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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. €.
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
In the Case of Coca Cola Versus Champagne,
The Ban on a Beverage Can Work Both Ways
By BILLY ROSE
No French champagne is being sold at my night club in New
York and patrons who request same will have to settle for domestic
fizzwater—which is a lot easier on the pocketbook.
What gives?
The French Communists and Coca-Cola—that’s what gives.
As you probably know, the French national assembly recently passed
a bill which, without naming the product, would prohibit the bottling and
tale of Coca-Cola in France and its colonies.
Two pressure groups, were respon
sible for this measure—the wine
interests which feared that the soft
drink might cut into their profits,
and the Communists, who, though
they have no love for the vintners,
aaw an opportunity to take a rabbit
punch at the United States.
Suiting invective to word, the
Commie paper, L’Humanite, un*
leased a campaign against the
“coca-colonization” of the country,
loud- mouthing
that the basic
syrup is highly
toxic and would
turn La Belle
France into a na
tion of “coca-hol-
ics.” At the same
time, the right-
wing press, front
ing for the fizz
merchants, began
to blab along the
same lines, and even the usually
sensible L>e Monde warned that “the
moral landscape of France is at
stake.'*
Billy Bose
By INEZ GERHARD
S TANLEY KRAMER made “The
Champion” for less than $600,-
000; it will gross more than two
and one-half million. Then he made
'The Home of the Brave” for the
same amount; it had already
grossed even more, though highly
controversial. Hollywood respects
those figures but doesn't see how
this young producer does it. His
new picture, “The Men”, will make
them wonder still more. He does
It by buying a really good story.
holding a two-week rehearsal be
fore shooting starts, casting the
right actors rather than stars, kick
ing his director for ability, not his
name—and then throwing in just
a touch of genius that is purely
Stanley Kramer.
Frank Love joy, who stood out as
“Sergeant Mingo” in “Home of the
Brave,'* will co-star with Kathleen
Ryan in her American film debut
in “The Sound of Fury”, for United
Artists release. And Warners have
signed him to a long-term contract
and are announcing that he is one
of the brightest of the new crop of
screen stars. His work in their
“Rock Bottom” convinced them.
Jane Russell’s first car, a Ford
bought from the proceeds of her
appearance as star of Howard
Hughes’ “The Outlaw”, still stands
In her garage. She says she’ll al
ways keep it as a memento of the
picture that made her a sensation.
Two young men whose family
names are known to movie
goers will make their screen
debuts In “Tripoli”, a Pine-
Thomas production. One is 10-
year-old Marshall Berle, nephew
of Milton; the other is Pat Ford,
son of John Ford, the well-
known director. He has been
working successfully as a screen
writer for several years, but
now wants to try his hand at
acting.
Beverly Hills, home of so many
movie stars, will receive a thorough
coverage in “In a Lonely Place”,
Humphrey Bogart’s new film for
^Columbia. Director Nicholas Ray
*ehose representative spots all
-around town, which ought to give
the public a pretty good idea of the
•city they have read so much about,
but have seen on the screen only in
Isolated spots in the past.
Steve Cochran, star of “The Two
'Million Dollar Bank Robbery”, will
Win $50,000 if the ice on the Yukon
>river starts breaking up at 8:09 a.
to. May 13. He entered the famous
Alaskan “Ice Pool” through his
mother, who lives in Juneau.
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Columbia’s search for a
handsome young southpaw base
ball pitcher who can act a
romantic role, or a handsome
young actor who can pitch left-
handed, ended with the signing
of Richard Taylor for the ro
mantic lead in “Kill the Um
pire”, William Bendix starrer.
Taylor, a husky six-footer, was
formerly a professional ball
player with Salem, Ore., in the
Western International league.
John Garfield, director Michael
Curtiz, and writer Ronald Mac-
Dougall holed up on a telephoneless,
mail-less ranch while finishing
“The Breaking Point”—wanted to
keep the plot a secret. Garfield had
but one request. “All I want,” said
he, “is more guns than Humphrey
Bogart had in ‘Key Largo’. Which
gives you some idea of what kind
of picture it is.
Before I go any further, let me
get it into the record that I’m not
a big Coke drinker and never
owned a share of stock in the com
pany. As far as I’m concerned, the
beverage is just another American
product like Orange Crush, 7-Up
or Dr. Brown’s Celery Tonic.
By initiating an anti-coke cam
paign, they have given Stalin’s
stooges a made-to-order excuse
for yelping, "Down with Ameri
can imperialism?’ — the same
sleazy slogan used by Commies
everywhere to divert attention
from the accomplishments of the
Marshall plan.
As for the argument that the dis
tribution of Coca-Cola would create
unemployment and cut into prof
its—that, too, is a lot of bottletops.
The set-up of the Coca-Cola Export
corporation is such that the entire
manufacture and sale would be
carried out by French personnel,
on French territory, and under
French supervision and ownership.
Or to put it another way, it would
be the beginning of a new French
industry, and potentially a pretty
big one, judging from the fact that
more than 100,000 Americans de
rive part or all of their incomes
from the parent company and its
subsidiaries.
From where I cogitate, it boils
down to this: John Q. Frenchman
is being denied a choice between
Leftists, aided and abetted by the
bird-brain Righties, don’t like the
Coke and vino only because the
country Coca-Cola comes from.
Well, Messieurs et Mesdames,
two can play at boycott as well
as one, and so, no French cham
pagne will be sold in my night
club until the idiotic ban against
our home product is lifted.
Morpover, I’m hereby appealing
to hotels, restaurants and night
club proprietors all over the coun
try to follow suit—and to wire or
write me when they do. And if
they’d like to explain the boycott
to their customers, they’re at lib
erty to run off reprints of this col
umn—of course crediting this paper.
And remember, Messieurs et Mes
dames, if that doesn’t work we can
get really tough and stop buying
your French postcards.
THE
FICTION
CORNER
FELIX RETIRES
By Richard H. Wilkinson
W
'HEN FELIX BRENDLINGER
retired to private life he
ceased to be a “figure” in May-
field. If you took time to analyze
the reason, the answer was simple.
For 30 years Felix had left his
home on Pleasant street at exactly
7:35 in the morning, walked a quar
ter mile to the railroad station,
boarded the 7:48
train for Long
view, and spent
the day in that
distant city at a
desk in the insur
ance offices of Booth, Gill and
Dyer. Every evening he disem
barked from the 5:52 train and re-
traveled the quarter-mile to his
Pleasant street home.
Mayfield citizens were used to
the sight of Felix walking briskly
to and from the railroad station.
Sometimes some one would ask
him to do an errand in Longview,
and he’d always oblige. Frequently
he would deliver choice bits of
news to friends and acquaintances.
Booth, Gill and Dyer had for their
clients two large steamship lines,
and Felix could tell when the boats
arrived in port, or when they were
delayed by storms and when im
portant personages were arriving
“The idea,” Felix’s wife ex
claimed. “Don’t they know—but of
course they don’t—I’ll write im
mediately and tell them how poor
ly you are!”
“You’ll do no such thing!” Felix
exclaimed, eyes gleaming. “I’m
catching the 7:48 in the morning!”
from abroad.
There were a hundred and
one things that Felix could
and did do that achieved for
him a certain recognition.
After he retired, Felix ceased
to be a figure. He wasn’t an
especially imaginative person,
nor were his neighbors.
The neighbors knew unconscious
ly that Felix was no longer differ
ent from any of them. Felix knew
it too. It troubled him. It hurt. It
made him lonesome. It made him
wonder. It threatened to develop
in him an Inferiority complex.
Felix tried hard to find pleasure
in his retirement. He planted a
garden and bought some chickens
“You’ll do no such thing!”
Felix exclaimed, his eyes
gleaming. “I’m catching the
7:48 in the morning.”
and occupied his time as much as
he could. But it was a physical oc
cupation, and this gave him plenty
of opportunity to think. Eventually
his thinking changed to brooding,
and the brooding nourished the
growing inferiority complex.
Felix’s wife noticed the change.
She tried to talk to him, to learn
the source of his moodiness. But
Felix couldn’t explain it. He felt a
little ashamed, and didn’t want to
talk.
Another month passed and
Felix’s wife began to think he
was a case for the family doc
tor. Then one day a letter ar
rived from Booth, Gill and
Dyer. They wanted to know if
Felix would consider coming
in for a few days to assist in
straightening out some mat
ters about which they consid
ered him an expert.
T HE JOB lasted three weeks.
During that time Felix became
a figure once more. People became
used to him going back and forth
to the train. Unconsciously they
fell into the old routine of asking
him to do errands and demanding
choice bits of news. Felix was hap
py again. He beamed. He put on
weight. He felt important. He was
important.
On the day that Felix finished
up the special work, Mr. Gill ap
proached him.
“Felix, how about staying on
with us awhile? You’re not old
enough to retire. We need you
here.”
“Need me?”
“As long as you’ll stay. Oh,
I realize that sooner or later
we’ll have to get along without
your help—but none of us real
ized how important you were.”
Felix’s face glowed. “Thanks,
Mr. Gill. You couldn’t have said
anything that would make me hap
pier. But as far as staying with
you is concerned—I’m afraid I’ll
have to turn down the offer. You
see, I’ve got some chickens and a
garden out home that need my at
tention. And—well—now I’ll be
able to retire with a clear con-
BENCHED . . . It’s back to
work for supreme court Justice
William O. Douglas who has
had a hectic time of it this past
year. He was seriously injured
last fall when a horse fell on
him.
This Is
Your Paper
Its People
Are Human
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By William R. Nelson
EMBERS of this and all other
newspaper staffs are victims of
that quirk of human nature so well
expressed by the axiom which
asserts that: “An expert is a man
away from home.” Newspaper
people are very much at home
here, so they are seldom looked
upon as experts. But they are ex
perts, and specialists, in a wide
variety of occupations and profes
sions, all of them vitally important
to this community. .
A home town newspaper, such
as this one, is published only
through the teamwork of people
of many skiUs. It is doubtful if any
other business or institution in the
community surpasses the newspa
per in its complexity, in the varied
nature of the expert know-how its
operation requires.
Modern drug
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of
Skills
science.
Dry Cows
Feeding the dry cow pays well
off in more milk during her next
lactation.
stores, which
require a com-
bination of
m e rchandising
and professional aptitudes, come
closest to the newspaper in the
variety of demands made upon
stafis. But in addition to merchan
dising and professional abilities
coihparable to those of the drug
store, the newspaper’s people must
also have mechanical understand
ing and skill of a high order.
Newspaper mechanical staff
people must know both how to oper
ate a variety of machines, and how
to maintain and repair them.
Editorial staff members are spe
cialists who perform their daily
duties within the restricting con
fines of a code of ethics fully as
binding as are those of other pro
fessions. They must have ability,
a liking for people, knowledge of
words, a feeling for art, insatiable
curiosity, willingness to work all
hours under pressure, and be fa
miliar with mechanic|d practices
and limitations of the printing plant.
While sharing
Always with their
on neighbors the
Duty enjoyment of a
community
event, the editorial worker-must al
so cover it, taking notes, names,
dates and data, so that while others
relax afterward, the story of the
event can be written. The editor
and reporter, like doctors, are “on
duty” every hour of every day.
Members of the advertising and
business office staffs, too, are spe
cialists, each in his or her own way.
And they, too, are important to
the community.
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Mint Flavors These Chocolate Ice Cream Puffs
(See Recipes Below)
Dessert Contrasts
I F YOUR MAIN DISHES for the
season are of the lighter variety,
»hen your dessert patterns should
t>e just a shade richer than usual
:o give the menu variety, balance
and contrast.
To avoid loss of interest in food
entirely, which is so apt to come
at this season of
the year, select
some interesting
desserts such as
r. s are featured in
£ today’s column.
You have your
choice of ice
cream, puddings and cakes, all of
which are unusual and good, too!
There’s always audible approval
from youngsters and grownups
alike when cream puffs are served.
And cream puff shells made espe
cially tempting with a filling of ice
cream are a -dessert that really
goes places. The cream puff shells
are flavored with chocolate and
filled with cool mint ice cream.
Chocolate Mint Ice Cream Puffs
(Serves 6)
*4 cup butter
K cup boiling water
U eup sifted all-purpose flour
Ya teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 quart mint Ice cream
Hot fudge sauce
Add butter to boiling water; heat
until butter melts. Sift together
flour, salt, sugar and cocoa; add to
butter mixture, all at once, stirring
thoroughly. Cook, stirring, until
mixture leaves sides of pan. Re
move and cool a minute. Add un
beaten eggs, one at a time, beat
ing until smooth after each addi
tion. Drop by heaping tablespoon
fuls on greased baking sheet, two
inches apart, shaping with wet
spoon into rounds. Bake in hot
oven (450°) 10 minutes. Reduce
heat (350°) and bake 25 minutes
longer, until lightly browned. Cool
and cut off tops. Fill with pepper
mint ice cream and top with hot
fudge sauce.
• • •
O RANGE DESSERT CAKE needs
no frosting, since the orange
juice and sugar make a wonderful
glaze for the top of the cake.
*Otange Dessert Cake
1 orange, medium size
1 cup sugar
1 cup raisins
% cup shortening
2 eggs, beaten slightly
2 cups sifted flour
teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in
milk
1 eup evaporated milk mixed
with
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Cut the orange and squeeze out
2 tablespoons of the juice. Add to
this juice % cup
of the sugar and
reserve for glaz
ing the cake. Cut
out and discard
the central core
and the seeds of
, the orange. Grind
nni the orange with
the raisins, using the medium blade
of the food chopper. Cream short
ening and sugar together. Add the
beaten eggs. Sift flour with salt.
Add alternately to the egg mix
ture with the milk, beginning and
ending with flour. Stir in the orange
and raisin mixture quickly. Pour
LYNN SAYS:
Fortify Leftover Foods
With Extra Flavor
Slices of cold roast veal make an
excellent sandwich when treated
vith a spread of anchovy paste and
cutter and fresh rye bread slices.
Extend that bit of grape juice
m the refrigerator by mixing with
cranberry juice. Serve chilled for
an appetizer.
Serve that last bit of cauliflower
with a tangy cheese sauce and
shower with toasted, salted al
monds for a genuine flavor treat.
, LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
Braised Lamb Steaks
Browned Potatoes
Minted Peas and Carrots
Apple-Date Salad
Rolls Butter Beverage
•Orange Dessert Cake
•Recipe Given
into a greased 8x8x2 pan and bake
in a moderate oven (375°) about
45 minutes. After baking and while
still hot, cover with the two table
spoons orange juice and sugar mix
ture and let stand in pan until
juice is absorbed. Do not dissolve
sugar entirely, as it should glaze
the top of the cake.
B utterscotch pecan cake-pud
ding is a dessert that offers a
surprise. Although this luscious pud
ding begins with batter in the bot
tom and pudding
mixture on the
top, it doesn’t end
that way. During
the baking, the
batter rises to the
'top, a wonderful
tender cake, with
the luscious but
terscotch pudding
on the bottom. There’s a generous
share of crisp pecans all through
the pudding for flavor and texture
interest.
Butterscotch Pecan Cake-Pudding
(Serves 6—8)
Batter:
34 cup shortening
Y* cup sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sifted flour
134 teaspoons baking powder
34 teaspoon salt
34 cup evaporated milk
34 cup pecans
Blend shortening and sugar. Add
beaten egg yolks and vanilla. Gent
ly fold in the beaten whites. Sift
flour with baking powder and salt.
Add dry ingredients to egg mixture
alternately with the milk. Stir in
the pecans and turn batter into
a greased 134 quart casserole.
Pudding:
134 cups brown sugar
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup evaporated milk
34 cup grapefruit juice
Blend sugar and flour. Stir in
the milk and grapefruit juice. Mix
well and pour gently over batter.
Bake in a moderate oven OSO®) for
one hour. Serve warm.
Burnt Sugar Cake
(Makes 3 9-inch layers)
2 cups sugar
1 cup boiling water
3 cups sifted cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
34 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
4 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla
Place one cup of the "sugar in a
skillet and heat, stirring constant
ly until sugar melts and becomes
brown; remove from heat, add boil
ing water and stir until sugar is
entirely dissolved. CooL Sift flour,
baking powder and salt together.
Cream shortening with remaining
sugar until fluffy. Add unbeaten
egg yolks, one at a time, beating
thoroughly after each is added. Add
vanilla. Add sifted dry ingredients
and caramel sirup alternately in
small amounts, beating thoroughly
after each addition. Fold in stiffly
beaten egg whites. Pour into greased
pans and bake in moderate oven
(350°) 30 to 35 minutes.
Roast beef hash takes on improve
ment when it’s served with a
smooth, tart hollandaise sauce. You
can skip the poached eggs since
there’s so much egg yolk in the
sauce.
On the second or third night that
you serve spaghetti sauce, try it
with slivers of ham, sauteed mush
rooms and a sprinkling of sweet
basil.
Leftover sweet potatoes take an
extra flavor and glaze when they
are heated wit a bit of orange
marmalade.
To sprinkle clothes without spat
tering everything around, lay'them
out in the bathtub and drop the
water down on them. After that,
they can be rolled up and kept
covered inside your washing ma
chine until ready to be ironed.
After an ironing board cover
has been washed, it should be put
back on the board while damp.
When it dries, it will shrink up
enough to be smooth and tight.
Stale soap lasts longer than
fresh soap. Buy in advance and
remove the wrappers as soon as
you get home, so the air can get
at the soap while it’s stored.
Window cords will last longer
and raising and lowering of win
dows will be easier if cords are
dusted twice a year and rubbed
with an oil-saturated cloth.
If hankies and other small flat
articles start doubling back over
the rollers when you try to put
them through the wringer, squeeze
some of the water out of the front
end of the hanky with your fingers
first, then feed it through.
Pile fluffy mashed potatoes in
to an attractive shallow baking
dish, sprinkle with paprika and
brown in the oven just before
serving.
Nicely Fitting Frock
Cut on Princess Lines
Flattering Details
H ERE’S a beautifully fitting
frock that’s cut on easy to ^
make princess lines. Keyhole
neckline and waist insets are flat
tering details—ideal for the begin
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