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Zurich Herald, 1930-08-21, Page 6Editor Forsees. When Leisure Time Win Be World's Chief Problem Columbus, Chia•--doy Elmer Mor, San, editor of tile Journal of the Na- tional Education Association, advises United States educators to prepare the public for the time when the aver- age wonting day will be just our hours long. In a recent address to a department- al meeting of the association's annual convention, Morgan said the 'zap rate of replacement of men by ma- chines makes it zea soliable to believe that the working week gradually will be shortened. By 1060 men and women probably will be working the equivalent of five four hour days, lie said. He based this statement on the assumption that machine replacement of men will clip an hour off the working day each year. The problem for the educator, he said, is to teach the public how to use all the leisure time it will have on its hands. Tasty Recipes Beef Gravy (for Poultry, Game, etc.) Ingredients: 1 pint of cold water, 1/a ib. of lean beef, salt and pepper, Method: Cut the beef into small pieces, put it with the water into a stewpan, or earthenware stewjar, and cook slowly for about or 4 hours. Strain, season, and use as required. Time: About 3 or 4 hours. Quantity: About pint. Brown Gravy (for Roast Meat, etc.) Ingredients: 11/ pints of water, Ye lb. of neck or shin of beef, 1/s oz. of butter, * oz. of sweet dripping, 1/4 oz. of flour, 1 a medium-sized onion, 1 very small slice of lean bacon, or a few trimmings of lean ham or bacon, salt and pepper, 1 clove, if liked. Method: Cut the meat and bacon into small pieces, slice the onion, melt the dripping in astew-pan, put in the meat, bacon, and onion, and fry till brown. Add the water, salt and pep- per, and clove, cook slowly for about 3 or 4 hours, and strain. Melt the but- , ter in a stewpan, stir in the flour, and cook for a few minutes. Add the gravy, stir until it boils, skim, sinner for about 10 minutes, and use as re- quired. Time: From 31✓ hours to 4* hours. Quantity: About l pint. Braised Onions paste with liver stock. The liver may have been boiled or fried, according to whether you are using left -overs from breakfast or new meat. If you have no stock, skim the cream from the milk and use that. Add pepper and salt to taste and spread between slices of buttered brown bread. Sardine and Apple Another tasty filling is sardine and apple. Butter the requisite number of slices of bread and on half of them place a split, boned sardine. Cover with a thin slice of raw apple dipped in mayonnaise dressing, and close the sandwich. Bread for sandwiches that are to be really appetizing should he cut thin and evenly, and have' the crusts removed before being buttered. These can then be used for soup cro- quettes, pastry weights, and other cooking purposes. Cut the sandwiches into small squares or triangles. If green salad is being used as a filling, it should be well dried first, otherwise the water will soak into the bread and ruin the sandwich. Ingredients: 4 medium-sized Span- ish onions, 2 oz. butter or fat, about 1 pint of stock and a good seasoning of salt and pepper. Method: Peel the onions, heat the fat in a saucepan, put in the onions and fry to a golden brown without burning, pour off the fat, add stock and season to taste. Cover with a greased paper and place on a tight -fitting lid. Cook gently for about 3 hours either over a fire or warranted, as the increased span ap- else in a moderately heated oven until plies not to himself but to his child - quite ish w. the inn hot. hese ren, table dish with the stock in which the A baby born now niay expect to live onions were cooked reduced a little. two decades longer than if he had This should be free from fat. Time: been. born in 1570, but his father to -day About 3 hours. Sufficient for 3 or 4 hasn't even as good a chance of living to three score and ten as he had only ten years ago, in 1920. The Milbank organization for the first time has based its work on the death registra- tion figures obtained from the 1920 and 1930 censuses. And after finishing its studies the Milbank unit labels the increase in death. rate among the middle-aged of this machine age as "alarming." Be- tween 1921 and 1927 the passing on of meu between thirty-five and forty-four increased 12.5 per cent.; of men be- tween forty-five and fifty-four, 13.5 per cent. The mortality among women of the first ages decreased 4 per cent. during the period, but among the lat- ter ages it increased materially. Both Hien and women of middle age to -day have less chance to survive at- tacks of the heart and to escape acci- dents, and they are now making a poor showing against against cancer, nep- hritis and diabetes at the older ages, while men are less able to combat pneumonia. Between the ages 'of twenty-five and thirty-four, from 1921 to 1927, the in- crease of death from heart disease in- creased 15 per cent.; for men between thirty-five and forty-four it jumped 40 per cent.; for women the increases were 5.3 per cent. and 10.6 per cent. The cancer rate increased 17 per cent. among men during the period and 11 per cent. among the women. The most significant unfavorable change was in the age group between sixty-five and seventy-four, which rose nearly 26 per cent, for men and nearly" 19 per cent. for women. About the only encouraging facts found by the report were in the cases of tuberculosis and apoplexy, deaths from which are on the decrease. Many of the middle-aged person's troubles are constitutional and are. not diag- nosed in time, and as a result the Mil- bank Fund reports that its studies tend to give support to the advocates of periodic health examination. Future Generation Will Live Longer public school remains unrepresented Middle-aged Man of To -day and through 1 TITAN SALUTES Excavation May Throw Light SA UT S TITAN On Roman London history wr aaa ry, R-100, the world's greatest airship, passes over the Quebec Bridge on its way up the historic St. Lawrence to Montreal. The daring imagination and skill of man has conceived nothing mightier than these two feats, the gigantic dirigible and one of the largest and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the world. Transatlantic liners pass easels under de th shore e boidge, the which links the Canadian National Railways lines ozi St. Lawrence with those on the north shore, but the R-100 was one that went overhead. Londoa,---An important Piece of ex- cavation will be' started shortly when the ancient Roman city of Verulamiuni adjacent to St, Albans, is to be un -- covered, At present the only Roman Duke's Ideal remains above ground are the walls, anti it is with these that a start will" be made. It is expected that the excavation will have the additional interest of throwing light on the history of Ro- man, London, for' the walls of • Veru- lamium and of London are of the same date, having been rebuilt by the Ro- mans after the destruction .;of both cities in the insurrection by the Bri- tish Queen Boudicea (Boadicea) in A.D. 61. Up to the present it has not been possible accurately to date the London wall. Verulamium is believed to occupy the same site as the prehistoric capi- tal of Cassivelauuus, the British King, which in all probability was older visitors have been filled with enthusi- asm for the experiment, "We have never attempted. serious - Of Carrico Real�Zed ly to answer the questions, `Do they — mix?' and 'What are the results?' for Caznp itself is the only reply. To Brought Together on Terms, analyze, tabulate, sift, l investigate o of Equality and Simple would -be too hideously artificial, and Comradeship would bet land us on a slippery slope. "Nearly four thousand boys have When the analytical motive domin- taken part in. it; many hundreds of ates, it is almost impossible to avoid firms have 'been associated with the the temptation to play for results. weeks' life at New Romney.; hardly a Every effort would be strained to pro- mote good fellowship, and Camp would simply develop into an orgy of 'glad- handing.' "And so it has always proved; the Camp tells its own story." the publicity given to the Has Less Chance of Sur- venture by the B.B.C. and the Press, viving Disease many millions are aware of the fact of the Camp, but many still ask the New York.—The middle-aged man question: 'What is its purpose?' or who sits back in his easy chair with that far more complex query: `Do they the satisfying thought that science mix'?" so writes Mr. Robert R. Hyde promises him twenty more years of in The Camp Book (Bene), in which life than it did two generations ago he tells the story of the camp suggest - to his grandparents was warned by ed by H.R.H. the Duke of York. the Milbank Memorial Fund recently It is nearly ten years," says Mr. that such a sense of security is un- Hyde, "since the Duke of York con- ceived the idea of bringing together on terms of equality and in simple com- iadeship boys from the public schools and workshops of the countr y. "The sections are composed of an equal number of public school and in- dustrial boys, but beyond that division. no attempt is made either to segre- gate or mix the two elements. "Personal invitations were sent from the Duke of York to the schools and firms concerned, and within a few days the hazardous adventure was well under way." As to what the camp does Mr. Hyde says: "On the return of the industrial boys to one of the storm centres of the country they were asked to meet a group of extremists. They said to the boys: 'We want to know all about that Camp. What lectures did you have?' "The boys, somewhat taken, aback, replied: 'We had no lectures: " 'Didn't' they talk to you about economics and things like that?' " `No,' said the boys, 'we had no lectures at all.' "'Then what did you do all day?' said their questioners. • ' " 'We played and ate and bathed: "This is all we do at -.Camp, and these boys found it as hard to describe its real significance as any other of us. "Camp, as we know it," adds Mr. Hyde, "is even more a will-o'-the-wisp than the `Public School Spirit.' The result has always been the same, the persons. Dried Onions Ingredients: Spanish onions, cook- ing fat and seasoning. Method: P'e1 and slice the onions, heat alittle t in a frying pan and when quite hot put in the onions and fry them until they acquire a pale brown color, stir or shake the onions occasionally whilst frying. Add seasoning to taste. Suf- ficient fat must be used to prevent the onions from burning. Cook slowly un- til quite tender for about 15 or 20 min- utes. Serve on. a hot dish. • Favorite Broth Ingredients: 1 small tablespoonful of sago, 1 teaspoonful of good meat or vegetable extract, yolk of an egg (optional), boiling water, pepper and salt. Method: Boil the sago in a very little water till clear. Dissolve the meat or vegetable extract in a cup of boiling water. Strain the cooked sago into the made broth, season to taste and, it liked, stir iu the yolk of an egg. Time: About 10 minutes. Sufficient for one person. Almond Paste Ingredients: - 4 oz. of ground al- monds, 6 oz. of loaf sugar, 1 white of egg, lemon -juice. Method: Put the sugar, with 1 tablespoonful of water, and a teaspoonful of lemon -juice into a stewpan, bring to the boil, skim well, and boil to 237 degrees Fahren- heit. Pour the syrup on the ground al- monds, add about half the white of egg, mix well together and use as re- quired. Time: About 10 minutes. Suf- ficient for one small cake. Giblet Soup Ingredients: The giblets of a goose, turkey, ducks, or chickens; to 1 set allow 1 Ib. of lean beef and 3 pints of stock or 2* pints of water, 1/3 car- rot, 1 small onion, 1 strip of celery, a bouquet-gaxni (parsley, thyme, bay- leaf), 1 oz. of butter or good fat, 1 dessert -spoonful of flour, 1!s glass of sherry (optional.), salt, pepper, 1 table- spoonful of macaroni cooked and cut across into tiny rings. Method: Skin the gizzard, scald and skin the feet, wash the neck and liver, dry and cut into small pieces. Melt the butter or fat and fry the giblets, heat and sliced vegetables until brown, then add the stock, herbs, salt and pepper, and when boiling skim Well. Cook gently for about 2 hours, then strain and re- turn. to the stew -pan. Wh'*n boiling I add the sherry (if used), and mix the flour smoothly together with a little water, add to the soup and boil for about 5 minutes. Then add the maca- roni and any necessary seasoning, sim- mer for• a few minutes longer, and serve, Time: Froin 2% to 3 hours. Sufficient for five or six persons, Minced Liver These sandwiches make an interest- ing addition to the picnic basket, and this is :how you make them. Put half a pound of cooked liver (sheep's livor -is best) through a mincing machine. Mix it with half a teacupful of grated ;raw carrot, and knead. to a smooth :V than Loudon, and it continued to be an important Roman settlement till the severance •fr.om Rome took place in the fifth century. The old site has ,Dever been built, on since, and con- sists to -day of smiling meadows by the River Ver, so that there is good hope of tracing the history of the town from Celtic times, through the Roman period, into the Dark ,Ages. Many buildings are known to have been destroyed by pious Saxon abbots in the eleventh century, the famous Abbey itself having been built largely of material looted from the Roman ruins. But nevertheless the possibili- ties of valuable discoveries are almost unlimited. Already in 1847 the buried ruins of a Roman theatre wore found, and it is believed that there are rich finds in store in the shape of temples, mansions and public' ,buildings. In particular, it is hoped that on a site such as Verulamium some discoveries will be made that will throw light ou soine of the difficult problems of Christianity in Roman Britain, How Good Are Good Used Cars? Speed, Power, Safety and Ap pearance O.K.—Brakes Vary Precisely how good are these "good used cars?" Thousands of potential buyers' of such automobiles are asking this ques- tion constantly. The answers they re- ceive are couched in general terms, in most instances at least. It was .with a view toward develop- ing some specific information that a qualified group recently undertook the actual testing of a number of used cars selected at random from the stock of several dealers. Cars in vir- tually all price classes were tested. In no case was the dealer from whom the car was borrowed for test purposes informed in advance. In all except ere case the car was in the identical condition it would have been had some average buyer walked in and paid for it. Characteristics considered included appearance, brake performance, speed, power, acceleration, noise, wear in various parts, especially the steering, wheel wobble, and iu several cases fuel -consumption. Methods of the most exacting mea- surement were not possible, but in each case the results are approximately accurate. Car number one was a 1926 model roadster of a line in the popular price class.' As a used car it was priced at $75. In appearance the car was only fair. The lacquer had chalked at the back of the hood and the wheels need- ed painting. In performance the car was surprising. As against a top speed of 48 miles an hour when new it still would travel at 43. The 23,000 miles on its speedometer had, not ef- fected the hill climbing ability for which the car always had a good repu- tatiou. Never particularly fast in high gear acceleration, the car nevertheless could get away with most modern cars at traffic lights going through all the gears. Its two -wheel brakes would stop it from 20 miles an hour within 40 feet, 10 feet under the legal limit. The emergency brake, however, need- ed service attention. At certain engine speeds there were two rather annoying noises due to vi- bration. One of these was in the steer- ing wheel, the other in the valance above the running board from which it had separated. The latter could easily have been eliminated, et least 'r temi orarily; the former disappeared Difficulties except at one spot in. the speed range. Practice the art of minimising difti- A slight play in the eteeriug, which culties; and do not look at obstacles was not dangerous, was due to king with a magnifying glass.—Hollander. Million Words About R-100 Montreal—It took nearly a million word§ to tell the world at large of the arrival of the R-100. Officials of the telegraph and cable companies estimated that since July 31st until noon Aug. 2nd, somewhere in the vicinity of S50,000 words sent out from the typewriters and pencils of the army of newspapermen here to "cover" the history making event and the "story" was flashed to every civilized country in the world. Telegraph operators worked. all night under driving pressure and cables to the Old World were also kept humming with the news sent out by. some 200 newspapermen and syndi- cate writers. Length of R-100 is 700 Feet A. strange little error regarding the length of the British dirigible R-100 came to light recently. Newspaper and other reports have constantly given the ship's length at 709 feet. This is not so, the Cana- dian Press learned. The R -100's tail was a trifle too long when she was first constructed, and nine feet were amputated. This makes the ship's overall length exactly 700 feet. Shrink the Cotton When making voile frocks wash the material through clear water before the dress is cut, and hang out to dry, wringing wet. By so doing you will avoid the disappointment of finding a pretty frock spoiled by shrinking after the first tubbing. • john—"Do you play Joan: "Oh dear, no! I don't even know how to hold. the caddie."—Auswers. 'Where are you going to spend your vacation?" "Ona farm." "Mosquitoes, hall bedroom, skint- men milk and all that sort of thing, I suppose?" ,. "No, this farm isn't •a'Comic week- ly farm; it is away"bat '.in the tonne try', "Are the fish biting?""If they are," replied the weary angler, "they're bit- ing g each other." T..i he Princes' Oates a ttheC ascan a n National Exhibition, Toronto, cost 1$160,00b, The car was a roadster, with rum ble seat. Its two tone tan finish was virtually perfect. The khaki top, how- ever, was discolored, •and the fenders which had been enamelled obviously needed 'it again. These two appear- ance defects remedied, the car would have been a beauty. Its lines, though obsolete, always were popular. As to performance, the car still was capable of more than 60 miles an hour. On hills, its over -head valve engine was a marvel. In acceleration, it went for 5 to 25 miles an hour in top gear in 9 4-5 seconds. Its four-wheel brakes stopped it from 20 miles' an hour in 31 feet. This, too, despite the fact that the brakes required equalizing. Although the top being down during the actual test may partially accouut for it, there was absolutely no noise in the car save a sliglit valve sound. The big six -cylinder engine gave 13 miles to. the gallon of gasoline. The design of the water -pump of the car was one of its weaknesses when new, In this particular model it gave no sign of trouble. The tires showed no tread wear, tending to bear out the statement that none had seen more than 5,000 miles of service. The third car tested was a 1929 coach model of a -popular light six. It was offered for $490, The speedom• eter showed 10,970 miles. The' cat had been beautifully kept from an ap- pearance standpoint. The maroon fin- ish.had a high lustre and the chrom- ium parts were as bright as when new, The car, when new, had a top speed of approximately 65 miles an `hour. Its acceleration, always good, was un- changed from the day` it came out as a new car. The four-wheel brakes stopped the car from 20 m.p.h. in 2'l feet. The small, high-speed engine was silent and showed pulling per- formance of merit. The only noises in the car were in a door and the right front seat which had worked loose, from the floor. Comfort, one of the strongest 'claims of the car's maker, was off color be- cause the hydraulic shock absorbers needed fluid. All cars tested were typical. The results of the tests throw some speci- fic light on 'how good is a good used • car. Ouch! Miss Ma.4e problem at 1Qewport, L.I. holier, or just holler. O'Connor Deep Feeling Deep feeling is contagious. Words poured forth from burning hearts are sure to kindle the hearts of others. Hearts that can stand everything else are often melted 'by a tear. If the heart palpitate, in every line, and burn in every word.—Anonymous. pin bushing wear. The second car, also a 1926 model, the test group put down as one of the finest bargains of the lot. It cost $1,350 originally. It was offered at the bargain price of $225. The speed- ometer showed 26,377 miles. Friendship's Road We must not let the grass grow on the road of friendship Mlle. Clairon. Opinion is a medium between know- ledge and ignorance.—Plato. "Reds" Usurp Fields - Poor Crops Of White Clover - Honey 'Scarcity A shortage of raw material in the this season of the year; and we've clover fields of Massachusetts has barely half that. 'Sterrible! 'Sawful! produced a situation in the apiaries summer?" whereby the average honey bee is Reporter: "But summer is still here. just barely making a living with no There must be plenty of other blooms surplus for the human consumer, ac- besides clover to work on." cording to Dr: Burton N. Cates, bee- Mr. Beezum (scornfully): "Mehl keeping specialist of the State Depart- That's all you know about it. This went of Agriculture. honey business 3s highly organized, Bee owners 'are reporting, he says, young feller. In order to supply our that, save in exceptional cases, where customers and have some left for our, special floral conditionshave enabled selves, our honey gatherers have to the .bees to work normally, there will store tip goods greatly in excess of our be no profit in bee -keeping this Fear. needs ,during the season of the clover If it were possible to interview the bloom, This is our product de luxe efiieiency expert in a representative and goes to our best customers." honey factory some such conversation Reporter: "But you must have as the following might be expected: manufactured some surplus. What Reporter: "Ali, good ntorniug, Mr.' have your gatherers been doing all Busy B. Beezum: I just crawled iu to cumiiier?' bus a bit about the honey crop ilii year.s Mr. Deem= (polishing his antenna „ acid looking about mysteriously) : "Flush! 1 • I agree with you, Ii looks bad, looks bad. Buz -z -z -z -z. Felle>", (confidentially), I suspect the -Reds." Reporter: "The Redd Have they;,. Mr. Beezum (scratchhig his shoul- der blade just under his left wing): "Well; young man, there's plenty of buzz about. Lookit them shelves, Practically empty; and My Men report! got in here, too?" that what little clover there was has Mr. Beezum: "Yeah; the Red of New Y smartset meets an early morning blossomed and gone. Why, sir, this Clovers, yuh.knoW. Just usurped. the She .is net sure Whether to lower her foot and 1 plant dhfgo fromDidn'tthe ewhite uiclover p nshave produced goods 50 ciance.Popgitdkz-5."