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110, .Folks! In the park, down ba
qhs ;river, or in your own back yard,
e out under the sky for an (me-
al picnic. For there's ease and
gpgltt, fellowship found in eating out -
4;s that just cannot hapiien inside
IRur walls.,
3t'a possible to have a small fire,'
tale "weiners, •corn and coffee. The
Bo, a Scout of today or yesterday will
rnj helping'in this cooking' 'venture-
He')ran ;build' the Are while the picnic
clot is spread oat, and the lim,;ted,
•sup ;ly. of dishes arranged within ev-
eryilne's reach. T11e rest of the meal
, eat�� be old-fashioned potato salad,
cue?lunber 'sticks, small tomatoes, the
. bottles of mustard, salt and pepper,
and -tale dessert of fat •ginger cookies
an fresh peaches. .You may forget
(on purpose) the sugar, but a bottle
of cream for the coffee is a treat.
Sy the way we suggest you leave
on ,the inner husks of the corn and
peel them back far. enough to rub off
the, silk, and pull backover the corn
• —then weiners and corn ..can go in
seine bla1 k iron pot. •
Here are some more picnic id'e'as:
1.. Bologna heated in spicy tomato..
•sauce, sliced • thick and served on
toasted buns with corn niblets.
2, Hamburgers are a natural pic-
nic' feast. Make them into patties at
•'bonne, carry between layers of waxed
paper.
3. Stuffed eggs have many aerie -
tons. Try devilling them by an old
recipe. "'Mix yolks of 4 eggs, '4 tea-
spoon salt, 3's teaspoon mustard, la
teaspoon cayenne, 1 teaspoon vine-
gar,and 1 tablespoon salad dressing.
Fill halves and stick together -again.
_. ._-Varyala a ,4Jna,.prepared horseradish,,
miriced meat and parsley.
4. Apples, onions and po:Eatees
taste better cooked outdoors for a
change:
5_ Man-sized sandwiches and pick-
. les. •
6, Favourite squares of marble
cake ---there's no worry about crumbs,
or tarts. Fresh fruit is always wel-
come'.
7. Scalloped potatoes in .an oven
proof dish with mushroom soup
should be wrapped in several thick-
nesses of newspaper and 'carried,
wherever you picnic to stay hot.
8. After peeling tomatoes, pack
• them in a wide mouthed .jar and chill
in refrigerator.. Wrap the jar in pa-
per to keep tomatoes cool.
9. Macaroni Sala'd:. Cook one 9-
ounce- package elbow macaroni till
it's done, hold under cold water a
moment, then drama. • Add: one :chop -
•ped sweet pickle, 1 chopped onion, 1
•
diced cuoumaer soaked in French'
dressing, 3 sliced hard -cooked eggs,
salt and, pepper to taste. Toss to -
gather with salad dressing and chill.
Serves four,
10, If it's not too late for fried
Chicken—there's nothing better In an
open skillet.
11. Don't forget to put out 'the
picnic are by pouring on water and
scraping • itaside, then' pouring on
more water. Trace any sparks and
put out any smoldering. smudge. '
12. Leave the park areas as you
would want to see it when you found
the setting. -
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Pickled Whole Beets
Cut leaves off two pounds tender
young beets, leaving one inch of stems
and root end. Wash thoroughly. Cook,
covered; in boiling water until just
tender, about 35 minutes. Dip in cold'
water;, peel..•••Pack in hot jars. Com-
bat -Caine -half cup vinegar, three-quar-
ter
hree-quayter cup light or dark corn syrup, one
cup water and -two teaspoons salt.
Heat to boiliittg_ Pour over beets,•fill-
ing jars to one-half inch from toe.
Process 30 minutes in, •boiling water
bath. Makes three pints.
Watermelon Pickles
2 lbs. watermelon rind
3% cups sugar
• 2 cups water
1 lemon, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons cinnamon bark
1 tablespoon whole cloves.
Trim dark green and pink partsA off
rind; cut rind in one -inch cubes. Soak
overnight in salt water: % cup salt
to 1 quart water; drain; rinse and
cover with cold water. Cookjust
tender; drain. Combine sugar, eine-
sari -water,. lemon and spices . tiedln
a bag. Simmer 10 minutes, Remove
spice bag; add watermelon rind. Sim-
mer until clear. Fill hot, sterilized
jars to one-half inch from. top. Seal.
Makes three pints.
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Dilly, Greek Tomato Pickles
Select small, firm green tomatoes.
Leave stems on. Pack in sterilized
quart jars. To each quart add one
crave garlic, 1 stalk celery and 1
green, hot pepper. Combine 2 ,quarts
water, 1 quart vinegar, 1 cup salt.
Cook 5 minutes. Fill jars to one-half
inch,'trom top., Add one head dill to
each jar. Seal. -
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. •
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'High Drama'
Perhaps • there. is 'some perverse
trait in. huwan,,_fiature that makes as
overly critical oL the things we, value
most. Certainly in-• our attitude to-
ward parliament we Canadians make
ee attempt to hide this tendency. In
spite of this, one cannot watch our
House of Commons day by day with-
out developing a deep sense of high
drama and a great respect for thel
free and democratic system of gov-
ernment.
Just let us follow a private member
through one average day. teaching
the parliament buildings at 8.45 yes-
terday morning he had a quick break-
fast in the Cafeteria and got to his
office (shared with another member)
by 9.10. He opens 15 letters from
people in his constituency—call . on
the telephone for information from
seven departments of government—
and
overnmentand dictates answers to all the. let-
ters. Completing this by 10 o'clock
he goes to the meeting of the war
expenditure committee (although he
is not a member) to ask a question,
and to try to find what justification
there is, if any, for _the criticism, in
one of the letters received that morn-
ing, of the War Assets Corporation,
At 19:30 he went to the library for
figures fa use in remarks on taxa-
tion which he intended to make in,
.the budget debate and got to the
•chamber• 'et the -house openingat 11;.
remaining until adjournment at one.
Lunch took 45 minutes; back to the
office to sign his mail, then to the
department of veterans' affairs for
information requested . by one of his
'veteran canstituents and back for the
house opening at three. He stayed. in
the Chamber for an hour making his
own address and listening to two
speakers on the Midget, then went to
the meeting of the 'Committee on in-
dustrial relations (of which he'was a
member) until six. He had 'dinner
with a visitor from the home con-
stituency and back to the committee
on veterans' affairs from eight to
nine, then to the Chamber from nine
co 11, listening to thea debate and
reading in 'Hansard, the speeches
which. had • been made the previous
day while he was out of the Chem -
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Canada's Pattern-,
The Canadian Forum, .generally
eozisidered a left '*tu:g• weekly of the
style of New York's Nation puts 'fort
ward an interesting theory._ An edi-
torial . entitled "Twenty a X'ears As
Prime Minister" confess that it had
often "discerned the inevitable course
of, events es bringing to its end the
king era" and , jet as often been
wrong or at least "premature."
"Mr. King is our moat completely
typical Caniadial t," the editor says ,and
finds that these Canadian qualities
meet. with "considerable approval
from the peoples of the world." He
goes on to say that King has
remained in. .power by taking "ad-
vantage
advantage of the fundamental pattern•
in which' the Canadian people vote."
This.' pattern, its 'claims; complete-
ly suns up as all, the other 'provinc-
es combining against Ontario. This
pattern, it claims, completely over-
rides all differences, between _the two
major political parties or differences
between English and French. As proof
'of his theory the editor recalls that
Sir John A. Macdonald kept the•TorY
hold. on Canada when Ontario was
solidly Grit. • Later he says Laurier
lost some of his support in Ontario
and took power • by gaining the' sup-
port of the rest of Canada, and"'that
Mr. King has taken over the Laurier
pattern. .
One other reason given by, the
Forum for the continued success of
the •Liberal -•party in • Canada is .that -
it continues to draw support from all
groups an Tthat C -an -Miens refuse to
divide along class lines as people in
Europe and some other countries are
doing. • • •
A look at Europe today, and some
consideration, 'of what has .brougha
Europe to its'present condition, might
confirm Canadians in their refusal to
.be induced into the "class struggle"
advocated by socialists.
Echoes For Parliament -.
Mr. Bentley (C.C.S., Swift Current,
Sask.) : There. is. 'at .the present time
.quite a shortage of 'cement in Sas-
katchewan. Inquiry was.made in the
Old Country to find out if it would
be possi'ble.• to ship cement there
through the Hudson Bay port . of
Churchill during the' summer season.
The minister told use last year that
the port 'was -'open for only a couple
of months, so that • any shipment
would have to be hurried, 'The reply
from the Old . Country,, was that •: they
had been informed by the 'authorities
that: all requirements for Cement in
Canada, had bee$ adequately provided
for by -Canadian manufacturer's, If
that is correct, Why cannot we get
cement?, . In- one village in SaS-
katchew-an,1 ! know of a church, a.
store, and two or three houses which
have the base)nents dug and are held
up because. they ...cannot get cement.
Are Canadian manufacturers manu-
facturing all the. cement that is -re-
quired in Canada, or has Lord Beav-
erbrook forgotten Canada
Mr. Howe (Minister of• Reconstruc-
tion -and Supply): . The production • of
eemen.f"is 'slightly out of step owing
to tae concentrated demand in • the
early months. of the summer. But in
another month or tea, 'there should
be plenty' of cement, 4tthe moment
there are shortages. Nevertheless
. the production of Cement is farshigh-
er today than at .any time' in our his-
tory.. .I sug;est that before my hon.
friend buys csme'nt front the Old
Country. and ships it through Hudson
Bay he ascertain what the price is in
the Old Country, It wou.id' stagger
him compared with the price. tn Sas-
ka'chew•an, . •
The Farm
Labor Problem
The norther human tpnsumption of
wheat or bread grains on. average
runs about five..btsbels-'per person
per year. At 'present in Europe the
ration is about half that ,amount.
• On the basis • of normal consump-
tion 5.000.000 bushels .of wheat gives
1,000,000 persons a normak supply of
bread Iona year. ,At tile present time
that 'quantity will supply 2,000,000
Europeans with their ratiop.'
Thus every Ave bushels, of wheat
produced in Canada and made avail-
able for human food means a normal
bread 'supply ,.for„one person for • 12
months or at 'the present European
ration for two persons.
If, this coming fall, any part of
Canada's crop should' not be ltarvest-
ed„if it should remain rotting in the
stook, Canada u?11I have a heavy bur-
den of reproach to carry.
At the present• time -Canada's' grain
crop outlook is good. The yield, ac-
cording to 'forecasts', will not be' a
record; one tint it -will be nt-least acv•
erage.
Frdni it there should; be an export-
able surplus of at' least-- 150;000,000
bushels or enough to give nearly 64,-
000,000 persons in Europe.:..the same
ration they get now, for another year,
or a larger one if Supplies .permit.
But the crop must be harvested be-
fore that can be done. And because
ellen the loss of five ibiathele, aneanS
two persons losing their bread,. it is
fit portant that the harvesting jobbe
done thoroughly and without waste.
The complete liaiet'eitijrg -' of thtg
•
Ards -
The erunbling stonework of the
'Palace of Westminater is i=i'ettett ,wit1•
hundreds gf "Gothic" wi'ndowa, .t
makes a romantic ,backgrotiad hat a
bad workshop. The rambling old
building, put up in the leisurely' daps
of the last century when•• -the fire of
1834 destroyed the original' palace,
was never planned to house a Par -
Hatfield like this.
Behind those narrow panea lie des-
ty, til venkilahed committee rooms;
long. vistas of the library which once
seemed so•apacious are now crowded;
`the modest -sized dining rooms always
full to overflowing. The Commons de-
bating chamber was t+o.mbed during
the war, so the members are now ac-
commodated in what was the House
of Lords, which cannot even provide
a seat for everyone who attends le.
hear a big debate.
• Nowhere in this historic pile has an
ordinary • member' of Parliament- a
room he can call his own; nowhere•as
there a room where he can dictate to
• his secretary` (if she can afford one)
or a itertain constituents in comfort
and seclusion Only ministers and
their Parliamentary.. secretaries have
an office on the premises, and even
junior ministers have had to move in
op one another as a result of the
Parliamentary housing shortage.
That is why when the sun shines
some of the 640 members of the House
of Commons (to say nothing ofthe
e
.800 -odd members of the House of
Lords) spill out upon the terrace, not
only for fresh air but forroom to talk
and work.
This inconvenience is just one of
those many problems arising out of
the postwar change. Quite suddenly
World 'War II .has taken the dilettante
and clubman out of British politics
and •put •a full-time legislator au -his'
place. It used .to be, said that Par-
iiament was working hard- trtwo `or
three major measures were discussed
during a 12 months' session. Recess-
es were long, and although the House.
:.sometimes sat late, it usually had on-
ly' a three -days working week. But
world problems today will bear no
leisurely solution. Already some 20
•major measures have been debated by
the new Parliament.
The House of Commons sits for the
•whole of five days, and holiday per-
icels have been cut to a minimum.
Late nights are frequent. Sleep; is
scanty and precious.,, The members
eat on the job and sometimes sleep,
on it, too, and the old :Victorian build-
ing once known as "the best club' in
London" groans under :the strain of
this activity.
How to meet the new need? Stocky;
genial- •George ..Tomlinson, ex -Lanca-
shire weaver, now Minister of Works,
responsible for running Parliament's
premises, has a problem not easy to
solve. Members of Parliament, no
crop is threatened.. by a shortage of
help on farms. There are plenty of
men able to ,do farm work .and ex-
perienced at it -But there are many
unwilling to do the job. Hence -the
prospect that much wheat ,may . be
lost,
Recently the • department;' of labor at
Ottawa issued an order under which
experienced farm help who have been
working in industry and are now idle
may, ,after due process of -inquiry, be
.refused unemployment:,insurance ben
tats if they refuse farm work. -.
The order is hedged with many"ifs"
for the protection df the worker. Thus
it applies only,..if he has had farm ex-
perience -or. is, able to do the work,
if it ;will work no hardship on him or
'his family, if there as a .specific farm
=job to which he is to be sent, if he
has drawn ten„ weeks . unetnpioyment
benefits in the last, three months: and
so on. Only after all. these "ifs? have
been 'answered his refusal. .of farm•
work is' referred to- an arbitration
board which can order payments stop-
ped.
This seems• ample guarantee against
hardship resulting from an . arbitrary'
ruling which interferes with or term-
inates what is undoubtedly the right•
of the insured man. Nevertheless, it
is an arbitrary removal of. the right
..to get his payments to: ,which he con-
tributed while Working.._
It is a method of compelling him to
'work. "It is using a contributory fund,
in part his own savings, to coerce him
into work which he has rejected. .It
.is not the purpose for which the un-
employment` insurance system was
set up. It is one of those interfer-
ences with. individual liberty which
normally Canadians resist„ and'shou'ld
resist, with th'e utmost vigor.
But there is famine over most of
the world and five .bushel's of wheat
Will' feed two persons for a year aid
there is a crop to be harvested, If
Canada allows its crop to rot in the
field because of rack of harvest help
and a million persons starve to death
in Europe this winter, Canadians
bility,
would have to shoulder the respons1
Perhaps it is because Canadians re-
alize these facts so well there has
been no protest=anywhere' against this
arbitrary 'ruling.,, There bas .been no
protest fireiIr TX55i-iiitions and they
ordinarily wouldtbe flag to raise their
voices. Nor is the Free ' Press lis
posed to press :oily protest at this
moment when human lives .are at
Stake. But it is something to be kept
in mind, Something about which to'
protest should there be the slightest
abuse of • the ruling or when it is 'no.
longer needed: ” ,
' But tt • *tend -hilaa Maga -thou ei� -
perieiioed • f arni.. *bakers Who are rat
feeing farm work were to realize the
responsibility for, human lives that
rests tin tl;eit.
(By Barb ra
loner ZQt 1a1atilpg' as- p. sidel ne to..
their ma oaretr'st. are oa, the S Q
m'll day stud every day.
In ceiomittee at 9.30 or 14.30 in the
morning,'notal altaaa,bex's now' luno$ in
the Conup6us cloths #ooh' and the
dictate their setters in any odd °ca-
ner of the corridors or write them in
longhand in the liibrary ifthey are too
poor to afford a secretary'. And when
the . century' -old cry, "Who goes
home?" echoes down the corridors; no
last bus awaits to take them:..t eabetp.
beds; no taxis are hvailabe• and, do
less a lift can be begged •in a. minis-
terial 'ear, the honorable member'
takes what rest he can on what was
once• the fire watcher's hard bed or
in an armchair in. the, library.
In -.this workaday whirl, the Mother
of Parliaments has gained, not lost,
in glamour;-- but, she's showing the
strata,, Somehow she's got to be
modernized. Select committees and
ministers have been in. anxiods con-
sultation and have already made some
improvements. But impatient young
Parliamentarians protest these are
not enough. The Commons dining
room has been enlarged, and cheap
table d',hote meals made available for
menybers only, 'bolt it is still costly to
entertain visitors. • Rooms have been
taken across the road to house the
.secretaries„ but it is a long run to
the. voting lobbies and•`inembers sum -
mooed by the division bell from their
letter -writing can be ` seen dashing
through a head of traffic as they try.
to reach the lobby doors before they
shut.
The Commons chamber Is being re-
built on a larger scale, .but it will still
not have room to guaian'tee each
member a seat on the traditional ,red
leather benches, 'and accommodation
Yti"puliIitc galleries wia not meet the
demand. • •
Hosni-mpdatarit afyail: the members'
salaries have recently been increased.
The pa*, of £601) a year meant near -
starvation for sable. The 'increase to.
41,000 will enable more to buythe
clerical help the job demands, but the.
rate is still too low for' all but .those
who.hate some other means with
which to keep their families. The
British love the amateur in 'politics
because they think he is more disin-
terested, and it is Parliament's proud
b'oast's that It never votes for its own
members the privileges and comforts
it .would deny to ethers. ,
This has good results., Men and
women who come, mostly' .do so at a
sacrifice for the faith, they believe in.
and the standard -Of probity is high.
But love of sacrifice can be carried.
too far and,, there are revolutionary
voices to be beard among the new
members, suggesting that the high
standard of public service would got.
suffer if the -members- had to endure
less inconpenience; if, for, example,
they had 'the privile, ge • of late trans-
port home... at Government expense
when they work far into:the night.
When all improvements have been
made, the limitations of the present
site and buildings"'tvill still create dif=
Acuities. ,The'only way to solve them
would be to build. anew. But few
members, even ,:the most modern
minded, want such "a violenf break
with the past. •
Despite all the inconveniences, one
of the prizes for which men come to
Parliament is to walk through twelfth
century Westminster Hall,; which still
survives the fire and Bombing, through.
St. Stephen's Hall, on whose site the
worthy Commons of Tudor days had
its meeting place, and out on to the
terrace that borders -the' historic
Thames. While tTie members call for
the utmost modernization .of the old
building, whose -Victorian ramifica-
tions so frustrate them, they would
be very reluctant to leave thespot
which has always ,been. the hotne of
13Fiaah• Parliatnents:-a
For,• they argue, how ever, urgent it
may be to, live in the, present,- it,, is
no ill thing"to be reminded •constant-
ly of how* long and laborious hat been
'the fight for freedom,
Salt Spring Island'
.-Negro Paradise
Half way between Vancouver and
Victoria, in the Strait of Georgia, lies
the tiny island! paradise ' 'of Salt
Spring. It is one of 'the •numerous lit-
tle bodies of land in the Strait which
concretively forni the chain know n. as
the Gulf •Islands..
If you , doubt that the term "para-
dise” fits Salt Spring, . the natives
have the statistics to prove it. Neither
Vancouver nor Victoria has anything
on Salt Spring, as far as weather is
concerned for, according to their ;re-
cords,the average sunshine there to-
tals 2,000 hours per year; • average,
rainfall a mere 37 inches, and aver-
age temperatures, 62 in the summer
and 42 'in the winter. • .
. Salt Spring also !Mesta an altund-
anee of fish and wild life, a reason-
ably low -cost of living, while taxes
Mathe finest piece of seafront proper-
ty may runt to .about $20 a year,
trTtat isn't paradise, then what is?
• But the islanders don't tnention an-
other matter. Net. :that they don't
want to, but becausethy aren't con-
s.ciouii of It.
Among the 2,500 inhabitants -are
altout 50 Negroes- ... living a .quiet,
'peaceful life. 'Although small,.. in num-
ber, the Negroes play an. active .part
in the island's eommunity'where their
1rreaeh'e .,in ..shell ..ag,.,.a .mat'tei' 'oy
course. '
Deteended From Slaves
Salt Spring's .Negroes are descend-
ed froth diver who fed befitted*
itch;
to tiie United States, They were the
first to settle ,toe island, except, of
course, for the Indiain
party .of 65 jour*eyea . to 'Vancou-
Ter Island -to interview Governor
James Douglas ail► Soon. name reports
that; :they: had :been. "mos.t cgrdially
received. and' 'heartily welleoid4ed:;'-
_LW ayataible, a.t .20. chill pgs. per
acre: and could ba •puieliaged; `with a _
25' per cent down payment, Anti,,, .,.
-What, 'watt more importa{zt, Negroes
would be granted- the franchise and.
ai rded • full equality, with the.
Whites.
It wan -back in the 1850's wbent
Negroes in 'California that, began tee
glance Ibflgingly° toward British Co-
luurbia ap a place Where' thee could
be free. Many bad eseapedi from the ..
eastern United State*. to • the • west
coast, where it had been rumoied,'the
Negroes woui'd'be able to Live in pewee' •
and contentment.
It was ''a rugged 'lire for _the. Bet-
lers. The Indians who inhabited the
island were fiercely antagonistic and
a few of the old-timers•, now residing.
on 'Salt Spring 'can stilly remember
vividly the forays make•' by the red
men. •
Mrs. Sylvia Stark, who came with
the •original settlers and died just re-
cently at the age of 104, told her
daughter, .liirs. A. Wallace; that it
took years ,,before the Indiahs dually
gave up the attempt to drive the col-
ony to which had been' added. also a
number of whites, -off the island.
Brought First Cattle .
Mrs _Wallace,.
whet .. Ives at. Ganges.,
on Salt Spring, says that her parents
..:.cpened.. up. _.a- good portion__of -the_ _.._-
northwest `side of the island and it
was after them that Stark Mountain
was named. Her parents also are
credited with having brought the first
cattle and livestock to Salt Spring. •
Failure ofthe Negro colony to grow
to any;•great extent was due, probab-
ly,' to the fact there was a • shortage.
of Negro' women on the island and
also because only a few other settlere
from Victoria joined, the Salt S'pr'ing
settlement.
Victoria was In its heyday then and
reputedly one of the liveliest towns
on the. coast.: It was natural, there-
fore, that the Negroes' who settled .in
Victoria, revelling in their new-found
freedom,. preferred the gayer ,life, et
the city. • .•
The others agree with Ernie. -There'
is Jim Anderson, for. instance, also in„
his late 'nal whose beautifully terrac-
ed seaside farm is the . showplace of
Salt Spring and is pictured on a post-
card.
ostcard. •
Or ask Mrs.. M. Mitchell why ', she
came back' to Salt Spring from • Van
pouter. And ehe'll tell you,'that the
Oland is . the only •place...- where
Negroes are- really happy. ,
They are happy, the Negroes say,
not so much because they have se-
cured finapcial independence, but
mainly because of their excellent-' re-
lations with the, whites. '; It couldn't
have been better,' says Harrison. • •
• The Whites on. Salt Spring will test-
ify
estify to this.. ' Gilbert Monet, leading
business man on the island, describes:
Negroes as "good, peaceful and indus-
trious." They are highly.regarded by
the whites, .he says and "their word
is their....wbond.t'
There is - no ' "Harlem" • ' on • Salt
Spring; where all • Negroes reside.
Rather, they are scattered - all over
the island. They have no particular
church of their own and attend which-
ever one is convenient far them. The
Negro women are active members of
'the Women's Institute and Red Cross,.
At dances, parties and all socialgath-
erings, the colored people are cordial-
ly welcomed • • ;
The little island ha : set an example
in .tolerance unparalleled in Canada. v
Ration Coupon ''Due Dates
coupons good as `of August 1 are:
'Sugar -preserves S11 to S23; butter
R10 to . R16 and meat coupons M40 to
M'4B.
A new 'ration book wil. be .distrib-
uted during the .week' of. September 9.
•
Creeping Trees
Russian scientists have been grow-
ingapples; pears and plums in the
chilly reaches of Siberia; where the
temperature frequently slides down to
minus 45 degrees•. The trees are
trair}ed to creep along the ground in-
'steed
n'stead of growing vertically. During
heavy winter months they. are cover-
ed with straw and Sr branches and
banked with snow. Professor Kizuri
of the Omsk Agricultural Institute
first developed theca creeping trees,
ibasing' his experiments on the theory
that. the warmest air is •that •closest'
to the earth. - ,
S'tevWed ox cheeks, .canned ,before
1852, have been found cached away
in the Arctic. Investigators report
that the delicacies are "still .whole-
setiasaa
- Technical •itivestigareits overseas.
interviewing master 'German bakers,,
have discovered• that the Nazis made
canned :bread to feed their armies.
The Gerniaas elaimed the bread,
known as "dauetbrot " . would keep
...fa tot,"'j?fst _ r._ ..
Hxpeate- who tasted; tread that'°;ii'ad
been :stored for' about three months,
Said it seethed a little soggy and
b avy, .but It 'had a good taste.