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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-05-05, Page 6�L&BLESTALKS It's too early in the year to Talk about salads made with fresh vegetables out of the gar- den. Still, a meal without some sort of salad just doesn't seem quite complete, and here are a few that you can make now --. Or any time. The first is one ;.upposed to be especially for television viewers as it's all it bite -sized pieces. Naturally, you can use left -over thicken or turkey in place of the canned variety*. SALAD TRAY I package cream cheese (3 -ounce) Y4 cup finely chopped celery 1 thlsp. chopped pimiento 1 can boned chicken or tur- key (6 -ounce), diced h/ cup finely chopped walnuts Combine cheese, celery, pi- miento, and chicken. Chill in refrigerator about 1 hour. Shape chilled mixture into balls the size of large marbles. Roll in chopped walnuts. Serve on tray with seedless grapes, pineapple cubes, and orange sections. PINK PEAR SALAD 12 pear halves (fresh or canned) 8 maraschino cherries 1 package cream cheese (3 - ounce) 1 tbisp. maraschino cherry liquid. Dash salt cup chopped pecans Chill peeled pear halves. Cut cherries into small pieces with scissors or sharp knife. In a bowl, soften the cheese. Add cherry liquid, cherries, and salt; blend thoroughly. Add pecans; niix well. Heap cheese mixture in hollow of pears; press 2 halves together. Tint and serve on crisp salad greens. Serves 6. This variation of the ever - popular Waldorf salad requires a special dressing, the recipe for which foliews. WALDORF SALAD 3 - 4 unpeeled apples, cut in bite -size pieces 2% cups pineapple tidbits, drained (No. 2 can) 142 cup walnut meats, broken 1 cup celery sliced 1 cup salad dressing. Combine all ingredients ex- cept celery (pineapple keeps ap- ple from from discoloring). Add celery just before serving. Serves 4-6. * * ,k IIAWAI N WALDORF DRES SING 1 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon butter 1 egg, or 2 yolks $/ cup pineapple sirup (drain- ed from tidbits used in salad) Aria cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour 314 teaspoon salt s/ teaspoon dry mustard Heat vinegar and butter in top of double boiler. Beat egg with pineapple sirup; mix in sugar, flour, salt, and mustard. Stir into hot vinegar; cook over boiling water, stirring constantly until aanoothly thickened, Cool. Makes 1 cup. * 4 e Here is a salad ring that is molded without the use of gela- tin. All you do is pack the fruit in the ring in the order given, chill, and unmold on crisp greens to serve. SELF -MOLDING SALAD RING 3 cups prunes 2 pints cottage cheese 1 cup chopped celery V4 cup chopped green pepper (sweet) 2 teaspoons grated orange rind nr teaspoon salt Salad greens Orange sections (or other fruit) Pit prunes and arrange a row of the whole prunes in bottom of an oiled 8 -inch ring mold. Chop remaining prunes. Allow cheese to drain 10-15 minutes; blend with celery, pepper, orange rind, salt, and chopped prunes. Pack slightly over whole prunes and chill 1- 2 hours. Unmold on greens; fill center with greens and orange sections Ships That Vanish 1tho d a Trace All sailors know of the dan- gers to life and ships caused by derelicts, those ghost-like aban- doned ships that sail aimlessly over the seas. The records of Lloyd's contain all the possible case histories of these ships— and of other obstructions like the film company's huge plastic whale that went adrift off the west coast of Britain .last year. Some saw in that story, well publicized in the newspapers, an amusing piece of advertis- ing; but as soon as the informa- tion reached Lloyd's of London the news was passed by radio to all ships, so that possible ac- cidents might be avoided. Day and night throughout the year a ceaseless watch is kept in order to reduce sea accidents to the minimum. And yet, despite it all, there have been ships that have disappeared without -trace. Could they have collided with drifting and dere- lict vessels? Take, for instance, the "Nar- onic," which was last heard of in February, 1893; the "Geor. gia" which disappeared also in February, 1897; and the "Heir - onion" which vanished likewise in February, 1902. All those three ships were certainly A-1 at Lloyd's; and when they van- ished their owners naturally claimed and the underwriters of Lloyd's had to pay. Sailors are superstitious, and because all three ships men- tioned disappeared in the month of February, during a period of nine years, that was enough to heap superstition on super- stition. What was the cause of the disappearance? There being a total lack of evidence, nothing, but reasonable surmise at Lloyd's and elsewhere, one must fall back on the evidence of what does happen when a liv- ing ship meets a ghost or dere- lict. A ship named "Dunmore" was a bit of a mystery ship. Her crew set her on fire and abandoned her. Nothing was heard of her for a year. Then one bright moonlight night the watch aboard the steamer "St. Louis" gave the alarm and the crew came scurrying on deck to see a ship. She proved to be "Dunmore" bearing down on them. Only cool seamanship averted a' head-on collision. "St. Louis" steamed on, leaving the ghostly "Dumore" drifting on uncon- trolled, a perpetual clanger to shipping. It is a fact, vouched for by a Lloyd's official, that most dere- licts are ships carrying a cargo of timber which may keep them afloat for years. Take the case of the .Ameri- can schooner "W. L. White," In 1888 her crew abandoned her when in a sinking condition off Delaware Bay. During the en- suing year Lloyd's received nearly fifty reports of the schooner having been sighted in various places. In the dark and Old Time Coiffure Still Good Enough Nautical hairdo at right won a $5600 gold cup at a London hair- dressing contest, although it was actually Launched in 1778 by France's Queen Marie Antoinette, Left. Seems contemporary designer, M. A. White, had reason to believe in the "good of days." g Seldom photographed in recent years, former Vice President John Rance. (Cactus Jack) Gar- ner appears in his favorite role in this recent camera study. It was taken on his farm in Uvalde, Tex. The 86 -year-old Democrat who served two Perms under Franklin D. Roosevelt may visit Washington for the first time since his retirement in .1941 to attend a testimonial dinner for House Speaker Sam Rayburn. foggy- weather she must have; been, a perpetual menace ' td other ships during her 5000 - mile uncontrolled journey across the Atlantic. Finally, news reached Lloyd's', that the "W. L. White" had run aground on the Isle of Lewis, in the Hebrides, so that there is no doubt that she did travel that long, ghostly voyage. Then the ghost was laid; and Lloyd's underwriters were relieved 'of a risk over which they had no control. Then there is the mysterious story of the "Golden Rod," a British schooner. She was fre- quently seen by passing ships that had avoided collision with her. Time and time again sea captains gave. orders to get as near as possible to "Golden Rod" and set her on fire. But somehow; the abandoned vessel escaped every time and turned up again and ` again, often hundreds of miles from where she had been last seen. There came a report that she was off Delaware breakwater, floating bottom up. At that time the British and Americans were both doing all they could to combat the ghostly dangers to shipping. The Americans had a warship, "Atlanta," specially fitted with a ram to deal with derelicts. "Atlanta" happened to be in port not far from Dela- ware, so a telegram brought her on the scene. ' "Golden Rod" was effectively bottom-up, with the forepart of her keel on sea level, but her rudder rearing some ten feet in the air. "Atlanta" was brought ' to, her gunners opened fire, and`- with each round the target was hit. "Golden Rod" rolled vio- lently as each shell struck her. But she did not sink. Firing ceased. Then "Atlanta" charged with her ram, and rip- ped . off the stern of "Golden Rod." But still she did not sink. For the third time "Atlanta" charged and rammed "Golden Rod" amidships. This time the British schooner, as if mocking the American ship's attempts to send her to the bottom, righted herself and settled down, riding the ram of "Atlanta." The stricken sailing vessel and the man -'o -war now rode side by side, jammed together. It was as if the schooner was clinging to the mighty warship in her desperate struggle for survival. Finally, the "Atlan- ta's" crew managed to shake her off their ram; but she wouldn't go down and they had to ram her yet again. The fourth blow almost rent the schooner in two. But still, n'iiraculously, she stayed afloat. The fifth attack turned- her right over so that, she seemed in good fettle and' ready once again to ride the seas, But that fifth' blow was really the death blow; "Golden Rod's" cargo of empty barrels, that had kept her from her watery grave began to slide out through a gaping hole in her hull. Doomed she went down like a stone. Lloyd's records hold the store les of many other ghosts of the sea. Sailors hate these derelicts and there are many stories of . how they have risked' their lives trying to get aboard them and set :Ore to them. In 1809 a British derelict named "Siddarth" was the 'tar- get of many such attempts, all unsuccel;sful, At last "PLUS, Melcampus" captured "Sides darth" . and towed her to port to be broken up. • PLAIN HORSE SENSE .. By F. ( BOC•) When we were reading up last week in Morrison's "Feeds and Feeding" on the effects of fluorine when fed to . farm ani- mals in their mineral supple- ment, we were struck by his statement that "recent investi- gations have shown, that even very small amounts of this min- eral have a poisonous effect if these amounts are steadily con- sumed over a long period of time." There is no reason to doubt the word of F. B. Morrison, one of the most eminent agricultural scientists on the North -Ameri- can continent. If an authority of hisstanding says that even "very small amounts" of fluorine have a poisonous effect if "steadily consumed over a long period of time", such a state- ment "should have a dampening effect on the zeal of all those enthusiasts who want to help their neighbours against their own free will. Hot Campaign The campaign for the fluori- dation of drinking water for hu- mans is being waged with con- siderable heat over quite some time. Who is . behind it? Some doctors have spoken for, others against fluoridation. No- body has yet presented a scien- tific report on research and ex- perimental work done with re- gard to all aspects of the use of this highly dangerous poison. It is claimed that it will re.: duce caries in children up to ten years, that's all. But has it been competently and • scientifically established that the continued ingestion of fluorine,' even in minimal amounts, ,will not ad- versely affect the heart, the arteries, the kidneys or the in- testinal and . reproductive or- gans? It has been proven that cows, which had received fluorine aver some years, produced smal- ler than normal calves. It is therefore conceivable that this poison, which is cumulative and' cannot be eliminated by the body, may affect the' child bear- ing capacity of the human' fe- male. A number of reports froin all over the United States. indicate that bad reactions to fluorine have occurred and that some people are allergic to it. Moral Objections Under these circumstances it seems, to say the least, unwise to advocate the mass admini- stration of this mineral to whole populations. We are not im- pressed by the "expert opinions" of a string of doctors and dentists, which in all likelihood are mostly based on second hand information. Too well do we remember the ardour with which some of them propagated and applied the sulfa drugs,, when they were first discovered,. The "Ada Cummings" during eighteen months travelled at least 6,000 miles before break- ing up off the coast of Colum- bia. This ship had a fantastie journey, from the coast of New Jersey to Ireland, then down south passing Prance and Por- tugal towards the ktluator. She was then driven west again to her destruction. VON PILUS and the losses we suffered in our Jersey herd. Quite apart from these factual considerations, t h e question arises whether any doctor or politician has the right to com- pel medication against the will of the patient, unless the pa- tient, by refusing endangers the health of other people. There cannot be an objection to the chlorination of water, for instance, because a person con- tractingtyphoid would be a threat to others. But dental caries is neither infectious nor contagious. It is everybody's own personal affair. Once the precedent of compul- sory mass medication is estab- lished,. a government could do practically anything. Research is under way now for a contra- ceptive to be administered oral- ly. If and when it is discovered, would a government be permit- ted to control the number of births in a given district? Or would the majority d e c i d e whether the minority may have children or not? Diamond Smugglers Use Odd Methods Fears that diainond prices all over the world may fall because of the big increase in diamond smuggling have recently been ex- pressed by diamond chiefs. Urgent talks about a vast diamond - smuggling racket in Sierra Leone have been held with the object of defeating it. And Sir Percy Sillitoe, former head of M.I.5, has • submitted a report on the 'smuggling. The diamond smuggler often uses women to carry these "black diamonds," as the trade ca1Ls these gems. They have found that plain, homely women - not the traditional beauties of fiction -- are most suitable for this work. These women travel with the gems from the diamond centres of the world ,-- South Africa, Rio, British Guiana. Some hide stones in their hair or m the hollow heels of their shoes. Other diamonds have been found concealed in bath sponges, cakes of soap, the milk in a baby's bottle and in grow- ing plants. One woman, a regular passen- ger to and from the Continent, always carried and fondled a small dog, One day the dog gave the show away by coughing up several valuable diamonds it had been trained to conceal, This dog faithfully did his duty for a long time — until that em- barrassing moment. The woman was jailed. In a single year the United States Customs seize up to $1,- 500,000 worth of smuggled dia- monds. Officials there have found dia- monds concealed in a casually - smoked cigarette, in the stem of a pipe and in a false toe -cap. One smuggler nearly got away with diamonds worth $1,500,000 fitted neatly at the end of a dila- pidated umbrella. In spite of their ingenuity two diamond smugglers were caught an the Canadian border some years ago, They were carrying fifty unset diamonds worth $180,000 and had a sleeping com- partment on a train. One of the men had a wooden leg, and when customs officers arrived they expected to find diamonds in that leg. Vainly they poked and tapped it. No stones were there. Then one offi- cial had an idea. He inspected the train's elec- tric light bulbs and found the fifty diamonds carefully packed in one of them. Informers sometimes give dia- mond smugglers away. When a man who was trying to smuggle $50,000 worth of precious stones into France landed at Calais, he was searched. All the stones were .found sewn into the lining of his trousers. The informer's reward in this case was $12,000. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries • Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. -T. S. Eliot NEITHER RAIN NOR—It isn't that Postman Edward Duffy is bash- ful. He's making his rounds in a paint -sprayer's mask to battle the dust which swirledthrough Albuquerque at 50 miles per hour. PASSENGER PUP—When Policeman Johann Mueller of Hamburg, Germany, went modern and replaced his pedal pusher with a motorbike, police dog Astor had trouble keeping up with the vehicle, So he attached a side -car, and now'the two are about the fastest police team in Hamburg.