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• JE ALLAN
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Snarnalters! Wath Out or
OA your family when you
ii'igarden Vegetables for dinner.
fliyett hams been tossing out the
Oie that are best for you and
t,losing precious health-boost-
Itt• .the saucepan.
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have learned a lot about vege-
cOokery from the scientists.
PO pan-frying destroys the valu-
..abiki vitamin "A." Vitamin "B" does
not) store well—so let your garden
contribute its share. When green
leafy vegetables wilt at room temper-
atuge--vitamin "C" vanishes. Store
these in the refrigerator crisper.
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Take a Tip
1. A refrigerator crisper is a real
health guardian. Sink -clean garden
stuff, and hustle it to the crisper
read for salads, cooking or what you
'will. If your plans necessitate early
Preparation for cooking, prepare and
then put in refrigerator.
2. Eat them raw. Crisper, tender
vegetables are tops for health. Most
of them are served in 'wedges—many
are shredded. Don't pour the salad
dressing on too soon. To retain min-
erals in the prepared parsley sprigs,
celery curls, carrot sticks, etc., wrap
in wet parchment pager or put hi
crisping pan and keep in refrigera-
tor—don't soak in water.
3. Cook vegetables whole for
health. Finely chopped pieces lose
vitamins and minerals. Save the
cooking water or vegetable liquor.
Use it the same day if possible in
soups, salad dressings, sauces, gela-
tine moulds, or to make a health
cocktail.
4. A small amount of water will
cook an quantity to tender goodness
if you have a snug lid foethe pot and,
controlled heat. With an inch or two
of water (depending upon size of
vegetable) put on tight lid and turn
electric element to high. When
steam begins to gush out, turn a
small element to medium or a large
element to low. Cook only until ten-
der. If the vegetable begins to fall
apart or turn grayish, the vitamins
have .,escaped.
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Red Cabbage and Beets
1 medium red cabbage
2 cups cooked beets
3 tablespoons baking fat
2 tablespoons vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper
1 tablespoon grated onion
2 chopped cooked eggs.
Soak red cabbage in salted water
for 15 minutes. Quarter, core and
cook until tender. Drain thoroughly
and chop coarsely. Add remaining
ingredients and combine well. Make
very hot in a double boiler for serv-
ing.
Green Bean—Tomato Salad
11/2 lbs. green beans
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup salad oil
3 tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tomatoes
Cauliflowerets.
Cook beans, covered in a small
amount of boiling water. Drain. Add
onion, oil, vinegar and seasonings.
Chill, then add sliced tomatoes and
oauliflowerets. Serve on crisp let-
tuce.
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The Suggestion Box
Mrs. J. B.: Two tall cold drinks:
(1) Add three tablespoons vanilla
ice cream to one cup strong coffee
and beat until light and frothy. Pour
into 2 glasses and fill with chilled
ginger ale. Serve ice cold. ,
(2) Mix equal quantities of chilled
orange juice and ginger ale. Add a
bit of lemon juice for zip and sweet-
en to taste. Pour over washed bruis-
ed sprigs of fresh mint. Strain and
serve in tall glasses with chipped ice.
Garnish with sprigs of mint.
From Mrs. J. Mc.: Stuffed Green
Peppers:
Six green peppers, 2 cups cooked
meat, salt, pepper, onion and. 1 cup
condensed tomato soup.
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•Meat and seaSen. Add ehepped
1913.• brain. 'peppers and Muff with
• ' SeaSened Meat. Place in baking
dish and pour over them the eon -
(lensed Kelp. Bake in oven at 35P
degrees for 25 minutes.
Frain Mies T. S.: Fried Cucumber
Chips:
Four cucumbers, salt, 2 eggs (heat -
en), 2 cupfuls of cracker crumbs.
Peel and slice the cucumbers one-
quarter of an inch thick. Salt them
well 'and let stand for one-half hour.
Dry the encumbers. Dip in beaten
egg, then in cracker crumbs and
saute about three minutes or until
nicely browned on both sides. Serve
with cheese sauce. Six to eight serv-
.
ings.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send
in your suggestions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
The New First
Minister
A shy, slender man, speaking in
in quiet, conversational tones, in
some strange way lacking in the
power to mark out ith passion of
fire the master issues of the day—
this is the recollection which leaps to
mind at mention of Clement Attlee's
name. Here is, pre-enainently, a man
who has had greatness thrust upon
him. Here is the very antithesis of
the striving, thrusting politician.
Recently, the electors by their
votes made him, Prime Minister of
Britain—a Place in quest of which
many a great man his broken his
heart and health. Curzon wept when
the prize finally and forever eluded
him. Disraeli, with a touch of cynical
realism, likened the struggle for it to
that. 01 climbing a "greasy pole." Yet
Mr. Attlee has reached the summit
without trying. Of all his contem-
poraries in 'public life he is, plainly
for all to see, 'the least affected by
personal ambition. His heart has
never been in the business of Poli-
tics. but rather in the issues which
he has served.
This is, therefore, no ordinary man
who is to become Prime Minister of
Britain. Rather, this is a social ser-
vice worker who has passed from
municipal to national affairs seem-
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Before you order dinner at a restaurant, you
consult the bill.of-fare. Before you take a long trip
by motor car, you pore over road maps. Before you
start out on a shopping trip, you should consult the
advertisements in this paper. For the same reason!
The advertising columns are a buying guide for
you in the purchase of everything you need, includ-
ing amusements! A guide that saves your time and
conserves your energy; that saves useless steps and
guards against false ones; that puts the s -t -r -e -t -c -h
in the family budgets.
The.advertisements in this paper are so inter-
esting it is difficult to see how anyone could over-
look them, or fail to profit by them. Many a time,
you could save the whole year's subscription price
in a week by watching for bargains. Just check
with yourself and be sure that you are reading the
advertisements regularly—the big ones and the lit-
tle ones. It is time well spent . . . always!
Your Local Paper Is Your
Buying Guide
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• Avoid time -wasting, money -wasting detours on
the road to merchandise value. Read the ad-
vertising "road maps."
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It has ,begOnle somewhat. 9.4arc-'
teristic. to AO to draw comparisona
between Fle144 Marshal Sir Harold
Alexander and other generals who
served with him or under him in this
war; but these are vain attempts to
compare the =known. We have not
yet read an analysis of the abilities
of the next Governor-General of Can-
ada which reveals enough about him
to explain him, and we have long ago
concluded that he shies from expos=
ing to publicgazethe springs that
make hint go.
We prefer for the moraent, on read-
ing Mr. Mackenzie King's announce-
ment of his gratification in the selec-
tion of Field Marshal Alexander to
be Canada's new Governor-General,
to perceive in this British soldier lat-
ent qualitieswhich drew upon him
responsibilities vital in their bearing
on countless nations. •
We recollect bow a famous United
States special correspondent seeking
light in the darkness of what was
happening on the borders of Russia
ingly unconscious of the change. Mr.
Attlee, the mayor of an East End
London municipality, is the same Mr.
Attlee who will now assume the lead-
ership of his country. There will be
no change in approach to problems,
in emphasis, in impressiveness. To
problems of the nation hehwill bring
the patient industry, the unemotional
mind, the inborn dislike of flamboy-
ance of thought or phrase that mark-
ed him in the humbler station.
'Mr. Attlee is in his sixty-third year.
He is not a labor man by fortune of
birth. He is a public school boy and
a graduate of Oxford. He is a bar-
rister who forsook law for social ser-
vice. He was for many years a lec-
turer in social science at London
University. For most of his adult
life he has been a voluntary worker
in the east of London. And he sits
in Parliament for one of the Lime-
house divisions.
The shyness and the soft voice, of
course, are deceptive. There is noth-
ing of weakness or of timidity in his
character. In the last war, to illus-
trate the point, he was a conscient-
ious objector by conviction. Yet he
enlisted, won a commission and rose
to the rank of major. He served in
the front line forces in Gallipoli, Mes-
opotamia and, finally, in France. He
was once wounded. But he never
carried arms. Instead, he ]ed his men
with a swagger stick.
After the war he entered politica.
He had become a Socialist as a uni-
versity student and had joined the
Fabian society. In the Labor part§
he rose slowly in stature. For a
time he was Ramsay MacDonald's
secretary. He served in junior ca-
pacities in both the earlier Labor
governments. He was aided by Ar-
thur Henderson, the great foreign
secretary in these regimes, who de-
tected in him those "inner reserves
of character" which have undoubted-
ly- brought him, at last, to the pre-
miership.
He took on the job of Labor lead-
er in 1935 when George Lansbury, the
pacifist, resigned rather than support
sanctions against Italy. It was re-
garded as Merely a stop -gap appoint-
ment. No one, at that thee, thought
of Mr.. Attlee as a permanent leader.
But he led the party through the
crisis years, ending in the outbreak
of war in 1939, with growing prestige
throughout the country if not in the
House of Commons. He was right on
the major issue of foreign policy. He
stood resolutely for collective Secur-
ity. He backed the League with ev-
ery thing he could muster.
Yet the memory of him in, these
years is overshadowed by that of
others. Mr. Attlee never quite cap-
tured the ear of the House. Churchill
and Lloyd George were its masters.
Standing at the speaker's box, flaying
at froht beach seated only a few feet
away, they made an unforgettable
picture. Not so Mr. Attlee. His
voice all too often was inaudible.
Others in, the party surpassed him in.
oratory. He lacked the power of
Herbert. Morrison, the lay preacher's
aplomb and competence of Alexander.
If only he could contrive to lose his
temper, to thump the box, raise his
voice!
He never did and doubtless never
will.
He was largely ignored by a Con-
servative majority which sat in death
like stillness when' Churchill or Lloyd
George were hurling thunderbOlts.
Yet in Hansard, Mr. Attlee's speech-
es were of the Vest. But Hansard
could not remedy the lack in the
epoken word..
Thus he has risen in, power in the
party and in the country,. by reason
of qualities which only tittle Could,
reveal—clear-headiadness, moderation,
(he stands about centre in the Labor
Movement), toleranee„ and above all,
absolute integrity.
The day of elaqtience is passed
from 10 Downing ,gtraet, but the •eir..
eat may Well shatr that tree great,
ines has not gone With'• it,
twenty-five years ago discovered a.
young British lieutenant-010nel who
seemed to know alio that was going
on. The young soldier commanding
Latvian-Balts at- Riga was Alexander.
He spoke Rtissian. and wa i good
standing with everyone in a situation
in which no other single person seem-
ed to enjoy any similar confidence.
It Would,be absurd to say that easy
willingness to help a correspondent
infuse unusual verity into his de-
spatches under impenetrable circum-
stances accounted for the high esti-
mate in which General Alexander
came to be regarded by the war cor-
respondents a quarter-century later.
He was still genial in manner, but'
still reticent about himself. He was
still the last general in the world to
seem anxious to attribute to himself
achievements which might be his if
he were not insistent on letting them
behattributed solely to the command-
ers in the field under him. Yet the
war correspondents have, time and
again, declared their convictions Of
perceiving in this soldier high quali-
ties for which t hey could not find
words because those qualities were
never self -revealed.
The singularity of Alexander's mili-
tary career is that he has 'so often
been summoned from behind the'
stage, as it were, to play a part in
the full glare of the light of the
world. He was even absurdly por-
trayed as iding a white horse up and
down the beaches at Dunkirk when
Lord Gort, being summoned to Lon-
don, laid on him the terrific duty of
seeing that the evacuation was fully
carried out. He turned up in the
jungles of Burma, next, to lead out
the remnants of a British Army rout-
ed by the Japanese. By managing to
save a' big proportion •of the forces,
he, as he has been said, "emerged
from a disastrous campaign with an
enhanced reputation."
In England, Alexander liad C.om-
mand of the Southern District, but
put a driving, force into a new con-
ception of ' army training which di-
rectly_accoUnted for the magnificent
efficiency of Allied troops even 'hen
engaged in campaigns without pre-
vious battle •experience. That im-
petus given to Allied arras was a.
service the public could not realize
because it could not know who orig-
inated the strenuous training • sylla-
buses.
Alexander, back from Burma, and
with a suddenness that was discon-
certing at a period when every event
seemed to disconcert hopes held by
the democratic forces at the time, was
summoned once more for reasons
that could not be understood, to take
over command in' the Middle East,
and with his fellow Irishman, Ber-
nard Montgomery, to trounce the
devil out of the Germans on the
threshold of the Suez canal.
This is not the occasion to refer
to the masterfulness of Alexander's
co-ordination of the Allied forces af-
ter he became General Eisenhower's
deputy commander-in-chief in Tunis-
ia. It won a solid victory without
stopping there, as co-ordination, if
merely good in itself, might have
stopped. The break -through to Tunis
and Bizerte organized and propelled
by this pleasant, cultured Irish sol-
dier of few words and fewer quirks,
exploited victory, and utterly demor-
alized the German and Italian hosts.
By taking at one stroke the biggest
bag of defeated •German and Italian
generals,' he displayed a superiority
in Allied strategical ability they had
never possessed.
• It may be accepted that Field Mar-
shal Alexander is a tired soldier who
has been in wars most of his life
and has just come through six years
of exhausting drain; the more honor
him:, • OMettl*A00 YOW
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rt4gt, as already prociaiM.
e4 111141 0ttliable. Of st*egilnanahill
high, anti trying altittidea, As. Qom-
tuaader-inCitief of the , Middle Eat
and 'Mediterranean regions he has
been engUlfed -in .perplexing racial
and •iinternational cross -currents•
which. „still may threaten to perturb
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the elementsot peace in the future.
Ie cai be paid, without being goal. -
Pared, .to have differentiated the pos-
tures of the great Irish connalidera,
in this war .treM the equally 01It-
standing Irish soldiers in the last
war. For while Lord French was un-
movable, even in retreat, in the last
war, Benard Montgomery, afforded
the opportunity to attack, has been
aggressively on anoffensive from
which he would not desist once it had
started; yet in the intellectual war-
fare, involving statemanship insep-
arable from soldiering. in the high-
est commands, Alexander,. quiet but
undeflecting, never flamboyant but al-
ways tourteous, towers in actual
achievements over that brilliant Ir-.
ish figure Who, above all others if
not by right of real merit, was recog-
nized in the last war as the -chief
of the imperial general staff, Field
Marshal Sir -Henry Wilson, who knew
so much that he knew none, knew bet-
ter, although in the fieldd he had
withdrawn from his sole command
the corps he was given in Flanders.
Farmers Approve
Grading
Recent meetings of Farm Forum,
radio groups have been stressing
something that the Canadian farmer
has been feeling for some time. And
that thought is that the grading of
farm products is an excellent thing.
The Radio Forum groups consider
that grading is a prime safeguard
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against inefficiency in production -
They readily concede that further im-
provements in the 'system of grading
might enable producers to meet ,eon -
sumer needs more satisfactorily. They
suggest, for instance, that grading
practices should be more closely sup-
ervised, and that standardisation
should be on a national rather than
on a regional or provincial soak..
These radio forums also vigorously
repudiate the suggestion that price
stabilization for farm products, if ac-
companied by a system or gradingen-
courages inefficiency. Price Ihictue-
tions, in the past, they declare, made
farmers gamblers rather than effica
ent farmers.
EDUCATION IN. CHINA
Education in China has gone for-
ward despite the war. Comparing the
1937 and 1943 figures it is seen that
the number of 'universities and teeb.-
sical colleges increased ,by almost
per cent., while the member of stu-
dents increased more than 100 per
cent.
George: "Pm getting so I can't
sleep for love of you. Lets get mar
ried."
Daisie: "Why?"
George: '13o I can sleep."
HELP
IS NEEDED NOW..IF WE
ARE TO SAVE OUR LATE
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
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Thousands of Tons are Ready for Harvest
Will You Lend a Hand?
Food b precious --let's not waste it through
lack of help! Now, in addition to our own
needs, we must also help feed the millions
of starving people in liberated Europe. This
is a tremendous task, but it can be done,
IF—we all do our share. This is the last
harvesting emergency we are liable to meet
this year—so let's ail pitch in and do a real
.Tobl Help will be needed from August Seth
through to October iOth.
Fill in coupon below and mail TODAY!
PREF TRANSPORTATION
For four weeks' service, transportation will
be paid one way. For full season (August
20th to October 20th) transportation will be
paid both ways.
• MEN—Every possible
man-hour MUST be
put in. Tbe need is
desperate. Volembeer
your services TODAY!
• WOMEN — Every
available hand can
be used. Fill in the
coupon and mail TO-
DAY!
• BOYS AND GIRLS--
Thousands,are needed.
Any 1igb School
student willing to
work on a farm has
permissio' n and is
requested by the Min-
ister of Education, to
remain out of school
for the month of Sep-
tember.
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I aro interested in helping with the late
harvest. Plea.se send me further infornzation.
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