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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-10-12, Page 6NNE ALLAN ti HOPI* Economist • .n'c Ile, Idorxtemakers! • If you have !4n a I,ecoitplished all the canning and reeerving you planned to do this er, make the most . of autumn +Im?uis and vegetables. Let the tang •''';home=made pickles and the aroma AI '`steaming sauces and simmering 4rl1its fill your house with autumn goedness. If you have followed The Mixing Bowl you have already read our can- ning instructions. Just one repeti- trion—keep jars covered with boiling water during the processing of foods in a water -bath. If you are fortunate enough to have a freezing locker nearby, by all means use it. The plant manager will provide an instruction booklet op peeparation of food to be frozen. Oven -drying is a form of food pres- ervation and is not difficult if you have a well -insulated oven. Vege- tables must be pre-cooked and dip- ped in a commercial preservative so- lution. You can do other things 'while your oven is filled with drying food, but you cannot. go away and leave it. ' If you decide to try your Land at home drying, send for in- structions. • Green Tomato Relish 1 gallon green tomatoes ee cup salt 3t medium cabbage 3 sweet red peppers 3 medium onions 6% cups vinegar 1 tablespoon celery seed 1 tablespoon mustard seed . 1/y tablespoon whole cloves. Put tomatoes through food chopper, ming coarse blade. Combine with salt and let drain overnight in cheesecloth bag. Add cabbage, pep- pers and onions, also put through food chopper. Mix 'vegetables toge- ther and add vinegar, sugar and the spices (tied in a bag). Cook over low heat until vegetables are tender —about 20 minutes. Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal. Makes 6 to 7 pints. Dill Pickles Cucumbers three to four inches Song are best for dill pickles. Wash, prick with a fork and soak overnight in eoid water. Drain, dry thorough- ly. In the bottom of sterilized seal- ers place a piece of dill. Pack cu- cumbers in jars. Put more dill on top. Prepare the following pickle mixture: 2 cups vinegar 1 cup salt 2e4 quarts water. 'Bring to boil. Pour over the cu- cumbers while hot. Let stand about six.weeks' before using, Yield: Four to five quarts. Chili Sauce and Cocktail -From Recipe 18 large tomatoes 2 onions 1 head celery 4 .tablespoons sugar' 3 sweet red peppers 3 sweet green peppers 2 tablespoons salt ee cup vinegar. Boil all together 20_ minutes, then turn into a colander. Strain without stirring. Return juice to kettle and boil five minutes. To the solid pulp add one cup vinegar, a small piece of ginger, eight cloves and one stick cinnamon (spices in muslin bag). Boil until thick. Pour into hot jars. Seat Yield: ,:bout three pints chili sauce and,. three pints juice. Take a Tip 1. Pickle small whole green toma- toes if you have sugar for pickling syrap. Cook in boiling salted water One for 10 minutes. Let stand overnight on tray to drain off surplus water. In the morning cook in spiced pick- ling syrup for 10 minutes. Lift into sterile jars; fill with syrup and seal. 2. Use ordinary salt instead of iodized salt for pickling. 3 Use only one-half of amount of sugar with a substitute such as corn syrup or honey. 4. Use synthetic sweetening when the food is hot and does not have to be boiled. The Mrs. R. T. becue Sauce. Answer:- 2 nswer:-2 quarts ripe tomatoes 3 large onions (chopped) 4 sweet red peppers (chopped) 2 carrots (scraped) 3 cups vinegar 1 cup water 4 tablespoons brown sugar 21,4 tablespoons salt 2 teaspoons allspice 2 teaspoons cloves 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons nutmeg 2 teaspoons ginger 14 teaspoon cayenne. Cut tomatoes into pieces (do not peel), mix all ingredients together and bring to a boil. hook for one hour, or until soft enough to pass through a sieve. Strain and bottle. Yield: 4 pints. Mrs. D. B. asks: What causes peppers to become bitter when bak- ed? Answer: Perhaps they had not been parboiled 2 minutes before they were stuffed for baking. Mrs. J. C. suggests using fruit syrup in place of milk or water in making salad dressing. * Question Box asks: Recipe for Bar - Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send in your suggestions on hcimemaking problems and watch this column for replies. ' HANS BRINKER'S PRAYER Forgive them, Father; they know not Our misery and our need. Their apathy is surely caused By thoughtlessness, not greed. They have no way to visualize The rags we call our clothes, Their children still are warmly clad And sheltered when it snows. They cannot realize how cold A little child can be, When clad in rags and newspapers, He wanders bomelessiy. (From the Louden Eeentleekst) An ordinary aelucited, man, asked off -hand who Caleb Diplock was, might well guess that he carne out of a Trollopse novel. A hospital ,secre- tary would know him: as a would-be benefactor of his hospital and a trou- blesome recurring item on his com- mittee's agenda: A Chancery lawyer would tell you that he is a leading case, and might add that from the lawyer's point of view he is a proof of the g verhment of the universe by Benevolnt Providence. Diplock was in fact "a resident of Eastbourne, with apparently no near relatives, few friends, and several hundred thousand pounds. When he was making his will in 1919 he de- cided,that almost his whole fortune shoulgo to charity, and he left the residue of his estate—amounting to about £250,000—to be distributed as follows: To such charitable instifution or institutions or other charitable or benevolent object or objects in England as my executors or execu- tor may in their or his absolute discretion select. Their homes have felt no battle's shock, Their ears, no cannon's roar; Their garments never commandeered By greedy conqueror. How can they know that in our land Whole families share a shirt; A mother and her daughters take Turns wearing a patched skirt. Forgive those smug Canadians, Who did not heed our plea. "What can you spare that they wear," But hoarded selfishly. Forgive them, Father—I give Their number was so small, That most Canadians responded And freely to our call. can thanks, well Most saw not ragged foreign folk, Bereft and robbed by Hun, "There stand, but for the grace of God, My wife, my girl, my son." - Not just from our feeble lips To them went the sad plea, They heard as well, "For inasmuch . . Ye give it unto Me." EDWARD SAINT -JOHN He lived for another 17 years, and throughout that period that testa- mentary sentence lay entombed in a strongroom to emerge in due time and break in a shower of -blessings over Lincoln's Inn. On Dipiock's death his executors proved the will, were granted pro- bate, and proceeded to distribute the money mdinly to hospitals. One Lori - don hospital got £21,000 and others got smaller sums, Which they employ- ed according to their several neces- sities. Some turned it over to cur- rent expenses; others invested it; others put it into bricks and mortar. But in the meantime, a •1`.stant cou- sin in Australia, hearing: of the es- tate and resenting, as relations will. lbe dissipation of family money on impersonal charity .'vent to an Aus- tralian lawyer and , asked him to write to the executors suggesting that in their discretion they might consider the next-of-kin to be not less worthy of support than, a batch of London hospitals. The lawyer wrote and was refus- ed; the cousin was advised that he had drawn a blank; and there the matter rested for some time. Then, after the residue had been distribut- ed, a dramatic thing happened. Browsing one day in the Law Re- ports, the lawyer came on a case which reminded him of Diplock, and he decided that the .next-of-kin had no need to approach the 'executors as supplicants, but could go for them in the much more satisfactory guise of claimants' with a very promising case. The next-of-kin determined to start proceedings in the English courts on the ground that the gifts were void for ambiguity, that the residue should never have been distributed as it had been, and that they themselves were entitled to the money. The ball was set rolling, and the next-of-kin, -after losing in the first court,• won in the Court of Appeal and in the House of Lords. The money which had been made over to the hospitals and put into gilt-edged stocks, into wards and beds for' patients, and into food for ,sick men's stomachs, ought to ,Lave gone to the testator's relatives. • Uted by the, executors. The reason for this lies deep in, the great echeme of English law and English roles of construction. To be effective, a.. man's will must provide an ascertained or ascertainable- bene- ficiary. It ie not enough to 'say: '"I direct my executors to distribute the residue of 'my estate to such promin- ent men of business in 'the City of London as my executors may in their absolute discretion select"; and the executors could not in obedience to that direction weigh in the balari,ce the respective merits of the Chair- man of the Stock Exchange and the Chairman of Lloyd's, and after a viva voce examination allocate the £250,- 000 to the gentleman they thought the more deserving of the two. The direction would be too vague, the terms too ambiguous for the Courts to recognize them; and the testator, so far as concerned his residue, would have died intestate. But to this well-established rule there isone exception -charity. A man who desires his money ,to go to charitable institutions may draw hie will in broad outlines, dispense with an ascertainable beneficiary and tell' his executors to hand over everything to any charities they may, -among all the competing charities, decide to favor. So that although they may not pick out the Stock Exchange or Lloyd's from all the businesses of the City of London, they are in or- der when they choose Bart's or the Royal Cancer- Hospital from all the hospitals of the United Kingdom. The discretionary power, if restrict- ed to charities, does not void the gift. At this point some less intelligent reader may protest that that is just what Caleb Diplock did. He confin- ed the discretion of the executors to any charitable o• benevolent object. What is there wrong with that? The answer is that, although to' theeeecommon man the words charit- able and benevolent° appear inter- changeable, and although the Concise Oxford Dictionary actually defines benevolence as meaning charity, to the lawyer the two words have dif- ferent meanings. To him charity is not benevolence and benevolence is not charity. The two meanings, it is true, are separated by a line which -noleffeldenen may trace intelligibly but 'in the mystic body of English mew there is a line dividing them, and that line exists as surely as beauty and truth existed in Plato's mystic world of ideas. On one side of that line a testator may give dis- cmjetion without being void for am- biguity. On the other he must be precise,- definite, particular. Charity —yes. Benevolence --no. r And Diplock's will, by dragging in benevolence • and using the disjunc- tive "or" got one foot on the wrong side of the line. If it had held its tongue about benevolence and cony centrated on charity, it would have been in order, and the executors would have had their powers of dis- cretion. If it had said charitable arid benevolent it would have been in or- der, because there is noobjection in law to an institution' being both at the same time;. and so long as it is charitable an. object may be as ben- evolent as- it likes without breaking the rules. But when the word '`or" was used Diplock said in effect to his executors, "Take your choice. Put' my money either into charity or into benevolence. Range over both fields at will and select if you like objects that. are benevolent without being charitable,'(_ And so by giving his executors the freedom that lies in that one monosyllable he stultified his gift of £250,000. It need' not, of course, be pointed out to the intelligent reader 'where the flaw in the gift lay and why it was void for ambiguity. He will have noticed in the extract from the will quoted above the significant word "or." He will have realized that the word must be taken •in a disjunctive sense and that the section of the 'will which contains the sentence is" therefore uncertain and void, He can have had no . doubt that, if only the will had said "and" the hospitals wo2iid have been entitled to _the resi- due. But it did not say "and." It said "or," And consequently (the £ 250.000 had been wrongly distrib- (By Bruce Hutchison in _Wiminipe, Free Preee) ' "1 seen in the ,papers," , sand my' Weed, Mrs.,Noggine, ;periling herself beside me in the nus, along with a. basket of eggs for market and .two plucked geese, "as everybody in the States wants to get back to neviia1. I ,llon't know rightly what normal isa except there never was any, The on- ly real signs I seeof things gettin' back to normal 10 th,ey've started to kill people ori. the roads, one every fifteen minutes, all over again, and they're kinin' about twice ase marry with accidents as they did in the war, and divorces is goin' up all the time and nylons is comber back andthere's goin' to be more liquor and the stand- ard of livin' is goin' up and every- body is terrified of the future. I guess we're gettin' back to normal • all right. Grand, ain't it? "Even the Russians is gettin' back to normal. I seen in the papers they've took over the Morgan estate, a little bungalow of forty rooms on Long Island, just for the recreation of the Russian officials in Washing- ton on the week -ends. Even .Com- ,munists like to be normal at the week -end when they get bored with the world revolution and equality for everybody and all that kind of thing, you know. I could stand a little bit of normal stuff myself after a 'ard week with my poultry, but 3 guess it's not for us capitalists. Sometimes by the end of the week I'm just about ready to join the C.C.F. and take it easy. "I` remember the last time things was normal., back in 1929. That was the biggest boom we ever seen,. up to then, and everybody wearin' silk shirts. And wot was they thinkin' about? Why, they was waitin' for prosperity just around the corner. And for the last Sive years, which made the old, boom look' like • a "dee pression, people 'as been waitint for good times to come back. I bin think - tri' about it and I come to the con- clusion you're only normal when you're longin' for t methin' different and abnormal. If you could give us all normal times for six months we'd curl up and die just from bein' bor- ed. But there's no chance of that and no use waitin' for it to 'appen. The Alderman Went To Jail "Just like my Uncle 'Erbert—'e was an alderman in Liverpool, you know, before they put 'im in jail ov- er a small matter of bookkeepin'— well, 'Erbert keput puttin' everything off and postponin' 'is career in poli - It now remains to be decided how far the money distributed to the hos- pitals is recoverable, and that issue is sub judice. Probably several ac- tions will be necessary. ' ASN'r r/r 77I TROTH �y Ti' -(/OS No: 87 JUST LOOK AT THIS PILE OF YOUR FATHER'S OLD CLOTHES YES, BUT TOO SMALL NOW! WHAT ON EARTH AM I GOING TO DO WITH THEM ? SAVE THEM FOR NE NATIONAL CLOTHING COLLECTION 4.2 "e0 zoSve, AND WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH THESE CLOTHES, FRANCES ? THEY'LL BE SEN ,TO MADE 1 ST'ITOTE WE ALL WANT THIS 'COLLECTION TO BE A SUCCESS ...TO HELP WAR -RAVAGED MILLIONS TO HELP THEMSELVES DO YOU THINK I SHOULD TAKE ALLTHESE THINGS DOWN TO THE LOCAL RECEIVING STATION ? YES, YOU COULD. BUT,AS THERE'S SO MUCH,MAYBE THEY'LL PICK IT UP %i WHAT CAN YOU SPARE THAT THEY CAN WEAR? Clean out those cupboat`ds, Father up all the used cloth- ing you can find ... your outgrown, outmoded gar- ments can bring comfort to people in devastated. lauds. So, help in the drive, by con- tacting the National Clothing Collection today. V,VittO your newspaper for the addrehs rif your local con nllittC:. . 'il'1►1., LA;BATT,rt0i,1TBb. Lonalon Cerulean 7i? Sin in GSI Is always carry PARADOL Ih. a ILMI Dr.CHASErS ars his 0 . . . FOR QUICK RELIEF OF HEADACHE & Other Pans teieareeseeeteseseeeeeme f tics until things settled down to normal. Wait a bit, 'e'd say, till the country settles down. But nothin' settled down except Uncle 'Erbert, and 'e settled down in a pub lower and lower, until around ten o'clock they'd carry 'im 'ome. Uncle 'Erbert was- normal by ten o'clock every night when 'e couldn't talk any more. "Poor old 'Erbert, 'e waited fifty years for things to settle down and died of old age aridd"is liver, still expectin' things to be normal tomor- row mornin', but when the mornin' came there was 110 'Erbert and noth- in' normal either. And if we all set- tle down now to wait for normal we'll all be the slime as poor 'Erbert, ex- cept for the liquor ration. "Well, sir, 'e might of bin a great man if 'ed 'adn't waited for things to settle down and a lot of people today could be leadin"'appy lives if they'd only go a'ead and do it in- stead of waitin' for good times to come back. If the men who first came to this country 'ad *ratted for things to get normal we'd still be living' like the Indians. They was the only normal people that ever lived 'ere. So we killed 'em off and wait- ed for things to get normal. Normal -Like Unpaid Bilis "You take my neighbors, the Boggs, a nice young couple with two fine kiddies and another comin' in February and the first not paid for yet. They're waitin' likepatriots for tbings to get normal and that means when they've spent all their wages In advance on hinstallments on a new cae and refrigerator and are two hinlstallments be'ind on a vacuum* cleanerand can't pay me for my eggs. Whenever the egg bill piles up for a couple of months I know things is normal with the Boggs and the country is settled down again. "The way I see it, sir, the coun- try never was normal and average times was the times as never exist- ed anywhere. But bless you, nobody wants to be normal. Normal is what you want dverybody else to be and no one ever is. Them geese there, sir, in the basket, they're the only normal things you'll see about this town today, and look at 'em." I looked at them. Their plucked neck's lolled, out of the basket and their faces were very peaceful. Tlig emusn4N (amen minium You Will find yourself one of the best informed persons in "blue'. your community when you read The Christian Science Monitor 1-'—'-! 'regularly. 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