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MONDAY, JUNE 24. 1940

THE WAR PLANK

THE platform-builders at Philadelphia. are , talking about a foreign policy plank which, while putting the Republican Party on record as for preparedness and opposed to intervention, will avoid the controversial question of “short-of-war” aid to Britain. We can understand the difficulties under which they are laboring. News from Europe may at any time, during the convention or soon after it, make positions taken now out of date. | ; But at least the current news from Europe—the armistice terms imposed on France by Hitler—introduces no new element into Republican calculations. This country’s major problem continues to be to prepard for its own defense. On that there is no controversy between Republicans and Democrats. Whether Hitler's terms are outrageous as the British contend, or are less severe than Hitler's past performances had led many to expect, they do not alter our need for an Alsqense, defense program. And the Republicans should not suppose that they can take a unique stand by declaring against intervention. The Democrats can resolve just as loudly against that. # ” » 2 : UT the Democrats and the country are committed, by the words and acts of President Roosevelt, to giving all aid “short of war” to those who are fighting the dictatorships. There is an issue which the Republicans should not evade, and we believe Wendell Willkie has showed them how to meet it frankly and effectively. Mr. Willkie has repeatedly stated his belief that the

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far as it can do so without involving itself in their war. But he has made it clear that he, as President, would not -assume to decide the form that help should take, or to fix the hairline boundary between “short of war” and actual war. He says: “We do not intend to send men from the shores of this continent to fight in any war. This is not mere selfishness on our part; we shall not serve the cause of democracy and human freedom by becoming involved in the present war; we shall serve that cause only by keeping out of war. No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. Only the people, through they elected epreatanven can make that awful decision . . . There, we think, is a cue for the Republicans. ~The Republican convention can do its duty by pledging its nominee for President to put every phase of the war question where it belongs—before Congress. That's where the Constitution placed the problem.

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PRECEDENT HERE S a little history for those Republicans who fear that the nomination of a former Democrat would constitute a fearful breach of precedent. Ulysses S. Grant was a Democrat. Early in 1868, leading members of that party hoped to have him as their candidate for President. But he got into a eontroversy with the Democratic President, Andrew Johnson, and .the Republicans were quick to see and grasp the opportunity thus offered them. They nominated Grant unanimously on the first ballot at their Chicago convention in May, 1868, and the following November he received 214 electoral votes to 80 for Horatio Seymour, Democrat. He was overwhelmingly reelected against Horace Greeley in 1872. And in the Republican convention of 1880, Gen. Grant, then having been out of office for four years, more than 300 delegates were so eager to give him a third term that they voted for him through 36 consecutive ballots.

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WE TALKED TOO MUCH

QTORIES from varicus war correspondents in France reveal a feeling of bitterness among French civilians and soldiers because the United States did not come to their rescue. There is a growing “belief among the French that we were responsible for their defeat, in a war in which we were not even engaged. : America has been deeply sympathetic with France, and now in her hour of suffering we believe that Americans will pardon any bitterness on the part of the French people. Blame for the feeling which has arisen rests on us, in one sense. We talked too much about help we could not give. When France appealed to us in desperation, the reassuring . words of the President aroused false hopes. France did not understand our situation, as was revealed when Reynaud appealed for waves of airplanes from a country that doesn’t have enough planes to outfit its own Army and Navy services or to train its own pilots. ‘People who are in agony don’t. stop to think logically. France therefore will not remember that she abandoned Czechoslovakia, to whom she was bound by treaty, while there was no treaty between France and the United States. But it is increasingly apparent that we talked too much for our own good—thereby incurring hatred in Germany and now resentment in France. Having no facilities for giving real help, we nevertheless held forth promises; having no adequate military machine, we meddled. — - INCIDENTALLY. \

Nor for the purpose of badgering anybody, but just to keep the record straight, these facts are set down: On June 18 a newspaper correspondent in Washington reported that the State Department had learned that the French Cabinet was about to sue for a separate peace, Premier Reynaud alone opposing that action. The White House was so angered by publication of this report that « Secretary Stephen Early denounced it as vicious and false. On June 16 Premier Reynaud resigned. On June 17 France sued. fora separate péace. ‘Steve used to be a_newspaperman himself.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Green Has Urged G. O. P. to Name A. F. of L. Man to Cabinet and He Asks if a Racketeer Is to Get Post

EW YORK, June 24.—William Green hag asked

the Republicans to promise that if they elect |

their man in November he will appoint a representative of the A. F. of L. to the Cabinet post of Secretary of Labor. We cannot know who Mr. Green has in mind for this important office, but we are privileged to wonder ‘whether he would prefer a stickup man, a robber of widows and orphans of deceased union members or a renegade cop convicted of” bootlegging and yince risen to high union office. The official roster of the unions of the A. F. of L. is rich in criminal talents, and if none of these suggestions seems quite appropriate to Mr. Green perhaps he would prefer to name a common graftar, racketeer or thief.. He has all kinds of rascals in the rogues’ gallery of his organization. : 2 =» 2 : N<& even in the files of the F. B. I. or the guest book of Alcatraz could the Republican Presi-

dent, if any, find a more versatile array of criminal talent from which to select an officer in the Cabinet of the United States. And if it is Mr. Green's idea that a criminal should have the job, by all means let him be a union criminal with A. PF. of L. credentials.

' Mr. Green has indicated his approval of a low and vicious character in the leadership of the federation which he has the honor to represent. He so indicated when he appeared at the convention of the stagehands and amusement employees’ racket recently and indorsed the administration of that charming instrument of brigandage, oppression. and larceny. But all this is pure speculation We cannot pry into Mr. Green's mind, although one may wish that he would give some sign of his preference so the country. might know which gang and which type of crime th¢ people are asked to vote for.

” ” 2 : P to this time the criminal underworld has been represented in the Government only indirectly by a few Representatives and Senators who had relations with gorillas through their law offices and political organizations back home. But never has the rogues’ gallery been honestly recognized with a

place in the Cabinet, and considering the power and influence of the criminal set in the A. F. of L. it seems only fitting that the appointee should be a man with at least one conviction for ‘shooting a bartender in a stickup. Indeed, 1t is not hard to imagine that one of Mr. Green's faithful and aggressive subordinate leaders had a gun at his ribs as he indited his demand. For the influence of hoodlums in the A. F. of L. is now 50 strong and so plainly admitted that the leadership is afraid to throw them out or discredit them before the public and the rank and file. A member of his own cabinet, George Browne, occupies that rather uneasy position in the executive council of the A. F. of L. where he represents not labor or himself but the murderous gunmen of the old Capone or new Nitti gang of outlaws and defends them lest they bump him off.

Inside Indianapolis

The Dog That Didn't Die; Berry . Vending, Horses and Police Code

ERRY was afflicted with an incurable ailment and being nine years old, which is pretty ancient for Boston bull terriers, the Indianapolis couple which owned him decided to have a veterinarian chloroform him. That was several months ago. As time passed the owners’ grief wore off. Well, the other day the wife was driving in the vicinity of the pet hospital where Jerry was suposed to have met his demise. She was amazed at the sight of a Boston terrier which had all the appearances of Jerry. She cailed to him and surely enough he streaked for the car and went through all his old tricks. The veterinarian couldn’t explain the whole matter. He blamed it on the help.

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AN ENTERPRISING VENDOR who peddles strawberries on the North Side has equipped his wagon with an amplification system which booms: “Strawberries, fresh strawberries” For the infomation of those who have firecrackers left from last year, it’s just as illegal to shoot them on the Fourth of July as it is the ones vou buy from firecracker bootleggers. . . Leo C.-McNamara, the Indianapolis horseman. has certainly speeded up the start of harness racing with his new starter. It's being used at the Grand Circuit meeting at the Fair Grounds here for the first time. ” n ” CAPT. LEO TROUTMAN of the Accident Prevention Bureau gets peeved when anyone refers to his campaign against speeders as a “drive.” . . He says it’s going to go on from here on out, . . . And he says there are no speed traps, either. . . Motorcycle officers will keep a keen eye on motorists on all streets. . . . The Democrats are outdoing the Republicans in decoraling the Coliseum for their convention Thursday. . . The big structure is a maze of red, white and blue.

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POSTMASTER ADOLPH SEIDENSTICKER Is open for a pinochle game any Sunday night anywhere. .. . It’s been a habit for years. . Capt. Walter Eckert of the State Police was caught leaning over the rail at midday watching the horses work out . His explanation was that he was there to find out about the police detail needed. He aléo happens to be a horse enthusiast. The police radio the other night instructed officers in Car No. Such and Such to go to Illinois and Washington Sts. and “meet a man.” . Quite an’ order to find a guy in such a crowd. . But “meet a man” is code and doesn’t mean that at all. Another call ordered officers to Such an Such an address with only these orders: “Barking dog.” What were they suppposed to do,’ bark’ back?

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IR, a man should keep his friendships in constant

repair,” says an old wisecrack by Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest of English scholars, who considered it a duty to make new friends as well as to keep old ones. And what a wise bird Sam Johnson was! A sip of his sage advice now and then is as soothing as a drink of pure cool water after too much bathtub gin. © © We talk a great deal about love these days, mean-

-ing, of course, the feeling that exists between men

and women. Realists call it sex, which is a more exact title. Very little is said about friendship; it seems to be degenerating into a lost art. Yet the horizons of the heart might be extended to take in much more territory, if we could realize that friends are quite as necessary to our happiness as a. multitude of lovers. In the first place, friends wear better if given fair treatment. They wear better, are less exacting and always improve with age. Women, who have not the khack of friendship as

strongly as men, would do well to cultivate it instead’

of wasting so much energy in quest of pernetual romance. And our friends, like our clothing, should be chosen for all reasons and to suit every age. It is a mistake—oh, a very sad and tragic mistake —for us to limit our companionships to those who belong to the same club or church or profession. On the contrary, contacts with persons of different social,

- intellectual and racial backgrouncis are necessary, if

we are to learn the deeper secrets of varied human nature. . Another wonderful thing: Everyone can have friends if he will. Love may amd does depart. The

time for romance is short. Parenthood has its limita-

tions since our children grow wp and leave us. But the person who knows how to keep old friends and to make new ones as the years pass, need never feel actual loneliness. This, I think, is a Dieasans thonghy to hug WD, our

hearts in a crumbling world.

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‘MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1040"

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you soy, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

CLAIMS CITY NEGLECTS UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS By Mrs. Carl Hubbard

An article in The Times of June 19 stated that 300 (?) signers had

thanking him for the grading of the streets here and their oiling. University Heights has no sewer

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ditch for surface water (?) which caused a suit against the City two years ago because Indianapolis has allowed people to use it as a sewer for modern homes and its clogzed condition caused a flood which did great damage to several homes and a nearby swimming pool. .. The State Board of Health has since been trying to force Indianapolis to do something about bad sanitary conditions in University Heights. When the corporate town of University Heights went into the city in 1923 it turned into the treasury of Indianapolis some $1500 for which we have exactly two fire alarm boxes for an area 6 by 7 blocks, a few fire plugs and city mail service and the bragged about oil. I think a Republican who would promise a sewer for University Heights would be able to get enough help out of that district to be elected Mayor of Indianapolis, not just University Heights, ua gs CLAIMS PIONEER FOLK NOT TYPICAL AMERICANS

By Albert S. Kunz, Bloomington You published a letter addressed to me by Mrs. G. B. Adams, Brookville, Indiana, which calls my alThe lady agrees with what I wrote and quotes me fully; but she doesn’t like the sound of my name. Since it contains a “z” she is suspicious. She says she is an American, presumably because she has a good Yankee name, but she gives no further facts to support her claim." She admits she is pro-British because she is faced with the alternative of being pro-Nazi. Why such a good Declaration-of-Indepcndence name should mean anything but pro-American is more than .I can see, for not yet is any good Ameriy called upon to be anything else, I should not take up your space to. answer personal letters, for this Forum is no place for bickerings; but the truth is that I am more ~f an American than she ‘s and this is as good a place as.any to air the fdets. I think the argument is plain and should put to sleep for-

sent a petition to Mayor Sullivan|.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be ‘withheld on request.)

ever the notion that folks with good Yankee names are genuine blown-in-the-bottle Americans and those with foreign sounding n -s are bogus and suspect. When Woodrow Wilson was President, he made a speech at Charlotte, N. C,, .in which he astounded and outraged the Tarl -els, by pointing out thai they are not typical Americans. Now the census of 1930 showed that 9.4 per cent of the residents of North Carolina were native-born ot native parents, while many thousands of them were Americans of the. fifth to the tenth generation. What, asked the bewildered and resentful

{audience could be more American

than that? Yet ‘the President's words were true and remain true to this day. The census of 1930 showed that Americans of foreign birth or with at least one parent foreign-born, number 40,216,278 in a total population of 122,775,046. Move the inquiry back a generation—that is include the number with a grandparent as well as a parent— and the number would certainly doublc. Racial stock as anciently American as the North Carolinjan is anything but typical of this country. Most of our population consists of people, most of whpse progenitors were living in other countries when Lee surrendered to Grant, To prick up your ears at a Ger-man-sounding name or an Italiansounding or a Danish or an Austrian, is to acknowledge that you do not know the stuff ‘of wich America js. made. To suspect Americans with German names ahd mark them for Fifth Columnists is a cowardly move which only a cowardly foreign-born stock American will submit to. 2.9 »

WARNS AGAINST PERIL OF FIFTH COLUMNS By Edward F. Maddox The. Fifth Column in France, England and other nations and the plain results of such weak and

simple-minded national policies which condones, fosters and gives

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“lf you prospective - presidents don't clamp down on 1 the. noise |

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If the task is then completed,

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aid and comfort to treasonable and dangerous political movements, which seek to destroy the Government, which foolishly allows them free speech, press and assembly, may now wake up the American people to common sense action to stop all Fifth Columns. Until we have the common sense and courage to outlaw and officially dissolve and prohibit these alien connected political parties, we can not deal adequately with their subversive activities. The Dies Committee has produced enough sound evidence to arouse every intelligent patriotic American tu action. Under our wishy-washy policy of granting equal rights to every alien ism under the sun, and the same political and economic privileges as is granted to good citizens under our Constitution, these same secret political agents, calling themselves Democrats and Republicans, can, and do, muscle into these old line parties and are being elected, or apnointed, to high official posts. ~That is the plain road to disaster. It leads to dictatorship!

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SAYS POWER RESTS IN UNITY AND CHRISTIANITY By Mrs. M. H. Self help is a commendable thing, Mr. Sutton Jr., when the majority of the country, which 1s working people, has the chance to employ it. You should know, as all unbiased people know, the price system and interest racket can make paupers of the common working people. A man or woman can work and grow poorer every week if he or she has any inclination toward progress. It amounts to pure striving and break down. ; One man convinced: us we are being held back. We already knew it, but it is heartening to know some one really feels for us enougn to reach out a hand to us. We aren't going to let him down either. The zealous go-getters forget and trample the underprivileged. That's where Mr. Roosevelt came in. We fully understand the great power of any country. It isn’t unity and fighting spirit. It is unity and Chris-

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THINKS IDEA A DAY’ IS NOT TOO MANY

In answer to Alf Landon’s catchy remark charging President Roosevelt with “An Idea a Day to Keep Hitler Away.” It will take more than an idea a day. to challenge the Bloody Onuslaught of Greed which is bulged by an over-feeding of the desire and extreme preparation in the hearts of the German people since the former Kaiser of Germany reached his peak of Imperialism during his reign. ‘No nation in Europe so far whether great or small has been able to rely on a single negotiation in dealing with Hitlerism. If we establish” silence now there will presently be no great United States — united. Subsequently no President's chair for any man to aspire to.

A JOB ONCE STARTED By RUTH KISSEL

‘When you are weary from toil . Shoulders aching with pain; And the path ahead is stonier still Than the one where you have been— ‘Don’t lay down your burden crying, Stopping will lose what you've won; Battle ahead in your harness, And rest when the task is done. The reward wil] be much greater | In satisfactidn and peace of mind,

Not put off 'til a later time.

" DAILY THOUGHT Blessed is the man that walketh

nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.—Psalms 1:1. ;

TO ESCAPE FROM evil we must be made, as far as possible, like { God; and this resemblance consists | in” becoming just, and oly, and

Gen Johnson Says— _

Branding Those Who Think We Aré Not Ready for War Isolationists And Pro-Nazi Pacifists Is Pure Bunk:

"ASHINGTON, June 24== This long-suffering country 1s being deluded by a label—the word “isolationist.” If your conviction is that this is no time to commit flagrant acts of war against Germany, then you are an “isolationist.” That would be fair if ihe" definition stopped there, But it doesn’t. By a system of war-mongering sloganeering that. word| tags you: (1) as believing that what happens in. Europe is no concern of ours; (2) as failing to see that the British Navy is holding and whittling the Nazis

‘and therefore that we must ally our efforts with” its

own; (3) that we are Hitler's meat anyway~no matter whether we attack him or not, and, therefore, the - more we do not hurt Hitler and help his enemies, the . more we are doing for our own defense; (4), which is. just beginning to be said by extremists, that any con-: trary opinion is pro-Nazi pacifism. 8” 8 -

IS is bewildering bunk, I know of nobody now“labeled and libeled as an “isolationist” who ~ thinks that what happens in Europe is “no concern of ours”—nobody who is not aware that the more Hitler's" enemies can do to impair his armed strength the less: - of a menace he will be—nobody who is not righteously and indignantly anti-Nazi—nobody who does not believe in rearmament for total defense. I know many who, like this writer, have clamored for it for years, .. while those who now shout “isolationist” and are so ready to send our men or ships abroad were like England and France asleep at the switch. : There is only one genuine difference of opinion here. It is whether it is better for us to insure war now, when we are disgracefully unprepared — orwhether it is better to maintain our independence. while we intensify our efforts to get into a position of. . impregnable defense. ‘An honest skeptic asks me why Germany would stand idle while America arms? That is a fair question going to the heart of the issue, » n ”

FAVORITE saying of Napoleon's was: “Empires ' always die of indigestion.” Mr, Hitler has swal= lowed more in a shorter time than any other con=- _

_queror. Overseas campaigns 3000 miles away are nof

undertaken without vast preparation. The kind of military, naval and airforce adaptable to the overthrow of next ‘door neighbors by mechanical blitzkrieg are not at all adaptable to such an unprece- | dented eflfort—and Hitler has never yet gone off half cocked. Even with complete European conquest, he has a tremendous job of consolidation, reorganization and" repair before he could undertake any such ampaign so far away. ; I'll admit that there is some ‘element of gamble’

"in this assertion, but it is an intelligent gamble with

all odds in its favor. Nothing we can now contribute will decide the war abroad. If we use the time probably available to us to put ourselves in a posture of real defense, our safety is 10 times more certain. But there is no gamble at all if we insist on wan by carrying 1t to Hitler now—when we have little for attack - and no land and air defense. '

Business By John T. Flynn

Writing of Plank on Foreign Policy Giving G. O. P. a Big Headache

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candidate will be and has no epic ‘struggle in prospect on economic issues, the war and the President's con- ° script plan is exciting the most discussion around hctel lobbies and in committees. The delegates seem more or less caught in a mixture of indignation and delight at Mr. Roos2velt’s peace-time draft army. It looked to many like a - Democratic contribution to the R&publican campaign. The plan to draft kids for military and industrial service was being called the ‘universal servitude” plan. This is why the first real splash of emotion came when John L. Lewis, talking to the platform committee, said in answer to a question by Alf M. Landon as to his opinion of the President’s plan: fantastic suggestion of a mind in full intellectual retreat.’ The whole committee broke out into a roar of delighted laughter and. applause—applause in a Reépublican committee for John L. Lewis, whose ter= rilying image has been used in good Republican, homes to frighten naughty children. On the question of the plan for military and shovel armies there seemed to be no division among the delegates. But the resolutions committee has got to write a plank on the whole war situation. And. it is yet far from clear what that plank will be. There are delegations in Philadelphia to implore

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fullest help for the Allies, as well as delegations beg-

ging with equal fervor that the Republican Party keep the nation out of war.

The opinion seems to be almost universal here that °

whatever we do we must not become involved in the war. Even former Senator Walter Edge of New Jersey, who has been a pronounced pro-Ally supporter, now says that the collapse of France makes the proposal for American entry a dead issue. But there is plenty of sentiment for “helping” the Allies “short of war.”

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The hitch comes in what “short of war” means, This produces two schools—those who.think Amers -

ican industry should be permitted to sell to the... Allies whatever they need, including inisome cases the =

grant of credit, and these who think the Government itself should do whatever is possible with direct aid— such as the Roosevelt Administration is actually giving.

velt’s phrase “short of war.” Just what form the final declaration will take, . therefore, is difficult to predict: But it will—unless the arrivals of the main army of the delegates makes ° a change in the. spirit—be a statement against compulsory military and industrial service, a declaration

The latter group seems to be much the smaller and not by any means so sure of itself. And many of . them, even, do not like the idea of adopting Roosee

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demnation of the President's bungling of defense.

| Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ITH all the stories one hears these days about - people getting sick from picnic meals at church fairs and bazaars, club outings and the like, it seems almost as if food poisoning outbreaks were the ineevitable result of such affairs. This is not the case, of course. Meals for-such

occasions can be and frequently are made perfectly

safe. It takes great care in planning, preparing and serving the food, however. First thing is to make sure that no one who is a carrier of typhoid fever or

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other germs has anything to do with the food. This °°

includes anyone with a boil or a sore with pus, indi cating the presence of germs. Next thing is to make sure that the food is kept either very cold or piping hot. Food that has to be cooked and then transported, meat pies or stews or creamed chicken, for example, is usually a bad choice because in the interval between cooking and serving such dishes food poisoning germs get a good chance to develop, unless the food has been chilled immediately after cooking and kept chilled until the reheate ing just before eating. Vacuum jugs and jars which keep food either hot

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size and larger picnic meals. Dry ice will not only . keep the ice cream from melting but can be used to

|| keep uncooked meat from spoiling. Dry ice, however,

needs to be handled with care to avoid serious burns, ‘Picnic meals today need not be one-sided feasts of meat or cheese, hard-boiled eggs and bread and cake. Raw vegetables for salads .or relishes can be taken along. The trick is to wash and crisp them in the refrigerator at home and take them along wrapped in wax paper. Carrot and cucumber sticks, celery and green onions and radishes can be kept fresh and crisp by packing .in a covered glass jar. Take the a dressing separately that French d