Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 3 October 1940 — Page 2

Everybody enjoys singing a song of harvest home, even if they haven’t had a personal stake in bringing in the crops. At your harvest home party, if you follow tradition, you’ll have cornucopias filled with fall fruits and garlands of wheat or grasses grouped at the center of your festive board. Little dolls dressed in overalls and aprons make amusing favors. Farmer in the dell, blindman’s buff, puss in corner, and the never to be forgotten game of charades, in which the participants can give their all in dramatic acting, are traditional juvenile game favorites that are likely to give the grown-up contingent an equally good time. You may want to do a little bit of folk dancing, with the old time fiddler, the pianist, and even an accordionist hitting off “country” songs. When it comes to refreshments, you may decide upon anything from a big picnic spread to cookies and a refreshing beverage. A fruit pie is the most appropriate happy ending to your harvest home feast. Just a hint to you homemakers if you have trouble keeping the delicious juice in a pie; quick cooking tapioca may be used as a thickener, thus eliminating the traditional hazard of

oaken bucket for serving punch. Cherry Pie. 2Vz tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca 1 cup sugar Vi teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 No. 2 can sour cherries (2Vi cups) % cup cherry juice and 2 tablespoons water (to make 1 cup) 1 recipe pastry Combine quick-cooking tapioca, sugar, salt, butter, cherries, and cherry juice; let stand about 15 minutes. Line a 9-inch pie plate with half of pastry rolled Vi inch thick, allowing pastry to extend 1 inch beyond edge of plate. Fold edge back to form rim. Fill with cherry mixture. Moisten edge of pastry with cold water; arrange lattice of pastry strips across top. Flute rim with fingers. Bake in a hot oven (450 degrees) 15 minutes, then decrease heat to moderate (350 degrees) and bake 3p minutes longer. Rich Drop Doughnuts. (Makes IVi dozen) 2 eggs 6 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons shortening (melted) 2 cups flour *4 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder V« teaspoon nutmeg 6 tablespoons milk Beat eggs until very’ light, and gradually beat in the sugar. Add melted shortening. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg, and add to the first mixture alternately with the milk. Drop from a teaspoon into deep fat heated to 375 degrees, and fry until well browned. Drain on unglazed paper. Sprinkle whth confectioner’s or powdered sugar. Hot Spiced Cider. 2 quarts cider 1 cup browTi sugar 1 6-inch stick cinnamon 6 whole cloves 1 teaspoon allspice Add spices and sugar to cider; place in kettle and let simmer over heat (not boil) for 15 minutes. Strar and serve hot in small glasses. Ac a little grated nutmeg, if desired Baked Ham. 1 whole ham 1 teaspoon whole cloves lVfe cups sweet cider IVz cups brown sugar Vi cup orange juice Wipe ham with a damp cloth and place in an uncovered roaster, skin side up. Roast in a very slow oven (300 degrees) allowing 25 minutes per pound of ham. About Mr hour before the ham has finished baking take from oven. Remove skin and pour off all excess fat. Cook cider and sugar together to thick syrup

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runaway juice. Doughnuts and hot spicy cider are always an attractive and favorite combination to serve at a party of this type. Or you may like to use the old

by Eleanor Howe

stage. Add orange juice and pour mixture over ham. Dot with whole cloves. Return to oven and bake Vz hour longer, basting frequently with liquid in pan. Old Fashioned Jelly Roll. 4 eggs 3 4 teaspoon baking powder teaspoon salt 3 /4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 /4 cup cake flour 1 cup jelly Break the eggs into a bowl and allow them to warm to room temperature. Then combine eggs with baking powder and salt. Set the bowl of eggs in a

smaller bowl in which you have poured hot water With a dover beater, beat the eggs, baking powder, and salt mixture until it is thick and light. Gradu-

ally beat in the sugar and continues beating until very light and fluffy. Remove the bowl from the hot water and, with'a spoon or spatula, fold in the vanilla and the flour which has been sifted several times. Line a 10 by 15 inch jelly roll pan with buttered wax paper, and pour the batter into the pan. Bake for about 12 minutes in a moderate oven (350 degrees). Remove cake from pan and turn onto a towel which has been dusted with confectioner’s sugar. Pull off paper and trim edges from the cake. Roll, and cool. When the cake has cooled, unroll it and spread with jelly which has been whipped to make it spread more readily. Date Nut Cake. 3 cups raisins 2 cups dates (cut fine) 1 cup pecan nut meats (cut fine) 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup boiling water Put fruit and nuts into bowl; dissolve soda in boiling water and pour over the fruit. Let stand while preparing the following batter mixture: % cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 n 4 cups cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powdt i 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cream butter and add sugar gradually. Add egg and mix well. Add fruit mixture. Mix and sift all dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk and vanilla extract. Place batter in three well-greased layercake pans. Bake in a moderate oven (365 degrees) for approximately 35 minutes. When cool, put layers together with boiled icing to which chopped dates and raisins have been added. Then ice with the plain boiled icing. Chocolate Nut Gingerbread. % cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 2 ounces chocolate (melted) 2 eggs 1% cups cake flour lVfe teaspoons baking pow’der 2 teaspoons ginger Va teaspoon cloves Vi teaspoon salt % cup milk cup nut meats (chopped fine) Cream butter thoroughly and add the sugar slowly. Add melted choco-

tween each addition. Add nut meats. Bake as a loaf cake in a moderate wen (350 degrees) for approximatey 45 minutes. Serve with whippec •ream, sprinkled with cinnamon, oi with chocolate fudge icing. Magic Fruited Macaroons. (Makes about 30) Vi cup sweetened condensed milk 2 cups coconut (shredded) 1 cup dates (chopped fine) Mix together the sw r eetened condensed milk and coconut. Add finely chopped dates. Drop by spoonfuls on greased baking sheet, about 1 inch apart. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) 10 minutes, or until a delicate browm. Remove from pan at once (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

late and eggs, one at a time, beating well. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk, beating be-

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST

Washington Digest Wasted Campaign Funds Result From Limitations of Hatch Act

National Committees Lose Control Over Expenditures; Willkie's Voice Holds Key to Success in His Presidential Campaign.

By CARTER FIELD

(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WASHINGTON.—The original idea of the Hatch act was magnificent. There can be no doubt about it. All the arguments against it at the time of its passage were lame—obviously so. For example, the plea of Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky that if federal employees could not be used by federal candidates, whereas state employees were not restrained, it would be tough on the federal candidates! Barkley was the target of cartoonists and editorial writers all over the country regardless of party. What was bothering the Kentucky senator, of course, was that he was in a tough fight for renomination at the time in the Democratic senatorial primary. His opponent was the then governor of Kentucky, “Happy” A. B. Chandler. Barkley was renominated and reelected, and Chandler later got into the senate also, following the death of Senator Logan, so that particular

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'‘crisis” has passed. Incidentally Chandler and Barkley are now good friends. Neither one has anything to lose by being friendly with the other. But when congress came along this spring and amended the Hatch act by its various limitations, it really opened the door to the craziest sprt of presidential campaign in the country’s history, so far as the financing on both sides is concerned. ‘Necessary Expenditures * Raise Many Questions For instance, the limitation on the national committee of each party is $3,000,000 of expenditures. That sounds like a lot of money. It is. But then bobs up the old notion of the politicians that certain expenditures simply must be made. Literature, for example—pamphlets and leaflets, streamers, windshield stickers and buttons. Doetp. the distribution pf any one of or all. of them, change any votes? Nobody really knows, but the average politician thinks it would be simply murder to stop furnishing them. Then there is the question- of advertising, not only in regular newspapers, but in magazines, special programs of groups which think they merit recognition, billboards, street car ads, etc. One of the big committees has not allowed a nickel of its budget for any one of the above! No committee of any party ever thought it had one-tenth as much money as should be spent on every one of these items. Then there is the foreign language press, and the Negro press. Both parties in the past have always subsidized them to a perfectly absurd degree. Money Spent Outside Scope of Hatch Act So far one might think, studying this situation, that the Hatch act limitation, with a few possible exceptions, such as honest advertising, is a blessing in disguise. Incidentally, for some reason which has always been a mystery to the writer, the country seemed to take the position, some years back, that spending a lot of money on newspaper advertising for political purposes was a wicked thing. Remember Truman H. Newbury of Michigan who was elected to the senate, and then pilloried because more than $300,000 had been spent to nominate and elect him? He was almost expelled from the senate, and felt so chagrined at the result that he subsequently resigned. Incidentally every senator who voted

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Carter Field believes that although the purpose of the Hatch act is “magnificent,” the actual legislation is defeating its own purpose. It encourages large expenditures outside provisions of the act which cannot be controlled by the national committees, Field explains. Many persons may joke about Willkie’s voice, but Field emphasizes that it may easily prove a great factor in his campaign.

against expelling him found himself the target on that issue next time he came up for re-election. Well, the fact is that most of the money spent for Newbury was spent on newspaper advertising! But the joker of the whole situaation at present is the way both major parties are benefiting from huge expenditures DUTSIDE the scope of the national committees, and beyond the reach of the Hatch act. Probably, on the whole, more money is being wasted this year on foolish campaign spending than ever before because there is no one power which can control ALL the spending on either side Willkie’s Bad Throat Threatens Campaign Leaving out the possibility that President Roosevelt may make some move in connection with the war; which would turn everything in the presidential campaign topsyturvy, the most important thing to watch is Wendell Willkie’s voice The big question is whether that bad throat, of his can stand the ordeal he had planned. If Willkie can make the sort of campaign those who knew him had visualized, he might be able to work wonders. The man has magnetism. He has the faculty of winning any Small group to whom he talks, and this goes for crowds up to 500 and 000, to a degree possessed by few political figures. No one had thought, much less Willkie himself, that he would not be able to stand the physical strain Of the campaign. Willkie has been making two or three speeches a week for a long time, especially in the period immediately preceding the Philadelphia convention, 1 But making one speech a day, Oven, to a crowd of 500 to 1,000, is one thing. Making TEN speeches a day from the rear end of a railroad train, with a monster meeting every few days, probably on a national hookup for radio, is quite another. There are mighty few men who can do that. There are lots of men who think they could do it, but would not be able to talk above a whisper a week or two after they started. The big possibility in this campaign, always leaving out war move eventualities, is whether Willkie can do it. If he cannot,, he will lose the biggest vote-getting magnet in his bag of tricks. It is the personal touch of the smaller meetings that is Willkie’s magic. It is not the- big formal speeches that are broadcast ojver the land. Stump Speeches Hard on Voice Both are vital, but it is UNTHINKABLE that he should not make the big speeches. So if one or the other line of attack must be given up because of throat trouble, it will be the little rear end of the train speeches that must be sacrificed. There is nothing new about this development, except that for some reason none of his friends thought Willkie’s throat could not stand any amount of use. For example, in the 1924 campaign John W. Davis was tHe nominee of the Democrats for the presidency, and he attempted a nation-wide stumping 'tour. Davis hhd been in congress. He had been solicitor general of. the United States. He had been and still is regarded as one of the really great oijators of the country. But how his throat did crack! He was obliged to get a throat specialist to travel with him, but even with expert medical aid he was unable to do anything like the job he had mapped out for himself, a job he had been confident of his ability to perform. Some people think that the amplifiers solved the problem of this strain on the throat. Most emphatically they have not. Any one who listened to the broadcast of the two national conventions, where the amplifiers were magnificent, knows that some voices were clear and lopd, some muffled and hard to understand. A man speaking into a microphone for amplifiers in a big hall, where the audience must hear, is almost forced to strain his voice, although a man speaking into a microphone in a radio studio can read along in a perfectly natural voice, without straining. Speaking in the open air, as rear end train speechers must, is even harder on the voice than speaking in a convention hall. * • * Washington officials-of the navy have now stated that they may be forced to invoke the industrial provision of the conscription law in order to] establish priority for essentia! products to be used in the current large-scale naval expansion program. In a statement of policy the navy emphasized that it does not plan on using the law to commandeer man ufacturing plants, but merely to re lieve manufacturers of prior commitments to private concerns for goods that the navy needs.

HOW TO SEW

by Ruth Wyeth Spears

A HOME Demonstration Agent ** wrote me the other day to say that many of the women in her group had made the spool shelves described in SEWING BOOK 3 and the end spools in Book 5. “One member has an interesting collection of pitchers and would like to make a corner w'hatnot for them,” the letter continued. Well, here it is ladies! With-the collection of pitchers all in place

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For a little variety bake your pies in square or rectangularshaped pans. Often they are easier to cut into equal portions from such a shape. * * * * To keep marshmallows moist, store them in the oread box. ** . * An alarm clock will save much worry in cooking. Set the alarm for the time the cooking is to be completed—or as a reminder for inspection. Undivided attention may then be given to the other household interests. * * * A siphon of charged water is an excellent fire extinguisher, as the carbonic acid gas in the water helps to stifle the flames. The siphon can be tilted, and the fluid will carry to a considerable height such as the top of a blazing curtain. * * * burns easily. It should therefore be handled carefully during the cooking. Even a small amount of fat in a frying pan will ignite if it is over-heated. A kettle of deep fat can quickly produce quite a blaze.

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The sketch gives all dimensions and instructions. The triangle shelves are cut from one board as shown at the left. The second shelf from the bottom needs six holes. All the others have three holes each. The design may be varied by using larger spools at the bottom for the first spool above and below each shelf. Use extension curtain rods to fit the holes in the spools. A little glue between spools makes the whatnot rigid. Stain or paint. ** * ■ NOTE: These homemakirjig booklets are a service to our readers and No 5 contains a description of the other numbers; as well as 32 pages of clever ideas with all directions fully illustrated They are eadh to cover cost and mailing Send v def to:

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That wholesome, tangy outdoor taste... just heat and eat . . . delicious c01d. .. healthful ... economical... order, today, from your grocer. I . ' N Evil Means Never let man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.—Southey.