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The Seaforth News, 1943-02-18, Page 3THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 THI SEAPQI TIT NEW TW MIXING BOWL Iy AWNS ALLAN Kr** goose ilvairoteArr NUTRITION AND YOUR POOP POLI -AR Bello Homemakers! While we ail' want to practise econoiny ill buying food, there Is no need to sacrifice either health or the enjoyment of eating. (But we should learn how to get the most nutrition value for our food dollar. So da remember the important items are .milk, whole - grain cereals, vegetables and fruits in season, and protein foods such as eggs, fish, meat and poaltrY. Richt desserts and imported roods are "nom essentials" — and moreover expen- sive. While tea and coffee are ration- ed, it's good to know that tomato bouillon or milk contain more uutrl• tion. We think you'll be surprised horn even a little food wasted now and then mounts up 1n a month, Waste of your money, tool if the grocer sends an apply with a spot 00 it, we notice it right away. But are we as careful to save food in our Monies? One good way to prevent spoilage — and get better nutrition — Is to make the most of food% while they are still fresh, Of course, everyone has special tricks with leftovers but now we need to be on the lookout for new ideas on how to use up ottr "bits and pieces" if we are t0 make full use of our food dollars, TAKE A TIP: Food Storage 1, Keep your eggs in the electric re- frigerator or some other oold place, taking them out only as needed. Never wash eggs before Putting A Tank Through Its Papas By Vincent ?armee in "Britain." The tank roared around the trail, shot up a hill and plunged into a diteh. Up it clambered on the other side and gathered speed on a stretch of ground deeply cut with potholes. Suddenly it oareened around a bend and changed into huge baulks of timber which looked as though they could stop a battleship, But nothing stops a tank -tester. I know, because 1 was inside that tank while it was undergoing its trial. This breath -taking business of testing a tank starts • tamely, The first trip is a quiet jog across a pri- vate estate to sae that everything responds under normal conditions. Then the tank is taken of to the "rough -riding circus," Away it goes over a stretch of common -land fitted with a devilish array of obstacles. This is the kind of track which looms.. up in the motorist's worst nightmare. There are two types of tank -test ers—the men Who put new machines through their paces, and the men who pass an repaired tanks, Their routine is somewhat similar, except that repaired tanks -are given specific tests for repaired parts, We performed control -testing an- tics while hurtling around the track and our tank responded almost too well for my liking. There are two main levers, left and right, among the tank controls. ° When one is drawn back, the clutch of the engine is out and you are in the equivalent of neutral with a car. When the con- trol is drawn farther back, it applies the brake to the track on the same side as that control. You turn the tank by putting the brake on one track and allowing tbe other to con- tinue running. This stews it around team, and by mastering a fancy tra- on whichever side is braked. peze act. When a car is running downhill During the first World War, Eis- end yott take out the clutch, your enhower was placed in charge of a speed increases. So, when you take 'tank -training center, which he org- storing as this destroys the out the clutch of a tank going down- anized so efficently that he was "bloom" that keeps out air and hill, unless the brake application fol-- awarded the D.S.O, odours. if spoiled, wipe with rough lows rapidly, the particular trackAfter the war was over Eisenhow- dry cloth before putting away. concerned will race. Instead of a Ier applied himself to a diligent study 2. Wash poultry thoroughly, inside braked track turning you the way' of the methods of modern warfare. and out, but never soak in water. you want to go, a racing track slows" During the interval which elapsed Pat dry and store, loosely wrapped you in the opposite direction. We I between hisservice in the first World in wax paper. Keep chilled. Poul- 'spent nearly fifteen minutes making War, and the onset of the second, .try liver, beast and giblets should certain that the braking 'of this par -:.Eisenhower forged ahead 'rapidly .'is . not be stored before being cooped. 1 titular tank followed swiftly enough a tactician, distinguishing himself in You don't throw the maway, doi on the neutral position to give per- ,'the Philippines in 1935 'Where he as - you? And chicken feet make real feet maneuverability, Isisted General MacArthur in organ - good broth —scald, akin and sum- Rolling around the course a se- izing the Filipino Air Force. In his mer in salted water. I cond time, we assumed that a bullet spare time he acquired a pilot's 11- S. Raw fish and 'meat need to'be had hit the visor and cracked the ! reuse. stored below freezing unit of 1 glass. Suddenly the tester moved' a I After his appointment to the Wa- electric refrigerator or in the cold- control. For a flashing second the shington post, he toiled at his desk est place you have. wipe off; do 1 outside world was cut off and we 'for sit. months, working out details not wash. I were shut away in the tank driving for a Second Front. So impressive 4. Be extra careful of ground • raw blind at high speed. A metal shield ,were the plans he.elaborated that the meat. It spoils rapidly. Keeps it had fallen in front of the visor to 'War'. Department decided to let him wrapped in wax paper. Because it protect the driver from flying bull- have the task of carrying them out turns darker in colour is no sign lets. He, meanwhile, with one deft 'on a spectacular scale. "How' soon of spoilage — aroma, sliminess or'movement, had substituted a second can you leave for England?" he was mould determine decayed product. I visor for the cracked one. It was a asked by General Marshall, "Tensor - 5. Cooked meats need special atten- queer feeling until the control was row," he replied, and he did• tion, too. Be sure to, cover theinmoved again. The metal shield slid Once in England, Eisenhower ex - before putting. away. Do not slice . away, and once more the countryside erted himself to achieve mutual un - or chop cooked meat until just racer. past. This visor apparatus must clerstanding between his staff and the before using — cut meat spoils be tested very carefully, for it may British officers with whom they had more quickly. play an .important part in a . tank try deal. RECIPES battle. The periscope, too, must be What Eisenhower had on his tried out at all angles of vision. hands this time was a conglornera- Next we drove to the top of the tion of American kids who had steepest artificial hilland' tore down worked in automobile factories, It to test the holding power of the tended filling stations, sold sewing tank tracks. As I stood in the turret machines or worked on their dads' the world reeled crazily. The earth farms—potentially a great fighting Then we examined the Morse sig- nalling lamp, the air filters, and gas•. (/line Littera. The gasoline filters are shaped like a concertina and packed with gauge and other .material, Air is sucked in'et one end and Passes out of the other, carrying gasoline with It, The tester must be sure that the gasoline comes through #seely with- out grit or: impunities. Finally the hush-hush fitments were tested. All this was recorded on long forms. The following day, tank number so-and-so was passed ottt fit for service. T tank consists of 8,000 replace- able parts. It costs from 500,000 to 580,000. The stanclarcl wireless set installed in tanks costs another 5480 and consists of a further 3,000 parts Ell$ nhower Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Texas and reeved in Kansas, where his father was a construction engineer, Eisenhower's paternal an- cestors left Germany to find religi- ous freedom in. Switzerland 800 years ago, and then moved to the United States a century later. As a lad, Ike and his brothers used to do the farm chores—milk cows ,feed chickens, even prepare the Sunday dinner. He had five brothers, all of 'whom, according to a family gag, were nicknamed "Ike"—Big Ike, Little Ike, Recl Ike, Ugly Ike, etc. Alanost fro mchildhocd the future general took a tremendous interest hi military history. The careers of Hannibal, Caesar, and Alexander were to him a continual source of fascination. At West Point he was considered a capable rather than a brilliant student and distinguished himself by getting high marks in hydraulics, by making the football Bean and Sausage Casserole 1 ib. pork sausages, 2 cans baked beans, % cup finely grated onion. Cut sausages into pieces about 1 inch long and cools until 'well brown- was where the sky should have been. force, but then a bunch of homesick, ed. Combine with baked beans and Trees toppled fantastically. Then the grated onion, Place in casserole dish nose o£ the tank reached the bottom and heat thoroughly in electric oven oof the bill and we were bucketing at 350 degrees. Yield: 11 servings. across the level. Now up again, Supper -Dish clinging with the caterpillars to the Serve savoury tomatoes on toast. sheer wall, throwing out showers of earth behind us, In the turret I felt Simmer for 10 minutes on electric as though I were projecting at right element, 1 cupful of sieved council angles from the wall and any minute tomatoes with a/s cup water, 2 tea - new the nose of the tank would twist spoons minced parsley, 1 whole clove, over and back and throw us semen 1 allspice berry and 2 pepper -corns; malting down again. the spices first bruised with a wood- We slowed almost to a standstill. en spoon. While mixture is cooking, This wall had been built to test the 'brown % small onion, chopped, in 2 'last degree of the tank's holding and tablespoons fat; add 1% tablespoons climbing power. The caterpillars roc- I flour, seasoning of salt and pepper ed,' tearingat it. Forjust 'a second and as teaspoon dry mustard. Stir and cook until mixture cornea to bolt- we hung there, midway up, and I ing point. Strain. Add % cup grated thought we must go crashing back. cheese. Wben blended, acid one quick- Then the multiple toes of the tank ly beaten egg, stirring rapidly until dug in and dragged us forward. egg slightly coagulates mixture, Pour It was all I could do to keep my , over 4 slices of toast. Serve wtth, a place in the turret. But the tester' garnish of parsley or celery. was very busy watching every reac- tion of the machine. They are re - THE QUESTION BOX markable, these testers. Theywork Miss 11,B. asks: Menu and gnanti- ten hours a day in mechanical bron- ties -of food for Mother and Daugh• chos, knowing' that the efietencv of ler Banquet. Answer: Details of menta have bean mailed. Suggested Banquet: Menu: Egg. Noodle and Weiner Loaf, Baked Potatoes, Boiled Carrots, Crisp 'Rolle, Apple Pie, Hot Tomato Bouillon or Hot Chocolate Milk: Mrs. C, asks: "Why are apple pies soggy in the lower crust " Answer: Pastry requires a high temperature (425.450 degrees) for 15 minutes, then lowered to 310 degrees for 80 minutes. The pastry should be well cooked and chilled quicltly when taken from the oven. the British tanks depends on them. There were special tests for the fat coiled springs which take the brunt oof the shocks. The tatik may be flung full out across a humped- bask hill. Sometimes it partly- leaps the opposite side of the hump and crashes down again. If the springs take the shock they will stand any - 'thing. Tanks should be able to plough their way through certain depths of water without choking up the engine, Our tank behaved well in the Water test, disorientated and bewildered young- sters. Before his men could be landed in Northern Africa, they had to under- go the most rigid and complicated training program. Eisenhower took those green ]rids and fashioned them into a powerful fighting machine, It was composed of smoothly -co-ordin- ated, strong units of parachute troops, mechanized' units, tank out- fits, Rangers, heavy and light artill- ery and infantry—all syncbronithd to act like a mighty steam roller against Rommel. Ike Eisenhower is the "very model of a modern major general," as Gil- bert arid Sullivan put it: Easily ac- cessible to his men, he never puts on the dog, What he dislikes more than anything else in staff work is mud- dled thinking, red tape and high- sounding phraseology. Re has an extremely analytical mind, and does not leave a, problem until he has found out all about it. He has a pro- digious memory and can dig up the most abstruse facts from memory. Above all, he hates being called General Pershing of World War II, and has a strong resentment to be- ing typed as a "paper general". Sometimes . he gives the impression that he wouldlike to trade his job, for a rifle and a gbod front-line spot. "I'an not seeing enough of this darn war," he remarked recently. Hie working capacity appears unlimited; he is at his desk sixteen hours a day. During the first 48 hours preceding and after the start of the North Af- rican offensive, . he had only one u.. s seep. 11� Wirs, Jennings proudly goes to school!, MRS. JENNINGS had been just managing to keep her family going. But things were look- ing brighter at last. Now with the children able to help with the housework, she had. applied for the post of school teacher .. . and had been' accepted. But that meant she needed suitable clothes and clothes cost money. She took her problem to the manager of her bank. On the strength of her ability and character, he arranged a loan of $80. And so it was that she was able to take the position and greet her first class proudly. She paid off the loan after six months at a cost in interest of only $2.40. This is a true story, Only the name has been altered. It is typical of hundreds of human dramas in which the bank manager has been privileged to play a helping role. War's requirements have increased immensely the work of banks and bank staffs. At the same time more than one•third of our experienced men have enlisted. Bank early. Pay small bills by cash. it helps. The CHARTERED BANKS of CANADA we haw was 'at Windsor Castle where the flower garden in whet waEl. origin• ally a moat is now cloyoted to vege- tables. Witile at the ltoebussk Inn at Wytch (1055 We :were t0te1'0Sted to nolicc .;hat, lho lovely terraced gar- dens at the'teau of Ili'is Ina`wera now filled with vegetables. Nearly all rile Canadian mime are also growin gen the vegetables they rout hl any 'odd corners of the land. At the caulk of the No, Is General t'anndiaa Reinforcement Unit, "t.ltey bad a prize display of potatoes, tom- atoes, carrots, ouic:ts, beans, beets and turnips which they het grown there. Last year they said, there were thirty tons of potatoes alone grown on 1111111 111 the camp. At the naval base which *e visited they had fifty acres of potatoes, al- thoagio it was difficult to see.where they could find that much spare space. Everywhere we went we saw vast fields of cabbages, potatoes, and in some sections, sugar beets, and some of these fields looked much larger than fields of similar products which are ordinarily seen in Canada. We had a splendid opportunity to really study an English farm when 'we visited one clay the Canon Court Farm in Berkshire. This farm, owned. by Mr, Henry J. Purser, is probably the pest farm in that section of ]Eng- land, as it has won the King George V prize for efficiency and the King Edward VIII cup for the best cultiv- ated farm in Berkshire. This is said to be the only sup of such a nature ever given by King Edward VIII. This farm is 600 acres in area, and four tractors are used on it. This year it 1n•odecect among other things 3,200 bushels of oats, aria the part planted in wheat produced 64 bushels to the acre. Mr. Purser was milking 41. cows when we were there. It was interesting to learn that this farm was redeemed from tithes only five years ago. Ups until that time tithes bad been paid annually to Ox- ford_University, The farm buildings are extensive, well laid out, and built of brick, and even the partitions of the pens were built of brick. The bares were much. more substantial than the usual ones in Canada, and when one of the Can- adian editors asked bow old these. barns were, he was 'Informed that "they are comparatively modern, hav- ing been built only one hundred and forty years ago." Another of the editors remarked that it would be difficult to find a barn in Canada that was over one hundred years old. Whereupon he was asked if tbe people of Canada did not know ho wto take care of their buildings. Mr. Purser showed some extra fine cabbages and marrows which he,bad in•ougilt back from Covent garden market the previous day because he was unable to sell them. Apparently just at that season there was more produce than could be sold. Although farmer's in England are encouraged to raise pigs, they are allowed to retain only a certain pro- portion for themselves. whlie the editors were in England there was an item in the newspapers telling of a tamer and butcher, Stanley Flatt, of Church Farm, Braustone, (Stafford - satire who was lined one hundred isonr1ds 101 killing two pigs when he only had a license to slaughter one.. Carrying out government. regula- itaiy. He is a student of the history , tions was not the duly problem that of warfare, but he • has conceo'ned Mr. Purser and his fancily had to con - himself less with details of opera- tend with. They showed a large col- tional situations that can never occur again, than with the psychological lection of fire bombs which had fallen on their farm; many of them in Jan - factors which influence commanders nary 1941, They hail put in several in making important decisions. nights of hard work extinguisbing in- "War has always been a human cendiarles. drama," be is reported as saying. For some reason onions are not a '`You can fill a battlefield with all satisfactory crop in England,, but the machines that ever worked, and there are some grown, although not you'll still need tough human beings pearly enough for the demand. Some to work them." good -specimens were seen at Anter - Once,, when invited out to lunch- sham, and here the owner had care - eon, Eisenhower begged to be re- -fully tied cotton over the tops to save leased with the excuse: the seed. "I've got a date in Berlin." In September, the writer visited the Agricultural Fair et Cheltenham Agriculture in England which was being b.eld in the City Hall there. There were very fins diaPlays Agricniture P1aYs a. leading pat'' in of vegetables, especially potatoes, the war programme in every country cabbages, turnips and beans. Scarlet and especially in Great Britain which runner beans are a highly regarded must of necessity import such of its food, in Hnglarld, and sone of the food, and the editors were aisle to largest pods at Ws show were four - make a brief study of what is being teen inches long. Carrots and ontons clone to help raise as much food ns were not es good as would be seen at possible. a, fair in Canada, but on the whole We found it to be a fact that many the exhibits would compare iavot'ably of the former beautiful flower• gaud- with Canadian produce, ens are now converted lute vegetable There were several exhibits of growing, One notable example that eggs, olid also dressed rabbits. ' Glnnceeter, only a few miles from ('1wuouham, is noted for its sheep fair and the sante afternoon, I vis -:ted that interesting event. This is really a sheep market, and the buyers are mostly farmers or sheep herders seeking to improve their floclt$. On an advance day his orderly wakes him at 0.15 a.m. with a cup of coffee. He is followed immediately by one of three chiefs of staff who have been on duty during the night. While taking his bath and dressing, Eisenhower listens to the reports of the' night and makes decisions which are transmitted to field commanders. His desk is usually piled high with dispatches toand from London and Washington. His candor, informality, and sense of humor make hint extremely pop- ular both with officers and men. Liv ing in London, he still preferred cof- fee to tea and retained his midwest- ern accent and his breezy American mannerisms. Noa ailing delights him so much as to give nicknames to the British military leaders; they, on their part, call him "Ike." While in the English capital, his activities are limited for the most part to a nar- row section known to wags as "Eis- enhower Platz." Equally popular with men and women, General Ike enjoys the many social amenities that go with Army jobs. He regards bridge as a serious pastime, and has devoted as much time to the cultivation of this as he would to a military problem. His chief means of relaxation are the Western thrillers which his wife pro- cures for him from America, Eisenhower is on the water wagon. His explanation for this is simple: he carries in his head much valuable in- formation, and "it was hard enough keeping it there sober; it Was a res- ponsibility that would brook no oil- ing of' the tongue," He is crazy about flying. He explain- ed it thus to one of his friends: "There's an exultation being up there in a plane all by yourself. No muddy roads, no detours, no signs. If you want to take a look at some- thing you dive down and look at it. If you don't like it, you soar up and find something else. You can do any thing you like." Eisenhower is regarded as mature and wise in things that are psychol- ogical as well as those which are mi1- r•, A NI VI A L S DI DEAD air DISABLED �� Quickly removed in dean sanitary trucks, Phone collect 219 MITCHELL or Ingersoll 2i WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED Treasurer Undergoes Operation Mr, A, H, Entine, County Treas- user, underwent all Operation in God- erlch Hospital on Wednesday. Miss. Pox, 11;,N., of Blytlt, is in aftendance, Blyth Standard.