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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-06-12, Page 671, a�Y a' iv ANNE 4&LAH.. Oro Homo Eeowomid t il3'SEHOLD LAXNESS HELPS TUE AXIS Homemakers! As headof augplies for the .family, it is up to homemaker to supply proper MIS for energy, take care of the household equipment and spend the household dollar wisely: This ayccom ►Boned, there will be savings and the good habits of thrift we acquire will carry over after the war period. Every Government order from the Wartime Prices and. Trade Board ibrings the homemaker a new chal- lenge—a challenge being met cheer- fully by all homemakers. For every restriction is the result oea war em- ergency and is made assa a means of helping towards Victory' for the Unit ed Nations. Here are seine of the points to re- member: 1. Don't waste hot water—It takes fuel to heat every drop- of water you waste. 2. Take it easy on wash cloths and towels—Wash in the water and not on the towels. Cotton textiles, are difficult to replace as machines are needed to 'make uniforms, para- chutes, etc. 3. „Be sparing on cosmetics. — Th y are like many other "luxury" ft- tems pleasant to have, but don't waste them 4. Tell the men how to make razor blades last longer.—They may be stropped in an empty -water glans. 5. Use electricity only when you need it.—Don't leave a light . burning uselessly.. More electric power is needed for war industries. 6. Don't turn on the radio unless you want to listen to it. 7. Change to old clothes at home.—' Wear slacks or an old' dress at home. Make your good clothes last longer by keeping them mend- ed ended and clean. 8. Take care of your 'shoes. ` — Put padding or shoe 1 trees in them. Have them re -soled and heeled. They'll last longer -and shoe fac- tories' are busy working for our fighting men. •Y 9. Go light on butter, cream, sugar, tea, etc.—Many waste butter, use too much sugar, drink tea instead of milk, or use cream when milk *ould do. 10. Watch your personal health—Get plenty of exercise, fresh air and rest. 11. 12. 13. 14. Don't throw away anything that can be used. -,Save everything from toothpaste tubes to rubber tires, needles and, pins,'nails and screws, boxes and paper bags, etc. Canada needs your salvage. Don't be a hoarder. Discourage hoarding in others. — It creates panic' buying, makes rationing necessary. Don't buy more than is necessary for current needs. Do your job, do, it well and co- operate willingly with others, Measure your Victory Quota by "What can -t do?": ---Enroll in Civ- ilian Defence work. Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds ,to the DrChae' Nerve Food ilAnit,. 1 tmee to rasa onr'14 o arjlt d«efeatiat propaganda, „NUM -THRIFT MENU omatta J ce French 'oast with *311111' BreilectInver „Oeffee or gilk Cre01e Flank Beef ,ateakk' Escalloped .Potatoes Buttered Dandelion, 'Greens Whole . Wheat Bread and; Better Cottage Tudding with Maple Sallee Cheese Rarebit Spring Salad Bowl Coffee Roll Stewed Prunes and Apricots Cocoa Coffee RoII ' 1 cup scalded. milk - 1 cake yeast dissolved in 'l4 cup lukewarm water 2 cups. flour 2/3 cup sugar % teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons lard Cinnamon: Cool the milk and add the yeast and one-half the flour. Beat well and let rise until light. Add the slightly beaten egg, sugar, salt and melted fat which have been thoroughly mixed to- gether. Add the remaining flour. Let rise until double in bulk. Pour in shallow greaded pans. When light, sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake in an uvea at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Serve hot. Creole Style Flank Beef Steak 1 large flank steak 1 lb.- pork sausage 2 cups canned tomatoes 2 ;bay leaves 1 onion, chopped Salt and pepper. Score flank steak. Shape sausage meat into a cylinder as long as the flank steak. .Roll steak around saus- age and tie with a string. Place the steak in a shallow baking pan, pour the tomatoes over it, add the bay leaves and chopped onion. ;Cook in an oven, 350 degrees, for Ina hours. THn QUESTION BOX Mrs. G. S. S. asks: "For a meat' chart, description of cuts and various methods of cooking by, electricity." Answer: This has been mailed di- iectly to address,Mrs. S. Mrs. J. J. asks: "Why does aspara- gus turn black when 'bailed?" Answer: Dark colored asparagus may result from cooking in a tarn- ished arnished pan or cooking too long. Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron•Expositor: Send in your questions on. homemaking problems and watch this column for replies. • Before you order dinner at a res- taurant, you consult the bill -of -fare. Before you take a. long trip by motor car, you pore over road maps. Be- fore. you start out on ; a shopping trip, you should consult the adver- tisements in this paper: For the same reason! The advertising columns -. are a buying guide for you in the purchase, of everything you; need, 'including amusements! A guide that saves your time and conserves your ener- gy; that . saves useless steps and guards against false ones; that puts the s -t -r -e -t -c -h in the family bud- gets. The advertisements in this paper are so interesting it is `difficult to see how anyone could overlook them or fail to profit by them.. Many a time, you could save the whole ye'ar's sub- scription price in a week by watching for bargains.. Just check'with your- self "and be sure that you are reading the advertisements regularly —•- the big ones and the little ones. It is. time well spent . . . always! - Your Local Paper Is Your -.Buying Guide Avoid time -wasting, money -wasting detours on the road to merchandise -value. Read the advertising "road maps." HURON E S Met'•EAN ` 13fOS, Publishers - Established 1860 afore t 14ten, pue!par? yourselves; for 'a shocks Ladies, you who are fond Qf. alluding `tont-tie "re/I n.ement •of the feminine toneh,'" loolr out far a I,et-. dawn, 'says' Alvin I; . Goldstein• in 1yiagazine poet: The • old Police Gazette, that -venerated sheet circu- lated, in barbel' shops, billiard halls and the less' discriminating taverns, is edited' by Miss. Edythe Farrell. Yes, the editor of the rejuvenated (but un- reformed) 'Police Gazette is a 'woman-!, The magazine was dying by inches when Publisher 11. H. Roswell took it over about five years ago. For two years he struggled unsuccessfully •to restore it to -health; failing -principal- ly because •he could find no subordin- ate capable of translating his policies into print on the pink pages, One after another, editors blustered in and fa,ded mit: Circulation sank to a new low of 4010,00. - About this time [Miss Farrell ap- peared on the scene, little realizing that she was taking the first step hi a new and unique career; that a. great tradition was to be shattered. Her first encounter ,with her future boss came when she visited his office to find out what had become of a story she had submitted. "Don't you even want to read it?" she asked_ l ioswell. "No," he said, whereupon Miss Far- rell seined • the story from his desk and . began reading it herself—aloud. "It was a good story," Roswell re- coii ts, "and I had to buy it." Mss • Farrell became a regular con- tributor. A few weeks later she re- visited the office. 41 was in one hell„ of a mess at the time," -the publisher recalled. ""A few months earlier I had hired a secretary, just because she was good looking. You know how it is. Well, I couldn't get, any work out of her. When she got tothe office in the morning, she was so tired from the night before that she couldn't type, she couldn't talk, she couldn't even take a mes- sage over the phone. - "She was so beautifulthat the re- ception room couldn't accommodate every -body who came up to chat with her. It was so crowded that half the tame I couldn't get through to my own office. Just when 1 began figuring on how I could hire someone else, she quit. I• had to have somebody; I was half crazy." At that point Edythe walked in. "Look here?' said Roswell, "can you take shorthand?" ' • "No," Miss Farrell replied. "Can you e?" "No," the author answered. "-Can you answer a telephone?" "Yes, and I can get up a better let- ter than you can if you just tell me what you want to say," she said -cock- ily. So Edythe Farrell, free lance writ- er, `went to work for the Police Gaz- ette as' a_handy-woman. In the ex- change of employees Publisher Ros- well lost nothing in beauty and gain- ed immeasurably in brains. The fol- lowing Christmas; Roswell handed her by -way --of a surprise,. the first copy off the press . of -the new Police Gaz- ette—the ,first Police Gazette ever -to bear the name of a woman editor: "E. Farrell—Editor° it read. • "You've been doing the work," the boss said, "so you might as well ,have the title." ' ;There -was some fear at first,that male subscribers would be frightened from the magazine if it were known that a woman was selecting and sup- ervising their reading. But when the news leaked out, the revelation stim- ulated, : rather than hurt, circulation. It' had always been Roswell's theory that a woman should know precisely what 'a man wants, and he was. will- ing to give Miss Farrell an opportun- ity to prove it. -- - To you lovers of the old Gazette let it be quickly said that age has not.witbered nor custom staled its in- finite variety of crime and scandal stories, sports exposures, burlesque reviews or picture layouts (consists g chiefly of the lower extremities of e female ensemble). The feminine ouch has not diluted that particular flavor" dear to, the magazipe since grandpa sneaked it into the house under his beard. • Inspection of the front cover of a recent issue disclosed the following summary of contents: , "Bizzarre So- ciety Scandal," "Referee Donovan Sums up," "An Exotic. Stripper," "A Shapely Ballerina," "Hot 'Racing Tips," "Strong Muscular Girls" and "Physical Culture Winners." -Even the advertisements are mea- suring up 'to the standard of the Mag- azine at its moat spectacular peak. The• entire back cover is sold to the K. C. Card Company, advertising decks and dice. Included in the card offer is "valuable information for the novice or professional," suet as No. 909, "Card Secrets," No. 707, "How to Control- Fair Dice." And for patrons who aren't interested in straight Shooting, .there are:offerings of "Miss - pots, (tops and botttome) ;" "Dice Paste (for making Cap work)" and so on in robust fashion down the, line. There also is a column of Lonely Hearts' ads, a liberal, sprinkling • of offers to supply false teeth or cure stomach ulcers by mail and the in: evitable opportunity to buy "actual glossy" photogralihs of famous (burl- esque stars like Ann Coria. "Just clip the coupon and 'tall today, with[ out delay . . ,O'iie piece of iironio= tiorrl 'on behalf of the magazine itself • is o, message addressed • to • "Every Bartender, - Hotel Aeeper and Saloon- rna1i;" another is :diiresoefl ,te r"Bar- ixers , and Bartenderd,;" and ' a third ;(straight to the heart df .ile •pnbli t0',Gompt 4e0, r 9kha0,1l ` piAiybis' de`. alSnO h ,o , '1�q CA, sclgAt Ot limb azgv *40hated bs the •Rulers of 910',M99314 'be 1790 041140 gh new subsGrilier to the'ojice q.zette a beautiful,• autograph- gd ')pl ture ' of ,plane Rowland, FREE. A .(photograph etn•Phaslzing some, of Miss Roiivland's. finer .points is repro*' duped. - 1 'To revitalize the Police Gazette af- ter 'De took it over, PuUlisner Bos- well decided that the aid formula, which was good enough to build up a circulation of nearly 500,000 in grand- father's day, was good .enough for him today. He had purchased the •publiea- tion for a song, after,it had Sed into bankruptcy pursued by a host 'of creditors and hastened by a succes- sion of managers. In the old days, Publisher Richard K. Fox had supplied his public with scandal, spicy sport news,, lurid crime stories and — whenever ; possible -- shocking disclosures. In 1845 and for an interval thereafter, the Gazette was the official publication of the New York Police Department. It was frankly cut to the pattern of certain sections of the London press, particu- lar,[, _tie "Peoples" Peace Gazette." Although Pox is ` known as the founder, actually he purchased tlio magazine at a period when it had not yet met with extraordinary success. But by aggressive 'methods and a not too delicate touch, 1}e began to at- tract readers oii a national scale. He illustrated his story about Sarah Bernhardt horsewhipping people who offended her with a drawing of the lady holding. -a whip. Most of his stories were sexy 'accounts of how the country boy had outwitted the city slickers, and he featured frequent stories which ridiculed "high society:' t Qs; se OW�'„c'lesired "toI a a e hle;'•coti0C troy" a land of scateil time "Pr ogees, `to destrnal superstition: and the 'horrible bauk*ardriese `that ' hid under the cloak of 'Wee religion. H'e bad spent his ;entire life �try?iug to 'show the landowners show their Ash soil ,c0914 grow plenty for everyone. They wouldn't lisr,en, "This professor "Tinpiryazev," wrote the count, in his paper+,- F'by bis -'blas- phemous experiments which interfere with' the handiwork' of the Almighty; Is actually ibanishing God from na- ture, with all expenses paid by the government" What the scientist wrote in reply to this, in 1908, Might well have been intended as a prophecy tor the Allies of 1942. "In the coming world-wide struggle between that' part of man- kind which looks ahead to a glorious future, and ' that - part which cannot turn away from the evil past," he de- clared, "the following words will be inscribed on the banner1 of freedom: Science and Democracy—In, this, sign you will conquer." Ruined by such childish. beliefs as these of the Count,•Russia, starved. Droughts, floods, insects, famine and disease swept over the richest,agri- cultural lands of the old world. Men likes' Timiryazev struggled in vain- to radio the country out of its bog of misery; and through their un- tiring efforts the` new republic at last has its feet on high ground: - Today scientific circles admit that ne other nation can approach. Rus- sia in agricultural progress. Her sci- entists. are internationally famous. And her farms are .operated on a scale and by methods. -unknown else- where. Some of the latent develop - The magazine was filled with risque meats are astonishing. woodcut illustrations, ' for which, in For fifty years Timiryazev had.de- the modern version, photographs have voted himself to experiments to dem- been substituted. (This is Miss Far - build that the sun's' energy does rell's only concession to the march build up plants. An just after he passed away during the days of the revolution, astouding results came from all his work. • When peace was restored, a great program of agricultural exaansion began in the Soviet Union. In Siberia. where farming had'usually failed, huge grain farms were planted. Ever present in the mind.•of the farmers however, was the torturing question: "Will there be'plenty of sunshine be- fore cutting time?" One day a ylpung Siberian farmer named Yefremoy bega nto study Tim- irayazev's' books. The professor's work on sunshine fascinated him. "We must make nature bow to us," he finally_ told his friends. He argued with the agricultural scientists sent to help th`e Siberian farmers that since the suit supplied all the energy used by plants to change food water and air' into grain, sunshine was just as important to the growing of wheat as food and water. "Maybe in a million years," they laughingly answered, "you may. be able to control the stip, and give our wheat, all the sunshine it needs." But Yefremov's idea was clear in his brain. To get more grain per acre, use more sunshine per acre; to do that, increase • the ---number- of plants growin ' g on each acre of land. "How. can you' grow more plants per acre," - the --agriculturists asked him, .""if more grain could be grown per acre„ people would have done it hundreds of years ago." "Do you- know yourselves how many stalks of grain - can be 'grown, to each square foot of soil?" the young man asked. The agriculturists were un- able to tell him:' Of time). Fox died in 1922 after prohibition and the advent of women in, barber shops had cut deeply into the reven- ues of his publication. Ten years lat- er, a mere shadow of itself, the Gaz- ette was sold down the river into bankruptcy. There were several at- tempts to ""streamline" the magazine but•all were destined to financial fail- ure until Roswell took over with the determination to make the old, gray mare just whet -she used to be. It was by no accident that Edythe qualified as the editor of the Police Gazette. "We had a newspaper man in the family," she said, recalling - her early aspirations and achievements, "and you know what a bad effect that has on children. 'I decided I could write and I sold my first story at fourteen. 1` began by turning out tripe for the,, pulps by the bale. At 17, I walked into a publisher's office and sold him on the idea of an adive to the love- lorn section." In her new job, Edythe knew at once that she had found her niche. It was a perfect.outlet for her imagina- tion and her understanding of human nature. Never a spectator sports en- thusiast, she found she had a positive flair far boxing, beer hall gossip and- . burlesque. It wasn't long before she was re -making layouts, editing con- tributions' and- covering personally the most difficult interview assign- ments: The incident that clinched her standing with her publisher was her interview with Simone Simon. It happened like this: Miss Farrell entered Miss.Simon's dressing room without .. an appoint- ment and thestar gretted her with: "Go 'way, I don't like'you." Miss Farrell replied. that she .had come or an interview and intended to renfain' until she pot one. ""I don't know you," the actress said acidly: ""•I don't know you, either," the Gazette reporter replied, settling her- self comfortably in a chair. - ""How old are you?" she asked first. "Maybe 17, maybe 70,". Simone Simon answered airily. The conver- sation continued for some time at cross-purposes; finally the actress re- lented and gave all the intermation that was sought, • and more. The re- porter rose to leave." "Don't go 'way, I like, you," Misjs Simon said warmly. ""Well, I don't like you," [Miss Far- rell •retorted and returned to her of- fice to•write a caustic account of her encounter with the star. This is the woman who, until the Police Gazette engaged her, had nev- er seen a wrestling Match, a' prize fight or a burlesque show. She was unfamiliar with lbasebali or football. Yet' today she has revived the old typography, the lurid captions, the familiar cheese cake;- and the 'dircu lation of the Gazette is up to 200,000! And that, any friends, is how.a wo- man editor caters to the elenient in masculine journalistic interest,, which has hitherto been viewed as being dis- tinctly' on the bays' side of the - play- ground. • Super -Sunshine . Farms (Condensed from the Winnipeg Free Press . Magazine, in Magazine Digest) The story* _:begins many years ago, in a sunlit garden near St. Peters- burg, in the ,Russia of the Czars.' An old white -bearded• •prefeetatt had just been .haii`ded the newspaper `t( •razh- danan," whioh was owned by the paw erful Oount Meeche alty, ' ; The •nobleman .h' fed the old-selen- tist and had for a long time -encicaie- orrrd'.to 'have" ,hl r drivels from 'his position.. Now, in this 'edition of his c) paper,, he; was•. appealing tb the plat it esardp�'"_ ,SRA.!? '•�4� 1. persaaa soft ludo m ler -,ear rest is tri, wis8 -tss, At the Ent AP of 'Meer tart osorodestl to Dadi°s Kidney.,Pillsr-i '[war I f,aceatoty b - hvariae.wagerarp�re►a foss Di drtilsKi hey�PUUbi Nazi invasion. In spite of certain secrets however, we can give the general principles of the system. There are two general drilling methods. One follows the familiar system of rows-. Only in- stead of 230 rows per afire (custom- er' for a certain variety ,of Russian wheat) Yefremov now giants 1,400 rows. The other method .is called "chess- board sowing." • In this, the grain is drilled in patterns, Or ',plats; with wide spaces between. This tsystecp. is used wherever the sun is low in the sky during the ripening period. Ac- tually, the Yefremov system is work- ed out differently ,for eacli region, ill order to make the most use of soil,. rain and sunshine. The *hole object 'is'to use the sunlight that falls on each acre. Planting does not follow the roads or fences or .rivers, but is laid out by surveyors who have a knowledge of t'he son's movements— the earth's` movements to be' exact. No doubt you. are saying 'L y this time: "It's all very well' to talk a- bout bout shine. • 'But bow 'could' the soil stand such a drain? Two hundred bushels each year would ruin the sand." Exactly. And this is. where Yef- remov's discovery comes in. What his new 'system of seeding really means is just this: it makes the grow- ing of wheat with high-grade fertiliz- ers both practical and very •profitable. It's important to grasp this. Fertiliz- ing wheat land has been tried many times. Even with 50 bushels of No. 1 to the acre, the use'of costly chem- ical fertilizer has been found imprac- tical. But the picture changed when we think in terms of two hundred bushels _to the acre. ,Even with a de- pressed wheat market it would pay to - fertilize, to get yields like that. Farmers will immediately see that growing two hundred bushels to the - acre will make the whole business of grain farming more concentrated. Less "plowing, discing, hauling; less wear and tear 'on Machinery; less shifting of ploughing and thresher outfits; less wasted driving and walk- ing. Less expense, less work — and five times as much wheat! In a nut- shell, the Russians have found by. using Yefremov's discovery' that they\. can, afford to grow wheat and other �v cereals as as if they were high-priced market -garden crops like strawberries or celery. What does all this mean in prat.- tice? It means that Yefremov figures • out exactly the number of wheat plants -that Gan be'' grown pet sere (and still get enough sunshine) ; then the amount of 'chemical fertilizer the wheat .will creed (to make up for loss of the soil) ; finally, the best kind of cultivation fol. the growing wheat, • • keeping in mind the kind of soil and the expected rainfall. Special machines have been de- veloped for cultivating these densely seeded wheat fields. Now experi- ments are in .progress'•to ,prove'whe- ther or not wheat can be litigated or • watered in the same Way as market - garden crops. It, is no exaggeration to say that the work of Yefremov„, lamed on old Professor Timiryazev's studies, will ' - revolutionize grain growing all over the world. Actually it is 'the most striking improvement man has eves made in growing grain since- the primitive tribesman first began to garner wild cereals. Nor is the end yet in sight. For example, 4"another scientist named Rakitin, one of Yefremov's followers, has been working with a new ' "'Gor- dei" wheat developed for 'him by the Soviet plant breeders'. institutes. It , had 'on an average two more grains of wheat per year than the regular Gordei. l sways?. Growing four million wheat Pants to the acre (instead of the usual rev en thousand) Rakitin'S new Gordei - gave him an extra million grains of wheat at harvest. When this' was measured after tireshing, the in- crease amounted to more than forty bushel's per acre; this extra yield alone"was as good as a total crop! One of the advantages that the Sov- • iet Union has overk�;'tlrer countries is that new ideas are eery quickly car- • vied 'to every corner ''of the vast re - Needless to say this work of Yefi'eniov and Raldtin, and other ""super-sunshiine" farmers is being ap- plied to all .grains and to other crops • as weil..M- It is no use for ua to smile at 200 - bushels to -the -acre. That wheat yield is - a, fact. Already the Soviet farmers 'are talking of another wheat discovery. They are well on the way to'breeding perennial 'wheat. Wheat that conies tip every year, without seeding, and requires only _ fertilizex__and eultiva- tion, • Mankind is on the verge of realia-, ling old Professor Timiryazev,s dream --"We if u`st direct nature. We must mak'e-"tb.e- processes of nature bow to 'lance reabtin and will." In .(,hat direction. lies the farming ' of tornorreiw, A lreppy ' life tvithottt drudgott and s'riiination,- with natero �oiir servant instead of'a ' feared and 'niidolitrolied inadter, "Soon I shall have found out, and I . think I know how to control the sun right now," Yepremov said un- daunted, and went to see the manager, of the collective farm on which he worked. After much discussionhe was fin- ally given land on which to experi- ment, and many young men . and wo- filen farmers volunteered' to help -hint. He and these volunteer helpers planted thensands of little plots of (grain, seed by seed, Carefully they changed the distance between each seed. In one plot it would be 'half an inch, in another three-quarters, then one inch and so on. The spacings between the- plants in .different plots differed actually by less than half an inch. Working with extreme care, they knew that one-tenth of an inch might be of the utmost importance'to the results. - It didn't take long for Yefremov to prove that about lr/a square inches of soil was sufficient area to grow a single wheat plant. This meant that on a whole acre' of land, about four ndillion grains; could be planted, and ail would get e?}'ough sunshine to reach healthy Matti "tyt • But whenhe m asured out the weight of grain actually planted per acre according to the best 'agricultur- al 'methods, and polluted the number Of ,grains in this', he found -only seven hundred'thousand! , r. In Other words, all the; wheat that is grown lav FIVE ACRES bf sand us `ing the standard system- of seeding, Yefremov found, could be grown : on ON1 A0118! He proved beyond ail pdssible doubt that- One wheat plant could grow perfectly' on every 1i1/2 Square Inches of soil. Or, in Larger terms, -four 'miliion ;wheat plants could grow on one acre, and each plant 'would ',get plenty- of sunshine. Y''ou can imagine the sensatkftl this taus - 'It is utifortilria'te that we' earlnot .go into d«triii regarding the very latest fe thode of do -h g +"by lite-:5refremo'r gysibiii, .Stitch ddtaiifi thugt f pt he ,sI idvird to fail .iiLto the ltaitd°s 4E. •tlio E3ri€rtny' '.'That ls',*10 11iLneW"i7tethoit,s, mere tot used 11x' the ttloreine or otter ;igi1 mis ;stere ;• there ,.was danger - of 6