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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, IND., FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1947

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From where I sit... ii/ Joe Marsh

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Folks sometimes criticize os small-town editors for the way we often play up “little things” ahead of big ... human, local news in place of world events. I can’t deny it. Read the Clarion and you’ll learn about the Martins’ golden wedding anniversary . .. about the community sing down by the river ... the husking bee at Sober Hoskins’, where neighbors helped husk the corn, and later drank sparkling beer together. “Little things?” Maybe. But from where I sit, they add up to the

bigger things we call America: The friendliness of small towns ... the helping hand ... the respect for -me another’s rights. And above all the love of fellowship and freedom — whether it’s freedom to speak one’s mind or choose between a glass of beer or buttermilk. I figure that if everybody looks after the “little things,” maybe the bigger things will take care of themselves. \ V

“Nursery Chef” Is Revolutionary Chicago, 111. — Step down from that high chair, youngun, and ring for room service. The man’ll be up in a jiffy. The bell hop banquet, dished up in less than four minutes and served in a new gadget called the nursery chef, was demonstrated for the first time today at a loop hotel. Michele and Christine Douglas, chubby two-year-old twins of a Chicago crooner, were willing guinea pigs. They gurgled approval as Chef Paul Brunet, played bell boy, set before them meals of chopped liver, carrots, potatoes, milk and spinach. The kids even spooned up the spinach without protest. Nursery chef was no accident. It was invented by a man who wearied of washing a sinkful of pans to feed the kids while his wife was sick. The product consists of four parts. There is a specially designed pan, which forms the bottom. There is a plastic tray, fitcontainers for food. A plastic cup fits into one opening in the tray, and there is a detachable handle. You stir up a quick meal like this: Fill the pan half full of water, and place the food in the tray and milk in the cup. The tray is placed on the pan when the water boils. The meal is ready for baby in three to four minutes. The tray, lifted from the pan, sits on the bottoms of the containers snugly in any high chair. The tray, by the way, won’t burn the youngster because the plastic holds the outside heat to body temperature. Sponsors of the nursery chef got out pad and pencil and did some fancy figuring on how the product will save mother’s time — or that of a hotel chef. You wash only the tray and cup. The N. C. people figure that would same mom the job of scrubbing about 4,000 pans a year —per baby. Enough time saved, they say, to give the lady of the house a two weeks’ vacation, or maybe four extra hours a week for bridge. Papa, in case he’s called upon to dry the dishes regularly, can do his own figuring in terms of extra time on the golf course or a few hands of penny-ante with the boys.

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McKeesport, Pa.—Two kindly old sisters who never married are “getting along -fine” with a houseful of orphaned children. Gertrude and Barbara Beardmore have made a full-time job of mothering orphaned babies for the past three years. The entire second floor of their big home is converted into a nursery. Most babies are brought to us when they are a few days old,” Gertrude said. “We keep them for ten months or so, study their habits and make them strong and healthy.” As a hobby, the sisters photograph the babies at various ages. Before each child leaves they have a studio portrait taken for remembrance. “We always hate to see them go when they’re adopted,” Gertrude said. Gertrude is a licensed foster mother. Sister Barbara’s-13 years of nursing experience has proved invaluable. “We get along fine,” Barbara said. “At night, after the babies are tucked in, we wash the diapers and other clothing, then we have all day to spend with the children.”

Biggest Free Meal In World

Chicago, 111. — The good peopeople of Forreston, 111., are fixin’ to ladle up the biggest free meal in the world come Sept. 18. Charles Lang, one of the pillars of the town of 1,100, said over the phone today he wouldn’t be surprised to see between 20,000 and 30,000 people show up, with their lunch hooks out. The hoe-down is sponsored by the Forreston American Legion and all sorts of things are planned. There’ll be a parade, led by a queen, speeches, a flock of vaudeville acts, a big dance — and the festival dinner. And what do you reckon they’re going to serve? Sauerkraut and weiners, it being the annual sauerkraut day there. Lang figures it’ll take two tons of kraut, a ton of weiners, 350 gallons of coffee and buns and slabs of rye bread by the thousands to feed the free-loaders. The spokesman had to admit,

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though, for the record, that the kraut served won’t be like the old-timers used to prepare it for their table. “That took a bit of doing,” he said, and reeled off the following recipe: The pioneers waited until the cabbage was ripe and piled it in baskets before a large wooden board. With a long knife, razored at the tip, the women folks would whack away expertly until it was properly shredded. Then 20-gallon crocks were hauled out and about four or five inches of the shreds placed in the bottom. A handful of salt was pitched on top of the heap and another four or five inches of cabbage added, and so on. The old-timers used to lift up their long skirts, pull off their shoes and stomp down the whole business with their bare feet. Today, a press is used. Something with a rocfc. on top. This was allowed to stand for about a month until a brine formed, and then it was ready for the kettle. At the big party this year, the hometowners will eat at their own homes and cqpk their own meals. They want the company to get its fill. And besides they don’t like weiners with their

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Summer Cinderellas Summer’s wealth of vegetables are teeming into the markets now, painting the stalls with a blaze of brilliant glory. Golde» nuggets of com come swathed in a wrapping of tender-green leaves. Plum-royal egg plant is plump and proud as a reigning dowager. Cucumbers are fine bold blades, flaunting mantels of dark green satin. There are billowing baskets of spinach. And the tomatoes are like gay little crimson cushions. It promises a riotous pleasure to the eye, and a world of joyous satisfaction to the palate. Probably there is no better way to enjoy this bounteous harvest than to cook vegetables briefly, then bless them with honest butter. But constant serving of this forthright method palls. Even the most ardent vegetable fan soon finds this dull and, while eating from a sense of duty, dreams of finer savors. So the wise cook, eager to keep her family’s interest keen throughout the season, will take a leaf from the suggestions here and try some of these simple secrets for turning plain-Janes into Cinder ellas: Baked Com Creole In— 2 tablespoons butter saute until tender— 2 tablespoons chopped onion 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper. Combine with— Dash pepper 2 cups drained, cooked, wholekernel com 1 11-oz. can condensed cream of tomato soup, undiluted. Pour in a shallow baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F.) 30 minutes. Serves 4-5. Cucumbers in Mushroom Sauce Cover— 5 medium cucumbers, peeled and diced into 1-inch nieces with— 2 teaspoons salt. Let stand for 30 minutes. Drain. I*- ‘r 2 tablespoons butter saute— 1 medium onion, chopped. Add drained cucumbers. Cook for 10 minutes. Add— 1 n-oz. can condensed cream «f mushroom soup, undiluted. Mix. Heat thoroughly. Serves 6. „ Gumbo Corn Combine— 2 cups drained, whole-kernel corn 1 11-oz. can condensed gumbo creole soup, undiluted. Heat 10 minutes. Serves 3 to 4. Savory Egg Plant Slice in %-inch slices— » 1 small egg plant. Arrange flat in a shallow long baking dish. Combine— 1 11-oz. can condensed cream o* tomato soup, undiluted 2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar Dash pepper. Pour over egg plant. Sprinkle with— Bread crumhs. .i. —*— ^ Bake, uncovered, in a moderate oven (350° F.) for 35 minutes or until egg plant is tender. Serves 4 to 5. \ Spinach Loaf Combine, mixing well— 3 cups (2 lbs. raw) drained, finely chopped cooked spinach 3 tablespoons butter, melted 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 3 tablespoons pure cider vinegar 1% teaspoons salt 3 eggs, slightly beaten. Pour into a greased baking dish, patting in firmly. Place dish in pan containing hot water. Bake in l slow oven (325°F.) 1 hour. Serves 6

SEPTEMBER 17th is the 160th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States—universally regarded as the finest expression ever made of a free people to govern themselves, and provide for the liberties of generations yet unborn. Upon the fundamental principles foOnd in the Constitution have been built the most productive and most powerful free government on earth. Within its framework has grown the highest living standards and the greatest freedom for men to live their c^vn lives unoppressed, and unafraid.

sauerkraut up Forreston way. Spareribs are better, they say. o Lady Lumberjack Describes Work Chicago, 111. — A lady lumberjack blew into the Big Town today and described the wonders of the logging business. It was pretty interesting. There’s dough in it too, and if I can find my tin pants and undercutter, I may strike out for Oregon pretty soon. Evelyn Downing, who is known to the hard-bitten loggers of the wooly Pacific Northwest as “Pauline Bunyon,” was here for the American Lumber Congress. And she proved she knows as much about trees, from the bark in, as the men folks. The interview took place in the Pine Room of the Congress Hotel. Before she sat down and lit a cigarette, the “Lady Jack” looked the joint over and threw up her hands. “Holy H. Smoke,” she said (or something like that,) “The Pine Room — with oak paneling!” “Pauline Bunyan” learned her trade the hard way — out there in the woods working shoulder to shoulder with the men. She married a “Jack,” Harry E. Downing and together they operate a lumber camp at Lebanon, Ore., for the Gilbert Logging Company. Mrs. Downing doesn’t have to go into the woods every day any more — she’s the boss. But she knows her business. She explained some of the terms. “Tin” pants, for instance, are the heavy duck britches the men wear for protection against the rain and the cold. An “undercutter” is a special saw used to get under a stubborn log and hack away upside down. A “donkey” is a diesel-driven machine to haul logs. A “hook tender” is the boss of the crew in the woods. A “whistle punk” is

a man who goes around the woods blowing a whistle to signal the men when to stop or get a move on. Time was, she said, when the lumberjack was the toughest kind of a low character, who beat his woman and kicked the gong around on a Saturday night. “But the ‘Jack’ of today is nice people,” she said, “although he’s still a swell happy-go-lucky fellow. I like the company of loggers or I wouldn’t have married one.” “Pauline Bunyan” was half an hour late for the interview. She had been down in tfte beauty parlor getting her hair and face fixed up for city folks.”

ting the piano keys since he was j Japan, said that in the first year a toddler of three. And in April of the three-year drive of his

he was excused from his freshman high school classes to show the folks at New York’s Carnegie Hall what he can do. He impressed a lot of important people. So when he came home, the idea of forming his own symphony popped into his head—as if he hadn’t been thinking about it for years. The orchestra had its first rehearsal the other night at Shedd Park auditorium, which the Cicago park district has lent to the enterprising youngster, rent free. “We worked on the first movement of Schubert’s “Unfinished,” he said. “It was a little brassy in spots, but we’ll work it all out. I’ve got those musicians working my way. We’re not going to appear in public, though, until we are polished. Next spring, may-

be.”

Trouble with James Petrillo— the Caesar of the musician’s un-

ion?

Not if Zenon can help it. “But I’m going to have a talk with Jim about it,” he said. “One of these days when I get a little time.”

Pity Poor Boss When He Is Mad

Master of Baton At the Age of 13 Chicago, HI, — The 70 musicians of the Chopin Symphony orchestra of Chicago have all the respect in the world for their new conductor. “In fact,” he said today, “they ‘sir’ me all over the place and do everytihng I say.” The conductor is an ambitious baton swinger of Polish extraction, Master Zenon Tuczynski— aged 13. It’s his orchestra from the first fiddle player on nis left to the guy in the back row who bangs on the kettle drums, and he expects great things from the new organization. Zenon personally selected each one of the musicians from the 1,000 members of high school and college orchestras in the Chicago area. “First I called all the schools,” he said slyly, “and asked for a list of their musicians. Then I did a little snooping. I found out from the conductors who were the best violinists, oboe players, French hornists and so forth. I got the best in my outfit.” Zenon himself is an accomplished musician. He has been hit-

Chicago, 111. — Pity the boss when he goes into a rage over his new secretary’s typing, Mrs. Bonaro W. Overstreet cautioned today. The poor guy probably is dead on his feet, she said. “In fact, nearly everybody is just a little bit dead,” she said. Mrs. Overstreet, New York, author of a book on “How to Stay Alive as Long as You Live,” said it’s a tragedy that people have developed the habit of dying—mentally, emotionally and socially—a long time before their bodies wear out. “They’re as good as dead a long time before they actually die,” she said, “but we’re not allowed to bury them.” Take the boss, for example. He’s showing definite signs of emotional and social senility when he starts throwing tantrums over practically nothing, she said. He’s probably slipped back to about the age of his youngest grand-

child.

His wife may not be any more alive, she added. If she’s the type who fancies herself as attractive to handsome young men, she’s fallen into adolescence, she

said.

Mrs. Overstreet, in Chicago to speak on adult education at the. Golden Jubilee Convention of the! National Congress of Parents and Teachers, said a lot of people let their brains get dusty from disuse a long time before the gray matter actually wears out. They sign their own death warrants, she said, when they start getting into ruts, stop having fun and refuse to accept new

ideas.

“The really dead ones are those who withdraw from life and smugly announce they wouldn’t change for anything,” she said. “They may spend a lot of time flexing their muscles , but they don’t flex their minds.” Mrs. Overstreet said most people either drifted or were pushed into a narrow life and refuse to work their way out. “They just work and worry,” she said. They have their circle of customs, friends and fellow workers and don’t want to change for fear the people sharing their little rut will think are are queer. As a result, they all die together long before their numbers are up.” o Jap Attendance At Church Higher Tokyo—A Japanese Christian leader attributes Japan’s rapid swing to Christianity to two things; a desire among the Japanese “to be like Americans” and the abolition of Shintoism. The Rev. Micho Kozaki, moderator of the Church of Christ which represents 34 Protestant sects in

organization, 60,000 “seekers” had professed their interest in

Christianity.”

Kozaki said the Japanese are watching the United States under Christianity and democracy, which are synonomous to many Japanese, and Soviet Russia under communism. “The Japanese,” he said, “will take whichever path seems best They are constantly watching and comparing the two systems and charging acts of occupation personnel to Christianity and democracy or to communism.” Bibles in Demand. During the last year the Church of Christ reached 600,000 non-Christian Japanese. Of that number, more than 60,000 signified their interest in Christianity and asked to have their names placed on the organization’s mailing list for notification of spe-

cial meetings.

Another indication of the popularity of Christianity is the fact that 300,000 Bibles have been distributed among the Japanese people in the last yea/ and a half. The Japanese have asked the American Bible Society for 2,200,000 more. Reportedly they are selling on the black market at four times the official price. Many of the Bibles will go to people in rural areas, who can be reached only occasionally through the Church of Christ’s rural movement, to youth groups and women’s organizations. Kozaki believes that within two to five years 30,000 Japanese will ask to be baptized and join the church. In the last year Japanese churches have been filled to capacity every Sunday. Before the war only about two-thirds of the churches were filled.

War Department Plays Indian Giver Washington, D. C. — The

War Department wants to nlay “Indian giver” with the surplus G. I. winter clothing it has turned over to the War Assets Administration. It wants most of it back so it can turn it over to “threadbare” civilians in occupied countries, department officials dis-

closed today.

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