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By ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Home Economist
INFORMATION ABOUT TH1w
MEAT RATION
Hello Homemakers! A new adven-
ture in meal planning is on its wey
— meat rationing. Let's prepare for
it, Rationing, shortages and changes
In foods call for a knowledge of food
combinations and cooking methods.
With this knowledge, meat rationing
will not present such harassing prob-
lems.
Meat rationing is necessary in
order that everyone may receive an
equal share atter the Government
has provided for those who are keep-
ing the war from our shores. Great
Britain's limited rations (26 oz.) will
continue and our own armed forces
have .been rationed, Nutritionists
have proved that two pounds of meat
per person per week are adequate.
This is•based on the official food plan
which .emphasizes the quantities of
other protein foods eaten, such as
milk, cheese, soya beans and other
dried vegetables along with the daily
serving of meat, or fish, or poultry, or.
meat substitutes.
The Wartime Prices and Trade
Board issues the following informa-
tion on meat rationing:
1. The brown Spare A. coupons in
Ration Book 2 will allow 2 lbs, per
person per week,
2. Children will have the same ra-
tion as grown-ups.
3. There will be control of :neat in
private lockers and there will be
meatless days in restaurants.
4: Poultry and fish will not be ra-
tioned. Neither will such meats as
kidney, liver, heart, tongue, brains
and cuts like spareribs and oxtail,
which are more than half bone.
5. Unrationed meats will remain
under the price ceilings. •
6. Farmers will still be allowed to
'slaughter for their own household
use and Beef rings will be allowed.
7. Meat supplies will follow the
regular channels from producer and
Processor through wholesaler and re-
tailer to customer. But there will be
more work for the meat trade as
coupons and, other details require
time. Consideration from both re-
tailer and customer will be a great
help.
Further information will be re-
leased as other details are deter-
mined. We are willing to help you in
any way and will be glad to discuss
any proble mby letter, A limited sup-
ply of meat charts is available upon
requests by letter.
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• RECIPES
Hamburg Casserole
1 lb. •chopped beef, 2 tbs. fat,
4 medium sized potatoes, 1 cup
canned condensed tomato soup,
1 onion, salt and pepper.
Brown chopped beef in frying pan
with fat. Cut potatoes in % inch
cubes and arrange them evenly in
the 'bottom of a loaf pan. Spread half
the meat on top of the potatoes.
Add SS cup tomato soup and the
onion, thinly sliced. Season with salt.
and pepper. Add rest of meat and
pour on the other S4 cup of tomato
scup. Season with salt and pepper,
Bake in a moderate electrie,oven of Want and For Sale Ads, 1 week 25c.
350 degrees for 1 hour. Yield: 6
servings.
Lamb or Mutton Stew
. (Irish Style)
2 lbs.' stewing lamb oi' mutton,
boiling water, 4 7yhole carrots,
M. cup turnip cubes, 4 onions
peeled and quartered, 4 raw
potatoes crit in a inch slices, 2/4,
cup flour, r/a cup water, salt and
pepper.
Sear meat in a large kettle until
well browned. Cover with boiling
Water and cook slowly for 2 hours or
until tender, After cooking 1 hour,
add carrots, turnips and onions. Half
an hour before serving, add potatoes.
Thicken stock with hour mixed with
water. Season with salt and pepper.
Yield: 6. servings. •
Baked Spareribs with Dressing
(not rationed)
2 pieces spareribs, 1 cup bread
crumbs, 1 cup chopped apples;
1 tb. chopped onion, '/ top. salt,
2 tbs. flour, Vs tsp. salt, few
grains pepper.
Wipe spareribs with a damp cloth.
Make a dressing by combining the
bread crumbs with the apples, onion
and tsp. salt. Spread one piece
of spareribs with dressing. Cover
with the other piece of meat. Tie the
two pieces together. Rub the outside
of the meat with the flour, 1/s tsp.
salt and a little pepper. Place on rack
in roasting pan. Bake in hot oven of
475 degrees for 20 minutes; Reduce
heat and bake in moderate oven of
325 degrees for 1 hour. Baste meat
every 10 minutes with tat in pan.
Yield: 6 servings.
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TAKE A TiP
1. Follow the Mixing Bowl column
to become better acquainted with
the less familiar cults of meat and
and their uses.
2. Store meat' carefully. Remove
wrappings which may cause un-
pleasant flavour or absorb juices.
Place in covered disk in coolest
part of 'refrigerator, but not
where it will freeze.
3. Before cooking, wipe meat with
a clean cloth wrung out of cold
water, 17o not allow it to stand
in a pan of cold water as juices
will be drawn out and foreign
-mater washed in, •
4. To coagulate quickly the ,.juices
on outer surface, and also to pre-
vent inner juices from escaping,
put less tender cuts of meat in
boiling water, leave electric ele-
ment on High for 3 to 5 minutes,
then tarn to Low or Sinner, This
method: keeps most flavour in the
n:,eat.
5. When cooking stews, put less
tender cuts of meat In cold water,
bring quickly to the boil, then
turn electric element to, Low.
Some goodness will be in the
stock but a large portion lett in
the meat. '
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your questions ea homemaking prob-
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Spoonerisms
Dr. Spooner was one of the few
who have not only become a legend
dt*'ing their own lifetime, but, Tike
Colonel Boycott, have given their
name to a new word—"spoonerism."'
A spoonerism is defined as "an ac:-
eidental transposition of the 'initial
sounds, or other parts, of two or
more words." Almost :all of ufi make
spoonerisms sometimes, and some
people deliberately invent them.
Why then has Spooner's name been
attached to this verbal form of slip?
And, why have so many spoonerisms
been quite unjustly fastened on him
as their parent?
I had the good fortune to serve
under Dr. Spooner for six years as a
Fellow of New College, Oxford, says
Julian Huxley, when he was warden
of that ancient foundation, He was
a good scholar and teacher. He work-
ed very hard without thought of self
and gave the impression of possess-
ing that quality which can only be
described as saintliness.
He was an albino—not a full alb-
ino with pink eyes, but with very
pale blue eyes and white hair tinged
with straw color, And he • did' say
and write and do some very odd
things.
True spoonerisms, in the diction-
ary sense, he very rarely produced.
There is, however. evidence of his
having announced the hymn "Con-
quering Kings their titles take • ."
as "Kinkering Congs"; and for hip
having said to a stranger sitting in
his seat in chapel, "Excuse me, but
I think you are occupewing my pie,"
But almost all the old favorites
among 'spoonerisms are pure inven-
tions which were afterwards tacked
on to him. He- ever really did say to
the lady who asked him what happ-
ened to the eat which fell from a
fourth -story window, "Oh, she just
popped on her drawers and away she
went." Nor did he ever say to the
lazy undergraduate, "You have hiss-
ed all my mystery lectures. In fact,
you have tasted two whole worms
and you must leave Oxford this af-
ternoon by the town drain."
His actual slips were • mostly what
one might call "paraphrasia." I per-
sonally heard him say something of
this sort. When the Oxford Univer-
sity Expedition was going to Spitz-•
bergen, I had been explainin to him
that we had chosen that barren land
because there, owing to the Gulf
Stream, you could get so very far.
north without great difficulty. In my
presence he retailed all this to his
wife: "My dear, Mr. Huxley assures
me that it's no further frim the
north coast of Spitzbergen to the
North Pole than it is from Land's
End to John of Gaunt." That was a
typical false association.
Then there's another story which
rings true to type. Spooner was
preaching one day in a village and
delivered a sermon about Aristotle'
Only one or two people in the con-
gregation had ever heard of Aris-
totle, and -their dim recollections did
not tally with what the Warden said.
He had finished his sermon and
was halfway down the pulpit stairs
when suddenly something struck him
and he trotted up again and said,
"Excuse me, dear brethren: I just
want to say that in my sermon,
wherever I said Aristotle, I should
have said St, Paul."
Sometimes he used to commit ac-
tion spoonerisms.. The wife of an
Oxford professor had been dining
with the Spooners in the warden's
lodgings, where there is a very fine
but very slippery oak staircase. As
she was going home, the warden
said: "Oh, I'll turn on the other
lights and see you safely down the
stairs." But when he got on the stair
ease he turned out the only light
that was on and proceeded to lead
the lady down in total darkness.
With all his -peculiarities it was
little wonder that the ,legend grew,
and there are hundreds of invented.
stories fastened on to the legend of
Spooner.
One I like is about •his having
made an engagement to meet a man
in a certain London public house.
He came back very, very tired at the
end of the day without having found
the man. It turned out that the pub-
lic house he had been vaguely. look-
ing for was the Dull Man, Green-
wich. whereas the appointment was
for the Green Man, Dulwich.
Perhaps the best spoonerisms are
the very simple ones. The one I like
best is the story of Spooner having
his hat blown .off and running after
it, saying, "Oh: please, will nobody
pat my hiccup"
There is another story equally
ridiculous. He went into an optic-
ian's shop in 'Oxford and asked .for
0 signifying glass. The a tlCi
al
said, "Excuse nae, 3 didn't quite un-
detstand," "Oh, just an ordinary
signifying glass." "I'm afraid we
don't stock them; could we write to
London for one?" "Oh no, it doesn't
magnify, it doesn't magnify."
To wind up, I will tell one of his
read utterances. Spooner after his
retirement had invited to some New'+
College celebration' the head of un- 11
other College, whose oifioial title
\' is ''President," The President was
lute, and everyone was waiting. At
last in he came. 'Spooner was stand-
ing' with his back to the door and the
President clapped him on the shoul-
der acct stretched out his hand, You
or I would' have said, "Good evening,
President" or something' like that,
but what Spooner slid say was "Good.
by, Warden,"
This illustrates that strange little
kink he had in his- brain, which,
however, did not prevent his being
an extremely efficient and charming
num,.
John L. Lewis
Unless you are well acquainted
with John Llewellyn Lewis you pro-
bably think of him in .one of two
ways.
If you are visual -minded, he is the
big burly guy with bushy eyebrows,
a leonine mann of graying hair and
a grim, steel -trap mouth over a bell-
icosely jutting jaw.
I3,you think in terms of action he.
is the roughneck radical unioneer
who has led two notoriously bloody
strikes, defied two strong presidents
of the United States and insulted
everybody who has crossed his path.
however powerful, with a wealth of
invective that makes Harold Ickes
seem tongue -tier.
In either event, you are interested
in Lewis today because he has lock-
ed horns with President Roosevelt in
the midst of an all-out war, at a
time when a strike in the coal mines
might mean the .difference between
winning this war next spring or hav-
ing to fight until 1945 or '46 or '47.
Who and what, really, is John L.
Lewis—and how did he get that
way?
From the standpoint of results,.
Lewis is the biggest labor Ieader
since the late Sam',Gompers, Unlike
most labor leaders, he is not the pro-
duct of unionism, fronting for a
supporting cast that made him and
can break him. He is himself the in-
carnate spirit of belligerent collect-
ive bargaining.
For one year less than a quarter
of a century he has been boss of
the United Mine Workers. In that
period he challenged Goinpers for
presidency of the A.F. of L. and lost;
climbed up to a vice-presidency;
stepped out with a million members,
formed the Committee for Industrial
Organization and ran' it up to four
millions- Then he took his mine
workers out of the C.I.O. and began
a bitter war, whose outcome is. any-
body's guess. to create a third 11111011
setup designed to overshadow both
A.F. of L. and Q.hO.
When John Lewis was a two-year-
old, his Welsh immigrant father was
blacklisted by every mine in the
United States for his part in a strike.
For 15 years, until the blacklist was
destroyed, Thomas Lewis and his fa-
mily toured the country while the
father earned a living at any work
he could get,
When John was 17, his father
went back into a coal mine at Lucas,
I11., and took the boy with him.
Thenceforward John was a miner.
He dug coal,rcopper and gold in Ill-
inois, Colorado, Montana and Wyom-
ing. Eventually, at 27, he married a
school teacher and settled in Pana-
ma. 111. It took him only one year to
become state legislative agent for
the United Mine Workers, and four
years to beat the union head on an
important convention issue and to be
made organizer for the A.F. of L.
In ten years he was national vice
president of the miners' union and
in 12 years its head.
He became president after a
knockdown and dragout verbal and
legal fight with President Wilson in
connection with a nationwide coal
strike. Lewis was indicted under a
wartime Federal law, but he won a
big pay raise for his followers and
the indictment was quashed.
He led the coal strike of 1922,
which was featured by the Herrin
massacre in which 22 non -strikers
and strikebreaker were murdered,
some in cold blood, He led bloody
unionization wars in West Virginia
and Kentucky two years later. There
was gunflghting at the Battle of
Little Muddy River in 1982 when the
Illinois district tried to unseat"Lewis
as president of the U.M.W. The fight
of his Steelworkers Organizing Com-
mittee with Little Steel in 1987 cul-
minated in the Memorial Day massa-
cre in South Chicago,
The Blue Eagle was what "mads".
John L. Lewis. In 1938, notwith-
standing everything he could •do, his
union was on its last lege, with mem-
bership gone to pot and treasury
al-
most empty. ,Lewis, ' alone among
labor leaders for the moment, saw
the possibilities of Section 7 '(a) of
the National Recovery Act. Hs gamb-
led the U,M.W,'s last pennies on an
organization drive which, within a•
few months, pulled membership up
from 150,000 to 500,000 and even -
SISTER SUSIE SEWS
In this war "Sister Susie" is sewing parachutes, not shn•ts. Before the
war, she may have made some of her own clothes. Today the story is differ-
ent for parachute making takes up all her time, and with dozens of other
girls in various Canadian plants throughout the country she is operating a
sewing machine making parachutes for Canada's airmen and :paratroopers.
Here is one job in which no mistakes can be made for these men owe their
lives to the successful operation of their chutes. The paracbutes must be
sewn and folded properly by careful, painstaking workers.
tually added another 100,000.
When the A.F.'of L. was slow
about organizing mass production
on an industry -wide basis, Lewis'
pulled out, and backed by the min-
ers' now opulent treasury, started.
organizing in other fields, notably
steel and automobiles.
His break from the C.LO. came in
1940 after labor, against Lewis!
wishes, had. supported President
Roosevelt for his third term. The
great John L. kept a pre-election
promise and resigned the presidency.
He was careful to put his friend and
faithful lieutenant, Philip Murray, in
his place. He supposed that Murray
would be president and Lewis would,
remain boss.
But Murray didn't get the point,
and began running the C.I.O, That.
was when Lewis walked out, with his
faithful miners• and became a lone,
wolf, establishing his catchall "Dist-
rict 50," and began trying to build
up a third national union organiza-
tion.
Send us the names of your visitors.
Married At Sarnia —
A very pretty wedding took place
at St. Paul's United Church, Sarnia,
when Rev. J. G. Anderson united in
marriage Phyllis; only daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Lines, of Sar-
nia, to L.Cpl. Alvin Wesley Rowe; of
the Canadian Provost Corps, only son
of Mr. and. Mrs. Cecil Rowe, Exeter.
Attending the bride, with. Miss Mur-
iel Rowe, sister of the groom. The
wedding music was played by Mr. J.
M. Milne, organist of the church. A
reception was held at the bride's
home. Later the bride an dgroom left
on a wedding trip. On their return
they will reside in6Sarnia.
Many veterans have interesting
memories of cavalry regiments. For
instance there was the recruit who
was instructed to bridle and harness
a horse. When the sergeant -major
came along for his mount he found
the recruit holding the bit close to
the horse's mouth, "Well, what are
you waiting for?" roared the impat-
ient N. C. 0. "Until he yawns," was
the reply!
MR. CHURCHILL THANKS THE VTCTORIOtJS 8TH ARMY
IN TRIPOLI
Mr. Churchill flew from Cairo to Tripoli early this year to take his
part
.to h S i Army andall who foci. z
1 thanks and congratulations t e t t3
Jer�ot_a.
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in the viclorioUs Allied West Desert campaign. Ile entered the town and •
drove through cheering crowds to the :main square where a maedi past of
8th Arany units took place, G•eueral Alexander, C-in-C, Middle East; General
Sir Alan 'Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; and General Mont-
gomery, G,O.C. Sth. Army, accompanied the British Prime Minister who was
wearing the uniform of an Air Commodore of the R.A.F.
Picture shows; 141x'; Churchill's car driving along a. street in Tripoli. The
Premier is standing to acknowledge eheers,