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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942
THE FIXING HOWL
By ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Home Economist
DESSERTS YOUR "DEMOLITION
SQUAD" WILL ATTACK
Bello Homemakers: The lawpy
ending of the meal will be according
to the first comae, A heavy meal
should be followed by some simple
dessert—a gelatine pudding or an
lee, A. light meal may be followed by
a richer dessert—ice cream, mousse,
refrigerator pie or cake.
On searing summer days, smooth
textured frozen or chilled desserts
are tempting and delicious—grand
•for keeping up family morale. In
the tested recipes below, economy
has been considered. Don't forget to
Prepare your desserts in the cool of
the day and then just store them in
your electric refrigerator until time
to serve.
NUTRLTHRIFT MENU
Fresh Strawberries
Cream. of Wheat Porridge
Toast Jely Coffee or Milk
Thyme Breast of Veal
Potatoes — Spinach
Whole' Wheat Bread, Refrigerator
Cookies, Custard Ice Cream
Dairy Ring Salad Spice Muffins
Cherry Shortcake Milk
Custard Ice Cream
1% cups milk, 2 tbs. flour, 4 cup
sugar, 2 egg yolks, 1 cup whip-
ping. cream, 2 egg, whites, 1 tsp.
vanilla, tsp. salt,
Mix flour and sugar thdroughly.
Add cold milk and sugar thoroughly.
Add cold milk and stir until a smooth
paste. Cook until thick, When thick-
ened, cook over hot water for 10
mins. Remove from element and pour
over slightly beaten egg yolks. Re-
turn to electric range and cook 2
min. Cool. Fold in beaten egg whites,
than whipped cream. Pour in freezing
tray and freeze in electric refrigera-
tor,
Old Fashioned Fruit Shortcake
2 cups flour, 4 tap. baiting pow-
der, a/s tsp, salt, 1 ih, sugar, 1/9
:cup fat, % cup udlk, butter,,l'.t'esh
fruit.
.Mix and silt the dry ingredients
and work in the fat with fingers,
Gradually add enough with to -;Hake
a soft dough. Toss the slough onto a
floured board and roll to one-half
inch tltieknese, Make a large circle
for a pan shortcake or in muffin tins,
Bake in an electric oven at 460 de-
grees ---12 mins. Split in 2 parts, but-
•
ter and put crushed sweetened fruit
between layers and on top, •
Take a Tip
Pnow the meaning?
1, Mast:—to cover foods with a glaze,
frosting or mayonnaise.
2, Macedoine—a mixture of vege-
tables to cut to the same size,
3. Lace—to 'add a dash of this and
that to a beverage.
4, Julienne vegetables cat in
match -like strips,
5, Gratin or au gratin — foods cov-
ered with buttered crumbs and
usually cheese, baked in a cass-
erole.
6, Thyme breast of veal—sprinkle
thyme (a herb similar to sage)
over the veal and then roast,
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs. 0, N. asks: Recipe for Javelle
Water.
Answer: This has been mailed dir-
ectly to your address Mrs. C. N. We
suggest that bleaching be done by
hanging clothes in sunshine out of
doors during summer. We also re-
mind you to rinse the clothes twice
after the bleach is used.
Mrs. R. C. asks: Recipe for Butter-
scotch Br'ead,•
Answer:
Butterscotch Bread
1 egg, % cup brown sugar, r,¢ cup
corn syrup, 2 tbs, melted butter,
1 cup sour milk, 2 cups bread
flour, 2 tsp. baking powder, %
tsp. baking soda, % cup chopped
hate.
Add sugar, syrup, milk and melted
butter to well -beaten egg. Stir in sift-
ed dry ingredients, add nuts. Pour
into large loaf pan. Bake 20 minutes
at 350 degrees F.
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"The least I can do is to work hard and
save. My kitchen, my shopping bag, my
work basket are the nearest I can get to
his battlefront. But I can buy War
Savings Stamps — and lots of therm. —
every week, so that he may have the tools
to win. And that's what I'm doing! How
about you?"
Buy War Savings Stamps ,from hanks,
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THF nAFORTH Il1WS
1842 - 1942: Mose
to Radio ' Location'
If Samuel Finley Breese Morse,
who j'.lst a century ago devised the
dots and dashes still known as tht
Morse Code, could see the . way his
invention has evolved for use of the
fighting forces today, he would no
doubt be more than satisfied,
The electro -magnet circuit which
matte the first Morse signals was the
basis for the modern radio. Every
branch of every service employs
radio in some form or another. Its
most spectacular and still most secret
use is in radio location, which reveals
distant aircraft by their effect on a
highly delicate radio transmission.
It was radio -location almost as much
as the bravery of RAF pilots, which
won the Battle of Britain.
'Yet it was Britain which turned
down Morse's application for master
patents after he had initially failed
to get financial support from Cong-
ress in Washington. In 1842 Morse
made his invention work, and in
1844—on May 24—inaugurated the
first commercial service, between
Baltimore and Washington. British
inventors such as Fleming played
their vital part in developing radio.
Although war restricts many of
the normal uses of radio, it has con-
siderabbly developed others, and the
uses of electric signalling today are
incredibly varied. Radio's uses in air
fighting are well konwn. The "blind"
pilot, by which aircraft fly automat-
ically along a radio beam, was devel-
oped commercially in peacetime, with
American experts in the forefront
of research. The beam has been us-
ed by both sides in the war, most
notably by pilots of the RAF Ferry
Command who, with its help, guide
their huge lend-lease bombers ac-
ross the Atlantic.
When Silence Means Life
In wartime, normal radio tele-
phony is restricted because of the
danger of the enemy's picking up a
signal and getting a bearing 011 the
operator's position. Planes and ships
in convoy thus travel as silently as
possible, only transmitting impera-
tive messages.
Spitfire squadrons converging on
their enemy before a dogfight are in
touch with each other as if the flyers
were . on landlines. Fighters, of
course, have less reason to conceal
their whereabouts than airmen on
long-distance bombing operations.
They can speak to each other more
freely, and many an RAF pilot has
been able to warn another that an
enemy was coming up on his tail.
In the case of naval actions, sig-.
nags must be minimized, even after
the clash has actually occurred. De-
tailed reports often have to be held
over until the fleets have reached
safe waters, because of the dangers
of too much signalling.
Of the three branches of the fight-
ing services, the Army has probably
increased its use of radio'morethan
any of the others. The modern ar-
mored division is complex, and head-
phones provide almost its only safe
means of communication.
Hardly a vehicle in Britain's ar-
mored division does not carry a radio
set. Installed as normal equipment,
these sets are operated by the tank
crews themselves, although they are
usually serviced by one of the Brit-
ish Army's most specialized units,
the Royal Corps of Signals..
Each armored division includes its
own signal squadrons of about 800
men. They are a self-contained unit.
driving and maintaining their own
vehicles. The headquarters squadron
links the commander and his staff
with brigade headquarters, and pro-
vides communication with the air
and with .the parent formation.
Signal Specialists
Within the squadron, in addition
to the operators, are technical main-
tenance men, cable troops to provide
reserve landlines, and dispatch rid-
ers.
Other squadrons link up the sub -
formations in the support group and
operate with the actual mobile arm-
ored brigades, in which they provide
the links between brigade headquar-
ters and tht flying columns of tanks.
In each armored regiment is a
small troop of signal specialists to
maintain radio sets and batteries.
They are responsible for restoring
equipment overnight after a battle.
in actual warfare the divisional
headquarters consists of several
large bullet-proof trucks known as
armored command vehicles, in which
all staff work is done. These trucks
are maintained by the Signals and
are linked by their own radio set or
"house phone," over which the com-
mander's orders and information for
the distant brigade mhry be heard.
These "house phones" have a wide.
range in contacting RAF machines.
But on land much depends on the
terrain and the time of day—recep-
tion is unreliable at dawn and dusk
AGB THREE
AN ARMY EVERY CANADIAN
MAY WELL BE PROUD OF
♦ Crouched and poised, with disciplined impatience, waiting to pounce
at the enemy, is Canada's great army which will form the spearhead of
that decisive offensive just about to be—"a dagger pointed at the heart
of Hitler."
That something, that the vastness and ruggedness of this great country
imparts to men who have still a strong strain of pioneer blood in their
veins, has made possible the mustering of an army unsurpassed for physical
fitness, and which in mental mould and moral might is the most magnificent
that has ever set forth to defend the freedoms and uphold the honor of
this young and virile nation of ours.
We, of Massey -Harris, are naturally proud that many from the various
divisions and branches of our far-flung organization are serving in the
ranks of this great army. It is gratifying, also, that the thousands in our
several plants are permitted to play an important part in providing
the machines and munitions so essential to the success of that army in
modern mechanized warfare.
And the great Canadian Army which has, as our Minister of National
Defence says, "q larger proportion of armored troops than any army
in the world," will be a decisive factor in hastening the day of victory.
ASSEY-HARRIS : COMPANY 'LIMITED
HE 'SERVICEARM *OF THE ' CANADIAN ARM M.
plain 'language. The general British
Army principle is to send in straight
radio telephony whenever possible,
for the sake of extra speed.
The infantry have their own trav-
elling sets, ,sometimes on the backs
of signallers, sometimes on limbers.
They are low -powered transmitter,,
vitally important as links between
outposts.
Yet, despite what has been said
about the huge increase in the uses
which have been found for radio, the
most important developments are
still on the secret list. Research men
in the United States and Britain, are
still working reletnless}y, adapting
radio science to the arts of war, get-
ting more and more remote from the
simple magnet and circuit key with
which it all started under the thought.
ful hands of Samuel Finley Breese
Morse.
Cannot Clean Dirty
Eggs Properly
Dirty eggs cannot be cleaned satis-
factorily, says the Special Wartime
Series Pamphlet, No. 57 on "Conser-
vation of Egg Quality". The Loss
from these so-called .cleaned eggs is
sometimes very heavy. A little more
attention to frequent renewals of
nesting litter and the cleaning of
pens would help to eliminate the dir-
ty egg. If this .were coupled with the
practice of not allowing the birds to
run outside when the yards are mud-
dy, the loss from this source would
practically disappear: A copy of the
pamphlet may be obtained free by
writing to the Publicity and Exten-
sion Division, Dominion Department
of .Agriculture, Ottawa.
LIBYA'S MOSQITOES
Kept Off Troops by Lingerie Makers'
11,000 Miles of Netting
Millions of yards of mosquito net-
ting for Allied troops in Libya are
being made in factory which i peace
time supplied artificial silk in delic-
ate pastel shades for ladies' lingerie.
When the Libyan campaign began,
the British Government called for
20,000,000 yards of this netting to
protect the troops against malaria -
carrying mosquito, sandflies and other
pests. The material had, of course,
been produced in Britain for many
wears by the lace machines of Not-
tingham, but more than 11,000 miles
of it, erqulred "at once or sooner",
was a tough proposition.
The Government however, was soon
relieved of its anxieties for all the
owners of warp -knitting machines in
Britain met and undertook to adapt
their machinery to the job.
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The commander decides when to TRANSPORTATION PLAYS VITAL ROLE FOR CANADIAN ARMY
impose radio silence, when to trans These photos of soldiers aboard, a train and mounting the gangplank of a strip illustrate the vital
mit in code, and when to send in transportation services on behalf of the army,
role of the