HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-04-20, Page 2The first two recipes today
come from "Way Down East' —
front Matsachusetts where they
serve some of the tastiest foods
retell end in the United States,
or anywhere fOr that matter, *
'ORK PIE
2 to 3 ponnds lean pork
2 medium-size onions, sliced
4 carrots, diced (may be
omitted)
4 large potatoes, diced
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon celery salt'
1 teaspoon summer savory
Flour for thickening
Pastry
Cover the meat with water;
Add onions, salt, celery salt,
and savory. Cook slowly until
meat is tender. Lift out meat to
cool so that it may be separated
from fat and bones,
Meanwhile cook potatoes and
carrots in the broth. When,
coAed, thicken the broth with
flour which has been beaten to
a .smooth paste with cream, or
Milk, Add slices of meat. Put
In, ze,casserole and cover with a
rich pie crust. Bake in, a hot
oven — about 450° F. — until
crust is done and lightly brown-
Cd. Six servings. If desired, in-
dividtial casseroles may be used.
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long ago suited that measure-
ments' Of the ice hare .showed it
"grew" only eight feet every
winter instead of twelve as it
did thirty years age,
What will be the final erteet
the present thaw and warming
up continues?
The most far-reaching effect
would be a rise in the level of
the sea — even, remembering that
the oceans contain 300,000,000
cubic miles of water.
Dr. Laurence Gould; an etnill-
exit authority on poplar geogra-
phy, recently suggested the rise
would' be seventy-five to ninety
feet. Other estimates have put
it as high as 350 feet,
The rising- sea would swallow
up many of the world's great
cities, including New York, Lon-
don and Sydney, leaving Britain
a chain of little islands, where
her high land and mountains
protruded. Millions of square
miles of the earth's low-lying
ground would disappear. In fact
there would be , another flood,
very much more terrible than the
one which caused Noah to em-
bark in. his. Ark.
An, even more striking catas-
trophy was forcast recently by
Mr. Hugh Auchincloss, an engin-
eer who has done much research
on' the subject. He said that
while the Arctic might be melt-
the -ice in the Antarctic is
increasing, The result in time
would be to make the earth "top-
heavy," toppling it, over so that
what are'now the tropics would
become the , poles and the land
now covered in steaming jungles
would eventually be, covered in
ice.
-.?•••r;*1
PRIZE 'WINNERS AND WINNING DESIGNS-Top phota'ShoWs, right, Mrs, Ralph. G. Young, of
Oakville,i'On't.,' winner' of the $500 first prize in `.a design competition for viscose drapery -and
upholstery fabrics, sponsored by the National Industrial Design Council, Ottawa, in co-operation
with. Courtaulds (Canada) Limited. On the, left is Mrs. Rie Donkey Bannister, of Queenston,
'Ont., who won the $300 second prize. Below,. right to left,",are the winning designs sub•
mitred by Mrs. Young, Mrt. Bannister and Miss" Marjorie Pollen, of Winnipeg, who won third
prize of $290. -
Tax collectors
Have li Tough
Sued For Libel
For Her Two Cats
Polar lie Melting
In France they .are making
attractive young women into tax
collectors and giving them a•
course in charm. First to be ap-
pointed is glamorous, blonde
Mile. Jacqueline Pracht.
All this is because :Frenchmen
findt.difficult to be discourte-
ous to a pretty girl. But if
male tax inspector tries, to per-
suade a Frenchman to pay his,
• dues, almost anything may hap-
pen,
Towards the end of last year,
at. Autun, 700. -men guarded a
butcher's shop when tax men
attempted to examine the shop
keeper's account's.
A, Frenchman bitterly resents
haying to• pay up. In some•
towns priests rang, the church
bells to warn people that the
inspectors were on their way.
At 'Perigueux all shOps' were
shut !, and the .population- frog-
marched the inspectors out of
town. '
There is even a tax resistance
movement, known as "Union for
the . Defence of Commerce and
Artisanryf' organized by a.
former stevedore, Pierre Pou-
jade.
A Frenchman, faced with a
tax demand, will• take any
measures, short of murder, to.
evade payment or cause ern-
barrassment to the collector.
One' official was in for a shock
when he called at a certain
business premiseg". As he touched'
the door "handle, he fell uncon-
scious. The owner had wired it,
electrically! ,• -
At Cologne, in Germany, two;
tax inspectors called on a man.
who had refused to pay his=
taxes. Their 'reception cnnsisted
of a drenching from the garden.
hose.,
Iii:§candinayian countries ,it's
cheaper figni the tax point of
view" to. ' be 'tingle'Annoied at
the increased burden imposed
on -married couples, both of
whom; work, many people have
been :known to, apply, for di-
vorces ni order to be separated
in the" eyes of the law. But they
continue to live together.
Justice William. C. Hecht, jr.,
of New 'York, ' has ruled .that
cats cannot be libelled, even if
they have the finest of pedi-
grees, He reached fhis decision
in, dismissing a $75,000 libel suit •
about two Siamese cats.
The suit was brought by Jan,
et Mack,- who raises and sells
pedigree cats and dogs. In her
complaint she said she had
loaned the two pedigree cats—
Sarah, twelve years old, and
Sarah's daughter, Sapphire:-for
the production of the play
"Bell, Book and . Candle," in
1950.
She said the cats played in
theshow New York, 'and" on
tour until 'May, 1953.' She fur-
ther asserted that Hetty Grey
Baker had written a book in
which she said Sarah had been
obtained from 'a home for stray
cats, thus,` it was alleged; giving
the impression that the two
cats• were mongrels. The public.
Miss ,„ Janet. Mack said, was
aware that she owned ,the cats.
It-"was 'clginied that "the al-
leged. libel '.on the bets" hid
caused Miss .Janet Mack loss of*.
business., Also, she added, it,-had,
resulted in a request that she
resign frOm the Empire Cat
Club, This, she complained, lost
her prestige.
Justice Hecht dismissed the
suit, but he also ruled that if
the plaintiff could' "fully and
specifically set forth"' the facts'
showing damage, she could file
another suit.
PLAIN HORSE SENSE
Per to taste Serve unstrained
sprinkled with chopped parsley.
Six servings, * *
Here's a cake that's really
different. Using a combination of
Graham cracker crumbs and
cake flour produces a cake that's
light and moist and having a
truly delicious flavor.
CRACKER CAKE
Yield — two 8-inch cake lay-
ers,
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons once-
sifted cake Seer
1 cup finely-crushed graham
wafers
Y a cup fine granulated, sugar
% teaspoon salt
% cup shortening
34 cup milk
3 teaspoons baking powder ,
2 eggs
% cup milk
% teaspoon vanilla
Measure into a mixing bowl
the flour, graham wafer crumbs,
sugar, salt, shortening and the.
% cup milk. Beat thoroughly
for 2 minutes; heat in the bak-
ing:powder.
Add the eggs, the 1 cup milk
and vanilla. Beat for 2 minutes
longer.
Pour batter into two 8-inch
round layer-cake pans which
have been greased and bottoms
lined with waxed paper; grease
paper. „
Bake in' a moderately hot
oven, 375 degrees, 25 to 30 inin-
Wes. Let cakes stand in pans
for 10 minutes And; then turn
out onto cake coolers and re-
. move paper.
Fill and spread top and sides.
of cold cake with lemon 7-min-•
ute frosting and sprinkle gen-
erously with shredded coconut
ORANGE, NUT, AND
DATE BREAD
Combine thoroughly:
M cup sugar
4a cup soft,,thortening
2 eggs, Beaten"
To this ,mbiture add:
Juice and Pulp from one"
*range phi sufficient water-to
make I cuF,,,
2 cupiliifted an-purpose flour
1,teaaReon double-action bak-
ing powder
teaspoon soda
MI teaspoon salt
Wrhill 'thoroughly mixed,
blend in one-half cup chopped
nuts and one cup of dates cut
Ape. Place in loaf pan and al-
low to stand 20 minutes before
baking. Bake 50 to 55 minutes
it 350° or until a tester
Thrust into the center comes out
clean. Serve warm or cold.
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Getting back to our own coun-
`y, if is generally admitted that
there's no pea soup to' equal the
kind they turnout down• .in
the Province of Quebec, here's
how you can make it at home -- -
elmost a meal in itself.
PEA SOUP HABITANT
Soak in cold water for 12
sours 1% whole dried yel-
/ow peas with - 2/2 tsp. baking
'oda. Rinse peas well and place
in pot with 3% cgs. cold water
end % lb. salepork, diced. Bring
to bell,. Add chp,
diced carrots' and turnips and
one chipped onion. Simmer for
about 4 hours. Add salt and pep-
By. F. (BOB) VON PIL1S
a buyers' strike. In such "a case
the marketing 'ageney must be
a position to buy, process and
store the product.- '
Farmers need cooperatively
owned processing and ,storage
plants. 'Now is the time to get
them.
THE ARTIST AND. HIS ART
When a, sverk,,pf art appears
to '"Se in advance of its, period,
it it really the period that has
behind'the Wolk of art.
-',Teat Cocteau.
'Mtn '1•71) •
•
\ "Of course, it's just a Atuestion
'what you want to smelt
Sleepy-time Tales
When a fourteen-year-old boy
boarded a ship at Grinisby'not
long ago to have a look round,
he suddenly began to feel sleepy
is0 he settle,d, himself in a corn-
er for a nap.
He awoke to And the vessel
had put to sea and was, on her
way to a port in Germany. The
captain took him all the way
there and he later returned
home• in another vessel.
Sleepiness sometimes o v e r-
takes people in the most unex-
pected places. A Johannesburg
clergyman in, 1926 began
preaching an eloquent sermon
one sultry Sunday evening, but
after ten minutes the congrega-
tion were surprised to hear his
voice becoming fainter, and
fainter.
Then it tailed oft completely
arid the•preacher was seen to be
leaning on .the side of the pul-
pit, emitting faint hilt unmis-
takable snores. A churchwarden
hadto hasten. up the pulpit
Steps-.1 and nudge him into wake-
fulness.
How he 'fell' asleep while
making his first budget state-
ment . at . Simla years age l was
revealed by a British govern-
ment 0 cial when he retired.
"Partly wing to the heat, but
partly lso, no4 doubt, to thei
wearisome effect of my first at-
tempt at oratory, one by one
, every single imernber present
went to sleep,"f he said. "And it
is the simple truth that I Actu-
ally fell asleep myself in the
course of my statement?'
•- f- '--------- A woman despises a man for
loving her;" unless she happens
to return his love.
—Elizabeth Stoddard.
TWO. WISHES ,
A parson decided to go on a
deep-sea fishing expedition. Em-
barking in a small' rowing-boat,
he was taken otit into the bay
by a boatman. After half an
hour er So a violent squall got
up, and it seemed as though the
boat might soon be swamped.
"I wish," groaned the boat-
man, rowing hard, "that I had
been a better man!"
The, person smiled. "And I
wish," he said, "that I had been
a better swimmer!"
ROYAL APPEAL-Britons recent:-
1y did a "double take" when,
they ,saw this,,picture,„apparentf.
ly of their`` beloved Princess,
Anne, smiling at them from a
children's coat ad in "Radio,
Times," journal of the British
Broadcasting Corporation. The•
child is actually Susan Mans,.
field, 4, daughter of a member'
of USAP personnel. Ad agency
plans to team her with a boy
who "resembles PrPrice Charlet•
in future eye - tioppin6 British,
„ promotion,
CURIOUS
A mild-mannered man' Walk-
ed into an income tax office and
beamed at the collector,
""What I do, for you'?"
asked' the tax', official.
"Nothing, yoUi" replied
the-little just wanted tO,.,
meet the .,people I'm•.,wOrkingm
for:"
This year ships carrying. coal
from, ,the, Arctic 'island of ,-Spitz-
bergen will probably be able- to
go in and out of the ports, for
seven months" before ice Shuts,
them. At the beginning Of the
century.they. cOuld use the Ports
for ,only three months in -the
summer.
, :On the. other side, of, the Arctic
the port ;of Point_ Barrow, on the
north coast of Alaska, will-be free
ice, fOr three months. A few
years ago it was' ice-free for OnlY'
six weeks of -the year.,"
These are only two -of the it any
pieces of evidence being accumu-
lated that , the Arctic is getting
warmer. -.,
In some, years it is colder than
iri etherS, -but; taking an average, ,
the' temperature in the last -100
years has risen four to six de
grees, according to Francis W.
Reichelderfer, chief ,of the U,S,
Weather Bureau.
Four to six degrees may not
sound very. much, considering.
that in Britain we get bigger
changes ,in temperature every
, day. But remember, this is the
rise the average.. The practi-
cal results have already been no-
tiCeable.
Winters in the northern hezni-
sphere, have 'been warmer. We
.have had wines severe winters,
but not so many, and we have.
had, niikcier,, cries; The "`old-fash-
ioned, winter" of Dickens, with ,
• Menthe, of snow andskating, has
heboine*'' really " old' =fashioned.
Montreal, *knell expeetedra fall
Of 130 inches of snow every win-
ter seventy years, ago, now ek,..
Pects only 80 inches,
Fish have'. migrated northe
Wardi:i Until about thirty-EVe
years ago- cod were only found
Off the Coast, of Greenland as far
as Godthaab. Now they are
found '500 "Milet farther north.
The change has had a great ef-
fect on the. diet. Of the Green-
landers and Eskimos, Cod has
replaced Seal to a great extent'
as the common food,
In Scandinavia the tree-line
has moved Many miles north-
wards. In Canada and Russia
wheat is grown MI land that A
century ago Was frozen the
year round, The -thawing .of the
ground has' resulted in giant
triantticitha being uncovered in
Siberia. The animals Were frozen
where they fell centuries ago.
In Greenland the thaw has
revealed traces of ' the 'Viking
occupation of more than. 1;060
yoos ago, When Eric the'Red
crossed ,the Atlantic and founded.
settlements there with a peptilet,-
tion of 10,000 there was no inen=
of Ice: This fee!' therefore;
not the first tithe . that the led
hat reseeded, '
EXpertt And it difficult to
'measure exactly hew- fait the tee
of the Aretic'. is retreating; but
think it may be 500 feet a yolif
Thek,,ean Measure the retreat of
the glaciers all .Over the, north,
eft hemisphere. In, serne .eaSeS -
it is spectacular. One glatior in
Alaska
lat-7 been -retreating 466-
yirdg a yoot,. s‘ottid.
Itoottilaviiticb to. be, MOVedilie,,
cause the thawing of the ground
resulted: in it co lapsing tinder
the houses,
The thiiVinialtetllilliSsible for
ships to toil in Sinfinier through
the "north-beat passage" from the
Atlantic td the Pacific over the
'"top"' of lIttStia. A report -not
Jail 'Sentences
Long and Short
A 22-year-old Madrid bank
clerk ,was recently condemned to
a total of 1,590 years' imprison7
ment for forging 393 cheques
valued at $5,000 -and ' stealing
$25,000. ' •
Such amazing longer-than-life
sentences are permitted by
Spanish 'law* and' this one is not
a record. •
In 1893 the mayor of a town ,
,in Southern Spain was convicted
on 217 counts of forging public
document's. As the maximum
penalty for this "Offen'ce was
then 14 years' imprisonment• the
-judge sentenced the mayor to
217 terms of 14, years each—a
total of 3,038 years.
.The annals of crime ' reveal '
many other instances of strange
prison sentences, The death pen.;
alty is usually 'considered the
last rigour of the law, but in.
Minnesota in 1922 a man who,
had been convicted of three
murders, was, cendemne,d
to serve two years in prison • be-
fore being hanged.
A San Francisco judge gave
decision* unparalleled in legal:
records;, in sentencing a footnad",,
who was charged with attenipt,,
ing commit a robbery. The,
man was sentenced to imprison-
ment "for half the tern' of his
natural life,' •
The statistics of a life insur-
ance: eompany had to be studied
befere it could be decided hoW
Many years this curious sentence
comprised. The man went to ,
.prison for 35 years.
Lyinan William Hall, who was
released 'from a Chicagd prison
-at the age of 81 in 1904, after,.
spending 57 years behind bars,
had this to say about the new
.World he is catching nti
all seems kinda- crazy to me:
When I went to prison it Was all
horse and 'ling& and there
Weren't any Of these things
Called aeroplanes I kinda ,catch
myself wondering whether - f
Wasn't happier inside. I sorta got
Used to being- there; it seemed
like home.''
What must surely lie the
shortest sentence on record was"
passed On 'a Chicago Met some
years age for opening ti letter
addressed to his wife Where he
tiltpected:hf,tarrying.bif ran iii ;
trigue. • :t
Said the. :j1.146 solemnly: "the
law must be ntihefd;Peeple who
tamper 'with themella intik Siia
fer.the coriseqUendeS. I sentence
Yeti to 26. seconds' inipriSett4
Mete
4"aking but: his :-Watch,.,1.tild
fudge ;)+i at ely., cpunted the:•ted
donds, When he reached `:twenty
five,'t` he inOtiOned the surprised
husband .to-"leaVe: Cbttrt,
free Marc.
Art is lilt ail end in itself, but
triethiS" of addretSing
—MOUssOrgSkk.
That- Ontario farmers got as
much, as. they did •get in the new
Farm Products Marketing Act,
is probably the strongest indi-
cation yet 'of a coming provin-
cial electidn. • -
The present Administration,
particularly Premier. Frost„ have
never, been known for enthusi-
asm about producer controlled
orderly' marketing. The amend-
ments of the Milk Control Act
four years ago were achieved
over :the ,,objections of the gov-
ernment, because the persua-
siveness of the then Leader of
the Opposition, E. B, Joliffe,
swayed a, number of, govern-
ment supporters, to side with
- him in the Agricultural Com-
mittee of the Legislature...
In the absence of Mr: Jollif-
howeVer, since the fall elec-
tion in • 1951, no strong voice has
been heard from the opposition
henclies Upholding the farmers'
cause. •
Explosive `Meetings
, Time was when an agrieul-'
itiraf Meeting would not lure
more, there a 'handful of farmera
away from their chores or
bowling , „night., With
priCes and especially 'since the
introductiOn bethellog Market-'
Ang Seheme,' 'this has, Changed."
Today it is nothing 'unusual to
see 100 or,800 farm peeplei crowd
into the,' largest:, hall , avgil able .
,WhreneVer 'there' is ooxitrover,
siaT subjectylo be' discussed, end'
there.are-tplenty0 :farmer comer
out in, flocks, ,,
Stearn has been up
in these meetings over the last
two years to' the point that the
•government Nyas,,,gettipg .wor.
*lee and firiallY indicated its
willingness "to -give ' prodifters
the'powers'jhey had -been 7 ask
big for ,,threugh the, Ontario
Federaiten of Agriculture:
The' explosion carte a few
weeks ago when Ontario hog
Producers met in annual cOnven-
tion, and were told that the goy-
errunent wanted to Submit their
Marketing ScheMe to another
Vote Cif the Prodilters:-
Had it, not 'been for the. strong
Stand taken by the old guard
froth, diey County; a campaign
to threw' but the scheme Weigel
now, be under way; but Orey
stoo fast end held the fort. For
the first time in a generation,
instead of 'being presented with
a resolution of gratitude, a gov-
ernment was told to get out of
its "timidity", forget "political
expediency" and tome across
With the goods,
ilirther Ainendrinenta Needed
The Marketing Act as it
reeda today tindetlbtedly is an
improvement oh old legislation.
This IS no reason 'though to
smugly' ,,sit back and forget about
it With all the teeth put filth-
the AO, there Still are holes hi
the denture through which
many a!hag Could 'slip.
The new powers include
rectien arid Control', but not
the 'power tar market, 1;e: buy
and Sella neither the poWer to
PreaCese. All these ate heeded
to teeth* Order in Marketing,
Although Marketing agencies
authorized, fix pro-
Of -'14. regulated
ptiediiCti theyhet have 'the
power tia ;:derixpet anyhektY.
buy at thM fixed 'price The' dey
mar, done. when two or three
of the large buyers dabble' in
,
MOVIE! :HAUL OF FAME TVs is as1(Och'it thlF
proposed MOVI.d.intitetim .and Hail of •r Feiriid.: lye' located' in'''
41611VwOod, the building. 'v411 .ctr..-liain Waydrobet, sets 'and eauine
night, A .derhereaterit:6:1 ser with a Wfirlting east and crew-
teoitii-ed fit it, showing` tourists how' movies are made.„
Cartoonist,, Flonored by Ho `e Town
J. R. Williams, the man who
cani•rout of machine:shop in
"Ohio, la' -teach 1)-oit
nacle of fame as the cartoonist
of OUT-OUR WAY, now Owns ó
citation'aWarded -tO him by the
Alliance Chamber of Commerce
for bringing honor to Ms for-
infer home town. 'Presentation
was nitideata dinner,attended
b1, 500 ,citizens of Arlianca.
rFor the nicely bits of fun
114t noted ,son of Allictime has„
prOyidi:di ft 6r grtatal
fui," feaCO ronelhaa'
a • mark . •of .' ke!
terid this citation 46 J.. R. Wit
tribute to his! sUs'eeh
i& the field friendly ctl.n•icaq •
hire. Ali Of Us iii Alliance
enjoyed his hOrneroUt, down-
`fa-earth carfoopt,'",„.
Jim Williams C,Y4•60 ;to
eke as a bay in -tiit'tee'nif
tended Mt. Union tikillegiribrief,,
ly then learned‘the machinists'
"trade -at the Margati Engineer.,
ing Co., :and the Affiance Ma"-
chine Ca::
J ' J. WILLIAMS
U s4cis while Weekitid 1(4
Alliance Machine that he A few month's later, in' March'
Wrapped up a bundle of dra').q Of .1922; the,,,' first 0 UTr
ings and sent them +6 N E A WAY cai•tooli appeared iffilOWS-
SerViCe in Cleveland, He was papers. Today some I00 daily'
hired immediatelY. pap carry the feature:,
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