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Zurich Herald, 1951-01-25, Page 7Me Next?—Being chicken-hearted, these fine -feathered friends naturally wonder what's cookin' as they observe a pair of their less fortunate brethren being• done to a golden brown on a spit, eine, Anc Dews. They don't seem to have defin- itely settled on a name for the bird. Sonie call it "the chicken of to- morrow," others the "broiler -flyer," still others the "all-purpose chicken." But call it what you like, both here and south of the border the trend of poultry raisers is toward producing a chicken that's small and young enough to fry, plump and meaty enough to roast, and tender enough to broil. It varies between a pound and a half and four pounds in weight, and—in my opinion—is bound to become in- creasingly popular. So the follow- ing hints for various delightful ways of cooking it will not, I hope, come amiss. 0 * 0 PAN-BROILED CHICKEN Select a young "broiler -fryer" weighing about 2 pounds. Have it split in half, neck and back hone - trimmed off (they can be used for a quick broth). Rub inside and out with salt, pepper, and, if de- sired, very lightly with flour mixed with powdered sage. Melt 4 table- spoons butter or margarine in heavy frying pan. Place broiler halves in pan and cook over low heat to a beautiful brown and well done. Serve with sauteed fresh mush- rooms and pan-fried potatoes. * * 0 OVEN -FRIED 'CHICKEN This method is excellent when two or more chickens are being fried. 1. For each pound chicken, blend 34 cup flour, 34 teaspoon paprika, 34 teaspoon salt, is teaspoon pep- per, and, if desired, A teaspoon poultry seasoning, in paper bag. Shake chicken, 2 or 3 pieces at a time, to coat evenly. Save leftover flour for gravy. 2. Brown pieces of chicken in at least a 1/2 -inch layer of fat in heavy skillet. If a large quantity of chicken is being prepared, the browning will go much faster if a 1 to 2 -inch layer of fat is used. 3. Place golden -browned chicken one layer deep in shallot' baking pan, 4 For each chicken, spoon a mix- ture of 2 tablespoons melted butter and 2 tablespoons of broth or milk over chicken. 5. Continue the cooking in a mo- derate oven (350 degrees F. until chicken is tender, 30 to- 40 minutes. Turn once to crisp evenly. During cooking more broth or milk may be drizzled over chicken if it appears dry, 'fest for doneness. Chicken is• done when meat on thickest part of drumstick cuts easily, and no pink color is visible. 6. Serve hot or cold, with barbe- cue sauce, if desired. PRIED CHICKEN BARBECUE Follow directions for C)t•en-Fried Chicken, spooning barbecue sauce over chicken instead of butter and broth. Use ?,; cup sauce for each pound chicken, #: Y: ITALIAN CHICKEN 2% to 3% pound "boiler -fryer" chicken, ready -to -cook weight, disjointed cup olive oil or other fat 1 thinly sliced onion 31 cups canned tomatoes or 8 medium tomatoes 1 clove garlic 11/2 teaspoon salt TA teaspoon pepper Method Cool; chicken in hot oil until delicately browned, turning to brown evenly. Add onions and cook until onion is transparent and gol- den. Add tomatoes, garlic, salt and tCh tll ■� . tch tCh 1 Was Nearly Crazy Uatii I discovered Dr, D. D. Dennis' amaaing ly fast relief—D, D. D. prescription, World popular, this euro, 000]fng, liquid inedicatton speeds ono and comfooprt .troin cruel itching caused by other itcIi troubles, Triol bottle, ii5 . t;reaseless. First use soothes, cheeps raw red Itch or money bads. Ask druggist tot' D. D. D. Proscription (ordinary or extra strength i. pepper. Cover and simmer until chicken is tender and tomatoes are reduced to a thick sauce, 40 to 50 minutes.. Remove garlic clove before serving. 4 to 5 servings, If broth gets too thick, add / cup tomato juice, broth or water. At * * SMOTHERED CHICKEN Young chicken, 3 to 4 lbs, read -to -cook, disjointed 1% teaspoons salt ya teaspoon pepper 1/4 teaspoon ginger teaspoon poultry seasoning Y3 cup flour cup fat for frying 2 cups cream or rich milk 34 pound sliced mushrooms Method Coat chicken with mixture of seasonings and flour. Cook chicken in hot fat until golden brown. Place pieces in casserole. Sprinkle any remaining flour mixture over top. Heat cream to boiling and add sliced mushrooms. Pour over chick- en. Cover and bake in moderate over (350 degrees F.) until tender, 1 to 1/ hours. 5 to 6 servings, 0 * * BROILED CHICKEN 1. Place broiling chickens, cut in half, in broiling pan. 2. Rub entire surface of chicken with cut lemon, squeezing lemon to get plenty of juice, 3. Coat with melted butter or margarine. 4. Sprinkle with mixture of 1 teaspoon each of salt and sugar, 74 teaspoon paprika, and / tea- spoon black pepper for each half. S. Lay in broiler pan (not rack) skin side down. 6. Place broiler 5 to 7 inches under heat source. Chicken should be broiled slowly. Regulate heat or pan position so that chicken just begins to brown lightly in 10 minutes, 7. Turn and brush with fat two or three times during broiling to brown and cook evenly. Total cook- ing time varies from 35 to 50 min- utes. Serve with pan drippings poured over chicken. If giblets are served with broiled chicken, coat liver and pre-cooked heart and gizzard with fat, season, and broil just long enough to brown. How A Famous Cartoonist Worked. The manual labor of drawing a cartoon is one of the few things that he not changed much in the last half -century. Nor is there much mystery left to it. The equip- ment is usually only a bottle of ink and a pen, a piece of cardboard, an eraser—and sometimes an idea. After I had settled on this last item, I blocked it out roughly on scratch paper so that I would know where I was going to place the major figures. Then I transferred k, either freehand or by tracing, onto a cardboard about sixteen in,.hes wide, and went over it with black drawing ink, altering, cutting out, adding. If the subject happened to be a, good one, there was no little pleasure in elaborating it .. For the major part of my more than fifty years of cartooning, I produced one every day. Each one . presented a new problem. By the very nature of the job, it could not become routine. 1 tried to vary the subject matter, to keep changing the forth and nature of My cartoons to provide as great diversity as possible . , , Whenever I- finished a cartoon which I considered good, there was a delightful glow that trade the whole world seem warm and friendly. No ordinary everyday happiness is so satisfying as that which conies from something one has done, and done well , . F,ven after many years of experi- ence :[ continued to he surprised by the inconsequential things that help to strike the popular fancy, or by the details that unexpectedly arouse comment, One Christmastime in showing a crowded street with much move- ment and activity, I drew a street- car turning a corner. To heighten the sense of emotion and make it more amusing, 1 drew the car itself bending in crescent form as it made the curve. A deluge of letters descended on rte. In the utmost seriousness was assured that a car did not bend when turning a corner; it remained stiff and straight. After that at reasonable intervals I again curled my streetcars around corner, and in no case did there fail to conte the reminders of my indifference to physical laws. Some- times I have felt, that if the readers were always as vigilant in defend- illg their vested rights as they are the habits of streetcars, the nation need have no fear for the future.— . 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In a Broadway store in New York, . for instance, the following notice appeared recently, "Wanted —sales -girl, Must be respectable until after the holidays." The Irish .:have been famous for this sort of thing for years, so, perhaps, it is not surprising to find a notice outside a laundry there which says; "No machinery used to tear your clothes. We do it by hand!" Not very long ago there was a vacancy for a caretaker of a cemet- ery in Buckinghamshire and the position was advertised. One reply read; "I beg to apply for the vacancy in the burial ground." We would certainly get the position one way or another. A prize effort appeared in Canada es hen a local newspaper announced: "Due to the shortage of newsprint, a number of births will be post- poned until next week," A publican in Kent was writing au application for the renewal of his licence, and in his letter he said: "It's for beer Only, not intoxicating liquors." Only recently people stopped in speechless surprise at a notice pro- minently displayed in the window of a fur shop: "Fur coats made from your own skins!" And was it conscious or lepton- scions humor that caused an ad- vertiser in a Somerset paper to word his mnessage as follows: "Fot sale, a bridal gown and veil, stool size. Also pair of gent's spiked running shoes"? The Annual Meeting f Shareholders The :oy;I Iark Cant: Voluntary Curb On Spending Would Speed Re -armament and Preserve our Free ECOTIOilflty Physical controls useful but no substitute for a real attack o inflation. Non-military expenditures must he cut. President proposes four point anti-inflation programme How the inflationary spiral can undermine the very basis of free Canadian democracy and the posi- tive steps which should be taken now to meet this threat were em- phasized by James Muir in his Presidential address at the annual meeting,of shareholders of the Royal Bnk of Canada. The Korean war, said Mr. Muir, and the threat of war elsewhere, had posed new inflationary prob- lems on an economy 'already fa- tigued by the long struggle against inflation since the .close of World 'War II. 'We no longer have that excess capacity in capital and man- power that made possible more guns and more butter in the early years of the last struggle, "Full employment of men and resources is a sympton of econ- omic strength in peacetilne. It means however that any additional demands upon the economy can be met only by curtailing demand else- where. This means that the addi- tional demand upon our economy arising out of rearmament must be met by cutting back our normal peacetime demand for capital and consumption goods. COST OF REARMAMENT "This curtailment of peacetime • demand is the cost of wartime re- armament. This cost cannot be post- • poned. It must he met at once. And . the fundamental problem of war economics is to ensure that only the least essential part of peace- time demand is thus curtailed. "In this way we can reduce the dislocation of our economy caused by new armament expenditure- If we can reduce this dislocation we can increase the effectiyeness of our war effort and at the same time we can ensure that the freedom we aim to defend will in fact be preserved: 'What part of peacetime demand can most economically be sacrificed to the needs of defence? "There are broadly three areas of demand in which cut-backs might conceivably be made. They are (11 the demand by consumers, especi- ' ally for durable goods; (2) the de- mand by business for materials needed in the expansion of plant and equipment; and (3) the demand by government for non-military goods and services. "Further inflation can be avoided if ;lie money- value of increased armament is offset by the reduced demand by consumers, business and government for non-military goods and services. CONTROLS NOT ENOUGH "Once the limits of voluntary saving have been reached we arc forced to rely on increased taxes, and on physical controls. Physical controls may operate indirectly through credit curbs or directly through government allocation of scarce materials combined in vari- ous degrees with price control and rationing, "These physical controls are not, 4. Direct controls, especially in the properly speaking, deflationary at form of price control and ration- al!. From bitter experience after the ing, should be measures of the last war, we know that physical last resort. and should be treated controls conceal but do not directly as stop-g•ap devices, not as sub - reduce inflationary pressure. They stitutes for a true anti -inflation - attack the symptons and lease the acv polio•. disease itself unchecked. Their pro- "Pet'llap' n•t should not ignore per use is to divert demand from the possibility that, having failed scarce . to relatively less scarce to realize their hopes of capitalist goods and service's or, in some collapse through post-war depres- cases, to provide a stop -gap until sion, the communists are now try - fiscal and monetary policy can re- ing to engineer capitalist collapse duce inflationary pressure through through the inflcttionary pressure of direct action, 'Physical controls have a continuous armaments boons, But their use, especially in total war, once the required amount of arma- but they are no substitute for de- lents expansion has been deterniln- vices that really attack inflation, ed, the inflationary problem created by that expansion must somehow be met. "As a thetins to this end f should like once more to emphasize the moral and economic obligation of democratic goVr1•mil 11Is to Maintain ordinary expenditures at the lowest possiibie level, if democratic govern- ments fail :o meet this obligation, they will in effect be giving a mea- sure of aid and comfort to the enemy. At this stage, the most im- portant weapon in the whole ar- senal csf war controls is the control of ordinary government expenditure, n INCOME TAXES COULD BECOME TWO-EDGED SWORD The most powerful weapon in the tight against inflation is gen- erally supposed to be a stiff in- crease in the income tax. But the test of efficiency must be that any income tax increase shall penalize spending and reward saving. Such a criterion 'would rule out drastic increases in corporate taxes, especially excess profits taxes, tend to encourage waste in management; and, in addition, excess profits taxes are arbitrary in their impact and inflationary in their final effect. • The personal income tax is itself a blunt instrument that may hit spenders and savers alike; nevertheless it may prove to be the only weapon with suffi- cient power to check spending, even .though in the process some saving is hit as well. To minimize these faults, and to ensure fairness, I would sug- gest that any increase in income tax burdens should recognize: (1) that an effective attack upon inflationary spending can only be made by broadening the tax base through lower personal ex- emptions; (2) that equity de- mands the vigorous reduction of income tax evasion, now all too apparent outside the fixed wage and salary group; (3) that equity and efficiency alike demand the exemption front income tax, wherever possible, of the bona fide saving of the public. In its simplest form, this might include the limited exemption of insur- ance premiums and of net pur- chases of sayings bonds over the year. "I am aware that to implement the third suggestion may be work for a genius in political and social invention; but, if so, we should, he looking for him. Otherwise, as tax rates rise, the blunt instrument of the income tax may become a dangerous and perverse weapon that penalizes saving even more than it penal- izes spending. The failure to exempt saving wiper income taxes are very high will not only reduce their power to prevent inflation in the short run, but may in the long run prove a positive danger to demo- cracy itself. The extremes of "left" and right" in the world today are mediated in the great democracies by a strong middle class. It would be a tragedy indeed if democracy- should per- ish because, in the supposed interest- of its own defence, it liquidated this guardian of demo- cratic institutions. TO FIGHT INFLATION ".The suggestions made in this ap- praisal of . ways to fight inflation would, I think, be broadly accept- able to, a majority of citizens, wile- ther inside or outside the govern- ment. 1 would summarize them as follows: 1. Voluntary saving through the patriotic restraint of consumption should be encouraged, by the precept and example of govern- ment, business, and private citi; tens: i,e„ through less non- military expenditure by govern- ment, less capital expansion by business ,and less consumption (especially on credit) on the part of private citizens, '. Voluntary saving should be en- couraged, borrowing discour- aged, and fiscal policy made .ti `n effective ve by allowing a continued movement towards higher in- terest rates. . 'faxes required to prevent infla- tion should penalize consump- tion and reward saving, whether through direct taxes on con- sumption or through income taxes that exempt to some de- gree the bona fide saving of the public, If,mphatic.ally, the price of our safety is not only the expenditure of vast 801115 provided by savings and taxes, but eternal vigilance over the uses to which these funds are put, A major defence effort has such an impact noon ow economic resource and our standard of living that a democratic government would he guilty of criminal negiigence if it slid not do alt it could to pre- serve the free economy by confin- ing its ordinary expenditures to the absolute lttini11111111. "Wc have all heard it said at one time or another that American capital is taking over tent' e(tnotny, My reply is simply that. if this is Gener 1 Man ger Reports 2 Milli ; »n Deposit Accounts T. H. Atkinson. General Manager, in reviewing the bank's 1950 Annual Report, stated that total assets of The Royal Bank of Canada now exceeded $2,497,000,000 the highest point in the field of Canadian bank- ing, Deposits had also increased materially to reach $2,337,503,468. the highest point in the history of the bank. There had also been a gratifying increase in the number of the hanks' depositors, the actual number of accounts being over 2,000,000, prac- tically 1,900,000 of which were in Canada. "Since January 1, 1945, the number of accounts on our books in Canada has increased by about 600,000, or 46%," said Mr, Atkinson, An increase of $926,895 in profits was noted by the General Manager. After providing for the usual de- ductions, including taxes of $4,012,- 000, and dividends, there was a carry -forward to profit and loss account of $3,059,725, bringing this account to $6,920,039., From this total, $6,000,000 has been transferred to the Reserve Fund, which now stood at $50,000,000. NEW BRANCHES "During the year, 15 new branch offices were completed, in addition to which rather extensive renovation were made to 63 other offices. Work was commenced on an additional 14 new branch buildings and 19 extensive alteration projects which work had not been completed by the year's end. We have opened 24 full-time branches and 1 sub -branch, We are now operating 653 branches and 37 sub -branches in Canada." AID TO TRADERS The General Manager reported another satisfactory year for the bank's branches in the West Indies, Central and South America, and in other areas outside Canada. He noted particularly the important service performed by these branches in facilitatiing and promoting trade between Canada and other nations. An important and necessary com- plement to the Government's trade activities "are the banking services and first-hand knowledge which our branches abroad can and do con- tribute, With our chain now num- bering 61 offices outside of Canada and with officers who have been trained on the ground, speak the language, and are fully conversant with local requirements, we are its an unrivalled position to assist Ca- nadian exporters and importers and all those directly interested in the development of Foreign commerce. Over the years the foreign service of the bank has offered excellent opportunities to young Canadians who have desired to make a career of international banking. Such op- portunities still exist for young men of courage who have the back-- ground ack-ground and preparation required to qualify for important posts in our foreign network of branches. TRIBUTE TO STAFF "The gratifying figures we have before us today are due to a very large degree to the efficiency, en- thusiasm, and aggressiveness of the members of the staff from junior clerk up, and it is fitting that I should say to then a formal but very sincere 'thanks' for a job well done. "In the ordinary day-to-day busi- floss of the hank, our staff continued the happy tradition of friendliness always associated with '('lie Royal Bank of Canada. For their friendly conduct of business as well as for their readi- ness to rise and meet emergenc'its, I express the thanks of management to our almost 12,000 staff members and as well to those other em- ployees of the hank -who contribute so ntuell 10 the efficiency of the organization. "1 can assure the Director•, and shareholders that morale is high, and that whatever new crises come come upon us in the now -opening year, your staff' will measure up. rue, then we have no one to blame ut ourselves. If Canadian capital s not placing a large enough part developing our resources and ex - ending our industry, the reason lust be not that Canadian capital too meagre for the job, but that n spite of the high stakes, Canadian apical refuses to take the risk. Froth here on let us see to it that ur vision, our energy and our risi- aking spirit are not: found wanting.Actually a new spirit of enterprise abroad in- the land—personallyhave great faith in it. 1 believe his is the spirit appropriate to the tie Canadian character. - It may not be to much lo hope tat Canada may become. as it were. working model of the free en1tllny 111 action, and a constant emittdc'r to the world at large that le road to economic freedom is so the shortest and safest road social progress." t b its p n is c c is i t tr tl a e tl al to