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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-07-13, Page 6r„! jna "'p y p e iii ak a rs ! 1. Pe yen are enjoying the pro- ': pl? 410lir -Victory Garden. The tl7i'e derived from gathering and ,lig your own salad green shoul d et, t=he back -stretching and knee- rett ng 'hours spent in protecting OR: ; garden from weeds. 4»l the vegetable greenery, as well as colourful radishes, carrots, beets, tofaatoes and so on, add their own individuality to salads. Fruits too— beries, cherries, melons, peaches— follow along in succession to add pep and goodness to your meals.. Whether you pick your own assort- ment of salad materials or buy them Please do be sure that they're young and tender. Wash thoroughly, drain on towel and chill to crispness he fore you use them. Chop, • slice, or shred finely. Just before serving add aa.lad dressing tossing the ingredients together—do not mix too• much. If Your salads are to be attractive and crisp do not prepare them too long before serving. Keep Refrigerator Clean • Clean the -inside of the refrigerator every two weeks. The dial should be turned to "defrost”, or "off" position. Having removed the food 'from the shelf below the freezing unit, spread a layer of heavy paper on it. Insert a an of hot water in the freezing unit to soften ice quickly; meanwhile take out everything in the cabinet. Wash the interior with a mild solu- tion of water and baking soda (one • • • v goi."4704 �fsorr f MAKE HOTYOUREL NOiW WAVEBLEY coni I � al A RATES a YOOEaN, Sher 1140 WAVHOU WELL- D part CONDUCTED S2•50 -MOD , pip CONVENIENILT• g'r'it ww n[INNI LOCATED moot. MINN HOTEL W$TANCE A, W MOU.L tablespoon to one gallon. of water). Wipe the coils inside the ice tray units as well as the sides of com- partments. Dry out before turning on the electricity. Wash ice cube trays in warm water with clean cloth to prevent the ice cubes from becoming flavored. Serub shelves and dry them. Rub the rub- ber gasket on the door with a damp cloth wrung out of clear water. Do not use a scouring powder on the outside of cabinet, Wash with mild soapy water and dry well. ' Coils should be cleaned of dirt and dust at least two or three times a year, because accumulated dirt keeps the coils hot. ' It may prove to be, good economy to have your dealer or reliable ser- vice man inspect the refrigerator, if that has not been done for some time. Older types which may require oil- ing should be oiled every month, Salad Suggestions 1. Sliced beef liver loaf, spinach and lettuce salad with sour cream and chopped hard -cooked egg dress- ing, tomato wedges. 2, Jellied vegetable moulds, cheese and parsley sandwiches (triple deck- er ribbons with brown and white bread), pickled beets. 3. Stuffed cooked beets, chilled green beans in French dressing, green onions, radishes. 4, Jellied veal and rice moulds, currant jelly, mixed vegetable greens on nasturtium greens with salad dressing. 5. Egg halves in tomato jelly, cot- tage cheese and parsley moulds, brown rolls stuffed with cabbage slaw. 6. Corned beef and head cheese, jellied horse -radish, macaroni salad, grated., carrot with mayonnaise let- tuce. 7. Chilled cooked fish on lettuce, cucumbers in sour cream and potato salad. Cern Cakes cups. cooked corn eup milk lin tablespoon sugar 2 eggs • In . cup flour 3 teaspoons baking powder teaspoon,.,&alt. - fail PURR eR ROLLING YOUR OWN Add the milk and sugar to corn, and combine with the eggs which have been- well beaten: Sift together the dry ingredients and add to the corn mixture. Drop by tablespoon- fuls into greased muffin tins. Bake in an ' oven at 375 degrees'° about one-half hour. (Suggested for meat salads). Mock Potato Cakes 1 cup dried split peas 1 cup dry bread crumbs 4 tablespoons milk ' ' 2 tablespoons minced orlon 1 teaspoon sage 2 eggs (beaten) 2 teaspoons pickle sauce V2 teaspoon salt Pepper. Cook washed split peas in boiling salted water until tender (soak for a few hours first, if desired), then drain 'and force through a sieve to make a thick puree. Combine with remaining ingredients and mix thor- oughly. Shape into patties and roll in additional crumbs. Chill in refrig- erator until tea time (about 1 hour), then saute until brown. Serve with a. relish, if desired. The Suggestion Box" Mrs, J. S. says: (1) To stiffen net veils, iron them on waxed paper. (2) Freshen roses by placing them face down in a bowl of cold water. (3 Stamps stuck together can be separated by covering them 'with a sheet of paper and pressing with a warm iron. Mrs. M. M. Says: "We've had our electric, toaster in constant service for 18 years because we keep crumb tray clean and keep 'cord -free from kinks; pull out the plug gently—nev- er yank it. , If toast sticks, we ease it out carefully with a fork; never dunk toaster in water and above all, handle it carefully. Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Sena in your sestions on homemaking problems and watch this column for replies. It Is Easy TO GET RESULTS WITH Huron Expositor Classified Ads. A Classified Ad. in the Huron Expositor will get you what you want or have, to buy or ., sell "out from under the bushel basket." Using the Huron Ex- positor's Classified columns is the most directandinexpensive - method of making your wants known. Our, rates are only 1 cent a word (less for more than one insertion). All you need to do his pick up your phone and call 41. To Buy or Sell ■ Notice of Meetings Articles Wanted Articles For Sale Position Wanted Help Wanted House to Rent Coming Events Farm For Sale Live Stock for Sale Grain For Sale Personal Telephone 41 Huron expositor ,lieiSAN BRCS., Publishers, Phone 41, senior; Time, ki ter Joseph l'urtell last 'creek comply ted a tour of southern and western. Germany. One of his assignments': to find out what had really happened, or had not happen- ed, to German industry. Ills report: The great. Allies of Germany are dead. When ,you first see Cologne, you think that no other city could be snmshed lnto such rubble and crazy, fire -blackened walls. When you see Dusseldorf, you decide that it must be the worst; but Essen changes your mind, until you see Nurnberg. Then you know that they have all been so horribly shattered by air power that the question of whether one has a few more houses blasted than another is inconsequential. Yet air power did not do what many an American thinks it did. It did -,not destroy German industry nor the potentials for a third world war. Airmen's .explanation: "Selective bombing" was never intended to de- stroy all industry. In any event, the host of Allied experts is gradually realizing that' 70 per cent of German industry, perhaps more, "escaped the bombs. The evidence is plain in the great plants which dot the countryside, or lie just outside the devastated cities. The Krupp plant • in the centre of Essen is a classic example of what bombing can do: a waste of shatter- ed walls, twisted girders, rusting steel. Yet the main.. Krupp foundry at Rheinhausen is virtually untouch- ed. With other Krupp plants, it could turn out 60 per cent of Krupp's normal steel production. The great I:' G. Farben plant in Leverkusen has alreadyasked the Military • Government for permission to make a long list of chemicals out of raw materials on hand. Meanwhile it is' feeding 6,000 workers a day out of its food stocks. In Wezlar, there is a steel plant which covers approxi- mately 16 city blocks. The Army 'not- ed: "Despite tremendous bomb dam- age around the plant, it has not been injured except by foreign workers:, The remaining stocks of raw mater- ials, particularly steel and alurni'num, are tremendous. If Germany was short of anything, except oil, it has not yet been discovered"- In Bonn alone, the Army estiinated• that there are 300,000 tons of aluminum—rough- ly the amount of U.S.,production in 1941. In another • plant, 1,000,000 tons of steel were stocked. Said an-,ciaen- mouthed Army officer: "I`d believe anything you told me on the amount of aluminum they had." Virtually all German - plants were closed up tight when the Allies marched in. ' Now the Group Control Council in Frankfurt is desperately struggling with the Protean problem of ,getting the German industrial ma- chine turning over again, but not too fast: There is a pious hope that this undestroyed industrialgiant can be kept manacled. As yet, there is no plan. The Council does not yet know enough about German industry to formulate a plan. Completeclosure of German indus- try is out of the question: The pea- -pie of the industrial Ruhr cannot live without their steel plants and .coal mines. And the rest of. Europe can- not live without the coal which the Ruhr produces. ' The Endless Chain. Reparations aside, the . economy of Europe rests on the Ruhr's coal, If Ruhr coal is not mined in immense quantities, France and Belgium cannot rapidly rebuild their economies. Starvation in the Ruhr will not produce coal. The Policy which many a coal 'expert is now considering is (just the opposite: make the life of the coal miner so pleasant, with plenty of food,- cloth- ing and a comfortable home, that he will have the energy and incentive to mine the coal needed. (High wages are almost meaningless in Germany, today.) To get out the coal, ,;the railroads must be rebuilt. This means that steel plants must open. A host of smaller industries must start up. Where will it stop? No one yet knows. The danger is that it will never stop. •The Germans have no intention of stopping. After more than five years of war, their energy and deterthina- tion are amazing. Nowhere is there the apathy which has contributed to France'e paralysis. - The industrialists who gave Hitler his start are frantically eager to re- sume production. They have the cash, the plans, often, the raw 'mater- ials on haled; - They are willing to make anything, even weapons for the Allies to use against Japan. In Essen I talked to an industralist who was sitting in his bare room, playing Mozart on a violin.'" I remark- ed • that it would be easier 'to aban- don the present site of `Essen aiid go Into the open eountryand build there. No, he said, they had considered that. But they had decided that it would, .be easier to rebuild Easen•on its present site: electricity eonduits, gas and water mains were already 4n the ground. In Dusseldorf .they talk of rebuilds Ing the entire ,city "iirt five yeftre, First theY will fix up the Chers: f udge and. • that . the dreul nlonetony Will be relieved, Then •their• will rebuild the leant damaged apart- meats, filially :the houses. , Germany, the ,practitioner of total war, moi t certainly' did not suer to- tal defeat. Easily -made Dishes What is more maddenil'g than to spend hours in a hot Icitohen prepar- ing" meals for a family that merely. picks at them with the excuse tbac "It's too hot to .eat?" The solution is to 'plan meals that are easy on the emir and at the same time tempt the ni1ly's lagging appetite. Today's recipes from the Consum- er Section of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture were chosen with these points in mind. The Cream Scones, quicker to make than cake and much easier on sugar, are at their best when even fresh. But they may be baked in the cool of the morning and will reheat beautifully in the top of the double .boiler or in a pan fitting into the top •of the tea kettle. Cream Scones 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour or 21/4 cups sifted pastry flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 2'teaspoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons mildrflavore at 1 egg u� 1n cup milk. Mix and sift dry ingredients. Work in fat with a pastry blender, fork or fingertips. Reserve a, small amount of the egg"'white, beat the rest .of the egg and add with the milk. Toss dough on a floured board, pat and roll three-quarter inch thick. Cut in squares, diamonds or • triangles. Slightly beat the reserved egg white, dilute with one teaspoon water and brush over tops of scones. Bake in a hot oven, 425 degrees F, about 15 minutes. Makes 16 small scones. Chef's Salad, Honey Dressing 2 heads green leaf lettuce 2 green,, onions 10 radishes , 4 hard -cooked eggs 1 cup diced cooked meat. Break lettuce • into small pieces. Slice onions, radishes and hard cook- ed eggs. -Add meat and honey dress- ing; mix lightly. Six servings. Honey Dressing Mix thoroughly: 1/4 cup vinegar 2 tablespoons honey 1/4 teaspoon salt. 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/2 teaspoon Adiy mustard Ivory Cream 1 tablespoon gelatine ?¢ cup cold water 1 cup boiling water 1/3 cup ••sugar 1 egg yolk - •1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup top milk or light cream 1 egg white. Soak gelatine in 'cold water five minutes. Dissolve sugar in boiling water, add to gelatine and stid until gelatine is dissolved. Add beaten egg yolk, salt and vanilla to top milk. Add to hot gelatine. mixture. Cool until thick but not completely set, then beat with a rotary egg beat- er until light and frothy. Fold in stiffly beaten egg white. Pour into a ,mould and chill until firm. Serve with crushed fresh fruit. Six serv- ings. - Why Germany Lost (Strategicus in London Spectator) The epitaph of the war of 1914-18 was delivered by a German writer in the Militarwochenblatt ' in these words: "Our defeat has been so com- plete because the forces of the Cen- tral Powers have' been overtaxed and completely exhausted by the pursuit of unattainable military and political aims." Would that be an inaccurate comment on the war which has just ended? It is a striking fact that 'the general verdict appears to• be so just in both cases; and the reader of Clausewitz °will find ample reason to pronounce it sound. Clausewitz 'prais- es the commander in general, and Frederick the Great in particular, for maintaining a proportion between. his Means and- his ends. Ot Frederick he writes that, "while pursuing a great object with very limited means, he undertook nothing beyond his powers and just enough to gain his object"; and in that .he saw the main proof of the King's sagacity. This may seem very much like a commonplace; and se, indeed, It is - But there is something in the Ger man's character, that prevents theia from seeing, or at all events steering by it. If we attempt to trace the fault to its root we are driven to suggest that there la something deinesttre, iiz- balaneed-„ exaggerated, in the Ger- man snake -lip. But many people s`Iit' fer from an eireggerated self Cririit dance With Much a, less $tt Ijiation than tile ( z iniins. When .the t.' re, ie Ai* ur a la i*Od ' +fhe eo140 to w4rfal'e :aturally a1imQ t wit1! 11^0.* 'They avis 4il.4tur41 4PPetit t: ;fOr #t, 14 a *41:'Y, ober•. u4atioill, can ee4a11y' claim X iFave lite a dtrubt ithat,„:when tl.e Losses of the. Alis4i444 • ate 'inacle known... if over they are -we shall ibid that they are Amnio isely greater 'Ula]µ the Herm •s', And when we suurveY the amount of force which has had to be Mobilised to defeat the Ger- mans we shall be astonished. To the very end they Maintained theid, li eiplitie. 1 never felt much belief in the suggested prolonged resistance in, pockets; and in the event .the soldiers. surrendered with the same discipline that made them hold out so lopg. Moat soldiers know what it is to fight without .air cover; but the Germans came in the end to find their Luft- waffe "shot out” and their armour in little better case. But they fought on and many British units, who can face any troops in the world, were cbm- pelled to fight as never before in these last worths. We can recognize all this without becoming mesmerized by it. But •the theory of a herrenvolk may -derive from it, and at least•it is certain- that the Germans lost their heads over it. The ultimate basis of the Allies' suc- cess is a triu$nphaiit sea -power; but the •remarkable thing is that the Ger- mans never fully weighed its mean- ing- Land powers rarely do; but Ger- mans like Rundstedt and Leeb were profound students of warfare, and it is astonishing to find them seeing on- ly one side of sea -power. These two generals emphasized" in their lectures the blockade aspect of sea -power, and came to propound a means of escape from it. But they never gave suffici- ent weight to the fact that amphibi- ous operations depend .upon sea-poaw.�- er. The only 'explanation I can find is the complete conviction that their land forces could deal with any am- phibious attack. They were • fatally over -confident. It is difficult to regard the Germans as" philosophers when one considers how superficial was the investigation into the problem facing them. All their emphasis was on land -power. Even the Luftwaffe was considered mainly as an adjunct to the army. When the time for disclosures comes it will be seen how much more wisely we allocated our own resourc- es. So well was our original disposi- tion made that when the • United States came in it was necessary mere- ly to fill out the cadres. ]3�w' cor- rectly we read the Germans; how in- correctly they read us. They appear from the very beginning never to have shownany signs of profound consecutive. thought. When the op- portunity came to invade this country there were no preparations for that great but necessary adventure. They had made their plans, like every ag- gressor, at their leisure. Hitler even admitted, later on, that the war came at the best moment'f-or them. But he seems to have lost his head entirely when the development to- wards which he had shaped his course actually cameut. France *as out; but he fel he ust turn on Paris. But Paris would keep ; and he should have foreseen that Bri- tain's -defencelessness , would"- pass. There was not sufficient considera- tion of his objective in terms of real things. When it is idly said that France was "ripe" to fall and Hitler knew it; that is the worst condemna- tion he can suffer; the ripe fruit falls of itself. Hitler had shown -in Mein Kampf that he knew what the fibre of Britain is; and yet, when the chance came to strike her down there was no preparation, because he had not thought his problem through. Sea -power ultimately brae him be- cause it enabled Britain and the T,Tnit- ed States to invade his "fortress:" Thete was the .same lack of vision about his approach to air -power. The captured generals have all 'emphasiz- ed the effect of the Allies' strategic bombing; and there can be no doubt now, about the part it played. Hole right, again, we were in placing so much of our strength in the R.A.F.; how right to allow Air Chief Marshal Harris to have his head. It was we who demonstrated the deeper imagin- ative insight -into the possibilities of air -power; Smuts' memorandum bears witness to that. It was we, too, who saw the inspired integration of ground, sea and air -power take shape and blossom into a mighty itstru- ment of destruction. Bud, while 'this complex of force could not be applied, the air force went ahead with its destructive at- tacks on Gerinan factories and com- munieationo, so that produetion was cut down, both directly and indirect- ly, by being rendered unavailable. It wag the antec=edent blunders that led to gross errors• in the war. When, to late, the 'Germans opened the Battle of Britain, as a preliminary to invasion, the initial error began to have fatal results: The gambler who loses seeks to redaup himself by dou- bling his stake.. Hitlerattacked Rus- sia, and iatei challenged the united States, Tlie ILtikeian ad^ eil'tu' e , *A:i, the fruit Of the (alisestlaa with. tate ,Ysiege" 1 e oik '`Do err Til$ l.*,i1 rw s fires" , a"i: 'e+� u.'ti .':,, tsti i"'ioiY chert ally to bi Madding. The challen$'e of ..A ;erIcai was .uthl attezitptto llvCrt 6upplies front Ad - talo. When AP= attacked, it is true. there was a. diveraioh' of -shipping Pao the 'Pacific; fid, if Oda bad -beel* avoided, or moderated, the war taiga— have aiga'have ended sooner, But .the general effect was fatal for Germany. Wink. the United St'al'es in the war, it be- came certain that, sooner or later. Germany* would be invaded in force But errors breed errors e blun- ders of 1941 werebred by the bort- sightedness ortsightedness with which Germany had entered the war. Domestic Brook' Token of Security Ever since the first woman fasten- ed a few twigs, together and bound them to a stick to sweep out -her cave, a broom has been part of -every home on earth. Without,it a woman is lost- It is her favorite weapon. With it she will tackle anything frons a _barn -cat to a robber, bead off the cow or chase the neighbor's chickens home. A broom is an every -day sy>oa- bol of home security. In one blitzed town a couple of miles behind the advancing Allied' army, an old woman. was seen crawl- ing out from a cellar and although her home was a heap of rabble, she got her broom and swept off the door step making a little clean place to be- gin life anew. To her the broom. meant protection. When the 'war broke out Canada grabbed another kind of weapon for home security—Price Control. The Wartime. Prices` and Trade Board: was set up on Sept. 3, 1939—"To pro- vide safeguards under' -War conditions against any undue enhancement in the prices of food, fuel and -other ne- cessities of life and to ensure an ade- quate supply and equitable clistribur tion off such commodities." It was a weapon, stout and strong to guard Canadian homes, 'although at first its broad • powers were held in .reserve. In the spring and summer of 1941; however, an accelerating rise in pric- es became apparent. From April 1st to August 1, 1941,. the cost of living, index rose by 5.1 points. Inthe next seven months the cost of living rose as much as it had in the previous 20 months. . The infla- tionary spiral was getting underway. In ,December, 1941, an overall price ceiling was clamped on, based otz September 15 to October 11, 1941€.. prices and from that date until the present the cost of living index baa risen only three points. The Canadian housewife has reas- on to be proud of the protection giv- en to her way of life. In no other country in .the world has the cast of living been -kept as low as in Canada since wark broke out. Here is the cost of lilting index from a few other countries: Turkey, 442; Peru, 173; Ireland, 171; U.S.A., 128! Chile, 239; Mexico, 210. " Kitchen Comfort Men must eat and women must cook; even on the hottest days, and getting "all steanled up" ever this state of affairs won't help at all - What will help is planning meals and cooking so as to create a-minintn to of kitchen heat. The cooI'est hours of the day can be set aside .for most of the baking and as much advance preparation of meals as possible. One -dish casser- ole meals can often be prepared ahead of time and can be reheated over hot water,to save a special heat- ing of the oven. •,...,n' The tea kettle is often a source or unnecessary kitchen heat. Left •bolt- ing on, the back of the stove it rads s' ates heat and its steam doesn't dor anything to keep the kitchen coot With stoves other than coal or wood, making fullest use of one burn- er, good housekeeping practice at any time, will help keep "the kitchen cool: Upper and Mower parts of the double boiler may be used for e1 iu taneous cooking and: two or snore vegetables.can often be cooked toge- ther in one pot just as satisfactorily as they tan be cooked separately, 4 RATIONS FOR AMERICAN VISITORS American visitors to Canada who' are ""staying in the country -five days or longer may secure ration cards for their temporary stay at local ra, boards or at crossing points at-Wind-- 96r t nd-for or Sarnia, according to the ration division of the regional office of the W:P/LE. Americans' would: be advised to have their , draft cards in case of men, or social, seeuri!ty or voterrs') card in ease of women for presenta- tion when getting theirration cards. These cards are only necessary wheat Americans are staying with relatives or ,friends or -doing their own iiau te- - tintiingBatton cards. are Ilot net - :e° nary *hen A n:Menne Ohm mn ttaY, ing., at hotels or dating in restaurant*. •