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Zurich Herald, 1954-09-16, Page 6TMLE TALKS oiane Andrews In. the big cities the old- fashioned "family" picnic seems to be pretty much a thing of the past. But in the smaller places, 'thank Goodness, these outings still play an important part in warm -weather living. A family picnic is much more pleasurable for the woman --or women—involved if the "eats" are of a sort that can be prepared well in advance. The following recipes might be a help in pre- paring a bill -of -fare bound to :meet with the approval of all, even those with the heartiest out -door appetites. w :u * MEAT LOAF 3P/s lbs. ground chuck, 4,e2 pound pork from shoulder, well trimmed and ground twice, 11 brimming cup of milk, 1 egg, 2 handfuls of bread crumbs (generous), 1 large onion, chopped fine, , 2 teaspoons salt, or more, to taste, Pepper. Mix thoroughly with silver fork until perfectly blended. 11/1old into loaf in roasting pan. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and dot generously with butter or margarine. Bake covered for one hour and a half at 375° F. BAKED BEANS 2 lbs. marrowfat beans, 2 medium sized onions sliced, 1 level tablespoon dry mustard, 2 teaspoons salt (test by tasting), Pepper. 1% cups light brown sugar, 34 lb. salt pork. Soak beans over night. In the :morning boil them with a pinch of soda and pour off the first water. More than cover them againwith fresh water and add other ingredients. Cook until beans begin to tenderize, about 20 minutes. The skin should break and curl when • you blow upon them. Pour into :large bean crock or into two or three smaller ones. Place piece of scored salt pork in center of each one. Bacon across the top may be substituted. Bake in even at 350° F. for four or five hours. As beans ab- sorb liquid, keep adding more until the last 45 minutes. Do not allow them to bake entirely dry at any time. If you use all the liquid they were cooked in, add water. They will be deliciously browned when done. RED CABBAGE 1 fairly large solid head of red cabbage, 2 heaping tablespoons of but- ter or margarine, 24,i cups of vinegar, : cup sugar (more or less to taste), SALLY'S SALLIES, '" 1'do wonder I'm sore! There's no seat In the darn things!" 1 teaspoon salt (te taste). Cut cabbage fine as for slaw. Saute thoroughly in hot melted shortening. Add vinegar, salt, and sugar, Simmer for one hour or until tender. This may be stored in refrigerator and will keep for days or weeks. It is delicious hot or cold. Some folks, before going on a picill% reheat and carry in a covered casserole. ;!tµ„ ,•.•" * t APPLESAUCE CAKE "'" 1 large cup light brown or granulated sugar, 1 large cup of butter or mar- garine, 1 egg, 1% cups of hot dry applesauce (canned applesauce may be substituted), 2 teaspoons baking soda.,, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 3 teaspoon cloves, Cream all together and add 2 cups sifted flour, 1/4 lb. raisins, 1 cup chopped walnut meats. Bake in 8- by 12 -inch pan for 45 minutes at 375° F. Reduce the temperature the last 15 minutes. Cake may be frosted with an icing made by combining con- fectioner's sugar, one teaspoon melted butter, and lemon juice. If no frosting is desired, try sprinkling with granulated sugar before baking. This is truly deli- cious and will keep for many deys if the family doesn't disco- ver it. If your picnic day is cool, the beans, meat loaf and cabbage may all be reheated in the same oven before placing them in the picnic baskets. Uninvited Guests Mrs. Cooper, who lives in Ramsgate, changed in one mom- ent from a normal housewife to the most surprised woman in England. She had been to the local grocer's and bought a turnip. When she got home she peeled it, placed it on a board and sliced it. Then she screamed! Inside was a fully -grown spar- row, complete with feathers, Quite dead, of course, but how did it get there? Mrs. Cooper was quite sure there was no hole in the outside of the turnip. The grocer . who sold it said it was a good specimen, measuring about eight inches in ' diameter. He had handled - it and would have noticed any flaw. A plant expert was called in to see if he could solve the mys- tery. He threw up his hands and said it was impossible. "It is the most extraordinary thing in my whole experience," he declared. "There is just no explanation." There was an explanation for the surprise which shook a do- mestic servant in Colombo to her very core a year or so ago. She was dressing a fowl for her master's dinner at the time. As she cut it open, something moved, and a snake glided out. It had been swallowed by the fowl just before it had been killed. Mr. W. D. Dunn, a greengrocer of Grove Hill, had the biggest shock of his life one day when he unpacked some bananas. As he cut a quantity from the first stalk, there was a squeak and a flurry, and twelve baby mon- keys fell to the floor. They had travelled and kept themselves alive on bananas all the way from Central America. Plastic Tunes—plastic has invaded the musical world, Molly L3ishay, !eft, tries out a tune on her new one-piece plastic bass- tkcarinet, while Harry Vope strums his slick -looking plastic guitar. Twins Just The Same—These twins mode medical. history when. they were born 56 days-apart—in different years. Mrs. Alan Goodwin, of Sydney, Australia, holds her sons, Denis (left), who was born on December 16, 1952, and David (right), who. appeared on Feb. 10, 1953. "Crosby vs Hope" Long -Lasting Feud Defying the laws of slander, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby con- tinue to crack away at each other. Says Hope: "Crosby is so lazy, he makes Rip van Winkle look like perpetual motion.. " Says Crosby:: "Hope used to come over and play with my kids until I stopped him. I found he was using a pair of dice. I made him give back the bicycle he won ..." And so it goes on. When they make a film together they are at once partners and rivals. When Hope makes a film by him- self, you can be sure that Crosby will turn up at the crucial mom- ent and spoil everything. Crosby is at rather a disadvan- tage in this battle of wits, be- ing a crooner first and a comic second. Hope, on the other hand, is all comedian. Yet the former manages to get in some very tell- ing shots. "Believe it or not," says Crus- by, "it takes the combined efforts of everyone on the set to foul his uncontrollable passion to ham up every'scene. s . "You thing I'm fooling? Well, all I know is that he's .the only actor in town who has a=tig sign over his house which • lights up at night and says 'Bob Hope, star of radio and television, films and night clubs, lives here.' " Hope's gags are largely direct- ed at his rival's age or supposed meanness. When they were both over in England last year:, Hope said: " Bing hasn't announced yet how he plans .to get back to the States, but he'll make an interesting sight standing on the pier at Southampton waving his thumb. "I hope someone will give him a ride, because with his breast- stroke he'll never make it back in time for the apple -picking season." When Hope called Crosby "King of Groaners," the other retaliated by calling him "Bugle Beak." Their widely -publicised ven- detta was not planned. It was. a sort of habit they fell into. After the first of their famous "Road" pictures, the script writers found it easier to write abusive dialogue than any other kind. But most of their gags are im- promptu. Crosby tells of the time one of their script writers visited the set during the film- ing of "Road to Rio." Hope yell- ed to him: "If you recognise anything you've written, shout 'bingo,' " and the writer de- parted in a huff. They are both extremely sharp wits, and can produce material out of the blue. When Hope was over in England to play in the British Amateur Golf Champion- ship, he said in an interview: Crosby played in the- competi- tion last year; I'm here to apaligise. My handicap? Four. Crosby's? His age." Is there really something be- hind this feud? Show business partnerships often breed very real bitterness, but in this case they are really the hest of friends, Hope, in more serious vein, said recently: "In my book Bing's still the world's greatest songster, "At Christmas our two fam- ilies always get together for a party, and Bing and I always make a point of toasting each other," And there you have a hint of .the real sentiments between therm, Getting Ready For Trade With Mars Students attending a college.01 science, engineering and tech- nology in Massachusetts daily walk out of the world of 1953 into a fantastic, imaginary world of 1,000 years hence when man will . be in constant communica- tion with many parts of the universe. The stimulate their inventive imagination, Professor John E. Arnold asks them to project themselves, into life as it may be lived in the year 2953. Space travel will then be as. common as train journeys are now. Our earth may be trading with planets countless millions of miles away which would mean cultural connections with their strange inhabitants. We. may run excursions to and from their worlds. A bureau for inventing arti- cles ranging from machinery to hithert :unthought-of household gadgets Sas been set up by the students. The realism of the bureau"fs enhanced by, letters ad- dressed E°to those . unknown. platlet -dwellers, letters about t e agreements, .letters to fic- "ti`t'i:hus•T `agencies tar' out in space.... Even a file detailing "discov eries" of what life : will be like on the one of the planets. in 1,000 year's time has been opened by the enthusiastic . students. The planet's people will talk by means of telepathy; they will have amazingly acute hearing and be able to see great distan- ces. And their bones Mvyill . be hollow! They will be emotionally stable, monogamous and gregari- ous. They will use electricity for light and power but know noth- in of electronics. This means that opportunities for trade with the earth will be limitless. A document which purports to give details of the planet's size, density and temperature ex- tremes has been solemnly filed away, ready for use at any time. Another shows that plant life on the planet — "where the gravity is eleven times greater than on the earth" — flourishes upside down! Roots extend into the air and the fruit -bearing parts of plants grow below the surface. It all sounds odd to us in earthbound 1953,but who's to say that the students are wrong in their guesses about the world of 2953? Perhaps their imaginative theory that some planet -dwell- ers will evolve from birds may prove accurate! At any rate, they are already designing articles of a kind like- ly to interest the people of Mars and other planets 1,000 years hence. They will be "built on earth and shipped through space" for interplanetary trade! i ..Plain Horse Sense.. by BOB ELLS Among the brickbats and bou- quets received lately is one from (Mrs.) Mad. Alvin, West- on, Ont., who writes: "I see where you say farmers shouldn't get involved in party politics. I don't see why not. Isn't it high time they did? When are the farmers ever going to get some sense and jump into politics with both feet. If they want to know what politics to join they have only got to look at the record. We need security in our prices just like the working man "has for his wages." Mrs. Alvin does not say whether she wants farmers to organize in unions like labour did and to affiliate with a po- litical party or whether farmers should set up their own political party as they have done before. Check the Record Looking back over the last ten years we find that farmers have done fairly well up to about ten. years ago when it, became evident that Canadian farmers could not do without the Brit- ish,. markets given up so light- heartedly by Messieurs Howe and. Gardiner. The Americans who are sup- posed to be our "natural mar- ket" are closing themselves off against the imports of Canadian food products. Our farm sur- pluses are piling up and prices are going down. There is really not much to encourage farmers • to vote for a continuation of the present agricultural policy, What Alternative? If the farmers should come to the conclusion that they had "a raw deal" the last couple of years, what have they to choose from? Of the three "splinterparties" making ,up the opposition in 'the last' House, the Conservatives have hopped along With the Liberals in those questions which are closest' to the farm- er's heart. In March 1952 they helped to vote down Mr.' Coldwell's mo- tion for the establishment of a Federal Agricultural Board to control meat and dairy products. In December they joined the government to. defeat a 'motion for the introduction of a Nation- al Health Insurance Plan. Social Credit is an unknown factor. Nobody seems to be able to gauge how much regimenta- tion it would need to put their economic "ideas into effect. Last but not Least .:, That leaves the CCF and its little group of gallant men who have been trying hard to put. some of their program through parliament. As direct descend- ants of the old ' Progressives, they are mostly made up of Western farmers with some sprinkling Of labour men amongst .. them. As they are free from any financial ties they represent tile.. ' interests of all the people. Their speeches read very much like the reports in the late Farmer's Sun. From them have originat- ed practically all new ideas in the last twenty years. If farmers intend to take po- litical action, they would have to link up with labour which forms the largest group, of con- sumers for the farmer's prod- ucts. Time Only will show whether. Mrs. Alvin's advice will be heeded. This column welcomes sug- gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive ; or destructive and will try to answer any ,question. Address your letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1, 123 - 18th Street, New Toronto. Ont, This Strike Lasted Fourteen Years The longest strike on record — and the friendliest—has ended. It was in Ireland—it couldn't have happened anywhere else. Fourteen years ago, in March, 1939, Jim Downey, propietor o Downey's Select B a r, at D u n Laoghaire, near Dublin, sacked a barman. He refused to rein- stake him, and the man's union called a strike and posted pickets. Daily after that t h e pickets. . came on. It cost the union about £20,000. It may have put more than that into Jim Downey's till. For, as the strike continued,, it brought a lot of trade to the bar —"curiosity custom." Year after year; tourists and seamen came back to see if the pickets were still at their posts. Annual Party Big Jim realized the value of the . dispute. Every year, on the anniversary of the strike, he put up bunting and threwa celebra- tion party. The pickets were in- cluded in it — there were "drinks on the house" for them as well as for the customers. In winter there was also "a drop of the ould stuff" for the union men to keep out the cold, And if a picket wasn't on his beat at the, proper time, Downey would phone the union to ask why. So a good time was had by all —except perhaps the union'trea-;`, surer. Now it is all over. ,Mr. Downey died "the other day and the pickets have been called off. The strike has ended. But a world record has been set up. So perhaps the curiosity custom will continue. The pickets, however, may be sorry, It's Rigged—Lavergne Dorobiala demonstrates the Bell Telephone Co. ticktacktoe machine .which never loses. The best you can hope for is a tie. Buttons light up the individual squares with crosses and, as soon as one is pressed, the machine comes back with a circle—always at the best place. If you try to cheat by pressing two buttons a bright red light flashes. NEW SHAPE CHAPEL -Soldiers file into the new SHAPE chapel at Camp Voulceau, France. Gen„ Matthew Ridgeway .inaugurated the all -denominational chapel shanty before he left for Wash' Ington.