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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-07-12, Page 60,104 WIFE AND HUSBAND; SPAIN, 1937: The yd'utig studentt hove no illeriloriee of the horror of civil wear,. 1NVERTIVE MIND — Rod Kleis, 13 years old, rides a mod- em-day version of the old-time "boneshoker" high-wheel bicycle. Rod's bike has an inverted frame to which are at- tached welded pipe extensions, That's riding high. England's Canals. Old But •Important The trayeller in the English countryside Is sometimes .aston- ished to see a long, narrow boat, its superstructure painted in, vis yid, heraldic colours, emerging frem waving fields Of corn, and vanishing among the shadows at the far end of a placid stretch of water. In the back streets of some grimy industrial city, many miles from the sea, he might find a powerful tug struggling between the blank and blacken- ed walls of warehouses, towing in its wake an unwieldy string of barges, or, driving through the north west, he might come sud- denly on the tall superstructure of an ocean-going cargo ship, be., leg dragged, very cautiously, to- wards the heart of Manchester. The canals and waterways on which these craft ply are now so Old that they are often difficult to recognize. The trains and ears speed by them, swift and un- heeding, for the green banks, curved stone bridges and an- cleat, crumbling wharves blend easily into the surrounding coun. tryside. Yet they are still an ims portant part of the national econ- omy. Few people appreciate that the waterways are a vast system which stretches over much of the British Isles, and that it is possible to travel by boat all the way from Gloucester to York- shire, or from London to Llan- gollen. In the Midlands and in the North the countryside is criss-crossed with an intricate system of navigable waterways, Two hundred years have pass- ed since the modern canal sys- tem was introduced into Eng- land, and for almost half of that time they provided the only ef- ficient means of transporting heavy goods and equipment over long distances. Even today they continue to carry an important and increasing proportion of the nation's merchandise. The intro- duction of this transport system into England was the work of one man . , who endured per- sonal hardship, and came close to ruin before he was able to persuade the nation of the value and importance of his plans. He worked against the advice of ex- perts, and was for a time the laughing stock of the country, but two centuries •of inland navi- gation have more than vindi- cated his name. This is the story of his life, assembled from the few records which remain, and also, in some measure, the story of the men whom he employed to achieve his purpose, — From "The Canal Duke;" by Hugh Malet. What Do You Know About SOUTHEAST ASIA? 7ie 1 40,1•51 I went on the nicest kind of picnic the other day — a picnic to teach people the art of hav- ing better and easier picnics. It was sponsored by the Uni- versity of Missouri and the .Jackson County extension ser- vices, "It's going to be a workshop of ceeteloor cookery," Doris Beebe, county extension home economist, told me when she invited me to watch the cook- ing and stay for lunch 'to taste the results. This picnic was held in a shelter house in the play area of a large city park. A fireplace was nearby, but a half-dozen types of outdoor grills were also provided so that fire mak- ing and cooking of various kinds could be demonstrated. The meat of the day was lamb, so Esther Mobley, home econo- mist for the Lamb Council, was there to help direct the prep- aration. Women participating in the learn - more - about - outdoor - cooking, program were divided into small groups, each to cook a different dish, but all to ob- serve each of the projects. Rolled shoulder of Iamb, shish kebab with glaze, lamb ribs, chaps, and "lauttenflied" legs of lamb were the meats cooked, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Science Moni- tor. When all the food was cook- ed, we served ourselves, samp- ling Iamb cooked in five ways (all of them good, too) and vegetables that had been plat- ed in' single portions on heavy folis- These were ' frozen veget- ables with salt and butter ad- ded and the packages folded to seal. They were then laid on a grill above the coals and cooked 1e-20 minutes, turned once in a while, One of our readers has sent a recipe for barbecuing a meat loaf in the kitchen oven. "Here is a delicious, savory meat loaf to add variety and spice to ordinary ground round," writes Carole Patricia Lewis. BARBECUED MEAT LOAF 2 strips bacon % cup bread crumbs Ye cup milk 1 egg 11/2 teaspoons salt eh teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons minced onion VA pounds ground beef ee pound pork Barbecue sauce Chop bacon very fine and mix with bread crumbs, milk, egg, salt, pepper, and onion. Combine with meat• and place in loaf pan, Pour barbecue sauce over top and bake for 1 hour at 350° F. Barbecue Sauce: Combine ea cup catchup, Ye cup vinegar, 1 teaspoon chili powder,- and 2 tablespoons chopped onion. Cook for 5 minutes. * * Perhaps you would like to improve on a canned spiced ham by cooking it with a pine- apple glaze; you may then want to take it on a picnic or serve it at a patio meal. "I have tried this recipe many times with great -success," writes Phyllis Garden Porter. SPICED HAM WITH PINEAPPLE GLAZE 1 12-ounce -canned spiced ham Whole cloves 3 tablespoons pineapple juice 4 tablespoons dark brown sugar Place ham in baking dish and add water to cover the, bottom of dish. Dot with cloves, Com- bine pineapple juice and brown auger and spread over ham. Bake at 375° F. 20-25 minutes. If you want: o make sand- wiches or serve a cold meat dish, try this recipe for spiced beef tongue sent . by Olive V. Armstrong. She writes: "Beef tongue is good served either hot or cold. Using a pressuie cooker, it doesn't take long to soak." SPICED BEEF TONGUE 1 beef tongue --- 3-4 pounds 1 cup cider vinegar 1 tablespoon mixed spices, tied in cheesecloth Sever (almost)) tongue with, water; add salt and cook for 1 hour. Remove from heat and add vinegar and spices. Add more water if needed, Cook un- til tongtv, is fork tender. Dis- card spice bag. Slit heavy skin on tongue and remove, also removing membranous portions of roots. kleturn tongue to spicy liquid and allow to, stand until c091. This may be served hot if seen. wiela 4 V • "Summer time is fruit gela- tin time," writes Alice AMYX Hugo. She then suggests a salad and a dessert COTTAGE CHEESE SALAD 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin fi-ounce can unsweetened applesauce 3t4 cup cottage cheese eta cup '`red hots" (cinnamon flavored candies) Follow directions for making the gelatin that are on the pack- age; add "red bets" to hot gela- tin; add other ingredients and chill. "Try dressing up an orange dessert with colored miniature marshmallows — this is pretty as well as delicious and is a good summer substitute for oven-hot desserts," she writes. ORANGE DESSERT 1 package orange-flavored gelatin 1 small can crushed pineapple 1 small can mandarin oranges 7 tokay grapes, seeded and cut into quarters ee cup chopped pecans or walnuts 1 cup whipping whipped 1, cup miniature colored marshmallows Use juice from fruits for liquid called for in mixing the gelatin. Mix according to pack- age direction and let set in re- fnigerator until partially set. , Add fruit, marshmallows, and nuts. Fold in whipped cream. Chill. * Many people think a picnic isn't complete without home- made cookies, so you may want to take along some applesauce bars. The following recipe was sent by Dorothy V; Grady who writes: "These are moist, and freeze well — they are our fav- orite cookie. No eggs required," APPLESAUCE BARS 1 cup sugar 1 cup unsweetened applesauce 34 cup vegetable shortening 2 cups flour spteicasepoons pumpkin pie 1 teaspoon soda 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 cup seedless raisins % cup black walnuts package,_ chocolate bits (6- oz. package) Combine sugar and apple- rau,ce; add shortening., Combine dry, ingredients and sift; add to. .applesauce mixture. • Flour the raisins and stir into ,batter. Add nuts and vanilla. Pour into pan or 'cookie sheet (16x12 inehe.$). ,Sprinkle 'chocolate chips over top of batter. Bake. at 350° F. until brown, and pick inserted comes out clean, When. cool, cut into bars. Bottom Falls' Out Of Shelter' Program The bottom has dropped out' of the 'United States" fallout, shelter program, and Jew 'seem to particularise, care. This program' that most every- body seemed to want last' fall, few 'seem 'to want 'as summer' begins: The other day a House sub- committee cut. out the $460,000,- 000" shelter' incentive plan• from a civil defense program fl oe $695,- 000,000 — and no , loud screams were ,:heard. President Kennedy; who has gone to bat for other programs that were threatened,by the con- gressional axe, has thus far ignored this setback of his civil defense' program. Even the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense, Steuart L. Pittman, has not rush- ed to its defense. Its earlier advocates in Con- gress are conspicuous by their silence. Last fall, it seemed, many peo- ple were weighing the possibility of fallout shelters; now fallout shelters are one of the most un- talked about subjects in the country, The current public apathy to fallout shelters is directly re- lated to the 'international diplo- triatic picture. In a sense the reaction of the public and that of the politicians is related, The public wanted — or was persuaded to want--fallout shel- ters when as a result 'of the Ber- lin crisis generated by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev it looked as if the 'Milted states ob. mights be hit by thermonuclear 'bombs, But now that threat has evap.- drated, what with Mr. Khrosh., ehev talking peaceful coexistence again and Uncle Sam building. Up his fighting muscle, So the public clamor for shelters have IsStlt 148,-1962 almost evaporeted, writes Neal Sanford in the Christian Science Monitor, What has, caused the congres- sional friends of the $460,000,000 fallout shelter program to fail to rally to its defense is their recog- nition of the political facts of lire. They ,prefer to fight for an issue in a climate that includes the prospect of success, As they see it, the present climate could hardly be worse for pushing a shelter program, The public at large is not building shelters, and not as interested in federal help • in building shelters as it once was, The program's advocates are convinced that Premier Khettsh- ehev will sooner or later again stir up a crisis that will make the American people shelter con- scious, It could be over Berlin. It could be the collapse of seine future summit meeting, It could be over Laos or South Viet Nam. But, knowing Mee Klerustehev„ they are convinced that he will be pounding his crisis callope again, and then. a shelter pro- gram would stand some prospect of congressional approval, If the whole program were being eliminated, the reaction of the civil defense authorities might be another matter, But enough funds are left to cover administration costs and the na, tional surveys which are being made of poseible existing shelter possibilities, What is being del- eted—or as they see it, postponed —is the actual shelter building program, which is going to take a lot of study and preparation before it can be effectively im- ,plemented anyway. ' Inside Franco Spain (Last of Three Dispatches) By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn, MADRID—"Spain is not an- other Cuba. The great danger is that the free world 'will be mis- led into labelling all opposition to General Franco as Communist, and thus withhold its support from us at the critical moment." The speaker was a Spanish Socialise and he was referring to the myth that General Franco is the only alternative to commun- ism in Spain. It is a myth which implies that all of his opponents are Reds. It, is myth which Franco carefully cultivates. Is Franco the only answer to communism? If the Franco re- gime were overthrown would Spain once again be plunged into Civil War? The hope that it would not dates to June 24, 1961, which marked ' the formation of the Uniori of Democratic ,Forces ded- icated to driving Franco from power. As, the same Spanish So- cialist quoted above explained to me: "It has ,taken us 25 years to bury our ifferences and to unite in 'common opposition to Franco.", Before June .24 there, were no. fewer than 27 "demotratic" (i,e, non-Conimemiet)parties plan- ning ' the ,dictatOr's s downfall. Their programs, ranged from re:. iteration' of the 'Bourbon motes archy to forming a popular Front with .the'Comrnunists. ' - The• emall,,undeegreund, Span- ish Communist party Is.ess heard. a, step-tip 'in 'radio propa- ganda by Europe's' other Reds. Recently, . -however, ' there has been a' step-Up. in raffle propae ,ganda from,- Eastern . Europe and a group was forneed in Po- land to , coordinate "material aid" for the, Communists inside Spain. The Spanish Reds, of course, can be counted on to contribute as much .as possible to any con- fusion or strife that might' foi- 1 o w Franco's caisappearence from the political scene. '"To cooperate or not to co- operate with the Communists" — this has been the rock upon which most anti - Franco coali- tions have foundered in the past. But The Union of Demo- cratic Forces has declared itself against "coa'litio'n with forces of a totalitarian nature, whether Communist or Fascist." The UDF runs the political gamut froth the Socialists oh the left to the Ohristian• Demos crate' on the right, and includes Basque nationalist parties as well as the illegal General Workers' Union (UOT), Its lea- der is, Manuel. Gimenet Fernan- des, professor of canon lase at Seville! -University. Although the UDF represents the most promising develop- ment in opposition to Franco to date, the Meet spectacular eppe- eition has conie from university students. .All during the month of May there •were -student strikes •and demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona,. Often. they were badly organized and incoherent, "FIRST" FOR CONNIE—Con- (lie Francis will represent the United States at the Interna- tional Popular Song Festival in Sopot, Poland, at request of the State Deportment. It's the first time a U,S, citizen has participated in such an event. UNBREAKABLE MARK "I know they're hanging up new baseball records every sea- son,' admits Lefty Gomez, one- time pitching great of the New York Yankees, "but they don't seem to be able to break my record for the longest horrle run ever hit in the Stadium.. Jimmy Foxx hit it off me!" as to their aims. But, what they lacked in content, the strikes made up for in enthusiasm. Spain's angry young men were letting off steam. Students- also introduced new techniques which they borrow- ed partly from Mahatma Gand- hi and partly from the U.S. and British nuclear disarmament movements. Spain, the land of violent extremes; was initiated to non-violent or passive resis- tance: the sit-down, the hunger strike, the day of. mourning. What is significant about these students, is that they come from middle class homes and repre- sent an elite. They are also too young to have known the Span- ish Civil War at first hand; they have none of the fears of older Spaniards, inhibited by horrify- ing memories of this war, Many students visit Germany, France and , Italy _during their summer holidays, or play host to young northern Europeans tra- velling in Spain. These con- .tants have opened, Spanish eyes to the freedoms enjoyed by young people in other countries, and have increased their own discontent. Women, t o o, a r e playing a More important' role in the op- position to Franco. , Recently 70 women were arrested in Ma- drid when they staged a light- ning demonstration on the feast day• of San 'Isidro, Purpose of the demonstration: to show their, .solidarity with, striking indus- trial workers of • northern Spain. Inaimuch ,as public assemblies are lammed by law, the women had to keep walking in groups around the Puerto del. Sol, Price-fixing Plot For Hot Dogs? Is there a price-fixing plot in the field, of koeher frankfurter's and frankfurter rolls? An AO* cussation to this effect has been Made by a Federal Grand which has returned indictment; against several wholesalers and trade associations. It is a pro- ceeding which will be followed with profound interest by all who have tasted a frankfurter,. whether kosher or not, and alt who have nibbled a roll, be it hest ciooi hamburger, a wienie cartel, For the very .a thought of frankfurter a sauerkraut syndicate or a mus- tard monopoly, is enough to make a believer in the Ameri- can system flinch. True, the hot dog represents. a certain stand- ardization in shape and in con- tent, Whether it is known as Coney Island chicken, a Polo Ground puppy or by some other affectionate and endearing term, it is likely to be built on the same longitudinal axis, possess tapering ends and a curving cen- ter, and be warm and spicy to the teste. A hot dog is, or should be, a lust dog the world over, But this is not to say that variation is out of the question, Of hot dogs, as of other objects of human longing, it can be said that some like them big, some like them small; some like them with, some like them without, And price, certainly, would seem to be as likely an area as any' for diversity. The government may have sunk its teeth into something here. —New York .Herald Tribune TABLE TALKS zicunsz Andziews. 'YOUNG ECAPEE: FROM .EAST BERLIN'—Art infant 'is Carried to Safety after it wcis pulled through et tufted from East Berlin into Watt Berlin, The 10,itich high tunnel was dug. by the baby's father, a West Berliner whose' family was trapped in the Eastern sector when the karts dosed the border last August, cream, Moderate Democratic Group Offers Hope for the Future which is the Times Square of Madrid. None of them shouted slogans; instructions were to assemble for a "silent demon- stration," Among those arrested were. the wives of conductor Odon Alonzo, playwright Alfonso Sas- tre; ,painter Antonio Saura, and poet Dionisio Ridruejo. They were fined the equivalent of $450 each. Another recent development has been the marked sympathy which Catholic priests and pro- minent Catholic laymen h a v • shown for striking workers, sympathy which led to the ar- rest in. Barcelona of four mem- bers of Pax Christi (the Peace of Christ), an international Ca- tholic organization. All of these are strands in the democratic opposition which is building• up against the Franco regime. It is highly unlikely that they will try to put an end to this regime with a bloody insur- rection on the barricades, in the opinion of most informed „observers. The b i g danger to Franco appears to be a palace revolt, a coup engineered from inside his own establishment. And it could be led by just .such a coalition of Christian Democrats, in n n - archists, ex-Falangists and So- cialists as' is signaled by the for- mation of the Union of Demo- cratic Forces. No doubt it would have the enthusiastic support of, the uni- versity students, a n d of their mothers who had the courage to get themselves arrested in the Puerto del Sol. (End of Series)