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The Huron Expositor, 1944-01-21, Page 6ANNIE ALLAN ilk* Ilene t*t.twl,t AFTER -WORK COOKING ll'o Homemakeral .. Never a day r,:het we have unexpected duties to r orm, or eeetributions to make toSy; ;rdst patriotic work—which do re• gwlre. time. Hotness 'women; war workers aid busy homemakers should first of all, snake contributions to- ward'w ;their specific Joh of serving ade- quate- steals in order that time, elec- trieity •'acid expense are saved. Itsaves a lot of worry, too, ii? a few Plans and preparations are previous- ly •accomplished. Many of us know *fiat can be done but.forget about them until the last minute- With this in mind, we Est a few suggestios: 1. Boil a piece of beef sbank while you are having dinner one night to have ready to ,Rut rice or pot barley into it the following evening for soup. 2. Stews may be made the night before and eeheated for serving. In tact, many people •thigh they are bet- ter on' the second day than on the first: This also appaiee to Boston baked beans. 3. Make 'white sauce, a quart at a Eine, and store inl the refrigerator. You will use it often for sauces, for vegetables or fish, as ,s basis. for cream soups or eoalioped dishes. ,Dry bread in an oven after heat has been 'turned off. Prepare a sup- ply of crumbs for topping scallops, crumbing ' fish, cutlets, croquettes, etc. 5. aving a quantity of biscuit mix (flour, salt, baking powder.and shortening) an a covered bowl in the refrigeratpr, ready,to add liquid and turn into, baking powder biscuits or the base for an oven dessert such as __.. m ... a shortcake; dupings; . apple pin- wheels or - fruit dumplings; or as a crust for meat or fish pies. ' 6- Pastry may be prepared, wrap- ped in waxed paper and stored in the lower part of the refrigerator. Made PIcoBAc Ap To6ean FOR A MILD, COOL, SMOKE into a pie shell the night before if a butterscotch or lemon pie is to be served. To conserve time, prepare one crust pies. 7. Desserts may often be prepared the night before serveing--eustards, gelatine dishes,-ete. -- aF RECIPES Individual Stuffed Meat Loaves 4 cups ground cooked veal 1 cup bread crumbs (fresh) 1 egg % cup milk : j 1% tablespoons chili sauce 2 teaspoons salt teaspoon pepper 5 pork sausages. Prick the sausages. Place in a hot pan.. Add 14 cup water, reduce heat, cover tightly and fry until cook- ed and brown. Mix all the other in- gredients and divide into equal por- tions. Encase each sausage in meat mixture,- Place . on a greased baking pan and bake' for 30 minutes in a 350 degree F. oven. Serve with -chutney or spiced fruit.. Favorite All -in -One 3 tablespoons bacon fat or drip'- ping 1 lb. ground beef % cup chopped onion 2 tableoons flour •1 tin tomato soup - 1%i cups water %teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 1% cups spaghetti. w Bron onion and hamburger in hot fat. Stir in flour and blend well. Add soup and water and seasonings. Cook the spaghetti in salted water till ten- der. . Drain and rinse. Add to meat mixture. Toss lightly and serve. Serves five to six. Sweet Dumplings %cup molasses .. 1/3 cup sugar 2 tablespoons each ter % teaspoon ntumeg 1% cups hot'water 2 teaspoons vinegar 1% cups flour to make into bis- cuit dough.' Mix ingredients and pour into a baking dish. Let come to a boil. Make thin baking powder biscuits.;. place in hot syrup and bake at 450 I flour and but - Al,l le 1=111 Rind k L"Tel ai a- eups soft !bread4'cl; be 1/3 cup•augax a or 4 tables'paoon butter 1 teaspoon cinnamon teaftertem nutmeg 1/3 vale hot water. Fane, core and dice the apples. Put one cup bread erunibn in a greas- ed.,.casserole. Cover with apples, lemon, sugar and, butter 'and spice. Repeat with another layer of crumbs, ,fruit and flavouring. Top with crumbs. Add 'hot water. Cover and bake one (hour at 350 degrees 'F. to 375 degrees F. . THE SUGGESTION BOX , Our salvage committee reminds us to save 'waste paper; do not Burn, it unnecessarily. Out of waste paper another vital reason for saving pa- per. From it cam be made munitions, Modern. machines can work a miracle —can take waste paper apart, separ- ate the myriads of ,tiny interlocked fibres which make up "paper" and roll ` them out again 'into new paper or cardboard. The cardboard is then ready for another transformation -in- to shell containers, cartridge boxes, package boxes for rifles, parts of air- planes and many other items. Do you know that: One breakfast cereal, carton makes 2 cut-out, tar- geti; 12.old• letters make 1 :box 'for rine cartridges; 60 cigarette cartons make one muter shell container; six weekly periodicals make two gun fus- es; one envelope makes 50 cartridge wads; one newspaper makes three 25 - pounder shell 'caps. Every householder can help to swell the enormous quantity ,.of waste Pa- per requjyed for war purposes." :Take Your waste . paper to the salvage de- pot today. Questions have been answered di- rectly by letter. 7i Anne Allan invites you to write to her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send in your suggestions on homemaking problems and watch' this column "for replies. AIRCRAFT WORKERS The aircraft workers in Canada' have saved the nation over •$200,000 cash in direct production costs by suggestions made since the- first of January, 1943, and perhaps millions 'of dollars indirectly. This report was recently made by the Aircraft Indus- try Relations Committee. One Cana- dian worker made a simple technical suggestions which saves 5;625 man hours on every hundred aircraft. tock -Taking iine...'. Mr. Business Man, when pou are taking stock with ` the coming of the new pear, why not check pour requirements of ----Commercial Printing No�matter what your needs may be, -you will --find our Commercial Printing department ready and able to meet them. LETTERHEADS, ENVELOPES, STATEMENTS, BILL HEADS, TAGS, COUNTERCHECK BOOKS, LOOSE-LEAF LEDGER SHEETS AND BINDERS, FACTORY FORMS, RUBBER STAMPS. are just a few of the item's with which we •can supply you. ,. It will be to your advantage to have your printing requirements filled at home. The work is done speedily and .economically to your satisfaction, and the money stays in Seaforth; FOR YOUR NEXT PRINTING ORDER deRx�+uvb¢I COMMERCIAL I'l l'T`ING DEPARTMENT Phone 41 - , Seaforth 1I:Rj'r EN seeeikeev FOR' t,,i4E, 4WEEK;.Y,,NEINSPAPERS OF CANADA "t' 11M 6OEENBLAT, Editor 'of the SON TN I vir,atinR•ENT SASKATCHEWAN Around Ottawa: They call it a poor snow `,season here, having had only 19 / , incheseto.. the • end of Decenebern 28 'inches behind last year's Pena- . : Theta "j10 fooling about more washing maeb.4hes coming on the mar- ket for the J. H. Connor ,$>: Son Ltd, here started, manufacture last week on a schedule allowing 15 per cent, of normal peacetime production for January, Febri,iary and Marcie ". ..' Governor -General's levee on • New Year's Day lbrpught out about a thou- sand persons, the uniforms eutnum ber•ing civilians nine to one.. -• ,..0 dity—a small- Christmas card' cafe fo the dog of the Polish minister to Can ada from the •pet cat of a laS. f - ficial in Washington, doggone. It's aeene moving time for the Ot- tawa headquarters staff of the Con- sumer Branch, with _the entire sta moving• into the Freiman buiidin and the director, Byrne Hope Sander into an office 'in the"iieiv, tempos building erected for the 'Wartim Prices and Trade Board just acros from the Chateau Laurier hotel o Sussex .Street. It's two years sinc the Branch came into existence. incS that time 13,000 Canadian wome have enlisted as active officers, whil other hundreds , of thousands hay waged relentless war against highe prices. Housing registries operate under this::Br-inch's supervision fonn homes for over, 60,000 Canadians, en close to a thousand women sit' on Lo cal Ration Boards. Some 6,207 members of the' arm forces discharged from.•• service wer placed in employment -by Selectiv Service in November, .the total sine April, 1942, being 78,936, the Pension department reports. In the same pe iod 62,960 veterans of,the•first Gre War got the same service. Thes were „not all permanent jobs, on course, but included occasional a seasonal jobs. Another interestin angle about'the same subject is th unemployment assistance to pension ed vets of the First Great War hi an all-time low in November, 119 get ting $2,800, ac 'compared with say August, 1939,,, when '5,636 receive $122,954.,; . d- r ff g tempora e s• 11 e n e e r d d. d' ed e e e s r af e d at a The 1941 census' figures now reveal some significant trends. ' In that year •Canada had 174,767,599 acres of oeoupied .farm land an increase of ov- er eleven million acres from 1931. Improved farm land under crop was over :56.million acres, a reduction of two million.; pasturage increased a little, summer fallow up aibout a third' to 23,649,852. Nearly four million ac- res was the redaction in woodland from -1931 to 1941, while marsh or waste land was down over a, million acres. . , The war over in 1944? That would mean. feeding Europe and quick.:Giv- er1 adequate ocean tonnage Europe need not go short -.of bread. The Do minion Bureau of Statistics says we would have 1,000,000,000 bushels, half of it in Canada, available for ship meat. The,,,agriculturai conference in Ottawa in December recommended no wheat acreage increase for Canada in 1944, regarding coarse grains, oil bearing -seeds, peas, beans and. corn as more urgent; also 'suggested a high proportion of land in Western °f✓`anada be summer followed which would be an asset if circumstances warranted increase. in wheat acreage in 1945. Canada's .peak wheat acreage was in. 1940 with 28,726,000 acres, but in 1943 it dropped to 17,488,000 acres, the objeciave set for this year. ' Astronomic, we call it, the figure§ of cost of this 'war to Canadians. World' War 1, including two years of demobilization, cost as $1,670 million. Compare that with the figpres,. up 'tet the end of this .fi'scal year, estimated for the present war at $10,824 mil- lion. Total tax revenue for .the. 1914- 18 fracas, including the demobiliza- tion years, was $1,121 .millioiu, For •this was $7,300' million. .In 1916 our population 'was around 8,140,00Q,.to- day, or 'rather 1941,'it waft put at 11,- 506,000. , Do you know that. the new explo- sive, to you and Me, only known ,as ItDX, (Research Departtiient Expla' sive) was developed by, five Canadian scieivtiets; and that it May increase greatly the eitrilting .pe -Wer ,of the -Il'nfted Nations? • the only equitable wad' lot distribn- tfon. other canne':I, Ash each as pit chard,,tun+a,, herrings and sardines are not rationed. ,' About two thousand Of 'the 190,000 odd men discharged from our armed .forces since the beginning. of the war have enrolled for government spout sored university and vocational train.- ing courses. O1 850 who compete training, 780 found employment in in dus.tries ,for which they were train- ed. Men with 'honorable,.discharges shave a choice of [sixty, cou,rseti. E'stim'ates of exports of, 'Canadian foodstuffs for 1943 to all 'countries show' why this country is doingesuch a tremendous share in the total' war effort of the Uzlited Nations, 'Here are a few•of the figures available,. with 1938• figures in brackets for com- parison: Eggs, over 40 million doz- en (1,842;538); cheese, about 420,000,, 000 pounds (81,000;000); bacon, about 600,000,000 pounds ('170,837,400; • dairy cattle and callvles, "•35,196 head (7,- 063). Odds and ends of interest: Good news for ladies,••_a Prices Board rul- ing allows a (little increased supply of hairpi is and bobby ,pins; also for farmers more production of barbed wire. , , , Restrictions bave..+been re- moved from factories in Quebec' and Ontario so that more Canadian Ched- der cheese, will be: available for the ' home market. . , . . In the six air ob- server schools operated by the Cana- dian Pacific on "a non-profit ,basis for the British Commonwealth Air Train- ing Plan, aircrla,ft `has flown more than 41 million miles.... From Janu- ary 1st to October let, 1943, 417,765 blood donations were contributed to the Red Cross blood donor clinics 'across Canada; the record week was in October with 16,[927.:. , . It is esti- mated 400,000 -men, and at'Ileast 100,-, 000 women, have left ` farms since 1939, but to help overoome -the farm labor shortage some thousands of older people, who had retired same back to help. Sounds far-fetched, but isn't: It is estimated that the annual gross' va- hie .of dairy products in recent years Alas been placed at over 301 million dollars, almost 100 million- dollars higher than the estimated annual va- lue of gold production in Canada. The sale of milk, brings cheques to about 420,000 farmers,• and to this number might be added. around 40,000 em- ployees in distributing and manufac- turing plants. Some authorities esti-' mate , at least one-fifth of. Canada's population is depending upon the dairy industry for a living. Old Bossy is quite an important figure in our economy, isn't she? Big °Pile of Wood Sgt. Major Wilfred Seddon and Jim Newell 'got a big surprise when they tackled an elm tree to augment their fuel supply. They thought they would have, six or seven cords apiece for _ their labors, but now that the tree is 1 felled, cut and measured, they find that it produced 23 cords of 13 -inch wood. The tree grew near the Lon- don bridge and was one of those i stately old elms that was anchored 4 • This week (from. ,Tait. 17th -on) canned salmon is f+ eioned and Will be available oh grocery s'telves, liao1i ed. fir c f cileuarter, ° oiicdialf and 'one fiadttnd tibia, with a)idy lap t cow pans, r�ay issued; 0 'l+sti 14e eP a stfo o4 triei(i1Qi,'i'tb*. Ill llt1'- aiinQ, e i60440., ::141 yli ly . a�. psi itlos y dk their ; 4 to the ground by afive-foot butt: Ten blocks of this butt wood made three cords ofrwood and three of the blocks a cord. This may not be a record for number of cords -from one tree; but . we cannot recall one that --.pro , deiced-- •as much.- Wingbam 'Advance Times. Cheese on Cereal In a booklet called . "Wise Eating in Wartime," published by the larit ish .. Ministry ' of . information, • Dr. 'Charles Hill - recommends toasted cheese -as a breakfast dish for Bri- tons. ' • .. NA suggestion. that is radically dif- ferent frOm ifferentfrom established eating 'habits is likely to meet with immediate ac- ceptance, so Dr. HiIl goes on to point out that the, idea of cheese as a brealefast food le no `more peculiar, and a lot sounder, nutriti;oinally, than, giving, small boys beer for tbreakfast. This, not so long ago was customary in English boarding schools and •'was abcepte'd' by parents as a matter of course. In- certain parts cf Canada cheese is used as breakfast food, (being eery' ed grated or finelir chopped On por- ridge and taking. the glade of sugar, aPor 'chose who are wworldtiig cut. Beide in cold winter weather or doing Beaty-mattual works; the USe of,,,grated Cheesier mi. hot. t 'cereal Is :a. practice IreI . 4'eeiinitilelid,,r. ays r, b. 11;.. - Petit; dl Feet'bie." Of° Ntltritieit r'viees-,l t Ot-r--• t'ait., 3*,refit -pa1iii't0, ort that lthid+,"' li ` bf elieeMe'i'nereaS the S'tayiiig. 1t+oit b C(t11e 1::'l.'aliaot' ilnd, 0rd'wldea t cC Ypfi` 1t to 1te t est i► 34 tlS) h e''l a7Gi 'iRe the QglEhtA 1 RPS:h t1a'j , , t i0,.:44440'aWtionr 41" �4 ' front the d 1 414rse. lomi ' 1a ttiid in ena '1 sneerAo 'p " Qttccl in[gl 'G are essenttalndot Epps oarae the.--�+la!1 and of a� ially dsea'ttit, * of �d rad. "DDeppe, ,, CQmmandlaa_ ` mlerlced fb ti•O' 'troops 14•are expert ltille+ra. fel' ,heavy sIpptekOterfgetliat4ay, general man propaganda c fin?M gt iteeal rile arft -What 4;11.1 fact' th ah their name a'p�j1s fear Nati' soft e} A .14, tly47fi (ernnan dQ Un.04 on! tho )cash c lid, ro asz e?#counteS• *4 i ' of nd43' itt Crete eoI amno-s tlt(a �e;rte ie ‘1The Allies' . dpec1a71yr rtfia1ni 4 . fish,4f age trooper (Commandos) are 'too good for 'our, defenses." Night fighting; silent fighting and ts- olated fighting are part 01- Commando technique. -.---They carry.. Bless equip- ment than other soldiers, yet -must be able to fight •ea 'a one-nian army' With their blackened faces, their.rub- ber "shoes, living on condensed ;fond and' on animals' Lhey kill, .they , hate nuthinete learn from the Japanese in the tecl;nique of •war l!y inflltra- tfon. In. stealth 'azyil speed they re; senmble Arab, warriors. „This, in, brief, is their ,story. One week after the fall .of France, .when the world thought Britain was beat- en, ,a.conlamunfque stated there had, been "s'ueeessful-reconnaissance of en- emy (•oast e lines. Landings were'"-ef- -fected at ,a number of points :and eon - tact made with German troops:" The Commandos . had made .. ,..their first raids. The meaning 'of this -astonish- ing announe cement is that immediately after' Dunkirk the British 'recrossed the Channel to attack. Britain, though almost defeated, immediately found 'out (how to assault from the sea. The Germans, who have no sea traditiot a,. have not managed to do thrs. The .Commandos were designed to act on- the principle_.of the_lever. saulting in small numbers but with .Tong range, they were to harass en- emy forces stronger than themselves. The enemy's vast, defended coast- line stretching , from Narvik to Biar- ritz, proxi,d„ed• a perfect opportinity for -••raiding action; Even the lightest threat would com.peI the ;Germans, Who' were planning . at that. time to attack Britain, to organize heavy de- fences and divert troops. To create this -threat, was the first role of the Commandos. • • Carried' by the Royal Navy, our troops were able to appear•.at remote places. in March, 1941, 'the Comman- dos reached •into the northern fringes of Norway and raided the Lofoten ls- laI ds. In a few hours they destroy- ed eleven . herring and cod oil factor- ies. and eight hundredthousand gal- • Ions of oil: On December 24th, the port of Vaagao, Norway, was devastated and German prisoners were brought to England. On March 27, ,1942; the Commandos landed on the Atlantic coast of France at St. Nazeire. Once' again they ae- complished results out of all proper; tion to their numbers, for with the Royal Navy (they: destroyed the- only dry flock on the Atlantic coast cap- able of holding the German battleship "Tlrpi'tz." Then at damn on August 19, 1942, Wipe inl ?.ti,.e .;a td ,710 1.4 Of ,DloIpem; before the mehi,litleult by the Cana. diens on the 'td v4 ;Mho Oert>nane were 'thrown 9nto, ;.''udolent agitation throughout• noitbeilp Ourope . end er peeted an invasion nt any. time. he stead, three months later, We invaded northwest Africa. In the autumn: , of 1,940 three Com- mando units, were sett to Egypt, It • was hoped they would he able to play their part with. General Wavell's gal- lant thirty -•thousand.•, But atter the stiecessfut raid on Bardia 3n .April, 1941, the entire Commando force was di-verted to Crete. Dere, they . uetecl as "rearguards to the retiring army, for which they were. neither 'suitably organized or equipped." Thee suer- mounted this, handicap and fought brilliantly to calker the main evacua- - tien' at Sphakia, enabling thousands' of the 'Crete ga'rri§on to be carried Illty'.. the Navy,.:into Egypt. Three-quarters oft the Commando's strength ,was, seer, rificed in Crete. Despite this crippling loss, the Com- .. mandos were reformed With locally raised volunteers. Two brilliant thrusts from the sea were the action at Litani River, „which opened up Sy- ria yria, to Australian forces, and the as- sault launched from' a sulbmarine cit - Rommel's headquarters 256' miles be- hind the enemy lines, The Commandos wore in the fore- front of the North African landings November 8, 1,942, scaling.: cliffs and silencing batteries . at Algiers. In the dash, for -- -Tunis,--- they. landed. with their' American equivalents, the Rang- ers, . far behind enemy lines. The gamble nearly came off, but bad wear& ther hindered the armies in the hill country, and with great gallantry the Commandos and 'Rangers fought back to the twain forces. With the great, amphibious opera- v tion against Sicily, the Cominandos came "fully into their own. Their in- itial assault on the southeastern coast was perfectly executed."" By the dra- matic landing in,... strength at Cape:.. Scaletta, they exercised powerful pressure during the, last or the cam= cpaign, reaching Messina. almost at the same instant as the first contingents of the American • Seventh Army com- ing from the West. .. In Sicily the Comnnandos based on Britain linked up for the first time . with their •comrades.' who served in the Middle East. It was announced .that "Commandos of . the Eighth . . Army" were harassing' the withdraw., ing enemy. Men who had 'raided in, the snows of Norway, and by night' in France; fought ,beside +diose vita had code through the deserts from Egypt to Bizerte. ",You look sweet enough to eat," the airman whispered"oft and ,low. "I, am," she said Hungrily. "Where do yoe want to go?" King's Honors for Leaders rs iri the' Transportation Field Tn importance of transportation ifsa vital factor in Canada's war effort has been recognized by' -the inclusion of leading rad, shipping and air executives ie. the awards of merit granted by. His Majesty the King and Lpublished in the New Year's honors ist. The. Canadian' National Rail- ways and its associate,•„Trans-Canada Air Lines, have perrfformed tremen- dous feats in, the movement of munitions, supplies and raw materials recoiled in the. ,war zones, the.ac- tones and for the civilian populations of .tF s. United Nations"1in tiro Cgwia- dian : National Railways • all the resources of the company, human and niateriat, have been utilized• to the -utmost to handle an inimensb flow of traffic whinh has developed as the tempo of war ,gtnckened. Trans=Canada Air. Lines has been operatinga special Trans -Atlantic• service or the: • Goveriiihent. 'Pas- sengers on urgent tar business, im- portant eargdes•• and mail '!'or the troops overseas' have' been carried in large aircraft operated by T.C:A. crews. Pictured above at the left is H. J. S y mingtont B .O., president of Thins - Canada. An. linea, who .has `been named pas a Compatnion of the Order. of St, Michaeb nand St George, in reeognition of distinguished w rtime service. Mr. Synaltigton husk been keenly iitterestod .' in , aefoifil'lrtinal dev'eltspmeirt' in (5anada for , rimer yeilats, Xle` ld also' a direetolh ref-tkhe Canadian . q'atfoisil .' iail}v'ays; In the' feria is N, z Ntraltdit4 tqeettilye flan s yi lib >!r ►tiLha b arson f bpera tion -to •';laiidd .arid it tieiidf .. far ;;tiiri, y tYirf. alio tiiovei tent ' flf' freight and passengeffe, and the care of the motive power and equipment necessary to move this traffic which in 1943 reached an all tame,high, Mr. Walton becomes - a Commander, Order of the British Empire , far outstanding service in the field of transportation. At the right is. Hon. Wilfrid Gagnon, a director of the Boards of both the Canadian National, Railways and T.C.A., and president of ,Quebec Shibeen dl Gh Commander, Orderof named the British Empire in recognition of his outstanding contribution to War industry. 'Several employees of the Canadian National RailWays'and Airlines were also included in the New "Y'ear's (Honors List. They are: Major Charles 'Edouard Gernaey, 1111.8.11, Plight Sergeant Fred. J. 'L. Bari, Mention in Despatches; and Nursing_. Sister. Edna Leui§e Belden, Associate Royal Red Cross. Major Gernaey had been in the employ of the C.N.R. for 17 years and was 'chief clerk in the budget department when he , enlided . in August, 1940. -"Plight Sergeant.:.Earl was employed ;in the company's'',• Stratford, O it.; shop. He enlisted the IRC A.J. in May, 1940. Nursing Sister 13eldefladul it T.C.A. stewardess at Toronto. Previous honors lists contained the names of other employees of the anadian National bingalir2at oit-i who form part of. the imlioslil group of thorn than 17.0040E01 rheti andtkit reit ist- �th et�v anter rwivit oviaktiea, tsar aced hi the batty 'tlie a±myg the• airforce, the rose , .#tin i}i+lgtlnet RYtt5''x0'lrei inepitOat i