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The Huron Expositor, 1942-01-09, Page 6ii E • if L �t ALLAN 0000000500 0,1 AwAFP ,S$$la vdre tae lIsonestIst This year wemust all resolve to -keep the three E'sin mind: --Economy isf Money, Economy of labor and time, =v�,1-•.F,lconomy of fuer. The savings thus made'''by us as wartime honeem�ake'es • will be, very •great and will "help make t �,•he owning year truly successful, How 'glad we are to have had the privilege. of helping you through oiir • correspondence this past year—how interesting- we ,have found your ques- tions—how much we have enjoyed your friendly letters! Already our • own New Year's resolution has been made—to -be even more at your ser- . vice in solving homemaking problems. * * * RECIPES Squash and Apple au Gratin 5 Cups sliced sq',rash 3 tart apples, sliced • cup brown sugar ea teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons cooking fat 1 cup crumbs 1 tea poen pciultr•y seasoning 8 sal 'ages Prep.re squash and. apples. Ar- range alternate layers of, the squash and apple in a greased 'baking dish. Season each layer. with a portion of the brown sugar, salt and fat. Cover :the top with buttered crumbs .mixed with the poultry seasoning. Place • sausages on top. • Bake for one hoar 4n oven , at 375 degrees. Turn saus- ages and switch top element on for tire last five minutes, to brown the • sausages. ' Chicken or' Turkey Cakes 1 cup Booked diced chicken or tur- ke• Y44. • 1 :tablespoon milk a 1 egg, slightly beaten 1/4 teaspoon salt Few grans .pepper 1 cup,white sauce 1/3 cup celery. Add milk, -egg, salt and pepper to chicken. -Shape in small flat takes, dip in egg and crririibs, saute in' fat until .browned on each••'side. Add cel- ery to sauce and pour over cakes. Turkey and Noodle Scalldp Ib 9 -oz. 'Package noodles 1%t •cups diced turkey 2 tablespoons_cooked carrots 1 teaspoon grated Qn•ion 2 tablespoons cooling fat 2 'cups medium white sauce Grated cheese Bread crumbs..• • ;; Pete noodle . elpwly into two quarts. boiling salted water. Boil gently un- til tender, eight to4ten minutes. Drain well. Saute onion,.in cgoking fat. Add to any left -over gravy ,iia l thicken with flour. Add two cups of white sauce," turkey and noodles. 'Season and pour into -a. greased casserole, s'pri'nkle with crumbs and grated cheese. Bake le, oven until blended and browned...ej top -15 minutes at 375 degrees. • Take a Tip • 1. If you 'haven't one and one-half cups of left over turkey for the tur- key scallop or chicken cakes, stretch out the amount • with diced cooked veal or sliced hard -cooked 'eggs. 2. To vary the first course in the dinner, try a fruit cup instead of soup. or_ a fish 'cociitail-lobster and tomato ,jelly. 3. Instead • of an expensive lSudding, try serving a tasty mint sherbet with crisp cookies. 4. A pitcher or waffle batter and a jhr ofe4rup in the refrigerator pre:- vide re=vide a ready lunch when company drops in. * * * QUESTION BOX • Mrs. J. B. C. assts: "Suggestions for a Buffet Supper." Answer: 'Tomato and Green Bean Salad; Scalloped :Potatoes; Sliced Cold Meat Loaf;• Hot Rolls; Raspber- ry Sherbet;••Coolcies; Coffee. • Miss.. M. Mc. asks "What is the correct arrangement f 'places a t a table?" •Answer: The hostess directs the seat'ilag • of the guests. The hostess selects the -end of the table nearest the kitchen and the host always sits . opposite the hostess. The lady guest of honour is placed at 'the right "oi' the• host and the most honoured gen- tleman at' the''right-•ofaithee•hos•tesa, Guests are -:seated in between accord- ing - to _•congeniality. Husband and wife are not seated together: • Mrs. N. L. L. asks : • "What makes meringue shells tough and stick to the paper?" . Answer: Baking at tee high, trm per'atuure will make theen'•tough The baking must be done slowly at "276 dee greets. Ta) a from the oven and re- move from the paper et once. If they seen to stick, Jim/sten the reverse side of -paper by placing on ,a damp cloth. jiljrs. G. C. asks: "Recipe for tasty lobster dish! i, Answer: -Lobster en Casserole: - 1% cups lobster; 2 hard cooked eggs; % Ib. mushrooms; 3 tablespoona.-btit- ter; 3 tablespoons' flour; 14, teaspoon salt; lee cups. milk; 1 cup thin cream; bread crumbs. Flake the lobster meat. Hard cook- ed eggs, shell and slice. ;Wash mush- rooms in cold water, slice and saute in baking fat for 3 minutes. In an- other saucepan, melt butter or cook- ing fat. Blend in flour and stir in milk slovely. Cook oh element turn- ed low, stirring constantly. Add cream, mushrooms, lobster, eggs. Sea- son and pour into a greased baking dish. Sprinkle bread crumbs over the top and ' dot with butter. Bake 1a ovenat 350 degrees for about 16• min- utes. Surround with -crisp toast points. - - Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Just send in your questions on homemak- ing problems and watch this little corner of the column for replies. Father - and Son Meet at Pt.Albert A year. ago Plight Lieut. Hedley, O'Mant, R,A.F., was notified, he `had been posted to Canada and wnt home to, say.. good-bye to his wife and son. He saw 'his wife but notte his son. He• had just turned eighteeer ,', the mini- mum 'age limit for the air force, and' on the day he was eligible'had joined up. Last week they met for the first time, both as officers of the R.A.F. b The meeting occurred, at No + 31Air r Navigation School, Port Albert, where Flight'Lieut. O'Mant is on the,,,instruc- tion, staff. He had the rare privilege• of introducing his son to his:,first 'of- ficers' of ficers' mess, an incident without' pre- cedent at Port 'Albert. The son, -Pilot Officer O'Mant, was still in his N.C. O.'s uniform, but had a white arm- band, to .denote• he had been commis- sioned. He dame to Canada afterdo- ing .his' elementary flying training in Britain and finished his course under the Eft pir y'"air "trarndng plan. Ha wears a.!lot's wings ands his father• an observer wing, won in the, .last war.—+Goderich Signal -Star. • Mr. Business Man; 'when you are taking stock with the coming of ' •' the new year, why not cheek your requiren'ients of Commercial Printing No'Matter what your needs may' be, you will find our Commercial • Printing department ready and able to meet them. LETTERHEADS, ENVELOPES, STATEMENTS, BILL HEADS, TAGS, COUNTER CHECK BOOKS, LOOSE-LEAF LEDGER SHEETS AND , ro '. BINDERS, FACTORY FORMS, - •RUBBER STAMPS rare just a few of the items with which we can supply you. - - It will be to your—advantage to have your 'printing requirements filled- at. home. The work is. done speedily and ;economical -13r ;economical-13rto your satisfaction, and the money stays in Seaforth. • A 1, ro • FOR YOUR NEXT PRINTING ORDER.' THE HURON- EXPOSITOR COMMERCIAL PRINTING DEPARTMENT Finite 41 - - Seaforth Our. ao . ]sr - (By John_ Atkins, Fatttler-rlou.rnall ) NQ. 9—"DOWN TO BRASS TACKS" The time -table of nature does°not await the convenience of men at war.' Food production must be planned in time and carried- through on time. Now, at the end of 1941, it is late to formulate a plan big enough and. sound enough. to provide the vital la- bor for food tproduction in 1942. Teas of -thousands of fare• workers farm youths and farmers have flock- ed from the farms to the forces and to the factories in 1941. Far tao many farms have been abandoned. Far torr many occupied •farms are being car- ried en by elderly people and chil- dren. A vast acreage pf tillable land. is idle or in grass because there is no labor to make it more productive. ,Idle land cannot be put into f'ill production in less than two years, and then only wicth ample capital, labor and equipment. ,The Problem -•now is get the utmost production out of the best land by finding labor to me ilize all the available ,equipment. . Where is labor available? A good deal of itrou could 'be drav5lj kfrom the forces_ Farm' boys and boys from the towns are being trained as mechanics and'operators in .the• mechanized fort- es,. They ale learning to repair and Use motor -driven and motor -drawn equipment. The garages and repair shops in towns situated in the best farming areas'h'ave entered 'their slack season. With further gasoline rationing the garages are due for radically reduced business. Their equipment is avail- able for the repair of farm macgin- ery. When the war broke out Canadian 'farm equipment was -generally in bad repair. Farmers had not been able to keep ,their machinery in shape or to replace it. Now, the demand for steel and machines, for was' purposes, makes it impossible to provide all et the new equipment farmers need. The obvious thing to 'do is to recondition all the machinery worth repairing.. if the. machines are repaired in the best districts first, ,they will be ready..,_.jor ,use on good nearby land that will pro- duce the most food per hour of -work. The time to begin repairing 'is now. . The men • in the mechanized • forces can be given part of•their training on tractor .motors. They can, be taug;it the principles of mechanics whale re- pairing farm -equipment. They can•be billeted in homes; often their own Along witheloca1..-mecherdes who are unfit for service, and handymen front the farms, they can put much of the available farm equipment in condition for spring, work. . When the equipment is in shape, .the men from. the forces can be given• training in the' operation ti'f power equipment on the farms. They can be given leave as needed .at the peaks of farm work, 'in seeding and harvest .and to do the plowing in the Fall. • With the help of men who are phys- ically'fit and mechanically skilled, the older farm men, women and children who are now ruggling with worst" beyond their st ngth, could"eare for the stock and ultry, milk •,cows, do .the. gardening a d keep the. farms g.i- ing.. Such a plan should be added" td all other plans for the supply of farm labor. It is not original.' It is the: product of contacts with' many people Who 'are thinking hard about food for .1942—people in the Canadian Federa- tion of Agriculture, in the gove:-n- ment atervices, editors, and people on. the 'farms anti in the' -towns. It would require the co-operation of` all gov- ernments, farm organizations, imple- ment companies, garages .sad . repair shops; It should be worked out and given effect by a board created„ for .isle•, purpose by •the Dominion ••Gov-n- ment. 1 -Price Control and the Retailer ' (By Bruce M. Pearce) If you were •.driving an automo!bi'le at 60 miles an hour you would not by choice jam the brakes on suddenly. However if you found yourself • heart- ed for the brink of a precipice you would put them on just as hard as you could rather' than plunge to dis- aster. That, roughly, is, What the. Govern- ment did when it decided upon the Pfice Ceiling Policy. It saw rapidly rising lanes swinging intq the disas- trous inflat%nary spiral. Its economic advisers said: "This upswing el prices must be halted now—in its tracks! If you temporize the battle against' inflation will be last 'before you can ever begin to fight it." Sd' the brakes•were applied—hard! The highest prices charged ,irf the basic period, September,15th to Octo- ber 11th, were set as the ceiling. Retailers Are Co-operating The Price Ceiling- Policy meant In- convenience to :practically all bum - nese -and 'industry and losses for ma:ay trades and industries. The retailer was in the font line' and, so was among the first to feel the impact of fixed prices. The loyal way in which retailers are complying with the law proves they are jrlses as anxious as anyepe else to -make any necessary .setriflce; they realize as fully -al anyone alae that inflation would harm the war: ef- fort. That is the mainspring of their ea -operation. 'They realise tot' that inflation would bring disaster to many of them. They remember that after the ,inflation of the last world war small, buelnesses 'fatted by the thou% ::sande., 'Is. one year there were four tinieS ax Maar bd;n,krttpteios 'all It s LIEUT.-GENERAL A. G. L. Mc- NAUGHTO'N, Canadian Corps, Commander in Great.Britein. normal year. - Losses Must Be Shared The mechanism of fhe Price Ceilin Policy provides the retailer with pr tebtioli from undue ,hardship. H must of course bear some of tl "squeeze" between• his ceiling- pric and higher replace -hie -it costs f some of the goods he sells; but h is not expected to carry more the his fair. share of the burtlen. Th is a fugdamental policy. of "the Pric Ceiling and to safeguard him.` -in. th respect, Retail Trade and Wholesa Trade Admipistrators have been a pointed. ' Whenever . possible, the 'retailer. expected to work out his own a rangefneifts wit{}- his suppliers t eshare or "roll back" the "squeeze. When. he cannot-`arra4nge this he expected to develop ' matters throug the nearest Prices and Supply R presentative of the Wartime Price and Trade Board or directly with th Board's Administrator •of "Beta Trade and its Administrator of Whol sale a e T rade, who have offices in T r•onto's Metropolitan Building. E. G. Burton, who knows the r tail business from A to Z and who serving the Board without remuner tions is the Retail Tra a Administr• tor. R. F. Chisholm, anether yours executive; . who is an authority o wholesaling, and who also serves Vol- untarily, is the Wholesale Trade Ad- ministrator. These two executives (BY Qhaxlele L. Shaw, in Canadian Business) • ' Phe events of the last few mon411h4 —atestniotdon of trading with Jajan; continuing Tokyo's coning alliance with the Axis powers, the march of the M'ik- ado's troops southward into Indo- ch1inIa and finally ".Hitler's' drive 'against Russia—have strengthened a 'growing •conviatdon among Canadians that ,thiq country has a direct and inescapable .interest in the affairs of the • Far East and i th al n e m nten- ance of peace in the Pacific, ' Cattlardb, boday lis .paying a part of the ,staggering price of Made -in -Japan tunm'oil in the Orient; she is paying through, lose. of business, and while that cost may be lightly borne now, while other markets are 'clamouring for our goods, Canadians -will make a serious mistake if 'they cancefi out the lessons of -recent experience and fail to recognize the importance of our stake in the Far•. Oast or ignore the vital' effect on our own economy 'of constant condli.ct in Asia. g•Canadians, wretohing the dramatic - and sonietames bewildering changes e tin the pattern of war in Europe, lhaye grown:accustomed! .to 'look to "the east!, 1e across the Atlantic; for danger sigas. es The flames of war have blazed so fur- or iowsly over Bnitain and the continent e that they. have diverted our attention n from the long -smouldering embese at and the smoke of battle to the Went, e. across the Pacific.- . Andyet the Pacific 'coast is as ie -•much a frontier of Canada as the At- lantic, ani wiblr the clash German P" and Russian armies- in eastern Eur- ope' and the periodic aggressions of is Japan down th.e•..Asdatic Mainland to- r- Wards spheres of British influence, o the Pacific realm has suddenly grown " in 'str'ategic importance. s In the United p'tabes.-there• has been le a . m'uch keener perception of Asia's influence on the policies -of this con- tinent. Phe greater concentration; of rcpulation in the Pacific states, Call - e fornda's loud nonce in Washington• aad el' tele 'United States' rampar;ts ]n Haaw- ai:i and the Philippines, are i•espo.rs- o- ible for this, different attitude, and it has been fortunate for Canada ,that e_ this has been 'so, foe circumstances s have roa'd•e ,it necessary for us to .1'•e- a- gard the United States; Pacific fleet • as our first line of, defence! in the a , g Peopheci'es. con:cerning the , political ° co•u'rse of Tokyo are a hazardous busy ines'e, for Japan• is a volcanic land -beth l:itertajly and figuratively arid- re- gardless of a serene,, urfaee appear - regard themselyessene g_hempions of a senate deal for all parties. Thei philosophy- is roughly this: "Yo cannot undertake so terrific a -job a. halting inflation in, its tracks withou hurting someone. It is our respon>;i bility• to see that a normal .flow of essefitial goods IS maintained and that no. one suffers undue hardship." "Rolling Back", the "Squeeze" Suppose a retailer 'finds himself badly "squeezed" between his retail selling price and the price he has to pay his supplier for goods. His first step should !be to take the. matter up with his supplier, who may be able to reduce the price to him. Perhaps the supplier will have to go to th manufacturer .-or importer to -get some reduction in his costs. Perhaps the manufacturer or importer will have to go 'to the Goxernment for help in the form of a subsidy. ,But iL.any event the retailer cannot raise his price—except for , a few exemp- tions such as fresh fruit and vege- tables, most kinni de of fish, mental pets and furs. So the --retailer should nes gotiat'e for a lower. price. If he car- no't conduct ' these negotiations by hlnis'elf the Wartime Prices and Trade Board's officials, the Regional Prices and-Suppj,y Representative •nr the Retail and • Wholesal•e Trade Ai- ministrators, will cooperate to see that everyone gets a square deal. If necessary, they will compel. adjust - Mints._ On the groued that the first p:ac:e r.- to look for help is to oeeelf, the ;hoard will expect retailers will take any. practical• steps to • reduce their operating costs. They -will be ex- pected to cut out unnecessary frills in their operations. So, too, Will other businesses all along the line. Howey- er retailers can be sure that they will not have to bear more than their fax of reduced income. This, I found during my visit in Ottawa, is a fundamental policy of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. _ ance the political ealfkiesten is...arl Ways el -it the boiling point. Shiftsice lhejor' u strategy are usually ns ade without g; s t Warninand look for day- �to-Hay consistency in , tee Japanese viewpoint will look in vain. There have been recent" signs, and there will.probably be'•eiore-signs in the future, that'"J1alp�an *ill-- modify her expansionist program to someextent; that this most oP'porttindst of all ,the power's ,will seek a way "out -of her unholy alliance with: Berlin and Rome. But th_e record of •'the last few yeans 'has made the 'demon- reeieas suspicious • of Japan. Her spokesmen affect a species of double- talk which usually adds up to noth- ing dependable. Despite all their as- e eu'ranc'es, Japan must' be closely wajtehed'. Nothing can be taken' 1• dr granted.. For every Japanese who piibli„cry advocates ala prochement with ' Bri- tain and the United- States there •is another who demand's' a ' showdown with the western po'we'rs, 'ebb argues' that Japan's only Chance of establish- ing her New Order is to cling td the Axis and to• oppose British and Am- ' erican interests in the Orient'. • Much as we might like to believe ,the `Ja- i Panese'who speak in terms,of•friend- ship for the western powers,the of- ficial attitude of Tokyo has' 'been a 1 clear indication that the other view- tipoint is the more infl.uen'tial one for I the long term; tfleat Japan has d•e'term- in•ed• upon aggression, The situation in Russia has increas- ed -the darnger, for Ge n triumph against the Soviet force ih the . wes•t might encourage Japan to, attack her traditional' enemy in .the. east F1ven' a peace -minded person like Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska re- marked the other day that, •i•f. Ger- many should defeat Russia, war be - twee ,thee United' States and Japan mi'gh� develop "quick as• a. wink.” Churchill, in an inspiring broadcast described the "futile excursions" of ache Japanese armies in" China, carry- ing' with there carnage, ruin and cor- ruption, and- the menace. to Singapore. Thailand and the Philippines, "it is certain that.. this has got' to stop," b YOu Many people never seers to get # .good night's rest. They turnandtoss--he;r awake and count sheep. Often they blansleit ors "nerves" when it nray be their kidney,. Healthy kidneys filter poisons from the blood.If they are faulty and fart, poisons stay in the aisle= and ateepleaaness, head- ache, backache often follow. If you don't sleep well, try Deed's Kidney frills—for half" a century_' lhAt favorite remedy. 103 Dodd's Kidney Pills deaared the British Prime Minister. The diff7.culty la to deSna.the,stop- ping point, China, Insists that the Japanese witbdmaw entirely from.. in. vaded territory.. Wain Britain and the •1 United" States be satisfied With: Ja- pan's pledge •'rot to move further -south or will they back up •their,val- iant ally at Chungking and: demand that Japan get out•of China -ea proce- dure that ,would involve whole>;ale •"loss of Dace"' by Japan and the with- draseasl of nearly two million troops to a thomelanid,.'leas able tit sustain them •than the country they leave ravaged? ' Will Japan, in mad ideiianoe of such a .hy'pothebihal order, gamble everything an a desperate fight Atha -t -'can have on- ly one unit:tate result—national diem:- tea'? Ii' there must be a settlement by force, now, is tike time for it rather than at some future period when Je- • paanestr encroachment has made the imm.ens'ely rich resources of the Ea3t Indies aceesslible to 'her. ' Right now, :according to Wilfrid Fleisher, Japan is extremely vulnerable. Fleisher, with ..a background of many years' newspaper experience in Japan, Writes 'in his new book, just published: "Japan's • reserves are low, her resources are dwindling, her inoral•e is shaken by the, failrire of an unpopular w,ar in.) China and by grow- ir5g hardships among her own people and her matoliweed and paper cities axe pitilessly- exposed to 'attacks from the air which would sow panic among a •'people who have never tasted inva- sion or war at home:" Japan., poorest of •a11.1 the powers, '. hesvirtually exploded from internal pressure. She has little coal, no iron and few strategic metals.. She has a rapidly growing population on, a land 85 per cent of which is unsuitable far farm production: Her economy in the • past has beenbased on cheap labour and the silk industry, whose exports produced„ curing the liasIt wax'e period Ol' market inflation suffeie'nt ea.pital-to fburd several wealthy, -shipping and Manufacturing d'yheasties. War.: -Profits, .low 'costa of produc- • tion and a vast nserchant marine made it possible for Jaean to build up her ir-'deetrial output for seveeal years: she even managed' aged' to offer devastating competition to sltreitaiirs textile mills { in the markets of India and- the Far East. But the 'ectynomic tides enoved relentlessly against Japan as they in- evitabla do. against any land that na- ture has not blessed with essential resources. Japan still needed . coai, iron, oil, rubber. But across the Yell'bw Sea sprawl- ed the steeping giant China, possess- ed of many of those things so neces- sary to Japan's continuing expianefon and Prosperity—billions of tons or coal and iron and" vast stares of tung- sten, antimony, tung oil and other er commodities. To strike the -giant be- fore he stirred 'and . realized his strength was the heartless but realis- tic policy of Japan in •raidding' Man- ch/14a , and Jehol; it has .been the policy, conveniently implemented by • the "China. Incident" of :1937, ever sine. Japaln's war with China hes drag- ged through four long, frustrated years, has cost. millions of lives, all but ruined Japan financially and ar- ray'ed the rising fortes of the w'orid'1$ democracies against her. And .bitter- ly Japan' has_ witnessed a decline ra- ther than the expe'oted, increase .in the flow of raw materials from China; 'Japan's own rate of industrial pro- duction passed its peak last year. -Even a continental, war in Asia, without its implications in continued - Japanese aggression, can be • costly to Canada in an edonomic sem, as the Sino-Japanese war has demonstrated. - Th.ir•ty,five .Jnil'lion dollars worth of business, which roughly representad Canada's pre-war share in Oriental commerce, has already been disrupts ed by blockades, tight credit alfa the lone eerids of embargoes -and export es-' --7- rl'maxed by the terminatioa of .:- _ C e .--;Iran Japadese trade agree- men'b. 'Temporarily, Canada has not felt the full • iihp'aet •of this blow, for we have been able to sell in Britain', the (Continued oti Page 7) NEW WEAPONS FOR CANADIAN ' SOLDIERS Canada's nevvettt and lightegt weapon is shown, at right, in the hands*" of a Canadlan soldier. The Sten •submachine carbine, an all -metal On rued In a similar manner t1 the Amerrean Thompson sub- machine gune, welgha only seven poendiir' and is designed ,spe'cial'ly Troy parachute troops." Sirfail Arms ' Limited, a Crown company, la now'tooling Up fbrethe produotton of this "tommy guns' and It 'is expect- ed that by mld summer 'monthly output win 'reabti the four figure mark. The smile company turns out the Lee -Enfield fifte and bitoctet held at the attack 1posltion by soldier at left. The bayonet le the hew type adopter y the Canadl� h Mort*:'Mtrbh shdrter-and'-tslinii tart- than -the 1914- ve'r'sion it Is +easter to, Wifidie shed every bit 'as di"fietent. It is ti"iangular hi shape. ei% - 4' i L .tri af� ,i.ies Irci4 :vk. 1 • Ll • •