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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Con.olldnted Feature,.—WNU Release.
■^EW YORK.—Most of the Allied
blows In China and Burma and
India are being struck from the air.
Lots of them will continue to be, a
_ fact which
Gen. Oliver Buty stcps up the
Readying Forcee importance
For Pu$h on Jape ot th| u’ ®’
r Air Service
command In that region and of Brig.
Gen. Robert C. Oliver, its direct-
ing head.
Oliver's Job Is to muster the
supplies and men and equip-
ment needed to maintain the
Tenth and Chennault’s swash-
buckling Fourteenth, and all the
other air forces now In the area
or due there when the big push
starts against the Japs. A year
ago he had a half dozen men,
a warehouse or so, a couple of
trucks. Now his warehouses are
all about, his trucks run in bat-
talions and he counts his men
In hundreds, even thousands.
Oliver is a thin, confident West
Pointer, 41 years old. He weighs
> a scant 145 pounds, works 11 hours
a day, seven days a week and is
disarmingly friendly. When he no-
tices a strange private he is likely
to stroll over, ask the man's name,
give his own and shake hands heart-
ily.
Army-born, with a father who
served in the medical corps dur-
ing the Spanish-Amcrican war,
he went first with the Infantry
after West Point, but finally set-
tled down in the air force. His
pilot score-sheet shows 3,600
hours in the air. Some of these
were piled up early last year in
North Africa, but he didn't down
any Germans. Ills wife and son
are living In Montgomery, Ala.
It is a fine, quiet town to serve
out the duration and the cocoa-
nut cake sold In the community
market will certainly please
Robert Jr,
*TpHE game of musical chairs
A which Hitler has been playing
with his war chiefs through a series
of setbacks in Africa and Russia,
_ ,, 1, ,, , , now sends
Can Haider Hold Gen.Franz
All Comers Along Haider to the
Po?~*64 Question
say that he is chief of staff again.
He was tossed out last Christmas-
tide for Kurt Zeitzler, the Nazi plug-
ugly, a switch which would be paral-
leled here if General Marshall were
ousted for a modem Quantrell. But
now he is back, just in time to plug,
If he can, the hole left by Italy’s
collapse.
Haider has a cheery smile and
this, along with thick glasses,
gives him a schoolmasterish
air. But he is a soldier with
40 years training, the son of a
general, and in his own right
a sound strategist and a bold
tactician. Hitler turned him out
with a curt, "You may go,” after
failures in Russia, but it was
Hitler’s plan that failed, not
Haider’s.
Some people who toured pre-war
Germany are fond of saying that the
kindly Bavarians should not be
counted among the toughest Nazis.
But Haider is a Bavarian and though
he was not tough enough for Hitler
he left bitter memories all through
the Ukraine.
The big question is whether he
Is tough enough to hold the re-
gion around the River Po In
Northern Italy against the Allies.
That is where he is expected to
stand, although once again the
plan Is Hitler’s, not his. On his
own plan he would refuse
battle until the lofty barrier of
the Alps stood as his first line
ot defense instead of worrisome-
ly at bis back.
-♦-
'T'HE United Nations commission
* to draw up true bills against
Axis war criminals will, beyond
any doubt, let go with both barrels.
Will Make Legal ps0 °°slble®
The Indictment of and that
Axis War Culprits mif,ht be
pretty soon.
But now that Sir Cecil Hurst has
been named Britain’s accuser the
culprits will, at least, have the cold
comfort of knowing that the shoot-
ing is entirely legal.
Sir Cecil has been a lawyer for
BO years, just. For a long while
he was legal advisor of the Brit-
ish foreign office and since 1929
has had a scat in The Hague
court, succeeding Charles Evan
Hughes; he was elected its pres-
ident In 1933. But he Is no
dry-as-dust. Awhile back he
was over here for some distin-
guished goings-on at Princeton.
A few Americans present were a
mite squeamish about mentioning
the remote but remembered trouble
centering around the year 1776. Sir
Cecil wasn’t. He cased a ticklish
moment by declaring cheerfully that
Britain in that distant year, or there-
abouts, had got a mighty good les-
son, one which had helped her ever
, js’nce with other colonies.
' * Seventy-three now, Sir Cecil sup-
ports the popular notion that an
Englishman doesn’t tear up his roots
easily. He was born in Horsham.
He still has his home there, (hough
pot the same one.
J
Kathleen Norris Says:
The Despairing Bride
Dell Syndicate.—WNU Feature*.
He ivent off to camp and Louis came home. When we met again it was to
hare the knowledge that my marriage was a mistake grow daily stronger.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
“y:
A r
OU have never re-
ceived a letter from a
more despairing heart
than mine,” writes Marie
Porter, from a great war in-
dustries center in Michigan.
“I have so completely
wrecked my life, and my
chances of happiness in life,
that if we were face to face I
could not tell you my story.
But I can write it, and ask for
advice, and I know you will
save me if you can. Many
times I have thought of end-
ing it all, but although I have
not prayed for years, I
was raised in an atmosphere of
strict religious belief and I hesitate
to kill myself—it seems to me a
grave sin. And I have not actually
sinned, foolish ahd weak as I cer-
tainly am. I was 18 in June.
"Seven months ago, working as a
riveter. I met a young man who was
destined to leave for the army last
July. We fell in love and were
married I have no family, and his
is in Oregon, where they have asked
me to come and stay. Louis is a
fine man, quiet, and without any
educational or cultural advantages;
his first letters were somewhat of a
shock to me, for although he is 28,
he writes like a boy of ten. But we
thought ourselves in love and would
not wait to try our affection by de-
lay or absence.
"After he left I met another man,
a different type. This man is vital,
amusing, successful and popular. He
is far better educated than Louis.
When I met him I did not tell him
I was married; it seemed a joke
then. It was at a service dance; he
supposed me to be even younger
than I am, and as the few girls I
knew didn't know anything of my
private life, he suspected nothing.
We went about together after that,
always, may I say, with strict pro-
priety, and presently discovered our-
selves to be really in love. This was
quite different from the first affair;
It caused me as much misery as joy,
and I knew no one ever would mean
to me what Jack did. He went off
to camp and Louis came home.
When we met again it was to have
the knowledge that my marriage
was a mistake grow daily stronger.
The frantic distress this caused me,
you may Imagine; Louis suspected
nothing and was completely happy;
we spent every hour of his leave
together. He was being sent to Af-
rica immediately afterward. I did
not have the courage to tell him of
my feeling for Jack, but when Jack
in turn came home he persuaded
me to write the absolute truth to
Louis; that I had been foolish to
marry so young and so hastily, and
that I wanted him to set me free.
I wrote quite a long letter, making
it an gentle and affectionate as I
could, and Jack and I began to plan
our marriage.
Baby to Complicate Situation.
Two weeks ago a dreadful suspi-
cion was confirmed by an old kind
doctor who is here at the plant; I
am going to have a baby. I know
nothing of babies, I have never had
anything to do with one, and I am
sick with nervousness and horror at
the mere Idea. My letter to Louis is
on Its way, may not reach him for
weeks, and Jack has gone, gone
without one word of good-by, dis-
gusted with me, nnd no wonderl
Having no home and no family I
do not know which way to turn; I
can go on working until after Christ-
mas-then what? Divorced from
Louis, with a baby to support, what
can I do? I think and think, and
my head spins around, and I feel ill
and giddy most of the time. Jock's
consternation when I told him left
me In no doubt of what he feels: he
WARTIME DILEMMA
She is married to a soldier
tvitli very little educational
background. During his ab-
sence she met another young
man whom she jell was more
her type. She wrote to her hus-
band asking him to set her
free. But soon afterward she
discovered she was going to be
a mother. The second man has
gone to camp disgusted that
she did not break from her
husband sooner. Her letter is
on the way, and so is the baby.
At 18 the girl is so upset she
feels on the verge of suicide.
She asks Kathleen Norris’ ad-
vice and gets it.
said that I should have told Louis
the minute he got home, and all this
could not have happened. Please
advise me and save me from de-
spair.”
Poor little 18-year-old, you have
certainly made a sad mess of your
life so far! But 18 is not very old,
in fact, twice 18 is not very old, and
you have time ahead to grow wiser
and build up to happiness and self-
respect again out of this wreckage.
The first consideration now is your
baby, and if you don’t realize that
today I can assure you that you will
realize it in March, when you have
the little creature in your arms.
Since Louis is the father, and Louis
loves you, the best first step is to
write Louis the truth. That you met
Jack, liked Jack, liked him even
to the point of considering marrying
him, and that it was under that par-
ticular emotional stress that you
wrote Louis to ask a divorce.
Write Husband About Plans.
Go on to say that everything is
changed now. A new responsibility
—a new prospect has come. There
is going to be a child. And for that
child's sake you are never going to
see Jack again, you are going to
live quietly, planning for the baby
in the spring, and waiting for Louis
to come home. Say that you are
sorry, and hope he will destroy your
letter and forget it; remind him that
you are very young, and confused by
the exciting conditions in which you
are living in war time.
He will write you forgivingly, I'm
sure. If you can possibly go to his
parents early in the new year, I
would do so. And if you do go to the
farm, and it sounds a comfortable
place, make them love you; set
yourself to winning them, and to be-
ing a good wife and mother.
As for loving Jack; you are no
more sure of that than you were of
loving Louis only a few months ago.
At 18 you are hardly sure of any
emotional reaction, let alone two
love affairs. You have plunged much
too young Into the realities of life,
and life revenges itself upon you by
presenting you with its most
poignant reality; that of mother-
hood. Nothing matters now except
that you fit yourself to meet this
challenge as worthily, cheerfully,
normally as you can. You are mak-
ing a high salary, put aside some-
thing every week for your expenses
when the baby comes: look about
you for some place where you cun
board, and perhaps board the baby,
too, and go on working afterward.
Girl Must Grow Up.
If Louis writes you coldly, indig-
nant at your vaccilations, as well
he may, face that situation, too. In
other words, try to grow up and be
a woman, rather than a bewildered
child stumbling from one mistake
to another. Don't say anything more
about a divorce, should Louis an-
grily agree to one. Instead write
him cheerful letters about yourself,
about his parents und his home, and
eventually about the baby, and let
all serious decisions wait until he
comes home again
TO YpUR
(Mf/i
A DR. JAMES W. BURTON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
PATCH TEST FOR
TUBERCULOSIS
Parents do not like the Idea of any
test that means puncturing the
child's skin with a hypodermic nee-
dle. Needless to say, the child dis-
likes the idea even
more. However, the
parents realize that
It is Important to
learn If their young-
ster is of the type
likely to develop tu-
berculosis, so that
methods to prevent
this may be imme-
diately used.
For years what
known as the patch
test on the skin was
used, which meant
that tuberculin was placed on the
skin and a patch of adhesive tape
placed over It. This was considered
• reliable test but what is called
the Mantoux test, where hypodermic
needle Injects tuberculin under the
skin, is now in more general use.
In an effort to test the value of
the patch test, Dr. Henry A. Reis-
man, Jamaica, N. Y., and Maurice
Grozin, Flushing, New York, used it
In 1,000 patients attending a hos-
pital clinic. All were given both the
patch and the Mantoux tests. The
results were recorded in the Ameri-
can Journal of Diseases of Children.
The patch test consists of mois-
tening a piece of paper toweling with
tuberculin, allowing it to dry. This
piece of paper is placed on a small
square of adhesive tape and then ap-
plied to the skin with paper mois-
tened with tuberculin next to the
skin. This is allowed to remain for
one or two days. If the test is posi-
tive (child more likely to develop
tuberculosis) the skin is red, with
little raised blisters which may
break down. In the Mantoux test
the skin will likewise be greatly
reddened if child is positive.
Drs. Reisman and Grozin state
that the patch test has the following
advantages. 1. It is painless and
does not frighten the child. 2. It re-
quires no boring, puncturing,
scratching or rubbing of skin. 3. It
requires no needles or syringes. 4.
There are no instruments to steri-
lize. 5. There is no danger of in-
fection. 6. There is less risk of dam-
aging the tissues. 7. There is no
fear of a reaction where patch is ap-
plied or any shock to the system.
8. Technic of the method is simple.
9. The size of the reaction will be no
larger than surface of skin covered
by adhesive tape.
• • •
Fever May Indicate
Infection Is Present
HOUSEHOLD
MEMO$...lyJwn
......v.v ...v v... • ........
Plan Day’s Meals
Using Basic Seven
As Your Guide
The cause of any rise in tempera
ture may be due to some functional
disturbance, some natural or harm-
less condition such as a stomach up-
set—or to some infection in the
body.
How can the physician tell if the
rise in temperature is due to some
natural or harmless disturbance or
to infection?
In the Wisconsin Medical Journal,
Dr. Max J. Fox, Milwaukee, states
that persistent low grade fever or
rise in temperature occasionally fol-
lows some infection for some time.
If this rise in temperature is pro-
longed for two or more weeks after
the infection has passed, what is
called the pyrexia (high tempera-
ture) test should first be tried to
find out the causes.
The temperature in children
seems to go up and down readily
without apparent cause, and chil-
dren in whom the rise in tempera-
ture is due to some functional or
natural condition, not to infection,
should be allowed to be on their feet.
The pyrexia test is as follows:
The patient is given a series of four
3-5 grain doses of one of the coal
tar products—acetyl salicylic acid,
antipyrin, acetanilid or others—at
four-hour intervals and the tempera-
ture is recorded every two hours.
The usual effect is a fall in tempera-
ture in two hours after each dose
and a rise by the end of four hours.
The patient is then given no drug
for 24 hours, to allow the drug to
get out of system, and is then given
a sleeping or quieting drug. The
temperature is recorded every two
hours for the following 24 hours. If
the temperature is normal or below
normal for 10 to 18 hours, it is as-
sumed that the fever is not due to
infection and the patient is allowed
to go about his usual work or ac-
tivities.
This is a simple method of finding
out whether or not any infection is
present. If present, child remains
in bed and does not spread infection.
If no infection is present, the child
can return to school safely.
* • •
QUESTION BOX
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Menu
•Sausage and Succotash Pie
Pear and Grape Salad
Honey-Orange Bread
Lemon Cups Beverage
•Recipe Given
the re-
help
Utilize a little bit of meat with
vegetables and tuck under a flavor-
ful, flaky piecrust and serve the
family a meat pic. All vegetables
and meat are served in one cas-
serole and save serving dishes.
Is there a blueprint or plan for
making menus? That’s a question
homemakers fre-
quently put to the
food experts. Yes,
there is. Suppose
you are given a
list of foods to be
included In your
daily diets, a sort
of general plan that you can adapt
to every day's needs. Can you make
out your menus? Here is the blue-
print:
Group I. Green and yellow vege-
tables. At least one of each kind
should be included daily to meet
vitamin and mineral requirements
of the diet.
Group II. At least one serving of
oranges, grapefruit or tomatoes to
get enough Vitamin C in the diet.
A good time to get this requirement
in is during breakfast—with the
fruit.
Group III. Potatoes or other fruit
and vegetables to add more min-
erals and vitamins to the diet.
Group IV. Milk or milk products.
This may be in the form of milk
(1 pint per day for adults, 1 quart
for children), fresh or evaporated,
and cheese.
Group V. Meat, poultry, fish, eggs
or dried beans, peas, nuts or pea-
nut butter. This group is needed to
build and repair body tissue.
Group VI. Bread, flour and ce-
reals are required to meet energy
needs and the vi-
tamin B needs of
the body. Be sure
that any of these
that you use are
whole • grain, en-
riched or re-
stored. You would
have to eat four
times as much ordinary bread, for
example, to get as much nutritional
value as one loaf of enriched bread
contains.
Group VII. Butter or fortified mar-
garine. Use some of either every
day to give energy and vitamin A.
That's the plan. Use food out of
every group, every day.
The best way to divide the groups
into three balanced meals will run
something like this:
For breakfast: Citrus fruit, cereal,
eggs, milk or beverage, toast.
For lunch or dinner: Meat (poul-
try or fish, etc.), vegetable in ei-
ther group I or III, milk or milk
products.
For dinner or supper: Meat, poul-
try or fish, vegetable or fruit from
groups I, II, or III. Milk or milk
product, and also bread and butter
from groups VI and VII.
An easy way to plan the menus is
to write down the foods and the cor.
responding number of the group of
food from which it comes. If you do
not use one or two of the groups
during one meal, pick them up at
the next. No chance for slips, here!
Keep one eye on the plan and the
other on the ration books while do-
ing this and you can meet
quirements of both.
Now, here is some concrete
to stretch those red points:
•Sausage and Succotash Pie.
(Serves 4 to 6)
1 pound pork sausage meat
3 cups rooked, dried or fresh lima
beans
l'.i to 2 cups cooked corn
2 tablespoons red pepper, chopped
2 tablespoons shortening
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
Lightly fry sausage. Drain well.
Combine with vegetables. Make
white sauce by
blending flour in-
to melted short-
ening. Add milk
slowly, stirring
constantly. Cook \
until thickened.
Season, then add
to meat mixture. Pour into baking
dish. Top with pastry. Bake in a
hot oven <425 degrees) 30 to 40 min-
utes.
Pork and Apple Turnovers.
(Makes 4 to 6)
Combine 1 cup chopped apple with
1 cup chopped cooked pork. Roll
pastry thin and cut in 6-inch squares.
Heap half of square with pork and
apple mixture. Fold over diagonal-
ly. Moisten edges and press to-
gether. Prick top. Bake in a hot
oven 30 to 40 minutes.
These ham and asparagus cutlets
give a new twist to congenial and
favorite foods:
Q.—What would cause lumps to
appear in back of the ear?
A.—Little lumps behind ear may
be enlarged glands due to a scratch
or sore higher up on the head.
Q.—What causes nervous indiges-
tion?
A.—Most cases of nervous Indi-
gestion arc due to nervousness and
emotional disturbances. Your physi-
cian can arrange for an X-ray ex-
amination and learn 'J any organic
condition is present.
Lynn Says:
What they do: The basic seven
food requirements are so made
up as to take care of the body’s
demand for certain types of food.
For example, proteins, miner-
als and water are all essential
to building torn parts of the body
and keeping them in repair. They
are needed for tissues, bones,
muscles, blood and other fluids.
Energy for breathing, heart ac-
tion, circulation of the blood, and
other bodily functions is supplied
by fuel foods—foods rich in fats
and sugar.
To keep up the body’s resist-
ance to disease, to keep it in good
running order, Is the function of
regulation and protective foods—
these are the viiamins, minerals,
[water and roughage.
Stuffed Pancake Rolls, Ham and
Asparagus Cutlets or Hamburgers
are low in point-value but give plen-
ty of zip and slick-to-the-ribs quality
to your meals. Have them often to
give variety to menus.
Ham and Asparagus Cuticts.
(Serves 6)
l'a cups cooked, chopped asparagus
I!i cups diced, boiled ham
!i cup fine bread crumbs
2 tablespoons shortening
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
Mix asparagus with ham and
crumbs. Melt shortening, blend in
flour Stir in milk. Cook until thick.
Add to first mixture, season to taste.
Chill. Shape mixture to resemble
chops. Dip in crumbs, then egg di-
luted with water, again in crumbs.
Heat enough fat in skillet to cover
bottom of skillet generously. Fry
cutlets slowly until golden brown.
Serve with Cheese Sauce: Melt 2
tablespoons shortening, blend in 3
tablespoons flour, stir in l',4 cups
milk. Add l1/. cups grated cheese.
Cook until cheese melts.
Stuffed Pancake Rolls.
(Serves 4 to 6)
2 cups flour
teaspoon salt
154 teaspoons baking powder
1 beaten egg
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons melted shortening
l’a cups chopped cooked lamb
1 cup leftover gravy
’/. cup grated cheese
Sift dry ingredients. Stir in egg,
milk and shortening. Melt enough
fat in skillet to cover bottom. Make
6 large thin pancakes 5 inches
across. Brown on both sides. Mix
meat with gravy. Heap meat in
center of each pancake. Roll up.
Sprinkle with cheese. Heat in oven
until cheese melts.
Savory Cabbage.
(Serves 6)
Shred 1 small head of cabbage
into 3 tablespoons of fat in a skillet,
cover and cook slowly 15 minutes.
Add 1 cup cubed salami or cervelat,
salt and pepper and heat thoroughly.
Spinach.
Cook late spinach with bacon rind
cut in snippets. Buying slab bacon
with rind saves points.
Greens,
Chop 2 cups cooked greens with 1
tablespoon onion juice, 2 tablespoons
horseradish, U cup sour cream, salt
and pepper. Serve on toast with
crisp bacon.
Potato Salad.
Add 1 tablespoon ripe dill seeds
to potato salad and serve cold with
sliced tongue.
A re you having a time stretching
meats? II rite to Miss Lynn Chambers
jar practical help, at II cstern Newspa-
per Union, 210 South Despluincs Street,
Chicago, III. Don't forget to enclose a
slumped, self-addressed envelope for
your reply.
neleaacd by Western Nawaoaoar Union.
5595
A PATCHWORK bathmat, seal
** cover and tied-on bathstool
cover made of yellow, pink and
green flower patchwork—narrow
striped material is used for tha
ruffle. Stool cover is 15 inches
across—rug is 24 inches. Make
the flower design of scrap ma-
terials. Do the quilting designs on
your sewing machine. Set makes
a colorful, inexpensive gift.
• • •
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly mort
time is required in filling orders for a
few of the most popular pattern numben.
Pattern No. 5593 is 15 cents, plus one
cent to cover cost of mailing. Send your
order, together with your name, address
and pattern number to:
HOME NEEDLEWORK
530 South Wells St. Chicago.
NO ASPIRIN
can do more for you, so why pay more?
World'slargestsellerat lOf. 36 tablets20^
100 for only 35t. Get St. Joseph Aspirin.
Sea Barnacle
The barnacle is a sea animal, ■
bit smaller than a man’s thumb.
END CONSTIPATION
THIS NATURAL WAY!
Millions now take Simple
Fresh Fruit Drink instead
of Harsh Laxatives 1
It's lemon and water. Yeti—juat
the juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon in a
glass of water—first thing on
arising.
Taken first thing in the morning,
this wholesome drink stimulates
bowel action in a natural way—
assures most people of prompt,
normal elimination.
Why not change to this healthful
habit? Lemon and water is good
for you. Lemons arc among the
richest sources of vitamin C, which
combats fatigue, helps you resist
colds and infections. They also
supply B, and P. They alkalinize,
aid appetite and digestion. Lemon
and water has a fresh tang, too—
clears the mouth, wakes you up!
Try this grand wake-up drink
10 mornings. See if it doesn’t help
you! Use California Sunkist
Lemons.
Burmese Alphabet
There are but 19 letters in th*
Burmese alphabet.
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
1 RUBBER
Fifty-three per cent of the
cars on highways continue to
waste rubber, for officials re-
port that that number con-
tinue to bo driven over 39
mph. A year ago 91 par cant
of tho cars traveled faster
than tha rubber conservation
limit.
Kok-SagyZ/ rubber-bearing Rus-
sian dandelion, was planted and
grown In 100 different test local-
ities in the U. S. last year. The
B. F. Goodrich Company Is aiding
In this experiment.
If your tiros show unduo wear
at the center of the tread/ it it
a signal that you are overin-
flating. This It as much a rub-
ber waster as underinflation*
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