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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-09-26, Page 2• Our Queen's Job Is No Snap According To American Reporter (Second of Four Dispatches). By TOM A. CULLEN NEA Staff. -Correspondent London — (NEA) —Elizabeth 11„ Britain's tiny, blonde, blue- eyed Queen, is the highest-paid female business executive in the world. Her personal allowances, $1,- E00,000 a year, tax free, is fabulous by American standards. Tn comparison, President Eisen- hower gets only $100,000 a year, although his expenses are pro- vided for by Congress. Another• half million dollars is earmarked for members of the royal family, including $196,000 for the Queen Mother and $121,- 000 121;000 for Prince Philip, the Duke et Edinburgh. (At the other end of the scale, Princess Margaret gets a paltry $16,800 a year to live on.) Is royalty worth it? erre Brit- ish taxpayers getting their money's worth? Is the Queen earning her keep? In the gracious 31 -year-old Queen who will be their guest in October, Americans will find the hardest-wroking career wo- man since Elizabeth I. In fact, her 1957 social calendar would have floored her illustrious an- eestor, the Good Queen Bess. Take the State visits alone. In 1957 Elizabeth will have paid State visits to three of the most important counries in Western Europe, as well as to the two capitals of North America. Portugal in February, France in April, Denmark in May, and now, the United States and Can- ada in October — the Queen's travels have left her little time to devote to her family. State visits are more than so- eial calls. Their nature is part- ly political, the -Queen's job this year being to knit up some of the alliances that came unravel - aid at the time of Suez, a job which would make most diplo- mats quail. And in this respect, each State visit must be as carefully pre- pared as a new stage production. There are new lines to be learn- ed: the Queen must be briefed an the politics of the country the is visiting, its leading per- sonalities. Speeches must be prepared for State banquets and formal oc- easions and these may include a few phrases in a foreign lan- guage for the Queen to memo- rize. (French is the only foreign language in which she is fluent.) Then there are the fittings at the dressmaker — clothes were an important itP v arriizabeth s visit to France in April. The French would have been quick to comment had she appeared dowdy. Television has added to her ertieal. What her most severe arctic, 32 -year-old Lord Altrin- cham, said recently about the Queen's TV manner may be true, for many British observers agree that her speeches are "a pain in the neck," as the peer remarked. During her recent televised speech at the Danish State ban- quet given in her honor, the Queen never once lifted her eyes from her script, and the TV cameras were placed at such an odd angle that viewers saw only her brow and sparkling Tiara. Even when she is abroad the red leather dispatch boxes fol- low her remorselesly, with their important papers for her to sign. At Buckingham Palace her Eehedule is fairly rigid. Eliza- beth rises early and enjoys a hearty, English -style breakfast with her husband, skimming through the morning news- papers over coffee. From 9 o'clock to 9:30 Eliza- beth is in the nursery, getting Prince Charles ready for school, helping Princess Anne to choose a frock. Then the Queen takes the ele- vator down to the sitting room which doubles as her office; Her first visitor is her private sec- retary, dapper, moustached Sir Michael Adeane, 46, whose grandfather did the same job for her grandfather. Sir Michael brings with him the day's business: Cabinet min- utes, memoranda, letters from minister s, governors-general, ambassadors; documents for sig- nature, programs of impending functions, suggestions dor en- gagements almost a year ahead; petitions, appeals, protests from every quarter of the globe. At 11:30 the Queen may re- ceive a government minister or an ' ambassador presenting his credentials. Audiences no longer take place in the India Room, with its display of Oriental shields and daggers, glittering with jade, emeralds and rubies. The Queenuses a small audi- ence room next door. Her afternoon schedule may include the laying of a corner- stone which • case Elizabeth leaves Buckingham Palace by a side gate in a limousine flying the royal standard from its radiator cap. Once on public view, Eliza- beth is subjected to a set of rigid "Do's and Don'ts." If she is tired, she must never show it. If she is bored, she must smile and bear it, Nor must she blink or frown — such grimaces could be interpreted as signs of dis- approval. When the Queen visits Ca- nada and the U.S. in October, viewers will notice that she has developed a trick for warding off fatigue during long stands. First, she rises on the hall of the foot; then she puts the weight on the heel, stretching her toes upwards. It's an old guardsman's gimmick taught to her by her father, George VI. Those women who dream how wonderful it would be to be Queen of England for a day, might ponder the qualifications for the role in 1957. Feed Spiders To Drive Them Crazy Best fed and most satisfied spiders in the world are those living a life of luxury in a special air-conditions apartment at the TJariversity of Southern Cali- fornia. There are 70 of there. And they owe their pampered exist- ence to the fact that they are being used for measuring the effects of chemicals on be- haviour, with particular empha- sis on the study of schizophrenia —split personality. Each day they are given juicy live flies to eat; and all that's asked of them in return is that they spin their webs in' special frames supplied for the purpose. Without its being aware of the fact, each spider is eventually given a fly that has had its blood drained off and replaced by blood taken from a human schizoprenic patient. The fly is dead, of course, but the spider is deceived into thinking it's alive and buzzing by the twang- ing of a tuning fork near its web. Then the effect on its web - weaving is noted. When fed with blood from certain types of schizophrenic patient, spiders become listless, spend most of the time in their little paper houses and spin webs that are completely lacking in the cus- tomary symmetry, RETURN TRIP—Almost ready for shipment to San Francisco, this massive statue of Christopher Columbus dwarfs workmen In Verona, Italy. The statue is the work of sculptor Vittorio di Colbertaldo of Verona, who was commissioned to do it by the Arts Commission of San Francisco, It will be erected on Telegraph Hill later this year. WELL-READ — Nancy Louise Smith, 8, whizzed through the 150 books stacked behind her in the public library's summer read - Ing program to top all others. She also read 90 books to her six-year-old brother, Ty. Nancy holds a map of Kansas, given program participants. TA BLE TALKS s!a` ciatve. And.*ws Casseroles make the cooking problem much easier — pro- vided, that is, the rest of the fam- ily like casserole dishes — be- cause there are so many meal - in - one - dish• recipes that they can be varied, prepared early, decorated easily, and served with pride. With a salad and dessert a casserole meal is simple. • • • CASSEROLE OF TUNA FISH 1 package noodles (8 -oz.) 6 cups boiling water 1 teaspoon salt 1/ cup butter 2 tablespoons flour 2 cups milk 2 tablespoons diced pimiento 2 tablespoons green pepper, diced 1 tablespoon onion, diced 11/4 cups diced, cooked carrots 1 small head cooked cauli- flower 1 71/2 -oz, can (1 cup) tuna or other fish Buttered cereal or cracker crumbs Drop noodles into boiling salt- ed water. Cook until tender. Melt butter in saucepan over low heat and blend in flour. Add milk slowly, stirring constantly, until sauce is smooth and thick- ened. Stir in vegetables. Drain cooked noodles and place a layer in a buttered cas- serole; arrange half the vege- table mixture• Over top, then place fish in center; add remain- der of vegetables -in -sauce, then snore noodles. Cover with but- tered cereal or cracker crumbs. Bake at 350° F. for 30 minutes, Remove from oven, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and serve. Serves 6-8. * • * A chicken puff with an egg topping is easy to make and in- teresting to serve. This recipe serves 6. BAKED CHICKEN PUFF 1 can (11/4 cups) condensed cream of mushroom soup 14 cup milk 1 cup cubed cooked chicken 2 cups cooked green beans, drained 4 eggs, separated 1/4 cup shredded Canadian cheese Combine soup and milk in a 11/2 -quart casserole; add chicken and beans. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, beat egg yolks well; add cheese. Beat egg whites and fold, into yolk -cheese mixture. Pile this fluffy egg topping on chicken mixture and continue baking for 90 minutes. • * * A casserole which you will find especially decorative for party serving combines deviled eggs, shrimp, and special white sauce. It serves 6. SHRIMP CASSEROLE WITH DEVILED EGGS Deviled Eggs: 6 hard -cooked eggs 1 tablespoon softened butter 2 teaspoons lemon juice or vinegar 3/4 teaspoon prepared mustard 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt ee teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon salad dressing Cut eggs in half; remove yolks and press through sieve. Com- bine with all other ingredients. Refill whites. White Sauce: 3 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon chopped onion 3 tablespoons flour 11/2 cups milk 2 tablespoons chopped olive Melt butter; add onion and cook until golden brown, Add flour and mix; add mill, cook until thickened, stirring con- stantly. Add chopped olives. The Shrimp 2 cups shrimp Place deviled eggs, stuffed side up, in greased, shallow cas- serole. Scatter shrimp around the eggs. Pour the white- sauce over eggs and shrimp. Dust with paprika. Bake at 375°F. 25-30 minutes, or until bubbling. • • * Combine cheese, mushrooms,, and rice with chopped almonds for this unusual casserole. It serves 6. CHEESE -RICE SPECIAL 31 cup canned mushrooms, stems and pieces 1 tablespoon chopped onion 3 cup chopped blanched almonds 1 tablespoon butter 1 eup uncooked rice E tablespoons finely chopped parsley y/' cup shredded cheese 13/4 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon meat extract 1% cups boiling water and mushroom liquid, Drain mushrooms; save liquid. Lightly brown mushrooms, onions, and almonds in the fat, Add rice, parsley, and shredded cheese. Mix thoroughly. Place in casserole. Add salt and meat extract to water mushroom liquid. Pour over rice mixture. Cover. Bake at 375' F. for 45-60 minutes or until rice is done. Serves 6, Long Range Forecasts Anybody who has thought about it at all must have won- dered why amateurs, with no meteorological training, ,can blithely give a forecast for a corning winter or summer with- out batting an eye. In contrast, the professionally trained fore- caster never attempts more than a day or two specifically, and be- yond that only generalities. The reason, of course, is that the amateur weather forecaster is, consciously or otherwise, a fake. You just can't forecast a season in specific detail in advance. In the face of all this the professional forecasters have maintained a dignified but tor- rid silence. Now, through the president of their organization of 6,500 members, they have is- sued on official statement of what any trained forecaster, not a tribal medicine man, can do in the way of tabbing the up- coming weather. Weather forecasts, they say, A Canadian Fights Arthritis "My mother had rheumatoid arthritis until she died," said Dr. Arthur W. Bagnall of Van- couver B.C., explaining why he specialized in, this crippling di- sease. "My father was a doctor and was always on the lookout for something that would cure or help her. I joined in the search." Last week in New York. the 45-yek-old Canadian, now one of the world's top experts on arthritis, reported that the search has, led to a remarkably effective weapon to combat rheumatoid • arthritis which is gradually crippling 4.5 million Americans. At the same time, he offered new hope 'that the cause of the disease may finally be discovered. The new weapon is an old ' drug, chloroquine used widely since 1944 against malaria. It is "closer to the ideal for a long- term, safe control of rheumatoid arthritis than any other agent can be prepared in some detail • for two or three days in ad- vance. That's all, Even then the reliability of the prediction de- creaGes progressively after the first day. Forecasts three to seven days in advance must be issued in less specific terms, and are ordinarily restricted to 'a state- ment that the temperature should be higher or lower than normal. For periods of one week to one month in advance the aver- age temperature and precipita- tion for the period can be com- pared with the norm for that period with some skill. But the present status of meteorology does not permit a forecaster to specify, day by day variations in ,the weather more than one week in advance. The position of the American Meteorological Society is that individuals or organizations that publish forecasts for conditions more than one month in advance mislead the public, if they do not clearly describe the forecasts as experimental and of unpro- ven value. Now we offer a long-range forecast—not on the weather, but on the amateur forecasts. We predict four months in advance that despite the American Me- teorological Society, about next November amateurs will start Saying, "They say we're going to have a rough winter this year." Or, "They say it will be warm and unhealthy." Or, "We'll pay now for all the heat we got last summer." Or, "Fellow up . in Granby (or Winsted, or Sims- bury, or Glastonbury) says the ducks have got unusually long bills this year. That means more snow than we've ever seen" One of the unerring earmarks of the amateur and untrained prophet is that he is never both- ered by facts or previous re- cords,—Hartford Courant. available," reported' Dr. Bagnall. Out of 125 patients, he said, chloroquine helped 70 per cent. In a third of them the disease is completely, arrested; - Six months to a year are need- ed before chloroquine reduces swelling of the joints. But, more important, it also reduces the general inflanunation ' of the body. This has led Dr. Bagnall to believe that unlike the corti- sone derivatives (until now, the major anti -arthritis weapons) chloroquine "acts on the disease itself. Rheumatoid arthritis af- fects every cell In the body, even though it manifests itself, under the strain of day-to-day living, by swelling and stiffening of the joints. I believe that, in some way, chloroquine gradually re- stores normal cell functioning." "Chloroquine is not a com- plete cure," Dr. Bagnall empha- sized. "Just as we cannot expect a cure for ulcers, we cannot ex- pect a single final answer to rheumatoid arthritis." Until the chloroquine takes hold, the Canadian specialist prescribes the cortisone deriva- tives "to avert immediate crip- pling." After a few months, how- ever, these often induce drastic reactions—ulcers, diabetes, kid- ney ailments. The reaction to chloroquine is rarely more than a skin rash or a touch of sea- sickness. The cost of the two drugs differs just as radically. Some cortisone derivatives run about $1,75 a day. Chloroquine costs about 10 cents per pill.— From Newsweek. Anna And The King The late nineteenth-century writings of English Schoolteach- er Anna Leonowens ("The Ro- mance of the Harem," "The English Governess at the Sia- mese Court"), which resulted in a book, "Anna and the King of Siam," and a musical comedy and a film, "The King and I," came under the educated fire of Thailand scholar Alexander B. Griswold, 50, a Baltimore bank- er. In Thailand to study Siamese art, his reserch led him to con- clude that "though Westerners think that every virtue the Thai royal family has displayed since Anna's time stems from her tact- ful teaching . a cool assess- ment suggests that Anna did not loom very large in the life of King Mongkut and his chil- dren." Griswold discounts An - suds story of an unfaithful wife of the King and her lover being burned at the stake as "pure imagination." "No other Siamese or European writer mentions this event ... though it was sup- posed to have been see, by half of Bangkok." Griswold predicts that "someday, if. history ceases to be one-sided ... King Mong- kut's name will rank higher than the names of the empire builders." REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT - Pooch Tinka Bell checked shutter speed, focus and lens opening and had sighted on a certain prize-winning shot. This photo was snapped immediately after Tinka discovered the only slip-up : no film. AND IT GREW, AND GREW Workmen use crow bars to pry the plaque denotingthe birth- place of atomic energy from the wall of Stag g Field Stadium in Chicago. The stadium is being razed. In the squash courts beneath the stands of the football stadium, Enrico Fermi and his associates achieved the first self-sustainin g nuclear reaction on Dec. 22, 1942.' ;