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The Seaforth News, 1942-02-19, Page 3THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942 THE SEAPORT H NEWS PAGE TliREE THESE DAYS._ S. BAKING RE RESULTS COUNT! PREVENT WASTE WITH... MADE IN CANADA Send for FREE COOK BOOK that cuts down food costs._ Write to: Magic Baking Powder, Fraser Ave., Toronto THE MIXING BOWL Ey ANNE AMASS Hydro Neese —leommeisi Hello Homemakers! Both children and grown-ups should have a good, wholesome breakfast—to work, to play, and to enjoy life. So. let's check up on some of our breakfast habits. * * * * That "no breakfast" habit . so many of us bemoan is usually the result of doing without breakfast— or skimping on it—through lack of time. RUSH is responsible fortoo many of our 'dietary and general health troubles. Why not firmly re- solve to take at least twenty minutes to eat an adequate breakfast? It's really worth it. * * * * Even those who eat plenty of breakfast should guard against menus that are monotonous. Remem- ber, variety is said to be the "spice" of life. Others, whose work does not involve a great amount of exercise, are apt to indulge in much too heavy food for breakfast. * -* * * THRIFT IN SOUPS Soup's on! That old Scotch favor- ite is important when it really means what you say. For soup can be both tempting and substantial— and, of course, it'st'lrrifty. * * * * There are several types of soup. Clear soup is the aristocrat—a little goes a short way—and only paves the way to the main course. Thick legume or vegetable soup is practi- cal, appetizing and wholesome—ai- most a meal in itself. * * * * Then, there is cream soup. The expression 'cream' soup is misleading since we now use skim milk or the water in which the vegetables are cooked—not cream. Chowders are similar to cream soups but are thick- ened by adding flaked fish, pieces of meat or any vegetable—but toma- toes or no tomatoes,that a question which can start a hot argument. * * * * Served generously and well -sea soned, soups are ideal as a main dish for any hungry family. To make soup still more tempting, serve it with plenty of crackers, melba toast, plain biscuits, pastry squares, or bread—inexpensive accompaniments., Along with the proverbial cabbage salad and glorious golden dessert of canned peaches, or stewed apples— soup's on! * * * * RECIPES Swiss Potato Soup 4 small potatoes 1 large fiat white turnip 3 cups boiling water. 1 qt. scalded milk 3k onion, eut in slices 4 tbs. butter 1/8 cup flour 11/2 tsps. salt 1A tsp. pepper Wash, bare, and cut potatoes to halves, Wash, pare, and cut turnips irr r(4 inch slices, Parboil together 10 mine., drain, add onion and boilin g Water. Cook until vegetables are soft;. drain, reserving water to add to vegetables after rubbing them through sieve. Add milk, reheat, and bind with butter and dour cooked to- gether. Season with salt and pepper. Serves 0 to 8. Split Pea Soup 1' cup dried split peas 21/4 qts. cold water 2 cups Milk or water % onion 3 tbs, butter '1 2 tbs. flour 11/4 tsps. salt 1/e tsp. pepper 2 -inch cube fat salt pork. Pick over peas and soak several hours, drain, add cold water, pork, and onion. Bring to boil on electric element turned HIGH then to SIM- MER 3 hours, or until soft; rub through sieve. Add butter and flour cooked together, salt and pepper. Dilute with milk or water, adding more if necessary. The water in which a ham has been cooked may be used; in, such case omit salt. * * * Sat mon Soup 1 cup salmon 1 qt. scalded milk 2 tbs. butter 4 tbs. flour 11/4 tsps, salt Few grains pepper Drain oilfrom salmon and rub through sieve. Add milk graditaliy, season, and bind with butter and flour cooked together. Serves 4 to 6. k * * * Scotch Broth 3 lbs. lamb or mutton % cup barley, soaked in cold water 12 hrs. 4 tbs; butter 14 cup carrot Vs cup onion Salt and pepper 2 tbs. flour lI2' tb. finely chopped parsley 1/,r cup turnip 1/r, cup celery Cut lean neat in 1 -inch cubes, put in kettle, cover with 3 pints cold water, bring quickly to boiling point on electric element, skim, add barley. Simmer 1/ hours or until meat is tender. Put bones in second kettle, cover with cold water, heat slowly to boiling point, skim, and boil 11/2 hours. Strain water from bones and add to meat. Fry vegetables in 2 tbs. butter 5 mins., add to soup with salt and pepper to taste, and cook until vegetables are soft. Thicken with re- maining ;..utter -.and fiour cooked to- gether. Add parsley just before serv- ing. erveing. Rice may be used .in place of barley. Grapefruit Eaten— For a number of weeks now a, grapefruit tree planted in a box in the Agricultural office here has been the object of a great deal of interest on the part of all those who called, because a grapefruit on the tree was ripening. Miss Marjorie Henderson, the secretary at the office, even wrote, down the names ofall the people. who asked for a taste of the Clinton grown sub -tropical fruit, On Wednes- day it was declared ripe. A solemn delegation awaited the harvesting. The ripe fruit was divided evenly. Everyone attacked his portion eager- ly—only to discover that it was bit- terly sour—and owing to the ration- ing of sugar they couldn't get enough to sweeten it—Clinton News -Record. JAMES M. MINIFIE Born 4n England and brought up on a farm near Vanguard, Saskatch- ewan, James M. Minifie, CBC's cor- respondent in Washington, served in the war of 1914-1918 with the 209th Canadian Battalion, Later, as foreign, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, "Don" Minifie spent three uncomfortable days as a pris- oner of Franco's army during the Spanish Civil War, and has been with the Herald Tribune's bureaux in Paris, Rome and London. He is now White House correspondent for that paper and was appointed CBC's Washington 'correspondent last Nov ember. The CBC national network will carry his commentary at 10.45 p.m. EDST on Saturday, February 21st, EDWIN McARTHUR Edwin McArthur has had a spec- tacular career, since his engagement a 15 as accompanist for Richard Crookes on a Western concert tour. He made his conducting debut in Sydney, when he was travelling as accompanist for the great Wagner- ian soprano, Kirsten Flagstadt. Well known to 013C listeners through his appearances •as guest conductor of leading Canadian orchestras, Mr. McArthur was in Montreal on Feb. 15th. • PORTUGAL'S EMPIRE — DUBIOUS ASSET From the Canadian Institute of International Affairs - The Portuguese Empire, third lar- gest in the world, has until recently been a potential rather than actual source of wealth to the homeland; as matters now stand it constitutes a grave potential threat to Portu- guese neutrality, one which may at any moment involve that country in actual conflict. The danger arises from strategic location of some of the imperial units, from the econo- mic potentialities of others. Timor is a case in point. This Portuguese possession occupies roughly one half of an island at the eastern end of the Netherlands In- dies group. Furthermore . it is only some 452 miles northwest of the im- portant Australian naval base of Port Darwin. Obviously, possession of this territory by Japan would constitute a serious threat to British communication lines between India and Australia; as well as "furnishing a base for invasion of the Nether- lands Indies, and even a take -off point for an attack on Port Darwin. Accordingly, impelled by necessities of military strategy, and over -bitter protests from the Portuguese gov- ernment, -Dutch and Australian troops moved in on Dec. 18, 1941. Recent reports indicate that the question of Timor has been smooth- ed over, but the main problem is still very much unsolved. While ap- parently willing to accept British assurances that the occupation of Timor was temporary and that there was every intention of returning the area to Portuguese sovereignty as soon as circumstances permitted, the Portuguese government has indicat- ed clearly that it will defend its other possessions against occupation by any power. It is reported that a large proportion of the relatively small Portuguese forves ' have al- ready been' transported to various colonies, presumably to implement this statement if necessary. From the strategic viewpoint, Por- tuguese Atlantic island possessions and the land territory of Portuguese Guinea are subjects of most immed- iate concern to both Allies and Axis. The Azores, approximately one- third of the distance from Lisbon to New York, would furnish the Nazis with an excellent base from which to harry Atlantic shipping by both sea and air. Farther south, Madeira, only 597 miles from Gibraltar, would provide a most useful base for Allied submarines and destroy- ers as well as for naval aircraft, from• which control of the tntrance to the Mediterranean could be inten- sified. Still farther south, off the eastern bulge of Africa, lie the Cape Verde islands, directly in the path of Allied shipping proceeding to the Far East around the Cape of Good Hope. On the mainland of Af- irca, between Dakar and the British naval base of Freetown, is Portu- guese Guinea. This colony has four harbours as well as an air base est- ablished by Pan American Airways. In view of the ambiguous situation in regard to Dakar, the Allies would hardly be pleased to see this near neighbour fall into Nazi conrtol. The remaining Portuguese col- onies are important from an''econo- ink rather than strategic standpoint. The tiny island of Principe and Sao Tome, in the Gulf of Guinea, sup- ply surprisingly large amounts of cacao, coffee and palm oil. On the mainland of the African west coast,• at the mouth of the Congo river, is Angola, Though relatively undevel- VARNA CALL ALL HANDS I3y W, T. Goodge (Taken from the Boer War) There's a whisper that was borne upon the breeze—. Which the same is just a fancy o' fable; As a fact, the message went across the seas By that unpoetie agency—the cable. All the same, it sent a sympathetic *thrill Throughout the Anglo-Saxon folk in other lands— If you're in the stormy weather. Kindly count us all together, And be good enough to "Call All Hands." We hear the bugle calling British Grenadiers, We harken to the marching of the Irish Fusileers, The piping of the Highlanders is ringing in our ears. (Chorus) "Call All Hands!" and we'll show the doubting stranger Albion can range her Sons in time of danger; Mistress of her destiny, there's nobody can change her; Pass the word to "Call All Hands," We're going to find a place among the nations of the earth. II We'll found a New Britannia, or we'll try for all we're worth, But we don't forget the country where the Empire had its birth, And we're ready when you "Call All Hands"! And they talk of our "decadence", if you please; And the beggars never seem to have a notion That the Britain who is mistress of the ssae, Has a group of growing Britains o'er the ocean; We prefer a reign of quietness and peace. But if trouble comes we'll show 'em how it stands - That ten thousand miles of water Makes the Britain all the tauter, When they pass the word to "Call All Hands"! ''e're English as the English though the waters lie between We're Irish as the Irish who are soldiers of the Queen. We're Scotch as any Scotch in the Town 'of Aberdeen, And we're Britons when "Call All Hands"! From the Varna Scrapbook CROMARTY The W.M.S. of the Presbyterian Church held their monthly meeting at the manse. There was a good at- tendance and the president, Mrs. Jamieson, presided. Arrangements were made for the women's world 'day of prayer to be held in Cromarty Presbyterian church on Friday, Feb. '''•W at 2.30 p.m. This is a union eeting and all women of the com- munity are invited. aped, it already supplies Portugal with large quantities of corn, cof- fee, sugar, rice, and cotton. Dia- monds, essential to war industries, are produced by no less than 27 mines. Around on the east' African coast lies Mozambique. It is important to some extent economically, but still more important as a transit point. The ports of Beira and Lourenco Marques are the most convenient outlets for the produce of Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and the Transvaal of South Africa. Various airports form important links in British - South African air services. In the Far East, the Portuguese colonies .of Goa, Damao and Diu are not of great importance either stra- tegically or economically. Macao forms part of the Far East air route, and Timor, as stated earlier, is already in Allied hands. In spite of the statement that she intends defending her colonies from all comers, it appears doubtful if even Portugal feels that such de- fense could be successful. In the light of cold reality it would appear that she must choose between occup- ation of her strategically placed col- onies, at least, by either the United Nations or the Axis powers. On the Ione side is the tradition of over 500 years of alliance and fair dealing between Great Britain and Portugal. On the other is the often -reiterated statement of the Nazis that what they take they keep. Retiring Statistician Is Huron Old. Boy Dr. Robert ILl. Coats, whose retire- ment from the post of Dominion statistician was recently announced, is a Huron old boy, a brother of the late County Registrar William Coats, He was born in Clinton and after go- ing through the Clinton schools at- tended the University of Toronto, graduating in 1896. For a tine he engaged in newspaper work, and was a reported on the Globe along with "Billy" King, now Prime Min- ister of Canada. When Mr. Xing was made Deputy Minister of Labor, Mr, Coats also went to Ottawa as assoc- iate editor of the newly -established Labor Gazette. This was in 19021 Ten years later Mr. Coats was placed in charge of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and in the intervening years he built up one of the best statistical departments in the world, His work has gained wide recogni- tion, He is not only a member of the Royal Society of Canada, but an. honorary fellow of the Royal Statis- tical Society of England, He is also a fellow of the American Statistical Association and was its president in 1939. In 1935 he was chairman of the Imperial Conference of Statis- ticians. He has written widely on ec- onomic subjects for economic re- views. In a sketch of Mr. Coats' career from which the above is gleaned, Arthur R. Ford, of The London Free Press, says: "Dr. Coats belongs to that group of civil servants with technical and scientific education and training who have contributed much to the development of Canada. He has served his country well over the years and has left behind him a bur- eau which is today second to none in the world." First Flight Over Enemy Territory Pilot Officer P. E. Milward of Re- gina and Toronto had enough exper- ience packed into his first operational flight against the enemy to make him a "veteran" after his initial trip ac- cording to • reports reaching RCAF headquarters from overseas. PO Milward recently make his first bombing trip to Aachen as a naviga- tor in an RCAF squadron command- ed by Wing Commander N. W. Tim- merman D.S.O. D.F.C. And his ini- tiation 'inchided not only the usual dose of "flak" bub the additional ha- zard of landing on his home field with a huge bomb still clinging pre- cariously to a damaged rack beneath the aircraft. His story is the story of thousands of youn Canadians overseas and his experiences were those to which thousands now training under the British Empire Air Training Plan look for. -ward. He was, as he says, "on my toes" as he went alone to the briefinT room to chart his course. "Then came tile full crew briefing and I felt like an old hand. After it was all over we all went back to the mess and I must admit there being other `freshmen' among the crews talked only of the night's operations. We had some coffee and sandwiches then the trip in the truck to the crew room at the field where we put on our flying kit. It was not long before we were clambering into our mach- ines and it seemed only a matter of moments before we were crossing the Dutch coast. There several searchlights) spotted us but none held. Then came the flak, My first flak. But it was just spotty and we "'stoog- ed" along until we got to Brussels. And what an amazing sightg it was. Hundreds of very powerful search- lights ranging in an almost straight line. Somehow they caught us and although our pilot took avoiding ac- tion, at least 50 lights seemed to hold us. Then out of the black at our rear came a Messerschmitt 110 and its guns blazed. Both our gunners saw him and aligned their sights but their hen Chest Ct1Js ■r 5n:ive- the 'Important job of relieving miseries to the IMPROVED Vicks treat ment that takes only 3 minutes and makes good old Vicks VapoRub give OATTER THAN EVER RESULTS! ACTS 2 WAYS AT ONCE to bring relief ... PENETRATES to upper breathing passages with soothing me- dicinal vapors STIMULATES chest and back surfaces like a warming poul- tice ... and WORKS FOR HOURS to ease coughs, relieve muscular soreness or tightness, and bring real comfort. To get this improved treatment— just massage VapoRub for 3 minutes ON BACK as wellas throat and chest, For Better Results then spread a thick /� layer on chest and VICICS cover with warmed VAPORU• cloth. Try it! The Improved Way guns could not be heard above a terrific explosion in our starboard wing just out from the motor, and then another, not so violent, in our port wing. During this shooting we lost 5,000 feet in a vertical dive with a full bomb load. These Hampdens are certainly good kites. "When we eventually found our target the bomb doors wouldn't open. Gunfire from the Me, had made them unserviceable. After 40 min- utes frantic work getting plenty of flak all the time, we got the doors open and let the load go on the tar- get` "How satisfying it was to turn for home! The searchlights didn't seem so bad and I was humming to my- self. I seemed to have lost every care. We had done our job. It didn't seem any time before we were back over our 'drome and I scrambled out feeling a little proud. Our aircraft was ridded with holes. And under- neath we discovered that one huge bomb had not releashd properly and it hung from the damaged rack. "But we got our best news when we were interrogated. We found that our gunners had bagged the Messer- schmitt. Reports from rive other ships confirmed that it had gone down in flames." PO Milward whose mother lives in Hamilton was trained at Regina, Mossbank and Rivers. Before enlist- ing 'he worked for a contractor in Toronto. Commence Work at Sky Harbor.— Johnston Bros., contractors made a start Monday morning on the new buildings for the Sky Harbor ex- pansion program. At present there is a force of twenty-five to thirty men, the keymen coming from Lon- don, St. Thomas and Brantford. This force will be added to as more mat- erial arrives and the program takes shape. Carpenters speak of remain- ing here three to four months. They had some trouble !securing accom- modation. Scarcity of houses and housekeeping rooms was never more acute in Goderich than at present. The preliminary plan of the new re- lief training field in Goderich town- ship on which surveyors have been working for some time, is almost fin- ished. The site- is located southeast of the George Laithwaite farm. The C.N.R. tracks cut the southwest cor- ner of the proposed field. "Can't stop here, lady," said the conductor. "What nonsense! I shall report you. You used. to stop—I remember distinctly." "Not since the horse buses, miss." Want and For Sale Ads, 3 weeks 61)c E OW CAN DA Tal/)'(� ryt l � ,) to M, To us as individuals and to us as a nation there is nothing more vital than our war effort. Upon a successful outcome of the struggle is based all our hopes and plans far the future. No other investment therefore, that wecan make with our money, holds promise of rewards so rich in security and happiness as does the Victory Lodn. This space donated by MASSEY-HARRIS CO., UM.