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(EGETABLE STORAGE IN 1942
Vella Homemakers! There • is real-
ly great strate, y being used in the
:.aterage of vegetables these days. So,
'!because you are in the canning mood,
don't go overboard and can all your
vegetables. Consider first the ade-
quate storage methods available to
you.
(b) Por root vegetables which will
-hibernate {suchn as potatoes, carrots,
beets, onions, parsnips ,and turnips)
store in cool cellars, in above -ground
mound's,' or 171 • underground pits.
Pumpkins and winter squash can also
be stored fqr several months in these
.places.
(2) The drying method isrecom-
mended to, save both jars and fuel.
Peas, beans and corn may be blanch-
ed, put on a cookie pan and left in
the warming oven to dry slowly and
thoroughly; or, after the oven meal
is taken out of the range, turn ,the
switches off and put the pan of seeds
or kernels in the oven.
(3) Many fruits and vegetables
(cherries, berries, peas, corn, etc.)
may be picked, cleaned and put into
cartons or suitable containers and
frozen in a locker at the cold stor-
age plant in your vicinity.
(4) The pickling or salt curing
storage method "puts• down" Cab-
bages, cucumbers and peppers.
(5) Tomatoes are best canned by
the oven or wbterbafh method. The,
oven method helps to keep the vita-
min content.
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RECIPES
•
Oven Canned Tomatoes
Select firm, ripe tomatoes. Wash.
Blanch by immersing in boiling wa-
ter for aboutone minute. , Plunge
into cold water and 'peel at once.
Pack into jars. Add one teaspoon
salt. to each quart jar. Cover with
boiling water or tomato juice. Par-
tially seal and proceed 45 minutes in
oven preheated to 275 degrees.
Home Canned Spinach (Requested)
Pick . over leaves carefully. Wash
3 or 4 times, Lifting out the greens
each, time. Shred as for cooking if
necessary. Heat in an uneovered
kettle with a very small amount of
water over "low" heat until wilted.
Stir while heating. Pack into pint
jars. Add i teaspoon salt to each
pint. Cover with boiling water. Par
Bally seal and cook in holler by wa-
ter -bath method for 3 hours. •
Home Canned Pumpkin
(Requested)
Wash. Remove seeds and peel. Cut
into ldneh cubes. Cook in a small
quantity of water until soft. Put
through a sieve. Reheat to boiling
point. Fill pint jars. Seal and pro-
cess by water -bath method 3 hours.
TAKE A TIP
1. To cook or bake fillets • of fish,
wring water out of new piece of
cheesecloth; then lay fillets on it.
Lifting fillets out with the cloth
prevenits them from breaking into
pieces. Rinae the cloth in warm
water and' it can be used again.
2. To remove fish odour, rub the pan
in which fish is cooked with orange
or lemon rind.
3. A piece of orange_•. rind put into
water in which suet or steam pud-
ding is being cooked will make
the pudding roll out of the cloth -
easily.
4. To clean a stained enamel kettle,
cook applesauce or tomatoes in S.
These foods may be eaten—there
is no danger.
THE QUESTION BOX
Mrs. W. S. asks: "Recipe for tas-
ty salad for wedding for 35?"
Answer: Chicken Salad
3% cups diced 'chicken
3%, cups diced veal
5 hard -cooked eggs.
4 cups diced green celery
teaspoons salt
le teaspoon- pepper
2.th cups peas
1 cup chopped lettuce
2/3 cup minced parsley
1 cup chopped nuts
2 cups mayonnaise. •
Mix the ingredients together light-
ly with' a fork. Chill in refrigerator.
Add nuts if desired after chilling.,
Carefully stir in mayonnaise.
'Mrs. C. M. „B. asks: "If a summer
cloth dress has been dry cleaned, can
it be washed afterwards?"
Time And Money
Severs. Are Needed..
Homemakers need more than 'ever
to conserve time and energy to meet
the growing demands made on them
in their capacity as defence workers.
—saving and salvaging in every di-
rection and giving up, leisure to com-
munity war activities.
Although. waste paper is needed for
salvage, it will sometimes pay to nse
old newspapers and magazines or
catalogues to lighten cleaning opera-
tions in the kitchen. Use newspapers
on the work table. when- preparing
fruits and vegetables and the garbage
can be quickly cleared and wrapped
for disposal. Catalogue or magazine
pages are a convenient size for wip-
ing out utensils before washing, ess
pecially if they • are greasy. . Keep
one within easy reach.
Fold all articles that do not requii:e
ironing as Alley are taken from the
line.
Use trays, or small table on wheels
or casters for setting and clearing
the table.
Keep cleaning equipment such as
dusters and polishing cloths, whisk,
cleansers and dustpan in a basket
that can be conveniently moved
from place to. place.
Keep your kitchen knives ,and food
choppers well sharpened.
Have your fuel box a convenient
height to save stooping:
A work table that is -too low for
comfort can be raised ,with wooden
blocks.
Leather Scraps
Use scraps of leather from gloves,
bags or discarded leather jackets to
sew over points of wear in children's
and men's clothing or to line jackets
for extra warmth. A small strip of
leather will make an excellent but-
ton loop on a garment where the
loop gets hard wear.
Answer: Yes. But teat for wash-
ing -a belt or pieces off "'seams. Set
colour by soaking in salt and water.
Mrs. P. D. suggests: "Let some of
your radishes, lettuce, carrots, etc.,
go to seed and pick when ripe. Do
not forget to save flower seeds too.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron F,epositor. Send
in your questions on homemaking
problems and watch this column •for
replies.
* •
• Before you order dinner at a res-
taurant, you consultthe bill -of -fare.
Before you take a long trip by motor
car, you pore over road maps. Be-
fore you startout 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
amiserents ! 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 then-; Many a time,
you could save the whole year's sub-
Serrptiol`priice'1n.a v reek by 'watching
. \foi 'bargains. Aist •"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-YQur
Baying. Guide
Avoid time -wasting, money -wasting
detours on the road to merchandise
value. -._Read the . ' advertising "road
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AN 18 -TON FIGHTING MACHINE FOR THE UNITED NATIONS
No, Junior, these big bells a -e not being used on tanks. The bells are being assembled for passen-
ger locomotives in the same factory where •Canada's Valentine 'tanks are produced' in mass quantities.
The Valentine, an infantry tank, is now in service on the Russian front where Soviet military experts
have described the Canadian tank as highly effective. It is an 18 -ton machine, powered with Diesel
motor. A giant mechanical ferret, it is capable of burrowing its way through a -'brick building and
travelling at 20 miles per hour over difficult terrain. The body is armour-plated, riveted and weld-
ed, and the rotary turret may be operated either by hand or electrical controls.
Elliott Little—
Man-Power Czar
Little—Man-PowerCzar
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came necessary to so reorganize or
streamline man power that maehnum
results could be obtained from the
minimum of workers.
In order to accomplish this stream-
lining, Canada must first draft into
the ranks of industry every last per-
son not at present gainfully employ-
ed. Then shift certain. people From
what are termed the light industries
to the heavy, more essential indus-
tries: Then, as the 'war emergency
dictates, shift workers in the heavy
industries from one job to another, so
that the very minimum of man hours
will be lost.
"In doing all these things," points
out Mr Little, "you have always to.
fight time, just as big a factor in this
war on the home front as it is in
campaigns. being waged overseas."
And no one appreciates the value of
time any more than the Director of
National Selective Service. T o 1 d,
when he was given the job, that he'
must set up the machinery for opera-
tion within twelve months, he said,
"We'll do it in, twelve weeks!"
• He - proceeded to effect the first
saving of time by taking over the. 115
offices- strung across Canada for the
purpose of administering the Unem-
ployment Insurance Act, no longer
much of a task with 'employment
reaching a peak; then followed it up
lty•saving man. power when he named
the manageresef these offices his lo•
cal National Selective officers. When.
the Order in Council outlining the
work of his directorate became effec-
tive, on March 23, these men- found
themselves sllputde'ring the major re-
sponsibility of supervising many labor
changes made in their districts:
The terms oi, this Order in Council
were explicit, far-reaching. They
stated bluntly that, as of date, no man
between the ages of seventeen and
foetyfive might enter a "restricted
occupation" without a permit from a
local . National Selective Service offi,.
cer unless he hard an honorable dis-
charge from the armed forces or
could ,pr"ove that hhe had been reject-
ed because of physical unfitness.
Then, within four • months of his
surprise appointment as the country's
nian-power czar, Elliott Little an-
ounced that all workmen, with a few
exceptions, could secure employment
only through the offices of the Na-
tional .Selective Service 'organization.
By this latest order, the "restricted
occupations" were named as all fields
of employment except a -•dozen or so,
comprising .agricultural workers, by
far the largeat exempted group, sci-
entific. and technical personnel, em-
ployees 'of the provinces, domestic
help in private homes, students em-
ployed in part-time 'or tem)iorary
work, part-time subsidiary employ -
m ent, and casual or 'Irregular employ -
'Meat of not more than three days a
vkeek• for the same firm.
.Under the new order employers -are
forbidden to engage new employees
Without first reptrrting to the local
N.S.S. offce. They are .also required,
When vacancies occur, to employ\ per -
$'ons referred to them by the local
office , and
mN-S.S,ust report toor 'theapproved Maine quarterbyit. any
idtention to take. on or lay off work-
ers.
,At present there are s'tlil a'few jobs
tti be had in restricted occupations
and, where circunistadees Warrant a
certain number of able-bodied den
will,be allowed tel take them as time
goes on. But Isauleg permits to do eo
is only a minor, almost negative,
phase of the greattask• Elliott Little
and his associates trent coast' to coast
-have - undertaken til `hblittle,
Par mare important • to the main
Wartime ehore is the iiroceg,s of 'ac-'
tearing from .these restricted indtid.
tales such men asv iiiay be deeindd fit,
-he handle a jobb iii." tlig h.eavt Indite':
tries.
Ill doing •so, liow+sw'er, no fore's
fs being listd, Pest -tile are Perfectly
*tined to; eontiittie holding the' join
eY held aa of Maat&h- 6$ and i 4Uit'e.
no permits to do 'so, Agricultural
workers are assured of indefinite
postponement of compulsory military
service, and men between seventeen
and forty-five who are fit for military
service may take jobs in the heavier
industries. If, however, 'a man loses
his job and' there is an essential or
heavy job he is deemed fit to perform,
a National' Selective Service officer
may not issue a permit for a re-
stricted occupation.
"But all of this," reminds Mr: Lit-
tle, "is only a part of• the entire
schefne. Our main responsibility lies
with so handling man power in the
heavy industries that we can produce
the maximum of war materials.
An all-out effort, he believes, con-
cerns three things that begin with the
letter M. They are money,. materials,
and men. Money and materials are
practically the same and lesser sides
of the industrial triangle, however,
for with ,one you can buy .the, other.
But the article cannot • be produced
without the work done by men, and
certain rules, Mr. Little feels, apply
to handling the human element.
"The three biggest considerations,"
he,, points out, "are co-operation,
working conditions, and living condi-
tions." 'And co-operation, he would
like to emphasize, means more than
simply helping others in the same
•category as yourself. It means that
if you are an • employer you simply
must -understand the problems faced
by your employees and ,attempt to
solve them or you are bound to have
trouble on your -hands before long.
"Many who come to see `me, he
reveals, "are employers, and a great
majority are thinking only of them-
selves. They suggest an arrangement
that makes no attempt to consider
their plant's workmen. We consider
it part of our job to tell them what
we think of such tactics in no uncer-
tain terms. We explain the unreason-
ableness of such an • attitude. Then
I let down my- own hair ,a bit, appeal
to them to work with me, and I ex-
pect them' to put their problems up
to their men—not only their execu-
tive aides and foremen but every last
worker in their plants."
Such co-operation, he continues, na-
turally takes" full stock of workings
and •living conditions, the inseparables
of the industrial pattern, for it is a
firm conviction of his that veorking
conditions quickly affect domestic
life. "And while a man may not be
inclined to consider the wage scale
established by his employer," he , de-
clares, "when his potatoes are cold
he knows something's mighty wrong
with, his private world."
Then, getting right back to the shop
again( Mr. ' Little contends that the
average workman will do a lot more
if be feels be is ,being taken in on
the major strategy of the firth, allow-
ed to suggest ways and means' of ac-
complishing,the general aim. And his
Point is ,very nicely illustrated by an
incident which occurred right in his
own plant, the Anglo -Canadian Paper
Company, a year or more ago.
When his chief engineer came to
him suggesting that they take on a
certain- bits -and -pieces contract, Lit-
tle declared that their machine shop
~lavas then going full blast and they
couldn't touch the job. But the chief
engineer insisted He even offered to
put up„ his own expenses to Montreal
to get it and to make good any loss
suffered from overworking their ma-
chine shop.
"Don't be silly!" Little ehi'd, seeing
how serious the pian was about han-
dling his non-profit task on 'behalf of
the general' war effort. "I guess I
can take care of that end of things."
So the chief mechanic went off to
Montreal, and they got the contract,
and it is pretty generally conceded
that they made • a nifty job ofethei
required articles. "But tot because of
.what the, chief and.I did," points out
Little. "lecause, when the blueprints
arri+r"ed; neither of fes could figure tett
WWI& make a 'sit Of telin fates with
the "e'tjuipiiieliit an hand. It - rdfii"a"`f-ne'i `
for a third-grade thechanie we called
in frd!iiir the shop, t0 rig rip a, sheets!•
gaitget frero .an I4 bleyiie whim' and s
d Piece +of rttbbar heidY t<t' ..was what; M
did the trick."
And that, he• feels, is a vital • f
ture of this entire man -power p
gram. •Every worker must realize t
'necessity of•tackling any,problem th
comes along. "It is no longer cuff
tient," he points out, "for a man t
confine his efforts' to only' one jo
He must be prepared to fill' in wher
ever help is needed -or his particul
ability can serve. As the pace of 'th
war -production program increase
men will undoubtedly have to wo
part time at one job and. part. time
another, maybe one that doesn't pa
quite as well as the first."
In order to illustrate, he asks .yo
to suppose that there is a certain typ
of plant in a• certain town, and tha
for a time the product it turns out i
not badly needed, so that it can onl
provide three •days' work a wee
.Also in that town are several, war
plants working full blast and badly
in need of part -tinge. assistance.
"It is a man's duty;" he believes,
"to help out in' such a• case by work-
ing at both places. And what if the
pay at the war plant is lower because
the work is not exactly in his line?
He's further ahead working for, half
his usual pay- part of the week than
sitting around not making a .penny."
Mr. Little also favors keeping work-
ers at home or near their homes ra-
ther than allowing them to shift all
over the country. "It is much easier,"
he' explains, "to move material- to
men than to move Men "to material,
because her steel," he.points out with
a •characteristic• tendency ,to phrase -
make, "isn't married and boxcars
don't have youngsters."
Which • brings him back to living
conditions, the rock on:,which all 1n
dustrial effort rests= or'' wrecks itself.
"It's no fun," he argues, "to leave
your family and go away off isome-.
where to take a new job and taking
them with you doesn't workout
much better. Conditions will never
seem Itis ideal as they were back home
due chiefly to 'the fact that a number
of other people :have made the same
move and normal living arrangements
are taxed. Movements - of this kind
create housing shortages, throw the
local merchants out of gear, and gen-
erally cause industrial unrest!'
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As far as possible, therefore, he
plans to keep Canada's industrial
workers fighting where they -feel
most at home and can, as a conse-
quence, do their beat work. "In re-
turn for such consideration, however,"
he adds, "we expect people to make
certain sacrifices. The man who has
been used to running a lathe may be
asked, for a time, to grab a shovel
and lend- a hand in some outdoor field
of 'service. Likewise, the unskilled
white-collar man the biggest prob-
Iem when -it comes to facing reality
or physical survival in an emergency
—may.have to shuck his business suit
and get into overalls and help hoe
potatoes or do some .other laboring
job."
The speaker knows what it Is like
to Work with his hands, for he hadn't
been in the pulp businesd very 'long
-before he learned the men wouldn't
take much from a boss who teas un-
able to perform their jobs himself.
Born in Beachbueg, Ontario, a Mae
village between i'embrokb and Ren-
frew and not far from the nation's
Capital, .Little went to work as art
office boy for the Abitibi 'raper Cora-,
pany's Iroquois Fall's plant at four -
tee .
Ile was a bright lad and it was not,
long before the late R. A. McInnis,
plant manager, began to take an in-
terest In him• During the =first World
War, Little joined the air force,"and
was still training when thee war end-
ed. He returned to Abitibi, Where Mc-
Innis offered •te taanne a universtty
eiducatioti for hint.
!Tuttle 'le .independent. "I can help
myself," he gild. And our years lat-
eri- .after quite some b"a;ttling, he. Walk-
ed .ottt pf Ter nth tj niversits1's School
of, Practical- kietencir +N 111r -a degree in
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yourdruggiettorieerosD. p. p. PRESCRIPti»ll
bec and work for AhgleCanadifan4
and when the boss died early >a
1941, Little was put in complete
charge of that company ,as %ell,
the GaeP.esia Sulphite Company, both
owned by Lord Rotheniraere.
During the same year he was aske(
by the federal government to become
director of the Wartime ,Bureau oe
Technical Personnel, organized to lo-
cate and catalogue engineering brains
throughout Canada. Having set that
up, he shifted several months ago to
"his present post.
He has spent considerable time and
effort studying Germany's approach
to this whole vital problem of man
power and is well informed on Ja-
pan's progress along similar lines. .
"The Japs," he tells us, "have been
working fifty-eight years to pull off
their present display of fireworks. It
has taken Hitler's experts more thals
eight years to organize for total war
by making the greatest possible use
of industry and selective service, We
have been asked to do the same in - a
year, and we can do it in half that
time if we really' get together and
push.
"And we must go, right on push-
ing,". -.he adds. "Because •,this is not
being set upfor the duration alone.
In a phrase, National Selective
Service 'is at present a means oC
turning bottlenecks into spearheads.
After ' the war " is over, the same
system can be used- to turn these
spearheads into- plowshares-"
Tubes N'e`eded
It is claimed there are thousands
of inner tubes used as playthings at
bathing beaches and summer resorts.
"Are these tubes more important as
safety devices atbeaches or as safe-
guards on our war fronts?" National
Salvage Headquarters at Ottawa an-
swers the question this way: "We can
obtain substitutes for these safety
devices at our beaches, but as ye:
we can get no substitute for rubber
for our war requirements," It's; up
to you, 1942 vacationist!
Two Ways to Test
Juices for Pectin
There are-.. two common ways to
test fruit juices for -pectin content.
To one teaspoon of cooked juice,'
add one teaspoon wool or, ethyl alco-
hol and stir slowly. 3f the juice..isl_
rich in pectin it • will, form a large
amount of gelatinous .material. It
juice is moderately rich in pectin a
few pieces of gelatinous material will
form. But if the juice is poor in
pectin very small pieces of sediment
will be formed. ..
Another test may be made by mix-
ing two teaspoons sugar, one table-
spoon
•Epsom salts and two table-
spoons cooked fruit juice. Stir well
and let stand for 20 minutes.' :If mix-
ture forms into a semi-solid mass the
juice, containssufficient pectin.
Plans Outlined
Canadaie going into action- Her
enemy is a fifth column which saps
the strength, and efficiency ,of her
people and slows down their war
effort, according to health officials.
This fifth column is malnutrition—
poor'eliets.
This week, Nutrition Services, De-
partment of Pensions and National
Health, have published The Canadian
Nutrition Program. This has bees
.:approved by the Canadian Council on
Nutrition and outlines the methods by
which an offensive campaign can be
waged against poor diets and conse-
quently poor health.
Statistics have "shown that many
people who can afford to eat well do
not do so owing to lack of informa-
tion. Those people who cannot af-
ford sufficient quantities of the right
foods can through knowledge of nu-
trition, learn how to get .most • value
out of their limited resources.
Last winter Nutrition Services,
headed by Dr. L. B. Pett, began a
survey Of war industries to see how
the work of factories could be speed-
ed up- through, increasing the health
of the workers through better food.
In 'many parts of Canada community
nutrition classes -were began. ,By
printing a Nutrition Program it is
hoped that more of these community,
undertakings will be developed on uni-
form information, the Canadian 'Pee-
ple will march toward the goal of bet-
ter health,
The Canadian Nutrition Program
includes food rules which provide a
basis on Which everyone can work -
towards adequate nutrition. It out-
lines 'a plan of action which each
comtriunity can' follow Mad contains a
new table of the ttmounts of nutri-
ents needed in Canada, Canada and
the United States have agreed on this
table and this. will enable them 'o ..
'Work as united nattene in the fight
against malnutrition.
A $opy,, of tits Program, which Is
useful for groups intending to organ-
ize a cartipnlgu, or for those already`
+lperattag;, oat no obtained through
$turvinoial• Departments of Health or
from Nil ritielit litorVk101l, Dtll)ttrtnietit
P
f ensitina, ttnd>"Nrittl)rrasl MAIM Ott-
talint, Other inferittftiteli wliie1i 'still ,
serge ao a gttttl'tr' Torr incltvtid(rals
Brett' hetet) of 'Med on be ebtei>atatli_„
by:. riir fling to Iltitt^ititlit' Services.
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