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The Brussels Post, 1960-01-28, Page 6like's Diplomats. Worrying About Japanese guild-Up by Ray Croinley NEA Staff Corresnontlent Washington (NEA) — U.S. strategists have plans to make Japan an official cornerstone of defense planning for the Far feet, First step: signing of the new jaPaneee-U-S. Security Treaty here January 19 with Prime Minister leialeusulte Kishi, Current. U.S. defense strategy Makes it crucial to keep the Japanese industrial base — one of the world's strongest —out of Russian or Red Chinese hands. Red absorption would tip the World's economic balance of power dangerously the Red way, The new treaty will keep the United States air and naval bases in Japan. It commits the Japanese to fight side-by-side with the Americans in defending the islands, It ties them to the U.S. side. But note these less happy facts: • The treaty won't reduce 'U.S. defense costs in Japan, It in- ereases them by at least the $30 million a year that Japan has been contributing to the support of U.S, forces there. $ It doesn't commit the Japan- ese to modernize their forces to a point where Japan could han- dle its defense alone. although Americans feel Japan is now strong, enough economically to carry out a massive moderniza- tion program. • The treaty doesn't commit the Japanese to come to the aid of the U,S. if America again gets ners say, so long as the U,S, has WO a limited capacity for brush wars and such small ground forces. The treaty Was the first and vital step, Pentagon planners were worried that JaPan Would not sign. The previous treaty was essentially a part of a deal for giving Japae its independ- enee, This is the first security treaty the and Japan have worked out since Japan was given complete independence and could freely make her own decisions, U,S, State and Defense Depart- ment men had been concerned about reports of a Japaneses trend toward neetralism. There has been heavy criticism of U.S. Air and Navy forces being in Japan, There have been asser- tions that U.S. Air and Naval bases meant colonialism. There have been men ardently push- ing the' thought that Japan should follow an independent world course on the Indian pat- tern. U.S, diplomats and military men have now stopped holding their colective breath. The Japanese Army has quiet- ly been built up to 170,000 men. It's better officered, better train- ed, has more initiative than the Japanese forces that swept to Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia in 1941-42. Its equip- ment is largely World. War II type. It has no missile units, There's a national police reserve of 110,000. Japan has only a 100,000-ton navy of small ships and one sub- marine. It has an air force of 1,064 planes — including 455 F-86 jets. With U.S. air and naval sup- port, it's estimated here, the Japanese could give even in- vading Russians a hard go. It's believed that they could tie up for a critical period of time a sizeable number of Soviet troops. U.S. strategy aims at encour- aging the Japenese to build up their army and to modernize with Japanese-built tanks, self- propelled artillery and missiles. They think the Japanese should do this modernizing primarily with their own fields — plus $110 million worth of. U.S. aid. With modernization and an- other boost in Japanese troops plus U.S. air and sea aid, it's believed here, the Rusians might hesitate before attempting an in- vasion of Japan. The Reds could take the islands if they were willing to pay top price, but the cost would be heavy. Perhaps it would be too heavy considering what the Soviets would face else- where in a war. Vapor Attacks Walls And Paint JAPANS rime Minister Kishl. involved in defense operations in Korea, Formosa or other points outside Japan. • It doesn't even commit' Japan to serve as a repair base, staging ground or rear echelon site for American forces fighting in the Far East outside Japan. The use of Japan as a manu- facturing, supply and rear eche- lon base cut U.S. supply lines thousands of miles — made it possible to keep U.S. forces from being thrown out of Korea in the peninsula fighting Japan's resources would be crucial in most any future U.S. Central and North East Asia operations. U.S, defense men will have to ... "sell" Tokyo on changing these facts befOre Japan can be welded into the around-the-Soviet de- fense system the Pentagon is de- termined to build. Japan's down forces are cru- cial to this goal, the U.S. plan- Did you know that every time you cook, wash and dry the clothes, or even breathe, you are helping create a fifth column that can seriously damage your home unless you take positive steps to immoblize it? This fifth column is moisture vapor which can blister and crack the paint on the outside of your house, damage wall plaster, warp and rot joints and studs, rust nails, and even cause mortar to crumble away from the bricks. Studies by Purdue University show that the average family of four can generate as much as 63/4 gallons of moisture in the form of water vapor just by go- 11 LOOKS, COULD KILL Staring daggers, Brownie, a pet in the Anthany Mantic household, watches hiS dinner diSappear. The erd-Shelled interloper is Myrtle, the h Mantra's other pef. P. r p. la, 'Salome 'cotta, provolone' Swiss cheese, American hani, tomatoes, pickles, mixed vegetables and roast 'peppers;' It Was whipped up by Salvatore Dell'Oroto in his store,' The dustorner paid $28.50 for the honor serving le at a party. HOW HEROES ARE MADE gorsta,rayon work"af gastronomical art is probably the largest hero sandy wich ever. Peter Giarnpetro, .14,`Ieft, ond Danny Von Lumm, 10, struggle to lift the 15-pound, six-foot loaf of Italian bread that's aced lengthwise bnd stuffed with just about everything -- prosciutto, ccipacolra, mortadel- Pirromicks 'That Help. Sale! Storekeeping is a competitive business anti a good gimmick always helps to sell goods. This is Why some shopkeeper: some- times try to introduce a Littte eye,eatehing humour into their trade, A. King's Cross .1i:titterer, who, had his goods handled too free- ty, raised •a few laughs and at- tracted more customers with the notice: 'Please,madam, don't squeeze me un til. I'm yours,". Not all customers saw the humour on the notice of butcher in Sydney, Australia, Outside his shop he had a sign reading, "Why go elsewhere to by robbed?" • -On a busy street corner news, stand in St. Louis, newsvendor Ted Gatlin has a sign reading, "Twenty-five dollars Cash If I Fail to Thank You." He got the idea from a newly opened ser- vice station promising motorists ► free gasoline if the attendant failed to check their oil, Since Ted took over the stand three years ago his newspaper sales have jumped from three hundred daily to more than eight hundred. Many people have tried to catch him out, but so far none has made him forget his manners, A North Country second- • hand . ear dealer di91.ayed a notice stating that he would. allow $150 in part-exr,hange Tar anything on four wheels, The notice was hastily withdrawn after the first claimant produced . an old roller skate. Another dealer thought he had hit upon a novel touch when. he advertised a car at $100 less a reduction of $10 for 'every child the puichaser had, He was shaken when a man turned up with ten children and birth cer- tificates, then '.;claimed the car for nothing, Evens, generous was the East London cafe proprietor who tried to discourage credit seek- ing with the notice, "Credit ex- tended to those over eighty ac- companied by a parent," He gave a huge free meal to the appli- cant of that age who brought along • his 103-year-old father! The novel sales idea of a tailor, in Barking, Essex, backfired with' a large bang. He put a notice in his shop window in- forming prospective clients that there was a pound note in the. breast pocket of each suit he sold. On the first night thieves went to investigate. They col- lected the El notes and the suits! Peter W. Allport, an officer of National Advertisers, Inc. Rod Serling, TV playwright, urged a nonintervention policy for sponsors, states an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor, Mr. Serling gave an example of what he meant. A sponsor that made cigarette lighters had once forced him to delete the line "Have you got a. match?" from a script. Lie has recounted else- where the story of the rival auto- mobile sponsor who managed to have a view of the New York skyline exclude the Chrysler. Building. These absurdities obviously boomerang against the sponsor who meddles. It would make much more sense for the networks to handle all programing; then sell adver- tising time to the sponsors, who could choose their time slot to give them whatever type of pro- gram they feet would best reach and please the audience they are seeking. That would leave the integrity of the program and its creators protected from meddling.. But the sponsor could choose the general fare his name and his share of the $783,00.0,000 would be associ- ated with. "Does your husband under- stand horse-racing?" "I'll say! The day before a race he always knows which horse is certain to win, and the day after he knows exactly why" it didn't." ISSUE 5 — 1960 FRUIT AMBROSIA 4 cups sugar 4 oranges 46 cauvppslelsvater 4 cups cranberries Boil sugar and water together for five minutes. Acid peeled and sliced apples and cook slowly for 15 minutes. Add oranges, cut in thin slices, and cranberries. Con- tinue cooking for 10 minutes longer. Serve cold. Serves 8. * Here's something. good. It's called Butter Crunch, and it can be used in many ways on or with desserts, writes Gertrude P, Lancaster in the Christian Science Monitor. cuTphel?u ititlegrre(dilei4ntpsouarlred),fevw4 cup brown sugar (packed down), 1 cup sifted f lour, 1/2 cup chop- ped walnuts, pecans, or coconut. Mix these ingredients with your hands, Spread the mixture in an oblong pan (13 x 91/2 x 2). Bake 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 400° F. Take from oven, stir with spoon 'to form ' crumbs. This makes 21/2 cups. You can either cool it and store in a covered container in the refrigerator for later use, or press the warm crumbs into a pie plate as a crumb crust. If you keep Butter Crunch for later use, here are some ways to try it. Make a pudding with pud- ding mix and, while it is hot, pour it into a flat serving- dish and sprinkle with 1 cup Butter Crunch. Serve with cream. Or pour chilled custard over cut-up fruit or berries, sprinkle with Butter Crunch. Here's an- other: Pour 2 cups sweetened spiced applesauce in a serving dish. Cover with 1/2 cup whipped cream, and sprinkle with 1 cup Butter Crunch, Serve with cream. It's grand on ice cream which has been covered with a sauce first. Sponsors Like To Call The Shot! ' The Medicis of Madison Av- enue spent $783,000,000 of their clients' money last year to spon- sor TV programs, and one of their spokesmen wants to know if this doesn't entitle them to do some picking and choosing. We feel it does. Picking — but not pushing. The subject came up this week at the continuing Federal Corn- munications Commission hear- ings on what's wrong' with broad- cast programing, The sponsors'. spokesman was BIG STEP INTO MARRIAGE -- Formosan Chinese p9ratrooper- CapCCheng Ching-Lien he$pt hie bride free from here para- chute harness. The pale were married In air as they floated to earth by parachur c , Use canned peaches for this spicy fruit pudding that may be served either hot or clod, plain' or with cream. PEACH PUDDING 21J cups canned cling peach slices 2 eggs cup,sifted flour 1 cup brown sugar (packed) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons 'melted butter. Drain peaches and arrange in greased shallow baking pan. Beat eggs well. Blend together dry ingredients and add to the eggs with melted butter. Stir until well mixed and pour over peaches. Bake at 375° F. 35 to 40 minutes, Serves 6 to 8. * x * Here is a bread pudding made piquant with tart red plums...It serves four: PLUM BETTY 12 slices day-old bread (about 4 cups) 1/2 cup salad oil 2 lbs.' tart red plums (about 3 cups, pitted) % cup sugar teaspoon. salt Tear bread into coarse crumbs, Drizzle with all but 2 tablespoons of oil. Wash, pit plums, combine with sugar and salt. Arrange alternate layers of bread mix- ture and plums in baking dish (6 x 10 x 2 inches) greased with oil, beginning and ending with bread. Drizzle remaining 2 table- spoons oil over top. Cover; bake (350° F,) 20 minutes. Uncover; bake about 30 minutes longer. Serve hot or cold with hard sauce or cream. * That old favorite, apple crisp, will have a new taste when you sweeten it with honey and add nuts. HONEY-APPLE CRISP 4 cups sliced apples 14 cup sugar 1 • tablespoon lemon juice IA cup honey 1/2 cup flour 'A cup brown sugae Ye cup butter 1A. teaspoon salt 1/4 cup walnuts. Spread sliced apples in a shal: low baking dish. Sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice, and pour honey over ale In a bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, and salt. Work in the butter as for bis- cuits, making a crumbly mix- hire. Spread these crumbs 'evenly over the apples arid bake at 375° F, for 30 to 40 Minutes, or until apples are tender and crust crisply browned, Serve warm with cream. Frozen lemon pie is a. dessert that is easy to make. FROZEN LEMON PIE FELLING: 3 eggs, separated % cup sugar I/3 'dip 'fresh leinon juice 2 tablespoons sugar cup heavy eteam, whipped 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel Seat egg yolks until thick and leinan colored, gradually adding ee cup sugar. Gradually add lemon juice to mixture, continu- ing to beet. Beat egg white ins- til they hold in ;peaks, graclte= ally adding the 2 tablespoons auger. Fold beaten whites into lemon mixture: fold iii whipped cteeth arid grated lemon Peel, Pour into crumb tined refriga orator tray; sprinkle remaining crumbs on top, Feteze Sixtbeight servings. CialLIStr 1 tableSpObit Melted butte's' bait el-00We cooky ettittibt I tiblespoini sugar Mix all ingredients well. Sprinkle half the naiXtUre oh bottom Of refrigerator tray: re- se jrZ, remeleing half for top of You inay want to Make a' light trot deeeerts so' try this fruit arebresia and Put if .in the "re- frigerator. to get told before eoti eerVe ing through the routine of living in a modern home. Breathing and perspiring release 11/2 gal- lons in 24 hours. Doing the fam- ily laundry can add another gallon, while drying it indoors on a clothesline or in an un- vented drier can contribute 3% gallons. Each shower adds a half pint of vapor. Cooking three meals pumps five more pints. into the air and washing the dishes brings another pint, Where do these 61/4 gallons go? Water vapor, like any other gas, seeks an area or lesser presSure this case, the out-of-doors. Unless there is a barrier of some sort, the water vapor enters the walls and passes right through them. When it reaches the inner surface of the exterior walls, which in the winter are much colder, the moisture condenses and soaks into the wood siding, This can cause the wood to swell, warp, crack, and rot. When no more water can be held by the siding, it will emerge on the outside and condense against the paint. If these drop- lets of water freeze, the expan- sion during yfreezing can crack the paint. Ae the spring sun gets hotter, it will 'change the liquid water into a yaeor and the pres- sure of the vapor will blister the paint. Subsequent invasions of moisture can cause the paint to crack and peel. Now the paint can no longer perform its function of protect- ing the home against the 'on- slaughts of rain, sleet, and snow. It is simple to prevent the water vapor from entering the walls and doing the damage des- cribed above. All that has to be done is to interpose an imper- meable vapor barrier between the moisture and the walls. There are two types of vapor barriers. The first consists of placing a sheeting of some type across the inner surface of the exterior walls when the house is being built. Care must be taken that this barrier is not broken by workmen installing electrical outlets, plumbing, and the like. The second type of vapor bar- rier consists of applying the proper kind of paint to the walls of the rooms themselves. In a, new home this has the advantage of being done after all other craftsmen have finished their work, thus leaving no holes in the dike. In older homes that were buile without a mechanical vapor bar- rier, paint it the only solution: What kind of paint to use? Gloss paints, oil-based primer sealers, and varnishes are all good Vapor barriers. They would be followed by whatever decora- tive topcoat the homeowner de- sires, In older houses, apply the primer sealer over existing flat paint or wallpaper. And don't forget the inside of closets and Other spaces built against exter- ior walls, Even after the walls are vapor-tight, there are Certain ether things you should do to insure victory over moisture. Clothes driers should be vented to the outside. After showering or mopping open the windows until the moisture is dissipated. An eehaut fail in the kitchen will riot only get rid of cooking Were but also of the moisture' created in cooking and dish washing, Attics should be venti- lated with louvers of the Proper size. If. you have a fireplace, open the damper from time to time to let moisture escape. Scene experts advise supple- menting these steps by irisertirig vents in the outer Walls to re- lieve the pressure of the trigit- ttire 'trapped between the walls. There ate many types of them. on the market. 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