a lot; but divided by the total number of members it boils down to $14.03 per member for the year, or less than five cents a day. And pf course not all that big sum of five cents went to missions of any sort. Yet that denomination gives more per capita to missions than most others do. When a man who gives less than five cents a day to carry the good news of Christ into the wide world sings “Onward, Christian Sol diers!” or prays “Thy King dom come!” how much does he mean it? Not a nickel's worth! Or take the question of man power. This same denomination sends out as missionaries, every year, as many men and women as are sent by some denominations three times its size. And yet, even so, the total number of ordained ministers in that denomination who are foreign missionaries is only 4 per cent of their total num ber of ministers. “Go into alj the world,” said the Master. “Four per cent of us will,” we reply, “the rest of us will stay at home.” KEEPING HEALTHY Method of Preventing Tooth Decay By Dr. James W. Barton F OR MANY YEARS physicians have been seeking ways of pre venting ill health, which, from the selfish standpoint, is really cutting down on their yearly income. For many years also, dentists have been seeking ways of preventing decay of teeth, which really pro vides their largest source of in come. The latest discovery in prevent ing tooth decay is the application of sodium fluoride to the teeth. Various communities have been able to show over the years that applying sodium fluoride in a cer tain strength reduces tooth decay by 40 per cent. As long ago as 1947, the council on dental therapeutics, American Dental association, stated that “the evidence is convincing that fluoride solutions properly applied to the teeth are capable, to some extent of reducing tooth decay in chil dren.” Following this the dental section of the American Public Health as sociation unanimously endorsed the proposal that community pro grams for making this preventive available to children be organized as soon as possible. And finally the council on dental health of the American Dental as sociation published a recommenda tion that topical fluoride treatment be used routinely in private offices and in school and community health progranrs. I am giving all the above authori tative information about this sim ple method of preventing tooth de cay, so that parents, teachers and the public generally can do their part in organizing or at least help ing to arouse interest in this effort to preserve the teeth of children. ' The application of fluoride to the outside portions of each tooth takes about 15 minutes, states Dr. John W. Knutson, Washington, D. C., in “The Journal of the American Den tal Association.” We should all do our share in getting behind the community drive to make this simple, inex pensive method of preventing tooth decay available to all children. When Men Obey K S A MATTER OF FACT, even the earliest church was slow to pay real attention to Christ’s command. Forward! Men are strange creatures. And one of the strange things about us is that we often have to be scared into doing our duty. It took the persecution set off by the death of Stephen to move the Christians in Jerusalem out along the roads south, north, east, any where to get away from the city of death. Everywhere they went, they told the story ol Jesus. But at first it was all rather breathless and informal. “Why are you here?” one of these DP’s would be asked, as he was passing through Samaria or Antioch or Alexandria, per haps in the bread-line, perhaps looking for a place to work and settle down. “I’m a refugee from Jerusalem,” he would say. “But why?” “Well, I’m a Christian.” “What’s that?” So the story would be told all over again, the good news about God’s grace in Christ. So the church spread. Today, though an enormous part of the world’s pop ulation is still unwon, there are Christians in so many lands that the Bible—all or parts of it—has had to be translated into more than one thousand different languages and dialects. When children’s specialists taught mothers how to feed their children properly, summer diarrhoea al most disappeared. It was prevent ing deaths by proper feeding that is still considered the first and per haps greatest forward step in lengthening the life span of men and women. • • • Overweight la really an ailment The first and outstanding symptom of lack of vitamins in the system is tiredness yet inability to sleep, lack of appetite, cramps in arms and legs, red tongue, ulcers of the mouth and at corners of the mouth, and diarrhoea from irritable bowel. • • • Fortunately, vitamins do no harm when not needed—except perhaps Vitamin D. Unto All Men ^^NE OF THE MOST interesting and surprising little books of recent years is called “They Found the Church There,” by H. P. Van Dusen. It is the dramatic story of how the American GI, to his great astonishment, found Christians in the most unexpected places. It is a tremendous mistake to think that the Christian re ligion is only for English-speak* ing peoples, or for Europeans, or for white people. It began among people whom most read ers of this column would set down as “foreigners.” Christ can be as much at home in an *gloo or a wigwam as he U in an American farmhouse or in an efficiency apartment on the city boulevard. He comes to all men, and as Peter found out, the Lord if no respecter of persons. Nourishing Desserts Build Family Health Just as Other Foods I S DESSERT at your home some thing that’s used just as a filler, to take up that empty sense at the close of a none too hearty meal? Or, is it well de- \ # % y signed to do its ^ share of assum ing some of the nutrients should belong in the balanced diet? If you can’t answer the ques tion, then look to the desserts of the past week. If they were all starchy foods lacking in fruit or berries, milk and eggs, they are not being planned with the health of the family in mind. It’s all very well to serve cakes and pies, but desserts should also include plenty of fruits and milk and eggs to be truly health-build ing. When youngsters skip their milk, refuse their eggs or turn thumbs down on breakfast fruits, include these in luncheon and din ner desserts. ttOMEMAKERS who SAY these are not interesting desserts should take a look at the parade of health building dessert recipes in today’s column. They're tops in appetite appeal and just as high in vitamins, proteins and minerals. Candied Fruit Cap (Serves 4-6) 3 to 4 oranges 1 cup crashed pineapple *4 cup broken candy mints Add candy mints to pineapple. Chill together. Section oranges re moving all membranes. Line des sert dishes With orange sections and place pineapple-candy mixture in center. Serve chilled. *Orange Custard (Serves 6-8) 2 cups milk 3 tablespoons cornstarch H cup sugar % teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks 2 egg whites, beaten stiff, but not dry % cup orange juice ' 1 tablespoon grated orange rind 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 oranges, sectioned Scald milk in top of double boiler. Combine thoroughly sugar, salt, cornstarch and slightly beaten egg yolks. Add scalded milk slowly, return to double boiler, cook, stirring constantly until thickened. Add orange juice, rind, and vanil la. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Garnish with orange, sections. ChilL Fig Bread Pudding (Serves 8-10) 2 cups dry bread crumbs 1 quart hot milk % cup sugar 1 cup chopped figs H tablespoon lemon juice cup melted buttter . 3 eggs Salt H cup chopped nuts Add crumbs to hot milk and set aside to cool, then add all other in gredients and pour into greased baking dish. Place in pan of hot water and bake at 325 s for one Milk,' eggs and oranges give a delicately flavored dessert that will please at any meal. This type of dessert offers an easy way to incorporate important foods into the daily diet. LYNN SAYS: Improve your Foods With Simple Seasonings To rejuvenate doughnuts, try splitting and toasting them. Serve spread with butter and jam and you’ll wonder why you never tried it before. Your salad business will pick up with a simple trick like adding broken pecan meats to shredded cabbage and chopped celery. For something really delicious, fold the ingredients into an old-fashioned boiled dressing. An assortment of fruits makes a pretty and tempting dessert that provides health-giving nu trients painlessly. Serve this colorful dessert as a perfect close to a heavy meal. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Lamb Stew with Vegetables Popovers Butter and Jelly Hearts of Lettuce Salad •Orange Custard . Beverage Cookies . •Recipe Given hour or until firm. Serve with part ly frozen whipped cream. Toasted Pears (Serves 6) 6 large fresh pears 3 tablespoons lemon juice !4 cup sugar *4 cup melted butter 2H cups corn flakes Sauce: % cup confectioners’ sugar 1 cup sour cream 2 tablespoons lemon juice Peel, halve and core pears. Dip at once into lemon juice in which sugar has been dissolved. Dip in melted butter. Roll in crushed com flakes. Arrange cut side up on a shallow baking pan. Bake in mod erate oven (350°-375 s ) for 20 to 25 minutes, or until pears are tender but not soft. To make lemon cream sauce, beat confectioners’ sugar into the sour cream and flavor with lemon juice. Fruit Marlow (Serves 6) ' T4 pound marshmallows, quartered 1 cup strong hot coffee 1 cup whipped cream 1*4 cups fruit cocktail, drained Dissolve marshmallows in coffee in top of double boiler. Cool until mixture begins to thicken. Fold in whipped cream and drained fruit cocktaiL Pour into sherbet glasses and chill. * Caramel Baked Apples (Serves 6-8) 6-8 medium apples cup seedless raisins 3 tablespoons enriched flour H cup sugar H teaspoon cinnamon 3 tablespoons butter % cup chopped walnuts H cup water H cup orange juice Wash apples and core. Pare about one strip around t^p. Place in deep baking dish. Fill cen ters with rais ins. Comb true flour, sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork. Add walnuts. Sprinkle crumb mixture over apples. Pour over water and orange juice. Bake uncovered in moderate oven (350°) one hour, basting occasionally. Serve with cream. Apricot-Marshmallow Betty (Serves 6-8) 1 pound (3 cups) quartered dried apricots, cooked 5 cups toasted white bread cubes 1 pound (about 16) marsh mallows, quartered 1 cup liquid from apricots 1H teaspoons grated lemon peel 2 tablespoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons butter Alternate layers of apricots, bread cubes and marshmallows in greased 6xl0-inch baking dish. Top layer should be bread cubes. Heat apricot juice to boiling; add lemon peel and juice and butter; pour over. Bake uncovered in moderate oven (350°) about 35 minutes. Note: Add four cups water to dried apri cots, cover, simmer tender. Stewed pears will take on a fest ive touch if you serve them with chilled custard and then top with meringue, browned until golden. Mix some herbs with bread or cracker crumbs before breading veal or other meats. Fried sausages are just as good with fried pears as with apples. Fry the pears in the sausage drip pings just as you would the apples. Smart garnish for a fish dinner uses tiny red beets, cooked and chilled, served in salted soured cream. * -i ft. <\» (t. (t. <W <W <W (*• |W |W <w l ASK ME ; ANOTHER ? A General Quiz ? <v» (V. fv. <v- C*- O- C*~ O- ( The Questions 1. What is the highest navy award that can be given in recog nition of service? * 2. By whom is it awarded and for what? 3. When was the United States Army Engineer Corps organized and by whom? 4. What fashion was inspired by the. Eskimos? 5. Name the artist who painted “Washington Crossing the Dela ware”? DOUBLE mT£RBD\ FOR EXTRA] muTY\ •PUR/TY\ MOROLINE PETROLEUM J E L L> The Answers 1. The Medal of Honor. 2. By the Congress to a man who distinguished himself “con spicuously by gallantry and intre pidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.” 3. In 1776 by George Washing ton. 4. The parka. 5. Emanuel Leutze, a German brought up in Philadelphia. WILD TOWN Tombstone, Arizona, was one of the wildest towns on earth in the days of the old west. It was fa mous for its rich silver mines, prospectors, gamblers, gunmen and wicked ladies. Today its fame rests chiefly on a rose bush that covers 2,000 square feet—^largest in the world. 'Secrets of Dancing' by FRED LeQUORNE famous Coach & Teacher to the 1949 AH Around Harvest Moon WINNERS and THE HARTMANS, outstand ing dance team of Stage, Screen and TV fame. Bex 101, Ba: urd 401 Bway, N. Y. 13, N. Y. Relieve Stuffy FAST! Quick. Put a few Vicks Va-tro-nol Nose Drops in each nostril. Va-tro-nol works right where trouble is. Relieves head cold almost instantly I VATRO ■ noseH Guard Yourself Against GETTING TIRED A Feel worn out .. listless . , weak .. exhausted? If you do, you may not be getting enough of those necessary vitamins and minerals that maintain your normal pep, strength and en ergy. And, when you’re run down and worn out, you may catch a dan gerous cold . . pick up a disease or sickness more quickly. Don’t take chances.. take Vitawine! Thousands have tsiren this very low, pleasant-tastlng Uqul to nature In building and ing normal pep, strength and . . when no organic com local infection Is present doctor about Vitawine. Then, yourself. If your druggist have it, slpaply write Vitawine pony, Louisville, Kentucky. AT All IEADINQ DRUG COUNTERS A DIETARY SUPPLEMEN m m PPEPAPKD BY AMIRICAN FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL jHSALTN ‘SUN SICKNESS’ IN WHITE LIVESTOCK Sunshine, the greatest of Na ture’s disease preventives, can cause serious trouble for white skinned animals. Too much is too much, especially when such animals are exposed to bright sunlight after eating cer tain “sensitizing” plants. The result is a sore, peeling and highly inflamed skin over all white surfaced areas of the body ex posed to sunlight. •‘Sun sickness” is a popular name for the con dition. Photo-sensitization is the accurate veterinary term, and the disease is also known as solar eczema and trlfoliosis. The condition affects all types of livestock with white skin or white patches of skin. It is seen in horses with white-stockinged feet, in line-backed Hereford cat tle, in Holstein cows, in white and white-spotted pigs, and in sheep. A frequent complication in sheep is “big head,” where the ears become thick and swollen as a result of aim sickness. In some animals the symptoms may resemble a con- tagous disease. It is therefore im portant to get a veterinarian’s opinion if any of these signs show up. The only known preventive steps, are to provide shade, and to pre-1 Note damaged, peeling vent grazing on pastures known 1 to cause trouble. Among the plants; that sensitize animals to sunshine are certain clovers, St John’s wort wild buckwheat and leche- guilla. Usually, if the trouble is “sun sickness” and not some disease, the animal wil recover in a tmr- days if it is given proper treat-) ment by your veterinarian, and | protected from direct sunlight LIVESTOCK HEALTH ODDITIES (Saule dehorning-can NOW BE PAINLESS VETERINARIANS CAN BLOCK THE NERVE. AS DENTISTS BLOCK THE NERVE TDABADTOOm. THE EQUIVALENT OF 200,000 T-BONE STEAKS IS pESTROYED ANNUALLY BY THE CATTUE DISEASE -BLACKLEG. m American Foundation for Animal Health !