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The Seaforth News, 1957-09-19, Page 2A United States Slant On Our Queen And Her Court Ever since a peer called Queen Elizabeth's: speeches a "pain • in the Neck" and got a slap:., in. the•,faoe for saying it — there have , been strange rumblings' behind , the Purple Curtain of British royalty. * * By TOld A. CULLEN NEA Staff! Correspondent LONDON. — (.NEA) —, "The greatest show on earth, bar none—" This is one American's ec- static verdictafter • watching Queen Elizabeth II, a tiny spot ofscarlet in, a forest,of bearskin - hatted guardsmen, at a recent Trooping of the. Color ceremony in her honor. The description, if corny, is. not a bad one. Viewed simply as, a spectacle, the British mon- archy cannot be beaten. For pomp and ceremony, for the sheer splendor of its medieval pageantry, it is without rival in Europe today. ' It is one of the world's most Costly extravaganzas.. The ques- tion arises, can ISritain afford it -cinch - in.- your- belt Britain, which not long ago asked to postpone payment on the 1945 U.S. loan? Is royalty too..expen- sive for the British taxpayer? Certainly, the British mon- archy has enjoyed the longest run of any show on record. Not counting the brief interlude of Oliver Cromwell, it has been playing non-stop for 1,100 years, dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa,. these new sovereign states now take their place, as members of `British Commonwealth of Nations. Being free to come,- and go in the Commonwealthas they like, how much longer will they re- cognize : the British Crown?' A constitutional monarchy; it is called; yet Britain has no writ- ten -constitution in the American sense of the word—only an ill- defined assortment of laws, cus- toms and gonventions, some of which date back to the Jutes, the Celts and the Picts. No one appears to know for certain which of these laws are: usable, and which obsolete. Take the Queen, for. example.:. In `.law, Elizabeth. II is head of the. State, the "fountain of jus- tice," commander-in-chief of all the armed forces, andhead of the established Church 'of,: Eng- land. In theory, without consulting Parliament, the Queen can upset all civil government, disgrace the nation by a bad war or peace, or leave it defenseless by scrapping its armed forces. But in practice she acts only on the advice of her ministers, which she cannot constitutionally ignore. "The Queen reigns, but she does not rule," is the magic for- mula which expresses her powers, and none but the British could have' devised such an in- genious one. If Elizabeth does not rule, if she can do nothing without mit,- QUEEN ELIZABETH AT WORK—As greets her public during a tour In comparison, the British law courts are only 800 years old, while Parliament is a mere stripling of 700 years. It has for its leading lady one. of the most attractive personali- ties in public life today, Eliza- beth II, who can trace her ancestry back to the Saxon king, Egbert, in the year 829. Her billing on the theatre marquee (if one could find a marquee large• enough to take it) would read: "Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and: Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Common- wealth, Defender of the Faith." All of this sounds very pretty, but what "other realms and ter- ritories"? The truth•is that Eliza- beth is Queen of a Vanishing. Empire. In the past 10 years Britain has given independence to 507 million peoples, or nearly one- quarter of the human ; race while during this period world communism has • enslaved an- other quarter of mankind. Since World War II, India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, Sudan, South Rhodesia, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) andnow the Federation of Malaya—all have joined the independence parade. Side by side with the older `ALLY'S SS 'PAYING AND RLLLIVIH4 "I must have an identification card here somewhere." Prince Philip stands by, she of the Midlands. 1. isterial consent, is she a mere figurehead? The world was given a sharp reminder that the monarchy still has teeth when Elizabeth • was called upon to name a successor to Sir Anthony Eden, who re- signed as prime minister last January. Ordinarily the naming of a prime minister is automatic. But Eden's sudden resignation left his party leaderless and the Queen with the momentous choice between Harold Macmil- lan and Richard Austen Butler. The Queen has certain other real powers which are hers alone. Only she can summon, termin- ate or dissolve Parliament. Only she can grant pardons or confer peerages and honors. And no bill passed by Parliament can be- come lawuntil it receives the Royal Assent. What would happen if the Queen refused the, Royal Assent, no one knows, for this question has never arisen in the past 250 years, the last time the Royal Veto was used being in 1707. Elizabeth also presides' over the Privy Council, which has ap- proved 117 proclamations in the first half of 1957, including the constitution of the new State of Ghana. She can grant -royal charters to corporations, coin money, claim any treasure trove found in her. domain. Infants and in- sane persons are her -wards. Also, only she can print or lic- ense others to print. the Bible. A lot of nonsense is written about British royalty. Some writ- ers go all mystical in describing her symbolic role. There is, how- ever, .a sense in which Elizabeth is a symbol of national unity, in whom people of different creeds, races and origins find inspiration and strength. Thus, when she broadcasts to the nation and t� ' the Common- wealth at Christmas, she is list- ened to as a universal mother,, the one living link of common kinship and heritage. DIPLOMATIC DIP -Presidents Urho Kekkonen-of; Finland, front, and Asgeir Asgeirsson of Iceland frolic in a pool at Akureyr, Iceland. The dip followed the. traditional "sauna", famed steam. bath . of the region. The two leaders were in Akureyr to see the inter -Nordic swimming championships. • dFA.8LE TALKS alvz If v.tl :lot vegetables with coin, : i,ccd meat, there are many ways' to make them decorative. For instance, wrap wide strips Of pimiento around bundles of asparagus and circle these around your platter. Or boil and hollow out turnips and fill them with tiny green peas and tiny mushroom caps. Decorate mounds of creamed carrots with slivered almonds. Combine green beans with small white onions. Season with butter, salt and pepper and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. To introduce a red note on your platter serve tomatoes either stuffed or on the half shell. For the latter, you simply cut tomatoes in half crossways and place, cut side up in a baking dish, brush with melted butter and season with salt and pepper. Bake at 375° F. until tender — about 30 minutes. To stuff tomatoes, scoop out centers of whole, ripe tomatoes. leaving a shell about 2/4 -inch thick. Chop pulp and drain off juice; mix pulp with an equal amount of soft bread crumbs. Add 2 tablespoons minced onion cooked in 1 tablespoon butter until lightly browned. Season with salt and pepper. Stuff to- matoes and place in greased bak- ing dish; add just enough hot water to cover bottom of dish. Bake at 375° F. until tender about 25.30 minutes. If you prefer cold vegetables, try placing potato or macaroni salad in a mound in the center of a chop dish and surrounding it with colorful, chilled, cooked vegetables. Green beans on one side, tiny cooked beets on an- other side, sliced cucumbers on another side and sliced tomatoes topped with white onion rings on another make an attractive cold platter to go with meat. * * * -1 Potato salad is a popular ac- companiment for cold meatsfor hot weather meals. There are so many variations of this dish that almost everyone has her own special recipe. A good plan to follow is to get a good basic recipe thaat your family likes and then vary it once in a while by. adding some new ingredients. Here is a basic recipe. POTATO SALAD 3 cups cooked, cubed potatoes 1 tablespoor minced onion. 1 cup thick dressing — cooked dressing or mayonnaise 1 teaspoon salt 1/ cup chopped green pepper. 3s cup finely cut celery , 34 cup chopped, pickle or cu- cumber Mix lightly the potatoes, onion, dressing, and salt. Be careful not to break ,potatoes. Chill until serving time. Add re- maining ingredientsand mix lightly.. Add more salt and dress- ing, if • needed. Garnish with: tomato w e d •g es and olives. Serves 4. „ « A colorful mold that combines potatoes with ruby red ,tonna- toes willadd a bright, gay touch to, your summer dinner table. This serves 6.- MOLDED POTATO -TOMATO ' SALAD 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 34, cup cold water 1%z cups" hot 'chicken broth 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 hard -cooked egg, sliced 4 slices fresh tomato 1 cup diced cooked potatoes 1 cup diced fresh tomatoes 1 cup diced celery 1 teaspoon minced' onion 1 cup cottage. cheese Radishes for garnish Soften gelatin in cold water, Add to hot chicken broth along with pepper and salt. Stir until dissolved. Pour a 1A -inch layer in a-9x5x2-inch loaf pan. Chill until arm. Arrange slices of hard -cooked egg and tomatoes in any desired pattern over the chilled gelatin. In the meantime, chill remaining gelatin until slightly thickened. Fold in re- maining ingredients, Pour over egg -tomato slices, Chill until ready to serve. Just before serv- ing, turn out on salad greens. Ar- range mounds of cottage cheese and radishes around salad. « o • If you're tired of potato salad, 'but want one that adds a hearty note to your cold meat meal, try this one made with macaroni. It serves 6 to 8. MACARONI SALAD 8 ounces elbow macaroni, cooked until tender, rinsed, and drained 1 cup sliced stuffed olives 3/ cup chopped green pepper 2 cups chopped celery 2 tomatoes, diced 34 pound Swiss cheese, diced r/ cup French dressing 1 teaspoon salt Combine all ingredients in large bowl; mix thoroughly but lightly. Chill several hours be- fore serving. Jellyfish On Top In Annual War The annual war between jelly- fish and bathers, which usually comes to a painful climax around Labor Day, gives every indica- tion of ending up in a resounding victory for the jellyfish this year. With unprecedented frequency, the undulating creatures have been shooting their stingers into the unwary swimmers from Maine to Florida. By last week, they had already routed thous- ands of persons from some of Maine's famous coves, from the large shallow bays of Long Is- land and Ne w.Tersey, and from the usually placid inlets of Chesa- peake Bay. So severe was the jellyfish, or sea nettle, situation in the Chesa- peake that Sen: John Marshall Butler of Maryland was stung into strong rhetoric ("The sea nettle must go") and resolute ac- tion (a bill for crash research on how to disrupt the jellyfish's, life cycle). The jellyfish scourge, the worst in years for scores of Atlantic Coast towns, may well be a direct consequence of the East's linger- ing drought. One theory . has it that slack rivers and low rain- fall keep inland waters saltier than usual, a condition that seems to appeal to jellyfish. Though jellyfish are the most primitive form of multicelled animal life, just one level above sponges, they are equipped with ingenious weaponry.Spotted, around their umbrella ` and on their tentacles are thousands of tiny sdcs each holding :coiled,. threadlike stingers. When :a thorny trigger is - tripped,' the coil thread explodes outward and impales its prey, injecting a paralyzing poison which stuns the victim so the jellyfish can feed at leisure. Lethal to most small fish, the sting of the sea nettle will rarely cause morethan temporary, agony to the bather. The large, almost orange jellyfish (Cyanea) that visit the northern coast pro- duce a fierce burn. The sting of the bluish, transparent Aurelia cluttering New England and Long Island waters is milder. The red or, white sea nettles (Dacty- lometra) of the Mid -Atlantic states are more vicious, some- time clutching a panicky swim- mer and jabbing him repeatedly. A well-placed sting (say, on the spine) can put its victim in the hospital. The great killer jelly- fish sails the Caribbean. This is the Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia), a remarkable float- ing colony of polyps asfearful as anything in the world's oceans. The Gilbert Islanders in the Pgcifie find boiled jellyfish -a great delicacy (it tastes like tripe), but their economic pros- pects elsewhere are generally' nil. They clog fishermen's nets; they eat into the revenue of re- sort operators. ' But L. Eugene Cronin, director of the Chesa- peake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Md., which is explor- ing jellyfish control, raised this caution: "If we ever find a way to eradicate them, we may not want to apply it. Jellyfish eat a lot of microscopic organisms that may consume Oyster larvae by the billions." The experts have little to re- commend to the bather. The Maryland biologists suggest soothing one's stings with a bi- carbonate of soda solution. Down East, Leslie Scattergood, Fish and Wildlife man at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, made what was perhaps the soundest observa- tion .of all: "Anyone who goes swimming in water this cold deserves to get stung." From Newsweek. Asiatic FluHow It Makes You Feel What is it like to get Asian flu? The ` ocean liner Arosa Sky docked in New York, eight days out .of Rotterdam, with , one- third of its 667 foreign students (coming to attend U.S. high schols for a year) still down with the new "bug" or just get- ting over it:' Their attacks had. been mild, they reported, and 'death seemed far ;away - then. The virus had aparently been carried from Turkey; 46 ,Turk- ish- students urkish•students had been joined in Vienna by 26 Austrians for the voyage to the U. S. The Turkish students were Already i11. At Rotterdam, the ship's doctor re- fused to let them sail. But the Austrians were cleared. The, third day out, a few youngsters complained of mild, throbbing headaches. "It wasn't bad," ' Wolfgang - Steininger of Vienna said. But the next day he began to feel hot and his throat hurt when` he talked. The third day he knew he had 'some- thing. ome-thing. He felt utterly exhausted, lost his appetite, and was nause- ated. By the fourth day, 200., were in various stages of Asian flu. Their symptoms varied. Only half of them felt any nausea. Most managed to show up for meals. But almost all of them, like Johnny Hsngaas from Nor- way, felt worse on the third day. "When I awoke I was 'dizzy and my knee joints were Stiff," he said, " and my back ached." • In most instances, the victims felt better after four days. When they landed, only 27 were sick enough to be kept in bed. Then, a thin, pale 6 -foot student from Athens, Nicholas Memmos, com- plain of abdominal pain. The height of his attack had come on shipboard, Thinking the pains might be caused by appendicitis, doctors sent the 17 -year-old Greek stu-• dent to a New York hospital. Eighteen hours later he died. An autopsy indicated Nicholas had succombed to an influenza type of bronchial pneumonia. — From NEWSWEEK. MODERN ETIQUETTE by Roberta Lee Q. What would be the correct way for two unmarried sisters to register at a hotel? A. They should register: "Miss Shirley Walton, Miss Sue Walton, Detroit, Mich." ' JUMBO FERRY—Watching the elephants take their daily bathis. a prime attraction for tourists at Kandy, Ceylon. Occasionally the Tess timid, like this pretty pair, climb aboard the huge animals for a ride across the Ganges River. RED. JETS T ARE COMING—The U.S. government has approved a Soviet request to land two• Russian TU -104. twin -jet airliners in New York in September. The, TU -104, one of which is pictured above at Le Bourget Field, Paris, France, in May, 1957, travels at about 500 m.p.h. at altitudes up to 35,000 feet. The sleek, 70 -passenger airliners will !nc first Russian civilian, planes ever to land in the United States.