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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-04-21, Page 2TABLE TALKS darea��ew:. The first two recipes today come from "Way Down East" — from Massachusetts where they serve some of the tastiest foods you'll find in the United States, or anywhere for that natter, PORI' PIE 2 to 3 pounds lean pork 2 medium-size onions, sliced 4 carrots, diced Unay 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 cooked, thicken the broth with lour which has been beaten to a smooth paste with cream or milk. Add slices of meat. Put in a casserole and cover with a rich pie crust. Bake in a hot oven — about 450° F, — until crust is done and lightly brown- ed. Six servings. If desired, in- dividual casseroles may be used. a * * ORANGE, NUT, AND DATE BREAD Combine thoroughly: 3i cup sugar 3,6 cup soft shortening 2 eggs, beaten To this mixture add: Juice and pulp from one orange plus sufficient water to make 1 eup 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon double -action bak- ing powder 3ee teaspoon soda le teaspoon salt When thoroughly mixed, blend in one-half cup chopped nuts and one cup of dates cut fine. Place in loaf pan and al- low to stand 2G minutes before baking. Bake 50 to 55 minutes at 350* F, or until a tester thrust into the center comes out clean. Serve warm or cold. * Getting back to our own coun- try, it is generally admitted that there's no pea soup to equal the kind they turn out down in the Province of Quebec, here's. how you can make it at home — almmst a meal in itself. PEA SOUP HABITANT Soak in cold water for 12 hours 114 lbs. whole dried yel- low peas with 14 tsp baking soda Rinse peas well and place in pot with 314 qts. cold water and 14 lb. salt pork, diced, Bring to boil, skim well Add 34 cup diced carrots and turnips and one chopped onion. Simmer for area 4 hours Add salt and pep - SALLY'S SAWi 'Of course, It's just a question what you want to smell like." 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-incliu cake lay- ers 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons once - sifted cake flonr 1 cup finely -crushed graham wafers Ys cup fine granulated sugar 34 teaspoon salt 34 cop shortening 34 eup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs 35 cup milk ei teaspoon vanilla Measure into a mixing bowl the flour, graham wafer crumbs, sugar, salt, shortening and the 34 cup milk Beat thoroughly for 2 minutes; beat in the bak- ing -powder. Add the eggs, the 34 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 min- utes. 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. Sleepy -time Tales When a fourteen -year-old boy boarded a ship at Grimsby not long ago to have a look round, he suddenly began to feel sleepy so he settled himself in a corn- er for a nap. He awoke to find 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 atter ten minutes the congrega- tion were surprised to hear his voice becoming fainter and fainter, Then it tailed oft' completely and the preacher was seen to be leaning on the side of the pul- pit, emitting faint but unmis- takable snores. A churchwarden had to hasten up the pulpit steps and nudge him into wake- fulness. How he fell asleep while making his first budget state- ment at Simla years ago was revealed by a British govern- ment official when he retired, "Partly owing to the heat. but partly also, no doubt, to the wearisome effect of my first at- tempt at oratory, one by one every single member present went to sleep," he said, "And it is the simple truth that I actu- ally fell asleep myself in the course of my statement." A woman despises a man fur loving her, unless she happens to return his love. —Elizabeth Stoddard. Cartoonist Honored by J. R. Williams, the man who canoe out of a machine shop in Alliance, Ohio, to reach the pin- nacle of fame as the cartoonist of OUT OUR WAY, now owns a citation awarded to him by the Alliance Chamber of Commerce for bringing honor to his for- mer home town. Presentation was made at a dinner attended by 500 citizens of Alliance. "For the many bits of fun this noted son of Alliance has provided for us, we are grate- ful," read the citation, "and as a mark of our gratitude, we send this citation to J. R. Wil- liams in tribute to his succest in the field of friendly carica- ture. All of us in Alliance have enjoyed his humorous, down- to-earth cartoons. Jim Williams came to ' Alli- ance as a boy in his teens, at- tended Mt. Union College brief- ly, then learned the machinists° trade at the Morgan Engineer- ing Co. and the Alliance Mar chine Co. It was while working for Alliance Machine that he wrappedup a bundle of draw- ings and sent them to N E A Service in Cleveland. He was hired immediately. Home Town !,'R. WILLIAMS A few months later, in March of 1922, the first 0 UT OUR WAY cartoon appeared in news- papers. Today some 700 daily papers carry the feature. 11 1141'-•- B 61,111 WG6'i'1661610 6.181161.151 11= -^=rr..331ry.--.mak".." 111.10* PRIZE WINNERS AND WINNI,NG DESIGNS—Top photo, shows, right, Mrs. Ralph G. Young, of Oakville, Ont„ 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 Donker Bannister, of Queenston, Ont., who won the $300 second prize. Below, right to left, are the winning designs sub- mitted by Mrs. Young, Mrs. Bannister and Miss Marjorie Pollon, of Winnipeg, who won third prize of $200. PLAIN HORSE SENSE .. [sy F, (BOB) VON PI1,IS 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 coining provin- cial election. The present Administration, particularly Premier Frost, have never been known for enthusi- asm about producer controlled orderly marketing, The alinend- 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 ansence of Mr. Jollif- fe, however, since the fall elec- tion in 1951, no strong voice has been heard from the opposition benches upholding the farmers' cauge. Explosive Meetings Time was when an agricul- tural meeting would not lure more than s handful of farmers away from their chores or a bowling night. With falling prices and especially since the introduction of the Hog Market- ing Scheme, this has changed. Today it is nothing unusual to see '700 or 800 farm people crowd into the largest hall available. Whenever there is a controver- sial subject to be discussed, and there are plenty, farmers come out in flocks. Steam has been building up in these meetings over the last two years to the point that the government was getting wor- ried and finally indicated its willingness to give producers the powers they had been ask- ing for through the Ontario Federaiton of Agriculture. The explosion came a few weeks ago when Ontario hog producers met in annual conven- tion, and were told that the gov- ernment wanted to submit their marketing scheme to another vote of the producers. Had it not been for the strong stand taken by the old guard from Grey County, a campaign to throw out the scheme would now be under way; but Grey stood fast and held the fort. Fur the first time in a generation. instead of being presented with a resolution of gratitude, e gow ernment was told to get out of its "timidity", forget "political expediency" and come across with the goods. Further Amendments Needed The Marketing Act as it reads today undoubtedly is an improvement on old legislation. This is no reason though to smugly sit back and forget about it. With all the teeth put into the Act, there still are holes in the denture through which many a hog could slip. The new powers include "di- rection and control", but not the power to market, i.e. buy and sell, neither the power to process.- All these are needed to secure order in marketing. Although marketing agencies may be authorized to fix pro- ducer prices of the regulated product, they do. not have the power to compel anybody to buy at this fixed price. The day may come when two Or three of the large buyers combine in a buyers' strike, In such a case the marketing agency must be in a position to buy, process and store the product, Farmers need cooperatively owned processing and storage plants. Now is the time to get them, Jail Sentences Long and Short A 22 -year-old Madrid bank clerk was recently condemned to a total of 1,590 years' imprison- 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 documents. As the maximum penalty for this offence 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 condemned to serve two years in prison be- fore being hanged. A San Francisco judge gave a decision unparalleled in legal records, in sentencing a footpad who was charged with attempt- ing to commit a robbery. The man was sentenced to imprison- ment "for half the term of his natural life," The statistics of a life insur- ance company had to be studied before it could be decided how many years this curious sentence comprised. The man went to prison for 35 years. Lyman William Hall, who was released from a Chicago prison at the age of 81 in 1954, after spending 57 years behind bars, had this to say about the new world he is catching up with: "It all seems kinda crazy to nie. When I went to prison it was all horse and buggy and there weren't .any of these things called aeroplanes. I kinda catch myself wondering whether I wasn't happier inside. I sorta got used to being there: it seemed like home." What must surely be the shortest sentence on record was passed on a Chicago man some years ago for opening a letter addressed to his wife whom he suspected of carrying on en in- trigue. Said the judge solemnly:. "The law must be upheld. People who tamper with the mails must suf- fer the consequences. I sentence you to 25 seconds' imprison- ment." mprison- ment" ' Taking out his watch, the judge gravely counted the sec- conds. When he reached "twenty- five," he motioned the surprised husband to leave the court, a free man. Art isnot: an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity, Moussorgsky. Sued For Libel For Her Two Cats Justice William C. Hecht, jr., of New York, has ruled that eats cannot be libelled, even if they have the finest of pedi- grees. He reached this 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 80. She said the cats played in the show in, New York, and on 4 tou9r 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 eats, 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 claimed that the al- leged libel on the cats had 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. TWO WISHES A parson decided to go on a deep-sea fishing expedition. Em- barking in a small rowing -boat, he was taken out into the bay by a boatman. After hall an hour or 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 parson smiled. "Arid I wish," he said, "that I had been a better swimmer!" A mild-mannered man walk- ed into an income tax o'ice and beamed at the collector. "What can I do for you?" asked the tax official. "Nothing, thank you," replied the little man, "T just wanted to meet the people I'm working for," Tax Collectors Have It Tough 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 Mlle. Jacqueline Pra,'ht, All this is because Frenchmen find it difficult to be discourte- ous to a pretty girl. But if a male tax inspector tries to per - 'suede 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 accounts. A Frenchman bitterly resents having 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 Artisan y," 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 em- barrassment to the collector. One official was in for a shock when he called at a certain business premises. As he touched the door handle, he fell uncon- scious. The owner had wired it electrically! At Cologne, in GerxnanY, two tax inspectors called on a man who had refused to pay his taxes. Their reception consisted of a drenching from the garden hose. In Scandinavian countries it's cheaper from the tax point pf view to be single. Annoyed at the increased burden imposed on married couples, both of whom work, many people have been known to apply for di- vorces in order to be separated in the eyes of the law. But they continue to live together. THE ARTIST AND HIS ART When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art. —Jean Cocteau. ROYAL APPEAL—Britons rece ly did a "double take when they saw this picture, opparent- iy of their beloved Princess Arnie, 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 c 'mer-!^er of USAF personnel. Ad age1cy plans to team her with a boy who resembles Pr!rce Cha -:es in future eye - pappin Br'tlsh promotion. MOVIE . HALL OF FAME PLANNED — This is a ske..4r of the proposed movie 'museum and Hall of Fame. To be located in Hollywood, the building will contain wardrobes, sets and equip- ment. A demonstration set with a working cast and crew will be featured in it, showing tourists how moViee pare made.