Thursday, May 9, 1940
GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
Ua~ Fe~l WNU S~
DONOVAN'S SOLDIERS
Wild Bill Donovan, the able law-
!r, who turned out to be a whiz-
II~g soldier, a fighting fool and a
medal of honor man in the World
~ar, is advocating something new
m raising armies.
He wants us to stop sending our
lids first to war. He says that the
~ly excuse for it was that they
nave greater endurance in a sudden
'Putt of speed, though not In long,
steady pulls. Since soldiers are,
to a continuously greater extent,
!~) ing to war on wheels and pulling
echanical levers instead of club-
g muskets, he thinks men up to
and even older---could do just
la Well.
I know what is eating Wild Bill.
have felt it gnawing me. He is
the age where, if we don't
a law or something, he might
to stay out of any possible
himself.
Seriously, Bill's got something
Boys scarcely more than
fight wars. There are
~ore reasons for this than Colonel
~)Onovan gives. One is that, where
.~ere is any element of volunteer.
tQg, they are more impulsive and
WILLIAM DONOVAN
keep youth out o/war,
to the recruiting sergeant
Youth has fewer responsibillties
a family, a farm, a business,
a job.
ice in actual combat service are
a fraction of the troops used
at.Supply and other auxiliary
require more soldiers than
fighting. There is no sense in
out a physically perfect kid
him to rolling pills in a
supply department in Kala-
If we relaxed physical
to run-of-mill stand.
and created classes for "special
limited military service" for
less than perfect, we would
reduce the drain on the best
youth crop with no loss in
energy. We tried that
the close of the World war
it worked.
if we impose no
rary age limits, but only limits
,steal fitness, even for com.
Service, we shall be using great-
Common sense and be getting
greater economy in the use at
national manpower.
* *
ALASKAN FRONT
glance at the map of the North
will show that we are closer
Russia than any other good
except Canada and Max.
At Bering straits, Sibel-ia and
almost touch. That is under
Arctic circle and is not a dan.
menace. But, far to the
of that, our Aleutian islands
stepping stones on the way
s. The outlying Rus-
islands of Komandorskl and
seem to be a mere exten.
of the Aleutian archipelago and
a few miles of the Amer.
Near islands.
have no fortification or air
e~ in the Aleutians, notwith.
that they skirt the shortest
Great Circle route between
and either Japan or the St-
an coasts and that enemy air
I there could threaten the whole
Pacific and our main defen.
line--Alaska, Hawaii and Pan-
is a threatening and dangerous
I know of no professional
that does not agree that,
for defensive purposes, we I
guard this flank. The army I
authority for-an auxiliary air I
at Fairbanks, Alaska, but the
,Sad main operating air baseI
anchorage at the head of Cook
This will require $14,000,000
and urgently and im-
demands $4,000,000 to
strategists of the house ap.
committee "econ.
here, while refusing to do
one billions of vote-getting
They blacked-out the an.
Ige. They "economized" also
airplanes for the army
~g the number asked from 476
Part of this cut the war de.
approved in view of the
foreign purchases of
types, but it did not do so
planes of a type the need
Which was not lessened by
ided airplane production ca.
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FOR A SHOWER PARTY FOR SPRING BRIDE.
(See Recipes Below)
Here Comes the Bride!
And so they are married--and
after the ceremony there is to be
a wedding reception at the home of
the bride's mother.
It takes a bit of planning to carry
through a lovely wedding so that ev-
ery detail is cor-
rect. And the re- ~
caption which fol-
lows must be as
nearly perfect as
it is possible to
make it. Plan a
menu that's sim-
ple and easy to
serve, yet appe-
tizing and deli-
cious to eat. Set the table for buffet
service--using your loveliest linen,
silver and china Since the prover-
bial color scheme for the bride's
table is green and white, plan to
use white flowers for the center-
,piece; if candles are used, they may
be white or green.
A party for the bride calls for
something very special in the way
of food. Here's a menu for a wed-
ding reception, with tested recipes
to enable you to use it as it is given.
Assorted Hers d'Oeuvres
Grapefruit-Lobster or
Crabmeat Salad
Buttermilk Rolls Butter
Celery Olives Radishes
Pistachio Ice Cream
Bride's Cake Groom's Cake
Punch Coffee
For a shower party for a spring
bride, serve simple--but very good
--refreshments like this:
Bride's Pie
Coffee Assorted Salted Nuts
You'll find other recipes for spe-
cial party cakes and desserts in my
cook book "Better Baking." There's
a recipe for wedding cakes, as well.
Bride's Pie.
(Serves 10 to 12)
6 egg whites
V4 teaspoon salt
I cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 quarts strawberry ice cream
2 baked pie shells
Beat egg whites until foamy, add
salt and continue beating until the
egg whites are
.z~,~ stiff Gradually
~~ beat in the sugar
~~ and continue
"~k~ beating until the
,~-;~. ~ ~ egg whites are
/~/~'~xTt~' stiff and glossy.
~//]///~/~7//////~lt~ ~ Add vanilla. Pack
sl, uart of ice
cream into each
pie shell. Cover with meringue and
bake in a very hot oven ~50 de-
grees) until meringue is lightly
browned. Serve immediately.
Assorted Canapes.
Place chilled shrimp on a bed of
shaved ice; serve cocktail sauce
with it as an accompaniment. Stuff
celery stalks with cream cheese
which has been mixed with chopped
stuffed olives. Cut crusts from slices
of very fresh bread and cut loaf in
long lengthwise slices. Spread with
cream cheese. Roll as for jelly roll
and slice in very thin slices. Brush
with melted butter, place on broiler
and toast lightly. Serve hot.
Grapefruit Lobster or Crabmeat
Salad.
Cut grapefruit in hal.f, remove
center with grapefruit corer. With
grapefruit knife cut around each
section and remove membrane. Cov-
er edges of grapefruit with finely
chop~ped parsley.' Fill chilled center
of grapefruit with lobster or crab-
meat. Top with mayonnaise and
s~rve
Buttermilk Roils.
(Makes 2~ dozen)
1 cake yeast
2 tablespoons lukewarm water
2 cups buttermilk (at room tem-
perature)
8~/~ cups of flour (approximately)
cup shortening
cup sugar
1~ teaspoons salt
teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
Soften yeast in lukewarm water.
Combine with buttermilk and mix
well. Add about 2 cups of flour and
beat until smooth. Cover and let
rise in a warm place until the bat-
ter is light and bubbly. Cream
shortening and sugar thoroughly.
Add to raised batter and beat well
,Sift together the remaining flour,
the salt, soda and baking powder.
Add to batter in 3 or 4 portions and
mix well. Pinch off small bits of the
dough, shape into balls and place in
small, greased muffin cups. Cover
and allow to rise until the rolls are
very light. Brush with melted short-
ening. Bake in a moderately hot
oven (375 degrees) for about 15 min-
utes.
Groom's Cake.
I/~ cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups general purpose flour
teaspoon soda
V4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
V~ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon allspice
~ cup sour milk
~/~ cup citron, cut
1 cup raisins
I cup nut meats, broken
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream butter, add sugar, and
beat thoroughly. Add eggs (well
beaten). Mix and
sift together all~
dry ingredients,
reserving ~I~ cup
of flour. Add flour
mixture and sour
milk alternately
--beginning with
the flour mixture.
Flour, citron, rai-
sins, and nuts with the % cup of
flour which was reserved and add
to the cake mixture. Add vanilla
extract. Place in well-greased,
small tube pan. Bake 40 to 50 min-
utes in a moderate oven (350 de-
grees).
Pistachio Ice Cream.
1 pint coffee cream
1 cup top milk
~ teaspoon salt
cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
% teaspoon almond extract
3 to 4 drops green pure food color
Vl cup pistachio nut meats (cut fine)
Mix all ingredients together thor-
oughly. Pour mixture into freezing
container of modern ice cream
freezer. (To allow for expansion
fill not more than % full.) Assemble
and cover. Then pack mixture of
cracked ice and rock salt (use 3
parts ice to 1 part .of salt by vol-
ume) around the freezing container.
Turn crank steadily about 5 minutes.
When mixture becomes difficult to
turn, remove cover carefully, take
out dasher, and pack down evenly
with a spoon. Cover ice cream with
wax paper and replace cover. Draw
off water and replenish ice and salt
mixture. Cover and allow to harden
at least one hour before serving.
Twenty-Four Hour Pike's Peak.
(Serves 6)
4 egg whites
% teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cnp sugar
Add cream of tartar to egg
whites and beat until the egg whites
are stiff but not dry. Gradually beat
in the sugar, and continue beating
until the mixture is stiff and glossy.
Spread in a greased pie plate. Bake
in a slow oven (275 degrees) for 20
minutes, then Increase temperature
to 300 degrees and bake 40 minutes
longer.
Filling.
4 egg yolks
cup sugar
3 tablespoons lemon Juice
2 teaspoons lemon rind (grated)
Beat egg yolks until thick and
lemon-colored. Add remaining in-
gredients and cook in double boiler
until thick, stirring constantly. Cool.
Whip 1 cup cream and spread half
the cream on the cooled meringue.
Cover with lemon filling and top
with remaining cream. Chill.
Now is the time for each fore-
sighted homemaker to add to her
own collection of favorite reci-
pes, some new and unusual ones
which are sure to please her fam-
ily. Next week Eleanor Howe
will give you some of her own
tested recipes--recipes for meats,
for vegetables and for desserts--
and a choice recipe for rhubarb
conserve.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.
G, ,4A/TLAN, P
U. S. AND THE WAR TWO phenomenal kids, two youth-
WASHINGTON.--A group of farm a-ful prodigies of the sporting
leaders went to the White House to world got their starts along practi-
urge Roosevelt to support the Jones cally the same type of road. They
bill, which would cut interest rates I might be called the Twins of Dawn,
on government farm loans. And [ Their names are Bobby Feller and
while they got the President's sup-!Bobby Jones.
port, they also got an earful on an-I
other subject--why the U. S. will~ They were almost exactly alike
in this vital respect---Bobby Jones
not get involved in the European started swinging a
war golf club at the age
The discussion began when one el of seven -- Bobby
the farmers asked Roosevelt wheth- F e 11 e r s t a r t d
er propaganda and the loss of for-
eign markets would affect U. S.
neutrality. This brought an am.
phatic negative from the President.
"I don't think the American
people will lose their heads to the
extent of being drawn into the
European conflict," he said in el-
feet. "It is true that the emotions
of people can be quickly aroused,
but reason and logic always triumph
in the end. That's why our dame.
cratic form of government has sur.
vived so long.
"Take, for example, the arms em-
bargo fight. There was a lot el
talk from certain elements during
that controversy, that if we lifted
the embargo it would drag us into
the war. Well, all that talk has
died down and you don't hear ii
any more. There was no truth in il
and it evaporated.
"The same happened during the
debate over extending the recipro-
cal trade treaties. There was alo!
of unfounded talk then, but it has
all blown over unless political op.
portunists inject the issue into this
year's campaign."
"What about the Nazi invasion at
Denmark and Norway?" asked an.
other of the farm visitors. "Will
that endanger our neutrality?"
Again Roosevelt shook his head.
"As long," he replied, "as we keel:
a level head, our feet on the ground
and maintain a liberal government,
we have nothing to worry about."
Bombing Bill White.
President Roosevel~ scored a neal
one on his old friend William Allen
White, the sage
of Emporia,
Kan during his
off-the-record ses.
sion with the
newspaper edi-
tors recently at
the White House.
Incidentally, the
remark was a
clue to what
Roosevelt thinks
is the chief dan-
ger to the United
States -- Nazi William Allen
forces in Latin White
America.
The President was talking aboul
the war and the quesvion of national
defense, especially as it applied
to the Western hen~isphere. Tc
illustrate his point, he turned sud.
denly to Mr. White, who was sittint
in the group before him.
"For instance, Bill White may
think he's a lot safer m Kansas than
I am up in Hyde Park, N. Y "
said the President, "but he isn't."
He went on to explain that i!
enemy bombers were to seek oul
Hyde Park they would have a long
way to fly across the Atlantic. Bu~
if they wanted to bomb Bill White
in Kansas, it was relatively eas)
for them to fly up from Mexico
where enemy air bases could be
established.
* *
Under the Dome.
One of the most inspiring sight~
in our democratic government is tc
see the President of the United
States address a joint session el
congress. These gatherings include
not only the President and mem.
bars of the house and senate, bul
also cabinet members, Supreme
court justices, foreign diplomats,
member~; of the President's family,
plus social and political leaders--
all seated in the house of represen.
tatives.
But--some members of congress
heave a ifigh of relief when these
sessions are adjourned. What the)
know, though others do not, is tha~
the roof covering the house chain.
her is in danger of caving in some
day and wiping out the nation'~
political les ders.
Furthermore, the roof of the sen 1
ate chamber is supported by simi.
lar materiah:, and architects have
recommended that it be replaced.
Serious-minded Horace D. Rouzer,
assistant architect of the Capitol, :
solemnly wan]ed members of the~
senate appropxiations committee re
cently that "in some instances the
pins should not be stressed oyez
12,000 pounds, but computations
show stresses u,p to around 75,00Ci
pounds per square inch." Hi wa~
referring to the roof on the senate
side af the Capit~l.
1~ MERR~-GO-ROUND
embers of the German embas.
sy. apparently none too enthusiastic
over Hitler' treatment of private
property, are buying up quantities
of silver plate at U. S, Jewelry
stores. This is one investment they
can keep with less danger of Nazi
confiscation . . One member oJ
the German embassy staff confided
at dinner the other night that he
was worried over Germany's los~
of ships, because now perhaps Hit.
ier wouldn't have enough hips te
land troops in England.
throwing a baseball
at the age of six.
The main point is
that each started
building up and de-
veloping the mus-
cles needed for the
big act---Jones aa a
golfer--Feller as a
pitcher.
Grantland Bobby Jones was
Rice a phenomenon at
the age of 14---good
enough then to travel to the final
eight in the National Amateur where
only inexperience stopped him. At
that age he was the best golfer in
the big field.
From seven years on Bobby Jones
only developed the muscles needed
for a golf swing. There were no
contradictory or outside muscles
that might have come from base-
ball, football or some other sport,
His working muscles all belonged
exclusively to golf. He never even
played checkers or dominoes.
Feller the Same
Bob Feller followed the same
, route. Starting at the age of six,
Feller's sporting ac-
tivity consisted of
throwing a base-
ball. Every muscu-
lar development in
his righ~ arm and
back was concen-
trated on this act.
Against this we
might take up the
case of Schoolboy
Rowe, the Tiger en-
try. Rowe was a
young ball player.
But he was also aBob Feller
football star, a shot-
putter, a golfer, a tennis player and
a basketball luminary--extremely
good at each of these games.
He had well-developed but conflict-
ing muscles to handle, and these in
time left him muscle-bound.
There can be too much muscle
for any smooth, flowing action. If
Rowe had concentrated on baseball
alone in his younger days he might
have been one of the greats of all
time.
As it was the Tiger giant was &
brilliant performer for a year or
two until too many of his muscular
habitats in the back and shoulders
began to tie him up.
Bob Feller, spoiled, fresh or swell.
headed, might have been almost as
great a pitcher as he is. But he
would have missed by many meters
the height he holds today in public
favor. Especially in the favor of
his mates and his opponents.
If the kids of this country care to
pick out someone to follow in every
respect, they could make no mis,
take in following the methods and
manners of this Iowa farm boy,
who, I am quite sure, will remain
unspoiled to the last ball he throws.
Lasting Qualities
Bobby Jones was a star competi-
tor and player from the age of 13
to 28. He had known 15 years of
tournament action when he retired
at his peak, or just as he was com-
ing to his peak.
Bobby Jones could have remained
one of the great golfers today at the
age of 38 if he had
continued to train
for tournament play.
Before the attack of
bursitis laid him
low this spring he
was still shooting
hard courses from
63 to 67 on various
occasions, which Is
not ragged golf.
Bobby could have
known golf great-
Bobby Jones ness for at least 25
years.
The same is true of Bob Feller.
The 21-year-old Van Meter sensa-
tion is only getting under way. With
only a fair share of luck Feller has
at least 15 big years left--years dur-
ing which he might easily turn out
to be the same thing to baseball
that Bobby Jones was to golf.
In many other ways the two are
alike---both were and are highly
popular with their fellow players
and their opponents. Both have
always belonged to the upper
branches of sportsmanship.
A Close.Up on Feller
I had breakfast with Bobby Feller
in Tampa the morning of the all.
star game for the Finnish fund. He
was as unspoiled as any prominent
athlete I have ever known.
1 noticed another leading point.
For example, as Joe Cronin, boss
of the Boston Red Sex, came into
the dining room he came well out
of his way to slap Feller on the back
and say, "Hello, slug." As other vet-
erans came by they'd all stop by
Felle 's table with "Hello, butch"--
"Howya, ktd"--"Hello, Bob."
t
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If, along with naU-blting, there are signs
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fidgeting and restless sleep take heedI
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Cramped Spaces
Happy child! the cradle is still
to thee a vast space; but whet
thou art a man the boundlesl
world will be too small for thee
PRESSES HEART
'~Ols on m~ stomach wen so bad I could
aot eat or sleep. It even seemed to l~eSs
my heart. A/Head m~sested Adler~. Th
