The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 May 1928 — Page 6

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Vegetable Minerals A Mine of- Health

jJT AVE the liquid in which vegetables have been cooked, is the ~ advice of Dr. D. Breese Jones, of the United States Department of Agriculture. One of the main reasons for eating vegetables is their high mineral content. Their calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, and other minerals constitute-a protection to the body. Poor bone growth, goiter, and various other derangements are known to be due to insufficient minerals in the diet. The mineral content of quality peas, String beans, lima beans and spinach is especially good. Minerals Are Not Metals However, there is one point t 6 remember regarding these minerals; they do not consist of a lump of metal. In fart, they are very soluble, so that when vegetables are cooked * large proportion of the mineral

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fJTHAT canned foods are.safe and ill good foodstuffs is the conclu- , sion of the noted scientists E. V. McCollum and Nina Simmonds in a recent magazine article. | Regardless of whether the food is designed for entree, or salad, soup or dessert,"each grade is of the best quality obtainable. Never Well vs. Ever Well One of the most interesting statements is their discussion of a United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin which described the medicine chest of Mrs. Never Well and Mrs. "Ever Well. The shelves s of the former carried “iron tonics and blood purifiers, headache cures cathartics, anti-acids, anti-fats, and cough cures.” But the shelves of Mrs. Ever Well carried no such properties. Instead she had them filled with fruits, vegetables, and

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-WjfRUIT season usefl to be a reign of terror in the average household. For at the end of the day a tired, fruit-stained mother would flop down in a chair and bemoan with a sigh the fact that fruit must be canned if there was to be any in the winter. Sometimes she almost bewailed the fact that there were such fruits as peaches, pears, and apricots. Quality Canned Fruit Today, all this is changed. Mother has found that commercially canned fruit is even better than her own product. She finds that discrimination in buying provides quality canned fruit without sacrificing thrift. In the time saved ~ mother is having a good time. She joins a club; she goes into social and philanthropic activities. Mother has emerged from the kitchen. With this added ease in getting

(content will be found in the liquid. Therefore, Dr. Jones states that "a large part of these food elements may be lost by discarding the water in which the vegetables 4 were cooked.” Since the liquid in cans of vegetables is simply the water in which the vegetables were cooked, it should be used. After heating the vegetables in their own juice, the excess should be poured off and stored in the ice box, for it is a valuable part of a quality product. A general recipe for making a cream soup from left-over vegetable stock is this: melt four tablespoons butter in a sauce pan. Add three and one-half tablespoons flour, salt and paprika. Blend well, then add one and one-half cups milk. Bring to the boiling point, stirring constantly. Then add one and onehalf cups vegetable juice. And left-over peas, string beans, or lima beans can be added, too.

whole cereals. Opposite the “iron tonics and blood purifiers” there were spinach, Swiss cl.i’.rd zaisms, ami prunes. Among the laxative feeds • were brans, figs, oatmeal, spinach, apples, rhubarb, prunes, tomatoes, and apricots. Milk, celery, carrots, turnips, beefSp and string beans were labelled anti-acid foods. In commenting on this list of Mrs. Ever Well’s, the authors say: “In considering the above list of foods which can take the place ts medicines within limits, there is not p”e which could net be used in the canned state and 1>» properly la belled as it was.” Undoubted!.' one of the reasons fc, til’s en:’crs< ment of canned so ‘A is due to th extreme care taken by the ear.net during the canning process — afi ir.-ifact, all during the growth of tl food — to secure a pre luct th can bear the'proud label of quali'

quality canned fruits, has come an increased use of fruits in salads and desserts. She finds that a simple gelatin mold consisting of apricot halves with a Maraschino cherry in every hole wins the unstinted admiration of her family. Two pear halves, lady fingers, and whipped cream become a party dessert when served in stem .glasses. Ice cream with sliced peaches carefully arranged on the top becomes not ice cream, but an event. One of the most pleasant aspects of all this is that while the canned fruits make the desserts seem much fancier, they also add a definite and highly desirable food value because of their fine quality. And what a delight it is simply to run a can opener around the top of a can and find within, all ready to be served, the golden fruit which formerly cost mother so many weary kitchen hours I V ’

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Famous Writer, Turned Country Paper Editor, Boosts the Town Band

No wonder the Marion band of Marion, Virginia, considers its troab.es are aver, says the Conn Music Center, Elkhart, Ind. Sherwood Anderson, wno is reported to get a nickel a word for his short stories, is championing the band with a half to a column article every week in the Marion papers, which e recently bought. . , Not only has this highly paid writer stirred up support in Manon, but -.any national figures have come to the support of the band. Ctto Kahn, international banker and donor to the lletropciitan Opera, has contributed SIOO. H. L. Mencken, “cussed" or praised by perhaps more people than any other writer in America, chipped in sl2. So did Horace Liveright, well known publisher. Alfred Knopf, another publisher of New York City, came across with 35, as did also Fred B.ack, Ford Motor Co., Detroit, and Brig. General Rosenbaum, Washington, D. C.

Sherwood Andcrsdn says he is not an uplifter. He claims he took up the band cause from las own selnsn desires. Hq says lie likes a Band. Band music just suits him. He would like to play the biggest horn in tne band himself but lacks ability. He would like to be the drum major best of all, he confesses, but he doesn t have the figure. It’s in his system. I guess, as his father used to play a cornet in the same town band with the late President Harding. His First Story “What does a band mean to a town?” Anderson asks in one of his first stories. “Better ask what is a town without a band ? Fife in a town goes on, just so. You know how it is. Merchants selling goods, lawyers fighting their cases, farmers coming into town to buy goods, Spring, summer, fall, winter.. People in their houses, women cooking, making beds. Life is dull enough. “Days come. See, the men of the band have put on their uniforms and are coming up along the street. The big drum is booming, the horns going. “Just suppose now, in our town, we are visited by some great man. Hurrah now, let’s give him a big day. It may be . the governor of the state or some other dignitary. Our principal men are going to meet him down at the station. They have their best cars there, the biggest and. best cars we have in town, all our leading citizens. And no band. Pshaw!* What a frost. “And what about Amistice Day and the Fourth of July? “Or when the fair is on. “Older men, staid citizens of a town may be able to get along without a band but what about the boys ? “When I was a boy my one great yearning was to play the biggest horn .in the town band. I never made it. Th.ere never was much music in me. “Still and all, I’m not a jealous man. What I can’t have I don’t want to take away from the other fellow. Fond "of the Band “I still like a band better than almost anything else in a town. Band music just suits me. There they come up the street. Lately I have only seen the Marion band in action a few times and then they didn’t have any drum major. I hope they get one again- soon. I like to see the fellow in the big bearskin hat with is staff and stepping high and wide.

MUSIC AND PINEAPPLE HAVE CHARMS • J O

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(Above)—MARION KIWANIS BAND. This fine little band not only furnishes the 3500 people of Marion with music on summer evenin-s and during celebrations but recently made a trip to Washington, D. C., playing in 22 cities along the way. This is the band Sherwood Anderson is “rooting” for and to whose support Otto Kahn and the rest contributed. Frank Lieto, director, extreme lett. (Left) Sherwood Anderson says he is happier because he has rescued the baud in Marion than if he had written the year’s Best j Seller, not because he has done a “good deed” but because hell be sure of band concerts this summer.

HENRY’ MENCKEN, the famous Baltimore Bell Wether, who gave a year’s dues to the band boys. With his contribution came a note saying, “It.is an honor and a pleasure. AH I ask is that the boys play ‘Die Wacht am Rhein’ once a year, preferably on my birthday. Don’t let the band die.” Anderson wrote back: “O. K., Henry. When is your birthday? We’ll have a parade.” I’d like to do it myself but 1 haven’t got the figure for it. “And how faithful and devoted the band members are. The men of our Marion band, for example, go off to practice twice a week. Far from getting paid Tor their work they do it without pay. The members even pay dues to keep the band going. “Recently, until these last few weeks, our Marion band has had a band leader who was paid a good salary because he was a good man. He was there to keep the boys up to snuff and would be there now but that he is sick. “But the boys are at it just the same. They are keeping the band up. Sacrifices of Band Men “There are men in the Marion band who make a sacrifice every time they go out to play. Bear this in mind. When we want our band most, other towns, that haven’t any band, would

like one too. Our band gets offers to go all over the Southwest. Such offers almost always come when we need them here and they stay at home. Instead of going out and raking in money they stay here and give their services. “And there are individual members of the band who make a sacrifice every time they go out to play. Do they kick ? Not they. “The boys of the band like their band, and so do we. Hurrah, here they come. Music floating on the breeze. Every heart jumping. Life. Music.. Zipp. “We like that. “The people of Marion owe it to their band to give it the heartiest kind of support. Get back of them. When they need a little money to keep going, shell out. A good band is th" best investment a town can make.” Join the Glory List “Join the Glory List,” Sherwood Anderson headlines another story, and continues. “The Marion Publishing Company doesn’t intend to become a crusader. You know how’ city’ papers are. Well, we make no pretentions of being a big city paper. We are just a little old country weekly, that’s what we are. “Still and all, as Mr. Ring Lardner is sq fond of saying, we do not want the big city papers to hang it all over our eyes. City papers are always getting up a crusade for some good cause. They uplift this one or that one. Sometimes whole sections of society’ get uplifted like that. It’s wonderful. “We aren’t, however, quite so ambitious. Up to date we have taken up but one cause and that is the Marion Band. It may be the only one we ever will take up. And we are not doing that out of any altruistic purpose. It’s just because we like to hear the band play. We like to see them parade. When a big day comes we like to see them put on, their uniforms and come blowing their heads off up Main street. “Flags flying, everyone feeling fine. Life is drab enough on ordinary days. We have never found any way to be _i canary bird ourselves. Summer Night. Concerts “What we want is to see the band boys have a little money in the treasury. We want band concerts on summer nights. “O, hearts of gold, who will put up $5.00 a year over a period of five years to get and keep our band in bang-up financial condition ? We are making this appeal not only to Manonites but to all people in the surrounding country who read this paper and who like to come to our town when there is something stirring, or on summer nights to hear the band play. “The King of England, President of France, President of the United States, Senators, Politicians, Millionaires, Rich Authors, Poor Ones, Farmers, Merchants, Anyone welcome. “If you do not want to sign up for

crushed Hawaiian pineapple. Place in greased pan with a little butter on the top of each ball, brown in oven and serve hot. Copestes. de Veau: Grind one and one-half cups of cooked veal, add two lightly Jaeaten eggs, one cup' mashed potatoes, one cup well-drained Hawaiian pineapple and salt and pepper to taste. Form into small croquettes, with a nut meat in the center of each. Roll in beaten egg, toasted cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat. Drain and serve immediately. Golden Glories Pineapple Patties: Drain the syrup from one No. ' 2 can of crushed Hawaiian pineapple. To the pineapple add one-halt cup sugar and one tablespoon butter. Allow to cook slowly for eight to ten minutes or until a rich amber in color, stirring frequently. Pour into small pastry shells that have been baked but not allowed to brown. Bake until a film forms over the pineapple or about ten minutes. Serve with whipped cream. Pineapple Ice: Mix one and onehalf cups sugar and one cup hot water. Boil until the syrup spins a thread when a little is poured front the tip of the spoon. Add one cup cold water, one-fourth cup lemon juice, and two cups crushed. Hawaiian pineapple. Freeze until of mushy consistency and serve immediately. This is delicious served in a parfait glass with fresh strawberries. Put a tablespoon of crushed berries in the bottom of the glass, then the sherbet, more berries and lastly the sherbet, topped by .a whole strawberry.

WE all know that music hath c charms to soothe the savage 1 breast, but it seems ’that, in the 1 Congo, music fails at times and the 1 luscious pineapple must step in. In that far-off land, when a young wild , elephant is captured, he is pegged, and the mahouts surround and sing to him, beating time on his thick hide with twigs. After ten minutes of this treatment the animal is fed potatoes and pineapples and in a very short time he becomes man’s servant. Now it is almost inevitable that such ' a story should set up a train of thought in the average housewife’s mind, especially if her pachydermous husband is the kind of man who won’t eat this and can’t cat that. If pineapples will help to carry on the good work of making him‘decide, then by all means, let’s have therm Sun-Sweetened Pineapples Os course the best pineapples come in cans, as they are ripened ip the fields and so develop a full sugar content that can never be attained by one that is ripened in transportation or storage. And it is the sugar which gives that rich full flavor. So here are a group of recipes which will certainly make friend husband, whether savage or tame, sit up and ask for more: Surprise Balls: Roll cold mashed potatoes into good sized balls, hollow out the top with a teaspoon and fill the holes with a mixture of equal parts of | canned salmon and well drained

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SHERWOOD ANDERSON, famous novelist and short story writer, among the type cases of his weekly newspaper in Marion, Virginia. Mr. Anderson created a sensation last November when he lett New Aork City and became publisher of two little weekly papers down among the Blue Ridge Mountains. About the first thing he did was start a campaign for the Marion band. He likes a band “better than almost anything else in a town,” he says. His appeals, written in the inimitable Sherwood Anderson style, not only stirred up support among the people of Marion but brought contributions from Otto Kahn, international banker, H. L. Mencken. « noted writer and critic. Horace Liveright, well known publisher, and other national figures.

| J Wbl OTTO H. KAHN, international banker, backer of the Metropolitan Opera, music enthusiast and philanthropist, who started the Marion band fund off with a check for SIOO. Several other contributions from national figures followed but the bulk of the band fund came from Marion people who value the band as one of the biggest things in the town.

more than one year or cannot give $5.00, do not let that stop you. “JOIN THE GLORY’ LIST.” Spirit of the Band Anderson says he would like to be the drum major in the band but doesn’t have the figure. Well, he may be a little plump and his knee action may be a bit stiff but we’ll vote for him, anyway. He catches the spirit of the parading band. That’s what it takes to be a drum major. . “The band represents the town on its gay days,” he says. ‘.‘When the fair comes, when there is a celebration, Fourth of July, any kind of a jamboree when every citizen becomes a boy again, then a good band, stepping gaily out, the drums beating, flags flying—what is a town without a good band? “You cannot have a good band in debt. You cannot expect the boys to blow gaily, step out with real gusto, when they are in debt. To have a good band requires nights of steady practice, it requires sticking to it. What can you expect when the boys have to come to band meeting and plunk down a dollar just for the privilege of working to be good when we want them good? “The boys got a little discouraged. Their leader got sick. AW- of them are working boys. They got a little in debt. This paper is no uplift paper. It is just a good, little old country paper. But we like a band. We began writing about the Marion band in our paper. “Well, don’t you worry about old Marion. We will rake in many a fivedollar bill for the boys.” - Viewpoint of the Band Men Few have gotten the viewpoint of the small town band as has Sherwood Anderson. He has learned from the band men what they are up against. He also appreciates what the band really means to any town- -

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“One of the first signs of the decay of a town is when it cannot get up enthusiasm to support a band. The Marion band needs support. ■ Most people don’t know it. “In order to keep themselves up to snuff the boys practice twice a week. They pay a dollar a " onfh out of their own pockets. This isn’t fair. They should not be risked t- tie tbc.t. The money goes to pay reni. R v a hail in which to practice, end other incidental expenses. •’ “Who will pay the yearly J" ' ■ one band boy? This wi.'. receive it for them. So' e tu th beys have got behind m th ’ d.. A good many of the; i work h. . ■ fc r their money. V’hen they pet behind they do not f-?el like comin a: a:;d to practice ; : i ‘ I ' ' ’ mff ■. Leva'’e'/ '. ii.::-. l “Only last Armistice Pay on ■ b ml had an offer to • o m 'w.ol .■ t >.-.u They coubl have <ot ' 3 lor the . They stink to Th'"’ '...a always stuck. V.'e <y ht to ctick to them. • • “There is soon tn J > a sb jw put; <n in town a . 1 ■ of which go to th3 band. B'uyp.l ■ + ' when it com-'s along. T s y> a fc. I ii’-e chipping in to pay some f-'/oW’s :et for a year, we wi.l bo r:...l ,o !.c:.r from you.” When the campsi m Ims r :: i’?> course, the Marion L.:;>d ■> ill ' reb; b’.y be completely outfitted with t ,1 > gold-plated horns and uniforms v Th gold braid thee iaeh's wile. 2 a- - the people of Marion are.ai'sur I of band concerts this sumrier and .ff having a snappy band to liven up v.T their ra’-i d-.”s ’"i'b rm' : c. f -X H A •# V V.. UA ' • / I W 1 w — . -f < HORACE LIVERIGHT, publisher play producer and literate: •. 1 In letter he says: “I want a little I and boy of my own. Inclosed find sl2 to pay one band boy’s dues for the yea . Pick me a good oite, one with goo ! lungs. Let him blow hard. You tell that band boy that when a big day comes in Marion, I want him to shine his shoes, comb his hair, keep his. eyes off the girls and go to it. I.ordy, wl 7 didn’t I learn to blow a horn myself when I was younger! I would ii! ' nothing better in this world than t > be one of the Marion Band Boy;. Here’s to them.”