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HEADIN' AND WRITIN'
Penmanship Isn't Such a Lost
Art, Survey of Teachers Shows
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LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER
Apparently the quality of Amer
ican school children’s handwriting
has not fallen victim to the “rush
of our times” and outside interests
and distractions, after alL
A survey among 5,000 grade and
high school principals across the
nation turned up a vote of nearly
two to one that today’s youngsters
write as well as or better than those
of a generation ago. The Sheaffer
pen company, that made the sur
vey, said the actual balloting was
64.4 per cent to 35.6. Most of the
principals credited improved teach
ing methods and more widespread
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By INEZ GEBHARD
B EN GRAUER, in nearly 21 years
ofv radio, has built up a terrific
list of famous friends who have al
ways wanted to do something for
him. They got their chance when
Ben started his new daytime show,
“Ben Grauer’s Footlights and Klieg-
lights”—practically every star in
show business clamored for a
chance to appear for nothing.
It looks like printing, but it
is really a new style “manu
script writing”. A recent survey
of the country’s school prin
cipals found that 95.5 of the na
tion’s schools now teach this
method in at least first three
grades.
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use of good writing equipment for
the fact that penmanship has “sur
vived” as well as it has despite
crowded curriculums and less time
for instruction.
The widely held notion that basic
arts like reading, writing and spell
ing have been shamefully neglected
in this mechanized age is well re
futed—so far as penmanship is
concerned—by results of the poll.
However, the minority of principals
who feel handwriting has declined
is so sizable and in many cases so
emphatic as to leave no doubt that
there’s still lots of room for im
provement
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point
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fairies
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syllable
11. A son of
Adam
12. Degraded
13. Large
14. Greek letter
15. Having a
tail
17. Eskimo
tool
19. Wound
mark
20. Manuscript
(abbr.)
21. Weakens
23. Epochs
25. Muse of
poetry
27. Put out
30. Knights’
titles
32. Wild ox
33. Land-
measure
35. Secular
37. Large cask
38. Repulsed
41. National
Guard
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42. Incite
43. Leaps over
45. Flexed
46. Glacial
ridge
47. Too
48. Abounding
in reeds
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2. A wing
3. Plate
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5. Diminish
6. Title of a
great prince
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to end
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with
runners
12. Entertain
16. Venture
18. Java tree
22. Small,
sharp
dagger
24. Dispatched
26. Verbal
28. Rural area
29. Sharp
tastes
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malleable
element
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THE
FICTION
CORNER
MY MISTAKE
By Richard H. Wilkinson
BEN GRAUER
Among the first were Ed Wynn, Os
car winner Jose Ferrer, Ralph Bel
lamy, Edward Everett Horton, Vic
tor Moore, Robert Sterling, Susan
Douglas, Arthur Treacher, Barbara
Bel Geddes and William Eythe.
Thousands of dollars would have
been paid out for guest shots if
they’d worked for money.
Jackie Kelk, squeak-voiced
Homer of **1116 Aldrich Fam
ily”, is in a dither these days
getting his Poundridge, New
York, farm in readiness for a
Paramount camera crew.
Scenes will be made there for
*‘Burning Orchard”.
Jack Benny will return to the
screen after seven years’ absence
in “Somebody Loves Me”. He will
play himself, as he was in the days
when he was a vaudeville star,
often sharing star billing with Blos
som Seeley, whose life story this is.
Robert Young, who has won in
numerable awards for his “Father
Knows Best” radio program, took
his youngest daughter Kathleen to
Warner Brothers as a fifth birthday
celebration to watch him working
with Joan Crawford in “Goodbye
My Fancy”. She had a lovely day,
just loved playing with Miss Craw
ford’s poodle. She paid very little
attention to her father, or Miss
Crawford, thought the dog was al
most as nice as her pets at home.
BEARING OUT this observation
was the high school principals’ ver
dict that only about two-thirds of
their students have a “satisfac
tory” handwriting by the time they
graduate.
Grade school principals voted
about two to one that children
“learn to write more easily” now
adays. Use of the "manuscript”
form of writing—taught in about
95 per cent of the schools in the
first two or three grades—was
given much of the credit for this,
along with more general use of
good equipment.
The survey showed that quality
of handwriting has an influence
upon the marks children get in
schooL Among grade school prin
cipals, 89.9 per cent said “good
handwriting helps produce good
marks,” and among high school
heads the count was almost the
same, 89.6 per cent.
The most commonly indicated
reasons among those who think to
day’s handwriting is better were:
improvement of teaching methods,
more widespread use of good writ
ing equipment, and the repsondents’
own disinclination to glorify “the
good rM days.”
However, there is a sizeable min
ority of principals—35.6 per cent—
who feel that the handwriting of
their present pupils is worse than
that of their forebears.
The manuscript form of writing
(like lower-case printing) is now
taught almost universally in the
early grades. A change is usually
made to cursive (conventional writ
ing) at the third or fourth grade.
M RS. Luther was very smug. “Of
course, darling, I know how
happy and thriUed you are at being
married. Phil is a nice boy. Dear
me, I remem-
—————y jjgj. w hen Alvin
3 -Minute and I were first
Fiction married. I was
just the same.”
Mrs. Luther
“The illusions of youth.
sighed.
Dear me.”
Beth Franklin tried hard to main
tain a role of gracious hostess.
“Were your illusions shattered,
Mrs. Luther?”
“Shattered?” Mrs. Luther laughed
and suddenly looked wise. “Well,
yes, I suppose they were. For I did
have illusions about my husband,
darling, just as you have about your
Phil. And then—” Mrs. Luther’s
lips tightened—“he strayed.”
“How dreadful!”
“Not dreadful, darling—fortunate.
Oh, my yes. You see, Dave, my
husband, is not naturally a woman
chaser. He was frightfully upset
and shamed. He promised to do
anything if I’d only not leave him.
To this day Dave is repentant. He’ll
do anything I ask. He is humble and
grateful, and I declare I think I
have the best husband in the
world.”
“I suppose
wasn’t it?”
it was fortunate.
Mrs. Luther leaned toward
her young hostess. “So fortu
nate, my dear, that 1 wish oth
ers could benefit by the same
experience. Your Phil is very
handsome, and Gretchen Carter
is very beautiful.” She smiled.
“Well, darling, I simply must be
going.”
Beth sat down at a window,
cupped her chin in her hand and
GRASSROOTS
MacArthur Testimony Advises Stalin of Our Fear
BSfe,
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By Wright A. Patterson
pVERY ONE—of both officers and
enlisted personnel of the armed
services of the United States—pwe
to the nation first allegiance over
anything they may owe to any other
superior or to themselves.
That is a part of the rigid train
ing they undergo and it continues
throughout their career in the
armed services. In the final analy
sis, the United States is congress.
It is not the President.
That was the basic argument
of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a
general of the army. In his In
sistence in placing his views in
opposition to those In higher au
thority.
He was exercising his training he
had received as an officer in the
army. He recognized, not the Presi
dent, but only congress as the top
authority. That was as he had been
taught.
It was that final decision, as to
what was best for the interests of
the United States in the far east,
that Gen. MacArthur forced his con
victions to the point where they
4 would receive the attention of con
gress, and congress only should
make the decision.
The investigation by a senate
committee was for the purpose
of providing the facts that con
gress, Including the senate,
might have the information
needed in making such a deci-
Gen. Bradley, in refusing
to answer any question the com
ask him, violated
to the nation, and
in contempt of
congress, a situation from which
he was relieved by a ruling of
the chairman and later by a
vote of the members of the com
mittee.
Had the quest!cm been asked of
the President, the only legal reason
he could have given for not answer
ing would be that to do so truthful
ly might incriminate himself.
The committee was attempting to
ascertain the reasons for, and the
methods used, in firing MacArthur.
There are innumerable rumors in
Washington of the existence of a
feud in the high command that
dates back to when MacArthur was
chief of staff of the army, and
stopped, for a time, the advance
ment of Marshal^, with some like
incident in the case of Bradley.
The committee was trying to find
out if these incidents had any con
nection with the firing of MacArthur
and opposition to the MacArthur
views of the far eastern situation.
As to his reason for the firing of
MacArthur, the President in a
statement, not under oath, said the
letter written to Representative
Martin had nothing whatever to do
with it. Marshall had testified ear
lier that it had. Which is right?
MacArthur’a action was for
the purpose of best serving the
national interests, but what was
started in that spirit has de
generated into a partisan politi
cal quarrel, both parties at-
* tempting to make political capi
tal out of the investigation.
The only purpose it has served
is to advise Stalin of our fears, and
our disunity. There was no possi
bility of good, but there was a pos
sibility of additional harm, and it
is time 1 the investigation stopped.
MacArthur is out. Continuing the
investigation would not put him
back in Japan. He will remain a
five star general of the army. Con
gress named him that, and con
gress, not the President is supreme.
Congress, not the President, is the
United States. Nex£ to congress, the
people will decide. They are the
real commander-in-chief.
*
When you make an estimate on
the results of the November, 1952
elections, do not forget that there
are considerably more than two mil
lion voters on the federal payrolls.
These two million, plus another two
million relatives and friends, will
vote the way personal, rather than
national, interests dictate. It is
natural to consider one’s bread and
butter as of first importance. That
is the “why” of the army of bu
reaucrats. They represent four mil
lion votes. Count them for the
“ins.”
*
At the meat markets in my town
there has been no reductions in
prices at the retail level. How about
it in your town? Was that meat
price reduction all talk with no ac
tion?
*
The reduction the farmer took on
his meat animals has not reached
the demanding consumer. So far he
has only a promise.
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The orchestra swung into a
foxtrot. Beside her, Tom Craig
said: “My dance, Beth?”
stared out at the rain. “Gretchen
Carter is very beautiful.” What had
Mrs. Luther meant? Mrs. Luther
was bitter and disillusioned . . .
Poor Dave Luther. How dreadful it
must be to be constantly under sus
picion.
T WO weeks later the Hempton
Country Club held its annual
spring opening ball. Phil and Beth
went with the Craigs. En route,
Dorothy Craig said mischievously:
“Keep your eye on that handsome
husband of yours tonight, Beth.
They tell me Gretchen Carter has
bought the most seductive gown...”
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Beth laughed. She strove for and
maintained an attitude of ip differ
ence. Even later when she saw
Gretchen Carter, blonde and gorge
ous in a white, filmy gown that was
truly seductive, she would not ad
mit that what Mrs. Luther or Doro
thy had said was affecting her
peace of mind.
She danced the first dance with
Phil and then, conscious of Mrs.
Luther watching her from across
the room, conscious of Dorothy
Craig’s mischievous glance, she de
liberately ignored her husband.
It was quite by accident that to
ward the middle of the evening she
saw Phil slip through the French
doors out on to the terrace. Or was
it accident? Certainly it wasn’t ac
cident that sent her eyes sweeping
around the room till they found
Gretchen Carter.
And then her heart stood still.
Gretchen was moving toward the
same French doors.
The orchestra^ swung into a fox
trot. Beside her, Tom Craig said:
“My dance, Beth?”
“No,” she said. “No, Tom, I—
I’ve got a headache . . . .Ex
cuse me, please.” And she
moved away, swiftly, blindly.
Without consciously establishing
a destination, she made her
way out on to the terrace, stood
there in the dim light.
Abruptly she saw them—two fig
ures silhouetted against the sky at
the far end of the terrace standing
close together.
Reason left her. Logic fled. Seized
by an uncontrollable fury, consci
ous only of one desire—the desire
to wreak vengeance on this woman
who had robbed her of her faith,
she sped along the terrace, cried
out in sudden anguish and flung
herself toward the filmy white dress
and startled {ace of Gretchen.
As from a great distance she
heard a masculine exclamation,
saw a face in the dim light—and
suddenly it was as if an Icy cloak
had engulfed her and was holding
her close. For the face of the man
who had been standing with his arm
about Gretchen Carter was that of
Dave Luther. *
Organic Matter Vital
To Soil Building Plan
Legumes and Grasses Are
Recommended for Plan
Feed the soil so it can feed the
growing crops, if you want to get
high yields per acre, advises Dr. J.
B. Peterson, Purdue University
agronomist.
Dr. Peterson says the best way
to tell what your soil needs is to
study the land, its management his
tory, its past cropping program and
then have the soil tested. The soil
tests will tell what fertilizer is
TWI6 PRESCRIPTION
MAKE YOUR SOIL
MORE PRODUCTIVE.
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needed and how much is required to
keep the soil well stocked with a
well-balanced nutrient supply.
But Dr. Peterson points out that
tilth and soil structure must be
good if the plant food is to do its
crop nourishing job. Crops can
starve in the midst uf plenty and
fertilizer can be wasted if the soil’s
structure is poor.
Poor soil structure shuts off drain
age and ventilation. It keeps air
and ewater out. Crop roots can’t
penetrate the tightly-compacted soil
to reach needed nutrients.
Dr. Peterson says the best way
to' correct soil compaction and re
pair damaged structure is to add
organic matter. This can be done by
including well-fertilized legumes and
grasses regularly in the rotation and
by returning manure and crop resi
dues to the soil. Legumes and
grasses do a two-way soil building
job. The deep-probing taproots of
alfalfa and sweet clover do their
soil-mellowing work in the heavy
subsoils. Fibrous-rooted grasses
such as brome or timothy open up
tough surface soils and make them
granular and porous.
Good Pasture Cuts Milk,
Beef Production Costs
Since the time when man first
began cultivation of the earth, grow
ing grass for pasture and hay has
been one of his major projects.
Only in recent years, however, have
farmers learned the importance of
pasture as a wey of cutting milk
and beef production costs. It is be
coming one of the farmers main
money crops.
According to department of agri
culture reports, about two-thirds of
the nation’s land is now in grass.
And some farm experts believe a 25
per cent increase in the acreage ia
justified for a more efficient type
of agriculture even though greater
crop production has been demanded
of the nation’s farms.
With the nation demanding
greater production of beet the farm
er who has a good grass program
will make more profit per acre In
the coming year than was antici
pated in 1950.
Soil Testing
An accurate and inexpensive
soil testing kit, which may be
obtained from local garden sup
ply or hardware stores la now
on the market. The kit contains
all the solutions needed to mske
tests for nitrogen, phosphorous
and potash. The Mts come with
complete easy-to-understaUd in
structions and may prove of
greet value to heme gardeners.
Spring Is Time to Check
fill First-Aid Supplies
“Be ready with gause and first-
aid remedies. Mother, lest you're
caught napping in an emergency,”
is the advice of Miss Margueritte
Briggs, family life specialist, at the
University of Illinois.
Miss Briggs suggests that now la
the time to check first-aid supplies,
replace antiseptics and salves that
have lost their strength, and re
plenish tape and bandages to take
care of the summer accidents.
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Cool Off with Chilled Ribbon Cake
(Set Recipe Below)
Alr-Condtion Entertaining
ICY COOL BEVERAGES, frosty
desserts and a cool porch where the
light breezes play invitingly on
wilted brows give a perfect recipe
for summer entertaining.
Plan to have beverages and des
sert in the refrigerator just in case
someone decides
■ to drop over.
Nothing is lost if
they aren’t used
^ immediately, as
beverages and
dessert can al
ways be used the
following day in
the menu plans.
Make the desserts' and beverages
while the morning coolness gives
you the energy, and then you can
appear with luscious desserts and
beverages like magic when it’s
serving time.
Apricot Punch
(Serves 8)
4H enps (2 18-ounce cans)
apricot nectar
6 tablespoons lemon juice
2 cups orange juice
H cup light corn syrup
Combine all ingredients. Chill.
Serve with ice cubes, if desired, and
garnish with lemon or orange slices.
* Raspberry Frost
(Serves 6)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1% cups lemon juice
3H cups cold water
H cup crushed red raspberries
Cook 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water
for 5 minutes; chill. Add juice of 6
lemons (about 1% cups) and 3V4
cups cold water. Put a spoonful of
crushed berries into bottom of
glasses. Fill with crushed ice. Pour
over lemonade.
1
2
1
1
Pink Cherry Sodas
(Makes 2 quarts)
envelope cherry-flavored
summer drink powder
cup sngar
cups milk
quart vanilla Ice cream
quart carbonated water
Combine drink powder and sugar.
Dissolve in milk. Add scoops of ice
cream and pour over carbonated
beverage.
This is a lovely beverage to serve
in a punch bowl because of its deU-
cate cool color and sparkle.
Lime Cooler
(Serves 8)
2 enps sngar
4 enps water
. 1 tablespoon grated lime peel
% cup lime juice
Few drops green food color
ing
8 7-ounce bottles lemon-lime
carbonated beverage
Combine sugar and water; heat
to boiling and cook over low heat
2 minutes. Remove from heat and
add grated peeL Cool. Strain and
add lime juice
and green color
ing; pour into
refrigerator tray
and freeze firm.
Turn frozen mix
ture into chilled
bowl; break into
chunks; beat
with electric or
rotary beater until smooth. Return
quickly to cold tray and freeze
firm. Fill tall glasses with lime ice,
add beverage; or serve in punch
bowL
LYNN SAYS:
Use Handy Kitchen Tips
While You’re Cooking
Apples will be crusty if you pare
them one-third of the way down the
stem, fill the centers with brown
sugar and dot with butter. Pour
over them 1 cup of water and bake
uncovered, basting them occasion
ally.
Serve fresh and molded salads
together: make individual or large
ring mold of tomato aspic. To serve,
fin the center of the mold with
creamy cole slaw.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
Creamed Chicken on Cornbread
Buttered Broccoli
Tomato Aspic Salad
Celery Ripe Olives Pickles
•Raspberry Frost
• •Coffee Ribbon Cake
•Becipe Given
Double Raspberry Milk Shake
(Serves 4)
% cup finely sieved fresh red
raspberries
K enp sugar
1 pint vanilla tee cream
1H cups milk /-
Combine berries and sugar. Add
mixture to one-half ice cream; beat
smooth. Add milk qll at once and
blend. Serve in chilled glasses. Top
each with a scoop of ice cream.
•Coffee Ribbon Cake
(Serves 8)
1 envelope (1 tablespoon)
gelatin
% cup cold water
1H tablespoons Instant caffein-
free coffee
K cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
1% cups heavy cream
Piece of sponge or white
cake, 8x4x2-inches
2 tablespoons sngar
1 cup shredded coconnt,
toasted
Combine gelatin and cold water;
mix well. Dissolve instant coffee,
% cup sugar, and the salt in bet
water; add to softened gelatin and
stir until gelatin
is dissolved.
ChiU until slight
ly thickened.
Whip % cup, of
the cream and
fold into gelatin
mixture. Chill
until almost firm.
Here’s a quick fruit alaw recipe:
toss 4 cups of shredded cabbage
with 1 cup orange sect!(ms. Mix in
2 tablespoons salad dressing blend*
ed with 1 tablespoon cream.
Place a spoonful of firm vanilla
ice cream across the center of small
individual pancakes, then roll.
Serve with fresh fruit sauce or but
terscotch sauce.
Use the large meat basters when
you’re making mayonnaise. This
helps you to add the oil slowly to
the egg yolks to start the emulsion
properly.
The instructor in the Medica.
College exhibited a diagram.
“The subject here limps," h«
shorter than the other.”
explained, “because one leg ii
He then turned to one of th«
students, and addressed him:
“Now, Mr. Sneed, what would
you do in such a case?”
Young Sneed pondered earnest
ly and replied with conviction:
“I have an / idea, sir, that ]
should limp, too.”
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FOR 25 YEARS
“My husband introduced
ALL-BRAN shortly after
married. I use it in my
well as for break- i
faat. The result: I
we’re regular as |
clockwork!” Mrs.
Antonina Graziano,
453 Garfield Ave., j
Jersey City, N. J.
One of many unso
licited letters from
ALL-BRAN users.
to lack of dietary
ounce (about H cui
ellogg’s ALL-BRAN
K<
plenty of water. If
Meanwhile, trim cake as needed
to fit 8x4x2-inch loaf pan and split
into three layers. Line pan with
waxed paper. Place first layer of
cake in bottom of pan; spread with
half the thickened gelatin mixture.
Add second layer of cake; spread
with remaining gelatin mixture. Top
with third layer of cake. Chill 8
hours.
Unmold loaf on platter. Whip re
maining % cup of the qream with
2 tablespoons sugar. Spread over
top and sides <4 loaf. Sprinkle with
coconut. Chill 1 hour before serving.
Pineapple Refrigerator Cake
(Serves 6-8)
1 tablespoon (1 envelope)
unflavored gelatin
% cup cold water
3 beaten egg yolks
1 cup crushed pineapple
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
% cup sugar
H teaspoon salt
1 cup dry csttage cheese
% eup sugar *
3 stiff-beaten egg whites
Soften gelatine in cold water.
Combine egg yolks, pineapple,
lemon juice and peel, Vi cup sugar,
and salt. Code over hot water until
thick, stirring constantly. Add sof
tened gelatine and stir until dis
solved. Remove from heat and add
cottage cheese. Chill until partially
set Gradually beat % cup sugar
into stiff-beaten egg whites. Fold
into gelatine mixture. Pour into
Corn Flake Crust: Combine 1 cup
crushed corn flakes, % cup sugar,
and % cup melted butter; press
firmly in greased 6xl0-inch pan.
after 10 days, return
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Get DOUBLE TOUR MONET
Here is
Benia, Clnb E.tablUhed
These services died out or al
most so, during the years of com
parative peace, but now that the
United States Is rearming and tens
of thousands of young men
women are being inducted into tho
services, the problem of providing
off-time recreation has again
arisen.
The President’s committee on
religion and welfare recommended
an Integrated program of religious,
entertainment recreation, informa
tion, and housing for service peo
ple. With this idea in mind. Long
Branch fell to with a will.
Loading citizens of the town and
Monmouth county, N.J., met with
military personnel and put into
operation a plan which has been
highly successful and is proving
a model for other communities
throughout the nation.
One of the first things the town
did was erect a sign on Long
Branch’s main street—“Servicemen
Welcome.” The men and women
stationed at Fort Monmouth, a
short distance from Long Branch,
soon found that the town meant
just what the sign said.
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