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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
Agriculture Has a Role
In Post-War Planning
Government Gives Serious Consideration to
Problems of the Farmer When
'Reconstruction’ Period Begins.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
$VNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W,
Washington, D. C.
The people of the United States,
through their representatives in
Washington, have just begun spend-
ing another six billion dollars for
tanks, guns, shells, and ships. When
these products are used up for the
purpose for which they are pro-
duced, what will the world have to
show for it? Just what the farmer
has when he is done fighting a blitz
of grasshoppers, beetles or other
varmints—a lot of ruined property
and a lot of dead things to bury,
burn, or plow under—the result of
wholesale destruction.
But along with all this spending
to kill and destroy, the nation is
also planning to build and create.
Currently thousands of Americans
are gathering in state capitals,
county seats and rural communities
to talk over some brass-tack ideas
for reconstruction after destruction.
Post-war planning, it’s called.
“We visualize a post-war world,”
says Secretary of Agriculture Wick-
ard, “in which we will make full
use of our manpower and our re-
sources for the benefit of the Amer-
ican people.”
That’s a nice visualization. What’s
being done to make the vision real?
The National Resources Planning
board in Washington is centralizing
post-defense planning efforts, . not
only of the federal government but
of the country as a whole. In Sep-
tember Secretary Wickard set up
an inter-bureau committee in the de-
partment of agriculture on post-
defense problems to help work out
some of these plans. The commit-
tee has three jobs:
1. Keeping in touch with and mak-
ing what contribution it can to the
developments that affect the nation-
al economy as a whole.
2. Developing rural works pro-
grams in the capital improvement
field. (That means improving the
farmer’s “plant.”)
3. Developing publicly sponsored
programs of rural welfare (“serv-
ices”).
Mediums of Action
How does this committee get ac-
tion? Through state and local land-
use planning committees already
set up, with the co-operation of
department field representatives.
These are state committees, county
committees and committees of
neighborhood groups. The latter
are made up of farmers; the others
are mixed farmers and federal and
state officials.
What are the general problems
the American farmer has to face
in the post-war world as the depart-
ment of agriculture sees them to-
day?
First, there is likely to be a great
demand for foodstuffs as the United
States feeds a starving Europe after
the war.
Secondly, there will be an effect
on the domestic market when mili-
tary service and defense work ends,
for the farmer’s income swells and
shrinks in direct proportion to the
size of the employee’s pay envelope.
Of course, every effort will be
made to create jobs on public works
projects while industry is changing
over from defense to civilian pro-
duction. But it is freely admitted
that the tremendous defense effort
in the industrial world cannot be du-
plicated by “made” work. There-
fore, the emphasis in planning is to
be placed on jobs that will produce
jobs, and agriculture must expand
to carry its share of the effort, say
the planners.
Rural Works* Program
The first job which the depart-
ment of agriculture is concerned
with right now under “capital im-
provement” is a rural works pro-
gram which will provide work in
rural areas to improve the farmer’s
physical plant. And that is what
the committees are now consider-
ing—’’rural housing.” When these
committees have studied the ques-
tion and given their suggestions,
they will be reported back to the
inter-bureau committee and the de-
partment will build its policy under
the influence of these suggestions.
Then the department will report to
the National Resources Planning
board which in turn will submit its
program to congress whose duty it
is to carry out the wishes of the
people.
Thus the democratic cycle is
completed.
Many of the suggestions which the
inter-bureau committee is throwing
out for consideration are not new.
Under the head of improving the
farm plant, and back of it the re-
sources on which the plant has to
draw—are the well-known activities
in soil conservation, flood control,
water development. Many of these
activities are now being carried on
but, says Secretary Wickard, “not
on a scale commensurate with the
heed.”
These are the things that can be
done. The defense effort has dem-
onstrated here, as it has in England,
that the United States has today a
potential national income much
greater than ever achieved before.
It is stimulated by the forced crea-
tion of destructive products. There
is no reason why the resources of
this vast and rich nation cannot be
utilized to create just as large an
income derived from constructive
endeavor whose benefits can be
shared by all.
If it is not, then we servants of
democracy have buried our talents
and we may as well get ready to
be banished, along with another cer-
tain “wicked and slothful servant,”
into outer darkness where, it is said
on excellent authority, there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.
* * *
A Message
From Hitler
The other day my boss handed me
a note from Hitler. Not, of course,
direct from the trembling hand
of the fuehrer himself, but just a
little reminder of what the Nazi
Number One was doing to me.
As I scanned the formal note a
picture came before me. I shall
never forget it—but when I see it in
my mind’s eye I see it always like
a scene from some exotic play—no
part of the world in which we live.
It is the picture of a little man,
pale, determined, wearing a field
gray tunic. He stands on a plat-
form, his hands grasping a lectern,
against a gaudy background of bril-
liant uniforms and red—the high
priests of Nazidom. Before him is
a sea of brown—the members of the
puppet parliament.
“And I shall not take off this uni-
form” (or words to that effect), he
is saying, “until victory ...”
Hitler, it was, addressing the
Reichstag on that day in 1939 when
he launched his legions into Poland
and started the war. But how could
it affect me?
Well, this was the note the boss
put on the bulletin board the other
day for me and the other staff
members:
“The paper, paper clip, rub-
ber band, and staple situation is
becoming serious. May we ask
that all of you conserve these
items as much as possible be-
cause under the new priorities
setup these supplies are going
to be very difficult, if not im-
possible, to secure ...”
That scene I had witnessed in the
reichstag two years ago struck
home for the first time. It had
seemed very far away until now.
True, I had had a moment of appre-
hension earlier lest Hitler get our
Clipper. But I never dreamed he
would get our clips.
* * *
Carrier Pigeon
Useful in Emergencies
In a world where aviation has de-
veloped so rapidly that a plane is
often obsolete before its construc-
tion can be finished, one type of flier,
which is the oldest of all, remains
supreme in its field. The carrier
pigeon is still considered the best
means of emergency communica-
tion.
Recently a new set of these
feathered recruits started training
for service with bombers at Mac-
Dill, Fla. They are expected to
prove useful in case of emergency
landings—that is, if the pigeon can
be released unscathed with a mes-
sage it could guide rescuers to the
scene of the crash. The officer who
is training them is Lieut. Thomas
Fulton. He is the man who received
the message, borne by a pigeon,
which caused the rescue of the fa-
mous Lost Battalion in the Argonne
forest in the last war.
When the birds now training are
grown they will be able to fly 60
miles per hour and keep it up for
600 to 700 miles a day without land-
ing.
BRIEFS . . • by Baukhage
Although in recent years Latin
America has produced nearly 85 per
cent of the world supply of coffee,
the original home of coffee is Abys-
sinia, or Arabia, or perhaps both,
according to the department of
agriculture.
Perhaps some up-and-coming
California town will now offer free
gas. Renton, Washington, is now
providing free parking lots.
To prevent stray livestock from
getting tangled up with army planes
at Geiger field, Spokane, Wash.,
WPA workers are fencing the en-
tire bomber base.
The well-dressed aviation cadet at
Randolph Field, Texas, wears three
garters—two to hold up his sox and
one to strap flight instructions to
his leg.
NOTHING COMES EVEN
CLOSE TO CAMELS WITH M
THEY'RE MILDER BV FAR
AND, MAN, WHAT A
SWELL FLAVOR
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HOTELS
FOR A FRESH START
STOP AT A HOTELS
AMERICAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION
By VIRGINIA VALE
[Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T’5 difficult to write calmly
and critically about Walt
Disney’s “Dumbo”—in fact,
it’s practically impossible.
This story of the baby ele-
phant with the over-size ears,
who’s born into a circus and
made miserable by the other
animals because of those
same ears, is completely
enchanting. There’s Timothy
Mouse, successor to Jiminey Crick-
et; there’s the band of black crows,
there’s the squealing circus engine
—and there’s the really lovely se-
quence in which pink elephants
dance. Every moment of this hour-
long picture is delightful—no two
ways about it, you’ll have to see
"Dumbo.”
Jean Phillips, once Jean Harlow’s
stand-in, had moved from a bit to a
co-starring role in just two pictures
—she’s the first stand-in since
Adrienne Ames to become a lead-;
ing woman, which is bad news for;
girls who hope to climb to stardom,
by that route. Her first break came;
when she was cast in “Among the
Living”; that performance earned
her the second lead in “The Morn-
ing After.” Now she’s co-starred
with Macdonald Carey in “Dr.
Broadway.” Her resemblance to
Ginger Rogers blocked her career
when she first went to Hollywood.
Glenda Farrell is happy. She’s
signed to play the ex-sweetheart of a
gangster in “Johnny Eager”; says
she’s fascinated by the part, and
GLENDA FARRELL
also wants to do it because the pic-
ture is being directed by Mervin
LeRoy, who gave her her first part
in films.
Irving Berlin has written 14 new
songs for “Holiday Inn,” more than
have ever before been turned out in
a single picture. Bing Crosby will
sing some of them, Fred Astaire
will dance to them. The score in-
cludes two old Berlin favorites,
“Easter Parade” and “Lazy.”
--
Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant
will co-star in RKO’s production of
Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the
Man,” with an original score by
Oscar Strauss, the Viennese compos-
er. If you want to see another
version of the same story right
away, you can go to Metro’s
“The Chocolate Soldier,” with Nel-
son Eddy and Rise Stevens, of the
Metropolitan Opera company. It’s
Miss Stevens’ screen debut, and
Metro executives feel sure that the
public will take her to their hearts.
Remember the parting of the Red
sea in C. B. DeMille’s “The Ten
Commandments”—or the chariot
race in “Ben Hur”—or the earth-
quake in “San Francisco”? Mr. De-
Mille thinks he’s added a memo-
rable sequence to that list—the
squid fight in “Reap the Wild
Wind.” Ray Milland and John
Wayne, in diving suits, are explor-
ing the hull of a wrecked vessel in
a search for Susan Hayward when
they encounter the sea monster.
Mr. DeMille donned a diving suit
and directed the scenes, in a huge
tank. For other scenes in the pic-
ture he descended 20 feet into the
Pacific, to the ocean floor. Said it
was the only way he could get the
eerie realism that he required.
Who’d be your choice to portray
Will Rogers in Warner Bros, film
of his life, made from the book,
“Uncle Clem’s Boy”? At present
Stuart Erwin, Spencer Tracy and
Roy Rogers, Republic’s Western
star, are under consideration. It’s
said that Mrs. Rogers prefers
Tracy, though Erwin’s supporters
urge that he’s a better choice be-
cause he resembles the famous
comedian and philosopher.
ODDS AND ENDS—Paramount will
star Charles Boyer and Veronica Lake
in “Hong Kong,” a romantic story
played against modern, war-torn China
, . . Ginny Simms has just been made
an honorary colonel of Southern Cali-
fornia district, American Legion . . .
We hear that Tony Martin said he was
“ready and willing” to enter the army,
even though an appeal from his draft
classification had been filed . . . RKO’s
“Mexican Spitfire at Sea” brings you not
only the team of Lupe Velez and Leon
Erroll, but Zasu Pitts, Elizabeth Ris-
don, Charles (Buddy) Rogers. Eddie
Dunn and Harry Holman as well.
P/J TTERNS
SEWING CIRCLE
LET THE GOBBLER STRUT ITS STUFF!
(See Recipes Below)
THANKSGIVING
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This holiday is ours! As you bustle
about and plan this year’s Thanks-
giving dinner, re-
member this is
J the day we give
our thanks for the
bounteous harvest
of the year, for
the peace and the
VlWftyi- ^ prosperity, singu-
larly- ours. Re-
member, too, and
cherish the fore-
sight of the Pilgrims who had the
courage to start -carving out this
land of ours!
Yes, this holiday is ours, so let
it be filled with the spirit of the day
and wholehearted thanks.
Some foods are synonymous with
Thanksgiving without which the day
wouldn’t be complete, but don’t get
into a rut about having the same
dinner every year, vary the trim-
mings a bit and fascinate the family.
Thin wisps of croutons will in-
trigue if you serve them in the oy-
ster stew.
♦Oyster Stew.
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 pint oysters
4 tablespoons butter
1 quart milk
Salt and pepper
Put cleaned oysters, oyster liquor
Strained, butter and seasonings in a
saucepan and simmer gently until
oysters curl at the edges. Heat the
milk, add to the oysters and serve
at once.
Has the family becopie a trifle
weary of your old stuffing? Then
try this savory
new one with
yummy sausage
flavoring which
is right at home
with either tur-
key, goose, duck
or chicken. The
sausage stuffing will do a proud job
with stuffed veal, pork or shoulder
of lamb:
♦Sausage Stuffing.
(Makes 6 cups)
4 cups soft bread crumbs
% cup butter
3 tablespoons chopped onion
Vz teaspoon salt
Pepper
Vz teaspoon sage or thyme
Vz cup chopped celery
2 cups sausage in the bulk
Melt butter, add onion and cook
until it becomes yellow. Add bread
crumbs mixed with seasonings. Mix
in chopped celery and sausage. Cook
2 minutes, stirring constantly.
♦Turkey.
Small birds are allowed 25 to 30
minutes per pound for baking, large
birds, 22 to 25 minutes per pound.
Your oven should be set at 325 to
350 degrees.
♦Sweet Potato Puff.
(Serves 10 to 12)
4 cups mashed sweet potato
2 tablespoons fat
1 egg
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS
28% LESS NICOTINE
than the average of the 4 other
largest-selling brands tested—
less than any of them — according
to independent scientific tests
of the smoke itself!
Salt and pepper
Vz cup milk or Vi cup evaporated
milk and Vi cup water
Add the melted fat, seasonings and
milk to the potatoes. Beat the egg
separately, add yolk first and fold
in white to the potato. Place in a
buttered casserole dish, set in a
pan containing hot water and bake
15 to 50 minutes at 375 degrees un-
til light and puffy. Marshmallows
may be placed on top of casserole
during last 7 minutes of baking time.
With all the soft food of the meal,
you’ll want something crispy and
tart as a relish.
♦Cranberry-Orange Relish.
(Serves 12)
2 cups cranberries, cleaned, washed
2 oranges, whole
1 cup sugar
Grind all the fruit together by put-
ting through a coarse food grinder.
Mix the .ground fruit with sugar
and let stand about an hour before
serving.
♦Brussels Sprouts.
Brussels sprouts lend a bright
touch of green when served plain
with butter or crumbled, cooked
chestnuts. Pick the dead leaves off
the sprouts, then soak them in cold
salted water for Vz hour. Wash and
put in boiling water and let cook
until just tender about 15 to 17 min-
utes. Drain, reheat, and serve after
seasoning.
♦Magic Yeast Rolls.
3 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
y2 cup butter
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
y2 cup sugar (rolled in later)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
y2 cup milk
Vi cup hot water
2 packages granular yeast
Sift flour. Add to 1% cups of
flour the salt and shortening. Com-
bine as for pie crust. Combine milk
and hot water. When luke-warm,
add yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar.
Combine with first mixture; beat
until smooth. Cover and let stand
20 minutes. Add eggs, vanilla and
the rest of the flour. Stir until it
becomes a smooth, sticky dough,
but stiff. Tie dough into a clean
cloth (wring out in cold water first).
Drop in a pail of cool water. In an
hour the dough will rise to the top.
Remove and turn on a platter and
cut into pieces the size of an egg.
Roll in sugar and nut mixture. Twist
into figure eights. Shape and turn
onto a greased pan. Let stand 5
minutes and bake 10 minutes at 425
degrees F.
Remember how mother used to
make her pumpkin pie and tarts the
day before and
how good they al-
ways tasted after
they stood in the
cool pantry over-
night? Why not
try it this time?
It’ll save you a
great deal Of fuss
on the big day it-
self besides giving the tarts a
chance to mellow and ripen for ex.
tra good flavor.
♦Pumpkin Filling.
(Makes 1 large pie or 10 to 12 tarts)
1% cups prepared pumpkin
2/3 cup brown sugar
, 1 teaspoon cinnamon
y2 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
IV2 cups milk
For fresh pumpkin, steam or bake
until soft and put through a sieve.
Add remaining ingredients in order
given. Turn into crust lined pie
tin or tart pans and bake first in a
very hot (450 degrees) oven, then
reduce temperature to 325 degrees
and bake 25 minutes.
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LYNN SAYS:
To clean the turkey, singe it
first, then remove the pin feath-
ers with tweezers. Scrub the out-
side with water. The inside
should be wiped with a damp
cloth. If there is any foreign
odor, a half teaspoon of baking
soda may be added to the water
with which the turkey is
scrubbed.
Allow 1 pound of turkey to each
person. Allow 1 cup of stuffing to
each pound of turkey. When
stuffing, be sure to put some in
the neck for this will give the
bird a good full shape. Fasten
the skin from the neck to the
back. Stuff the cavity but do not
pack since dressing swells.
For good roasting and easier
carving truss the bird, by insert-
ing a long needle through breast,
through rib at the base of the
thigh. Draw the cord through
and bring the string across by
pulling the cord through the open-
ings formed by folding the wings
triangularly onto the. back. Tie
the cords.
Insert the needle through the
drumstick joints, bring the cord
around the tail, through the back-
bone, and tie securely. Remove
cord before serving.
THIS WEEK’S MENU
♦Oyster Stew Croutons
♦Roast Turkey
♦Sausage Stuffing
♦Cranberry Orange Relish
♦Sweet Potato Puff
♦Brussels Sprouts
♦Hot Rolls
Celery Curls Pickled Beets
♦Pumpkin or Mincemeat Tarts
Hot Coffee
♦Recipe Given
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1477-B
C'EW outfits can serve with great-
* er usefulness in fall and winter
wardrobes than the jerkin, skirt
and blouse and you can make
these for yourself with Pattern No.
1477-B at very slight expense. You
can wear this costume day after
day to the office or to school, al-
ways with a fresh blouse or inter-
esting sweater. It will be ideal
for sports events or travel.
In appearance it is youthfulness
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The skirt is of plain gored con-
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Pattern includes a classic blouse
with convertible neckline and long
and short sleeves.
The jerkin and skirt lend them-
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Contrasting blouses may be of
washable cottons, rayon crepes,
silk crepes or sheers.
* * *
Barbara Beli Pattern No. 1477-B is de-
signed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Cor-
responding bust measurements 30, 32, 34,
36 and 38. Size 14 (32) jerkin requires
% yards 54-inch material, skirt V/8 yards
54-inch material and blouse with short
sleeves 1% yards 35-inch material. Send
your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
Room 1324
311 VV. Whacker Dr. Chicago
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
Pattern No.............Size.........
Name ...............................
Address .............................
A house-full of smoking pleas-
ure is the gay, new Christmas gift
package of Camel Cigarettes now
being featured by local dealers.
Designed in the shape of a house,
trimmed even to the snow on the
roof, this colorful package con-
tains four “flat fifties”—200 Camel
Cigarettes, America’s favorite. No
wrapping is needed. There is even
a gift card printed right on the
package. For those smokers on
your Christmas list, give Camels
and be sure your gift is appreci-
ated. Camels are also available
in the regular carton of ten pack-
ages of “20’s”—200 cigarettes. The
carton, too, is handsomely
wrapped and ready to give.—Adv.
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