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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
HALLOWEEN PARTY SUGGESTIONS
(See Recipes Below)
Household News
Halloween provides a good excuse
for an unusual party. The theme
you may select should be the basis
around which the party is built.
“Black Magic Party,” “The Haunt-
ed House,” Buried Treasure Hunt,”
“The Witches’ Rendezvous,” “The
Ghosts Gambol” are all suggestive
names for the party you may be
planning for All Hallows’ eve.
A Halloween party without deco-
rations just isn’t a party. They
may be so simple that it takes very
little time to put them up; pump-
kins, cornstalks, and lighted jack-
o’-lanterns. Or you may decorate
with witches, owls, black and or-
ange crepe paper streamers, black
and gray crepe paper moss dripping
t from the ceilings, or ghosts standing
i in spooky corners with eerie lights
thrown upon them.
The invitations should, of course,
foe indicative of the type of party
you are giving.
“On Halloween the ghosts will
dance,
The gnomes and goblins will sing
and prance;
So don your masks and costumes
gay,
To the Haunted House be on your
way.
The door will be open till the clock
tolls eight,
So take my advice and don’t be
late.”
In keeping with Halloween we
must not forget the traditional
games and pranks. The chamber
■of horrors, with
clanking chains,
damp hands
clutching the
guests, and dark
tunnels should
put the guests in-
to the spirit of the
party. Bobbing
for apples, fortune telling and guess-
ing games are all old favorites.
These suggestions may bring to your
mind others that may be old-time
Halloween games.
Last, but not least, a party is
never rightly ended without proper
refreshments. If it is a small group,
buffet supper may be served; and
if it is a large group, simple, but
delicious refreshments will finish the
evening with the necessary tip!
Orange Date Cake.
Vz cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg (well beaten)
1 cup sour milk
2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
% teaspoon salt
1 cup dates
1 whole orange
Cream shortening, add brown sug-
ar slowly, and beat well. Add beat-
en egg and sour milk.
Mix and sift flour, soda, baking
powder, and salt. Grind dates and
orange together through food chop-
per and add alternately with the
sifted dry ingredients. Bake in a
loaf pan in a moderate oven (350
degrees) for 50 minutes.
Halloween Ice Cream Clowns.
Place a ball of ice cream on a
butter cookie and use raisins, tiny
gumdrops or can-
died cherries to
make the eyes,
nose, and mouth
in the ice cream.
Place an ice
cream cone up-
side down on the
ice cream for a
cap, and place a
ruff of whipped cream on the cookie
around the clown’s neck.
Pumpkin Ice Cream.
(Makes 1 quart)
% cup sugar
Vz teaspoon cinnamon
Vz teaspoon ginger
Pinch of salt
1 cup coffee cream
2 egg yolks (beaten)
% cup pumpkin (canned)
Vz teaspoon orange rind (grated)
Vz cup pecan meats
Vz cup whipping cream
Combine the sugar, cinnamon, gin-
ger and salt. Mix well. Add the
cream slowly and scald over boiling
water. Mix beaten egg yolks and
pumpkin, and add to the cream mix-
ture with the orange rind. Return
to heat, and cook for 5 minutes,
stirring constantly. Chill, fold in the
BETTER BAKING
Most of us are prone to be a lit-
tle inactive and unambitious dur-
ing the warm summer months.
Our appetites for heavy, hot foods
become dull and we readily ac-
cept and enjoy cool, refreshing
salads and beverages. Just as
we put on heavier clothing when
the temperature drops, so do we
discard using salads as the main
dish and dessert of the menu.
Miss Howe’s book “Better Bak-
ing” includes many fine recipes,
tested in her own kitchen. It will
prove not only an incentive for
“better baking” but also for bet-
ter and more satisfying meals.
You may secure this book,
“Better Baking,” by writing to
Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michi-
gan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, en-
closing 10 cents in coin.
nutmeats and whipped cream, and
pour into the freezing container of
an ice cream freezer, filling it not
more than % full. Assemble and
cover the freezer. Surround with
a mixture of 3 parts of crushed ice
to 1 part rock salt. Next turn the
crank slowly and steadily until turn-
ing becomes difficult. When the mix-
ture is frozen, carefully remove the
dasher and pack down the cream
with a spoon. Replace the cover,
draw off the water, and replenish the
ice and salt. Let stand for an hour.
Orange Sauce.
1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with
1 tablespoon cold water
5 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons hot water
5 tablespoons orange juice
Vz teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon butter
Make a paste of the cornstarch
and cold water. Add sugar and hot
water and cook for 15 minutes, stir-
ring frequently. Add fruit juices
and butter.
Goblin’s Dessert.
(Serves 4 to 5)
2 eggs (separated)
7 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon butter (melted)
Vs teaspoon salt
% cup orange juice
1% cups stale bread (cut in pieces)
Beat egg yolks until very light,
and gradually beat in the sugar.
Add butter, salt
and orange juice.
Pour over the
cubed bread. Beat
egg whites until
stiff, and fold into
the first mixture.
Pour into but-
tered baking dish
and bake in a moderately slow oven
(325 degrees) for about 30 minutes.
Ginger Snap Pie Crust.
(Makes 2 crusts)
Make 3 cups ginger snap crumbs
by rolling ginger snaps on bread
board or crumbling through food
chopper. Combine with % cup melt-
ed butter and blend lightly. Then
press mixture into pie plate, shap-
ing firmly all around, and place in
refrigerator to chill until firm.
Pumpkin Chiffon Pie.
(Makes 2 pies)
3 tablespoons gelatin
Vz cup cold water
6 eggs
2 cups sugar
2Vz cups strained pumpkin
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Vz teaspoon nutmeg
Vz teaspoon cloves
1 cup whipping cream
Soak gelatin in cold water 5 min-
utes. Separate eggs and beat egg
yolks. Then combine 1 cup of the
sugar, the strained pumpkin, milk,
salt, and spices with the egg yolks
and cook slowly, stirring constant-
ly, until thickened. Remove from
fire, add gelatin, ana stir until dis-
solved. Cool. When mixture be-
gins to thicken, stir in the remain-
ing cup of sugar and fold in the
beaten egg whites. Pour filling in
the chilled ginger snap pastry shells
and chill in refrigerator until set.
Before serving decorate pies with
whipped cream faces, using chilled
pastry tube.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Washington Digest
World Bristles With War Talk
As America Arms for Defense
FOP?. SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
MATCHBOOK ALBUMS
U. S. Trains Conscript Army and Prepares for Action;
Germany, Italy, Japan Present Solid Front,
Assume Militant Attitude.
By BAUKHAGE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Baukhage, NBC Commentator,
whose voice on the Farm and
Home Hour is heard daily by
many of our readers, is the au-
thor of the folloiving Washing-
ton column. Soldier, writer and
broadcaster, for the last quarter
of a century, Baukhage has cov-
ered foreign and domestic news
from all parts of the United
States and principal capitals of
Europe.
WASHINGTON.—It is just about
as far from the executive offices of
the White House on Pennsylvania
avenue to the broadcasting studio as
it was from our house on Spruce
street back home to the store where
my mother used to send me for a
loaf of bread (and a stick of “lick-
rish” if I had an extra penny). It
was on my way to the store one
day that I first saw a live man wear-
ing the uniform of the United States.
It was my Cousin Ned just starting
off for the Spanish-American war in
his sailor suit.
I’ve seen a lot of uniforms since,
on the avenue in Washington, too,
but I couldn’t help thinking as I
walked along the other day scuffing
the dried leaves that had fallen from
the immemorial White House elms,
that a lot of nine-year-old kids and
older ones, too, are soon going to
be seeing plenty of uniforms for the
first time, on the streets of the home
town, just the way I did, 40 years
ago.
Right now that is something that
Washington and every other city,
town and cross roads in the country
have in common. In the corridors
of the marble buildings beside the
Potomac they are talking about the
same thing that they are on Main
street and at the general store. I
wouldn’t be surprised if certain gen-
tlemen in certain foreign capitals
were talking about the same thing,
too: Our new citizen army.
Need for Conscript
Army in Peacetime
There are certain things about con-
scription that people are thinking
about. According to a lot of letters
1 get, what many people want to
know is why we need a citizen army
in peace time.
I put that up to a military man
and this is the way he answered me:
“Speed is what counts in an army
today. We aren’t calling out these
boys to fight anybody. We are call-
ing them now to train them so they’ll
be ready if we ever need them.
The United States can always raise
a big army if war is ever declared.
But neither we nor any other coun-
try can raise a trained army over
night—and a lot can happen in the
night these days. What we want
to do is train men for a reserve.
They will still be a part of our de-
fense after their active training is
over.
“If this war ends and a disarma-
ment agreement is reached with all
nations we won’t need to train any-
body any more. Meanwhile these
men when they are through their
year’s service will go home and slip
back into their niches in civilian
life. But if a war comes they can
step into the ranks over night as
they would if we were in danger any-
how. But they will step back as
trained soldiers, not raw recruits.”
That seemed to me a new way of
looking at it. It explains why there
is a need now. A fire engine
wouldn’t be much use if you had
to teach the firemen how to use it
after the house started burning.
Triple Alliance Powers
Have Belligerent Attitude
Is our house actually in danger of
catching on fire now?
Well, I am a reporter, not »
prophet. The profit motive isn’t
overemphasized in the reporting
business. Furthermore right now
the air in these parts is so full of
political speeches and other war-
talk, just as it is out your way, that
you can hardly see across the Poto-
mac on a clear day. The political
speeches are so belligerent and the
war-talk, especially what we are get-
ting from Rome, Berlin and Tokyo
is so political, it takes a fine-tooth
comb to separate them.
A dispatch from Rome says the
axis doesn’t want to get us into war
and wants to stop our aid to Britain.
Berlin says that if we attack
Japan, Germany and Italy will at-
tack us. That would get us into the
war which Rome says the axis
doesn’t want.
Tokyo says that if we don’t let
NATIONAL DEFENSE
America is arming rapidly, but
she is arming for defense, not
offense, according to Baukhage,
Washington correspondent. He
finds that Germany, Italy and
Japan have adopted a belligerent
attitude since they signed their
Triple Alliance recently. Does
this mean war? Baukhage be-
lieves that no one knows the an-
swer yet. He reports that some
financial experts predict the
budget will be balanced in 1943.
her do what she wants in Asia, Japan
will attack us.
Certain people in Washington say
if we get into war with Japan we
can’t help Britain. And so it goes.
Washington Emphasizes
Defense, Not Offense
Just now Washington isn’t as war-
like as it sounds. The emphasis is
on defense, not offense. However,
there are conflicting views as to
what we ought to do.
I talked with an official who isn’t
what you would call a fire-eater. He
expressed a view which some of the
people in the state department agree
with.
“Japan has declared herself our
enemy. The time to strike is now,
not delay the way Great Britain did.
We could get it over without a long
war.”
Another man who speaks for an-
other group which is supposed to re-
flect White House opinion, said this:
“The United States has to play a
cautious game. Our job now is to
keep out of war. Aid Britain all we
can. As long as the British navy
controls the seas Japan can’t hurt
us.”
If that policy is followed, and I
think most observers here believe it
will be no matter who is elected
President, we will simply reply to
any further unfriendly moves on the
part of Japan by economic meas-
ures. We have cut off some of her
vital needs. We can cut off more.
And heaven knows what the ladies
could accomplish if they suddenly
quit buying silk stockings. That’s
Japan’s chief income—raw silk—and
if they couldn’t sell it to us, the Jap-
anese would have to let their silk-
worms turn up their toes and die—
and you know something pretty bad
is supposed to happen when a worm
turns.
French Ambassador
Has Hard Job
It is hard to find out whether you
are at war and if so, with whom,
these days. Of course, we are at
peace with France. At least we rec-
ognize the French ambassador, the
suave and amiable Henri Haye.
He has a very hard job because,
as everybody knows, the govern-
ment of Vichy has about the same
relationship to the French people as
French perfume has to a piece of
Limburger cheese. The dachshund’s
tail wags the French poodle.
And the United States govern-
ment, which can’t admit officially
that this is true, acts just as if it
knew it all the time. It has frozen.
French financial holdings in this
country. It is as hard for the
French government to draw on funds
invested here as it is for a Hollander
or a Belgian or the citizen of the
other occupied countries to get their
money—which doesn’t make them
angry either. Some Hollanders in-
structed their agents here not to pay
out their funds to anybody even if
they themselves write letters order-
ing this done. For, of course, the
Nazis could force the owner to order
the securities sold and then confis-
cate the funds and use it themselves.
Well, one of the many ticklish as-
signments of Monsieur Henri Haye
is to try to get the government to
loosen up on those French invest-
ments. Of course, some funds can
be drawn upon for special purposes
such as the expenses of the embas-
sy. And there has been a worried
rumor that the United States gov-
ernment might have to turn the en-
tire amount over.
Predict Balanced
Budget for 1943
With congress and the defense
commission bent on seeing that the
money appropriated for national de-
fense gets put to work, all the talk
is about what’s going out and very
little about what’s coming in. You
haven’t heard a thing about balanc-
ing the budget recently, have you?
Well, you will soon. Perhaps be-
fore this item meets your eye. For
the experts say that we are going
to have a $15,000,000,000 budget in
1943 and what is more we are going
to be able to balance it.
How will this feat be accom-
plished?
Simply through normal taxes, they
tell us. Production and national in-
come will mount so fast owing to
pyramiding defense expenditures
that normal taxes will bring in
enough money to get the dizzy old
budget.
This statement comes, not from
starry-eyed optimists but from fishy-
eyed financial experts who are paid
to get the low-down for their no-
less fishy-eyed banker clients.
The capital has felt many reper-
cussions of the war and naturally
broadcasters suffer. Recently Earl
Godwin, one of my colleagues,
broadcast a London dispatch which
started quite a controversy. Wil-
liam Dean Hassett, meticulous and
scholarly member of the White
House staff, insists that not long ago
this is the way the dispatch reached
his usually sharp New England
ears:
“Ambassador Kennedy had a nar-
row escape today when the Germans
dropped an incendiary blonde near
the American embassy.”
yOUNG as a giggle, gay as a
football tea when the home
team wins, this shorty coat and
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And she couldn’t choose a smart-
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Strange Facts
Superfine Lines
Wind the Musician
Seatless Temples
C. The finest ruled lines in the
world are Nobert’s lines, made by
diamond points on the glass plates
used to test the power of micro-
scopes. Some of the plates have
more than 225,000 of these hairlines
within the space of one inch.
C. Fingal’s cave on Staffa, one of
the Hebrides islands off Scotland,
is believed to be the only cavern
in the world in which one may
hear natural musical sounds. It
was this “music,” produced by the
wind playing around the prism-
shaped pillars, that inspired Men-
delssohn to write his famous over-
ture, Fingal’s Cave.
C. The Fountain of Tears in Bakh-
chisarai, Russia, is one of the
world’s most romantic memorials.
Erected by a Tatar ruler to ex-
press his grief at the death of his
Polish princess, it has shed a sin-
gle drop of water once a minute
for more than 300 years.
C. More than half of the people in
the world worship in temples that
have no seats and that prohibit
the wearing of shoes within their
doors.—Collier’s.
True Taste
True taste is forever growing,
learning, reading, worshiping, lay-
ing its hand upon its mouth be-
cause it is astonished, casting its
shoes from its feet because it finds
all ground holy.—Ruskin.
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The collar turns back in becoming,
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The Questions
1. What does Old Bailey mean
to a Londoner?
2. What is the island where Co-
lumbus first landed now called?
3. What is a petard?
4. Does any law prohibit the to-
tal destruction of U. S. coins?
5. In ancient times what people
worshiped Apis, the sacred bull?
6. How many different peoples
claimed the discovery of America
prior to the voyage of Columbus?
7. What insect is sometimes
called the mud dauber?
8. What bird has been chosen as
the “official bird” of seven states?
9. A person in his nonage is—
90 or more years old, feeble or
imbecilic, or not of legal age?
10. Can football be called one of
the most active of sports?
The Answers
1. The chief criminal court of
England.
2. Watling island.
3. A firecracker.
4. No. There is a federal statute
against cleaning and polishing
coins because of the resultant
abrasion.
5. The Egyptians.
6. Ten—The Arabians, Basques,
Chinese, Danes, Dutch, Icelanders,
Irish, Portuguese, Venetians, and
the Welsh.
7. Wasps.
8. The meadow lark.
9. One not of legal age.
10. The average college football
game actually claims less action
than the majority of other sports
as the ball is in motion only 20
per cent of the time, the other 80
per cent of the hour being taken
up by huddles, formations and oth-
er business.
Old Gent Didn’t Suspect
Child Was in Duplicate
A young wife was aboard ship,
sailing from New York to Pana-,
ma, there to join her husband.
Just before the ship was to dock,
she missed her little twin daugh-
ters and hurried out on deck to
hunt them.
“Have you seen my twins?” she
asked a crusty old gentleman in
a deck chair.
“Twins?” he repeated. “I didn’t
even know there were any on
board.”
She was just going to remark
that it was odd he hadn’t noticed,
when she spied a pig-tailed head
peeking around a corner. “There’s
one now,” she told him.
“Oh, that child!” said the man.
“I’ve seen her all over the place!”
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Rolling along with P.A.I The
hunters bold pause for a
happy spell with the prince
of rolling tobaccos — Prince
Albert. Says “Russ” Hughes
(left) to “Ray” Yaekel
{tight') : “EA.’s a sure shot
for trim, firm smokes that
smoke smooth, even, and
stay lit!” “P.A. saves a man
money, besides,” “Ray”
comes back. (Dir -r pipe-
smokers, too!)
QA fine ro!l-your-own cig-
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1 In recent laboratory “smoking
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