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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.—
. From ".Drawn Front Memory," by
John T. i%tcCutcheon,
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People Say What
They Don't Mean
Is it a subtle sense of humor or
just sheer illeteracy that causes
so many people to twist the sense
of words• or alter the punctuation
so that the finished result is not
what they mean?
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."
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