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Newspaper Page TextImhtnQHm Meury-go-round '***«■*'*'* I.M.M. m. iri Washington, D. C. PAN AMERICAN BARTER When Hitler first began his crush ing march through Europe, an Ar gentine business man remarked to Washington officials: “At first it will be a little diffi cult to readjust our trade with Eng land. All the docks will be blown up, and shipping will be scarce. But after these things have been ironed out, it will be much easier. We will simply make a deal with one man. Hitler will buy our meat —not only for Germany, but for England, Belgium, France, and all the rest of Europe.” This danger of Hitler capturing Latin America through monopoliz ing trade is what is behind the giant trade cartel for the Americas, now being worked out by the Roosevelt administration. And in the secret report handed Roosevelt by his cabinet members is a much more far-reaching plan than anyone dreams. In brief, the plan proposes that the United States buy all the surplus crops of Latin America. In other words, Mr. Hull’s much cherished reciprocal trade treaties go out the window, and the United States gets down to hard boiled, cut-throat bartering in an ef fort to monopolize Western hemi sphere trade. To illustrate, take the case of Bra zil and Hitler in 1939. In that year, Brazil sold most of her coffee to the United States, but had a surplus left over which she could not sell. So Germany offered to take the bal ance of her crop. Naturally this was an offer Brazil could not very well resist —except that there was one catch to it. Hitler paid in barter. In return he gave Brazil cameras, motorcycles, radi os, optical instruments and various other German specialties. Then Hitler, having bought the coffee for German goods, turned around and sold it not only to Aus tria and Czecho Slovakia, which he had conquered, but also to Jugo slavia, Rumania, Hungary and most of southern Europe, with which he had trade agreements. In return he got cash, thus bolstering Ger man exchange. • * • 11. S. Buys Surpluses. The state and commerce depart ments now propose somewhat the same thing, only this time the Unit ed States will buy up the surpluses and resell them in Europe. In other words, we will take Brazil’s surplus coffee crop and then resell it just as Hitler did. The first part of the program is purely emergency. It will aim to help out the southern neighbors who once had thriving markets in Hol land, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and France, but whose markets now have evaporated with Hitler and tire blockade. Even after the war is over, how ever, the system may be contin ued. The plan is definitely being set up to this end. What the state department argues is that it is cheaper to do some surplus buying in Latin America than to fight a war there. Buying up the surplus coffee crop, for in stance, probably would cost less than a new battleship. Also, no country will be aided which does business with Hitler. Present plan is to be ruthless about this—though if some of the career boys in the state department are re lied upon to be ruthless it may merely boil down to cheek-patting. Great danger is that the buying up of surpluses may take the same road of Herbert Hoover’s ill-fated wheat board. The farmers knew that the more wheat they raised, the more they could sell to the board, so Hoover found himself left with a tremendous surplus which depressed the market. Similarly, Latin American nations may discover that the more coffee they raise, the more they can sell to the United States. The cabinet of ficers who prepared the plan for Roosevelt realized this, but figured that they would try the thing out during the emergency of the war and try to perfect it later. NOTE—Comment of one allied diplomat on the trade plan to keep Hitler out of South America: “That sounds like the man who was on a ladder painting. Someone came along and took the ladder away, but he just kept on painting.” ♦ ♦ • Merry-Go-Round. Jesse Jones, Federal Loan admin istrator, is playing a much greater part in the national defense picture than most people realize. He is discussing with Roosevelt plans to put federal money behind factories which need to expand for munitions production. Though preoccupied with the war In Europe, John Q. Public has not forgotten that China is fighting for her existence. The Chinese embas sy receives many small contribu tions for the cause. Not on the subject of war but of age was one letter a lady sent to Ambassador Hu Shih, who is 49 years old, but looks 30. She said, “I have heard that all Chinese look 10 years younger than they are. How do you do it?” Hu Shih is still reflecting on his answer I General HUGH & Johnson Jour: Untied Feature* W WNU Service Washington, D. C. DEFENSE DANGERS There is a grave danger of this country going completely haywire under the pressure of war. It is true that the grossest neglect of defense in our history and the most reckless impairment of our credit and industrial efficiency have left us in a most defenseless posture. Although very weak, due to these deficiencies, we have roved the world like a lamb rampant slapping down the ears of every ferocious ani mal in the menagerie—lions and ti gers as well as jackals—until we haven’t a friend on earth. Perhaps the most cock-eyed im pertinence on record is that the au thors of all this incompetence and danger insist that they must be per petuated in a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. I am accused of constant scold ing. I don’t want to be a scold. I examine myself about that “in the night session.” I can’t think that my kind of preachment is wrong in this crisis. If I can’t think it is wrong I ought not to stop it—scold or no scold. Last Mobilization. Why do I feel so confident? Well, I sat at the center of both industrial and manpower mobilization in the first World war. It is a strange re sult but the fact is that, although Scharnhorst and Stein invented the German idea of the “nation in arms,” to overthrow Napoleon and change the face of war, and, al though the Kaiser’s was almost as complete a dictatorship as Hitler’s, it was not German autocracy but American democracy that taught the world the terrible modern lesson of total war. This is no time for perfumed nice ties. The cold fact is that without the full naval, military and eco nomic strength of this country, mo bilized and organized for war the first time in the modern sense, the Germans had total victory in the bag in early 1918. Then something happened. The M. P.’s didn’t win that war. American resources and organization both economic and military—did it. But they were masterfully organ ized and used by efficient and expe rienced men who believed, almost as a religion, in both our economic and political system. This adminis tration is allergic to both that kind of man and belief. Hopkins, Per kins, Wallace, Morgenthau—l hate to scold them—but do I have to rep resent that such incompetents are fit to manage this great country against an enemy who has shown himself so fiendishly clever in ap plying the very lesson that compe tent Americans taught him and Ger many in 1918? Concentration Camps? The President recently suggested that it would be a good thing for members of his press conference to go to a CCC camp. Are they go ing to be concentration camps? For Mark Sullivan, he is reported to have told other newshawks that he had a pardon “written out in blank.” Mark is frequently critical but al ways gentle, I wonder about my “pardon in blank.” If, as and when it can be done, I shall be boiled in oil. So should I shut up? If I do, I shall write myself down as gutless ns a kippered herring and as simple as a snipe. There has been no move of this administration that to me seemed right that I have not rushed out to defend until my fan mail groaned with accusations of being a water-carrier on two shoulders. Just now I think many of the di rections in which we are going are wrong and dangerous. I would like to forget to say so and to break the too strident pace of this column by writing a piece about the “bees and the rabbits and their sweet engag ing habits,” but solar systems and universes are being too rapidly re oriented. If not doing so is “scold ing,” I intend to apologize—and do it some more. THE SIZE OF THE JOB It is natural for military thinking to channel itself into grooves set by precedents and examples. Sol diers don’t fight all the time. In periods of peace, industrial progress and invention go on but military science comes to a full stop. The results of any test of it in war are so deadly that soldiers, in peace, try to “keep up with their profession” and, in times like these, almost frantically. No two wars are ever quite alike. We learned some things in late 1918 that should help us now, particularly in industrial mobilization. But we also learned some things it would behoove us now to forget, particularly that our j principal problem is raising men whose equipment we can somehow pick out of the air. The war in Europe has been be tween densely populated nations within a few hours flying distance of each other, and only a few more hours for motorized blitzkrieg ma chines. Industrial and railroad cen ters in each small country practi cally are the vital organs controlling the whole of it and paralyzing the punches in any such solar-plexes nearly told the end of the story. Neither condition prevails here. Without .nearby naval air bases, no enemy on either coast is going to threaten us or even this hemisphere. HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. fiEOROIA L ~1... % i~ \. „**. /^^... J WHEN YOU MAKE JAM OR JELLY (See Recipes Below) Household Neius “Sugar ’nd spice ’nd everything nice" goes into the preserving ket tle, and out of it comes a tantaliz ing array of jellies, jams, pickles and relishes, and rich fruit butters and marmalades. This year, why not add to your stock of preserves (and to your rep i I utation as a good cook!) by doing Ww some of your own II cann ' n 8 and P re - IMBrJ serving? It’s as easy as a,b,c, if - \ v\ y° u ’ n ■ fol , low a zz.l \ W. few simple sug gestions and use K 1 I tested recipes. Most of the equipment you need for canning and preserving you will have on hand; large kettles or saucepans, a colander, coarse strainer, wooden masher, wooden spoons, a skimmer, wide-mouth fun nel, glass jars, jelly glasses, jar covers and new rubbers. It may be necessary to buy a few new jars each year, for nicked jars are likely to cause spoilage. Wash jars, glasses and covers thoroughly in soapy water, and rinse in boiling water. Sterilize them just before using and let them remain in the hot water until you are ready to fill them. Use new rubbers ev ery year, and dip them in boiling water just before you put them on the jars. When jars or jelly glasses are to be filled with hot foods, place the hot glasses on a clean towel which has been wrung out of hot water. If you have an old-fashioned gravy boat with a spout and handle, use it in filling glasses with jellies, jams and preserves. W Allow the jam to V'v cool in the glasses wjl §mm before sealing viVv with paraffin. SUr/C 0 When the paraffin ™ has set, wipe the glasses with a damp cloth, cover, and label them. To prevent the formation of mold, store jams, jel lies, and preserves in a cool, dry place. Homemade Tomato Soup. (Makes 6 pints) 1 peck tomatoes (14 pounds) 1 bunch celery 1 quart onions (sliced) cup butter % cup flour % cup sugar 4 to 5 teaspoons salt 3 A teaspoon pepper Scrub the tomatoes and celery, and cut into pieces. Add the sliced onion, and cook over a low flame until the vegetables are thoroughly soft* (about 1 hour). Strain. Blend together the butter, flour, sugar, and seasoning, and add to the strained tomato mixture. Bring to a boil, and boil gently for 20 minutes, stir ring frequently. Seal in sterilized jars. To serve, combine the tomato soup with soup stock or milk. Sweet Pantry Slices. (Makes 6 to 7 pints) 1 gallon cucumbers (3 to 3 inches long) I l ,i quarts white onions (sliced) % cup salt 5 cups sugar 1 tablespoon ground ginger Vi teaspoon turmeric 2 tablespoons mustard seed 1 tablespoon celery seed 5 cups vinegar Scrub cucumbers and slice thin (without paring). Add sliced onions ! and salt, and if crushed ice is avail able, stir in 1 pint which aids in | crisping. Cover with a weighted lid i and let stand for 3 hours. Drain, I and add remaining ingredients. Place over low heat, bring to the simmering point, and simmer for 5 minutes. Pack in sterilized jars and seal. Strawberry-Rhubarb Conserve. 2 pounds strawberries 2 pounds rhubarb 3 pounds sugar Wash fruit; hull strawberries and cut rhubarb in small pieces (you’ll find the scissors a great finger-saver in cutting the rhubarb). Place fruit in deep pan like a dish-pan and place in cold oven. Set temperature control to 400 degrees and start the oven. Cook about IVi hours, then add sugar. Cook, stirring occasion ally, for % to 1 hour, or until con serve becomes thick. (The time va ries according to the “juiciness" of the fruit). Pour into sterilized jars or glasses and seal immediately or cool and cover with melted paraffin. Quick Strawberry Jam. (Makes 6 glasses) 1 quart strawberries Boiling water 4 cups sugar Remove caps from strawberries and wash thoroughly. Then pour boiling water over berries until wa ter is lightly tinted with pink. Drain and place berries in saucepan, add 2 cups of sugar, and shake over low flame until sugar is dissolved and mixture begins to boil. Then increase heat and boil hard for 4 minutes. Reduce heat, add remain ing sugar and boil hard again for 4 minutes longer. Pour into jelly glasses, allow to thicken, and seal when cold. Sunless Sun Preserves. Take 4 cups of strawberries which have been washed and hulled and 5 cups sugar, place 1 cup berries in a heavy saucepan and cover with 1 cup sugar and continue until all of the berries and sugar have been placed in the saucepan layer by layer. Bring slowly to a boil and boil gently for 9 minutes. Remove from fire and add 3 tablespoons lem on juice. Let stand over night. Next day bring to a boil and boil gently an additional 9 minutes. Remove from fire, skim, and let stand in saucepan until thoroughly cold, then seal in hot sterilized jars. The ber ries remain whole and retain their natural flavor and color. Rhubarb Butter. (Makes 6 to 7 glasses) l x k pounds rhubarb 2 pounds sugar % cup vinegar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon V 2 teaspoon ground cloves Cut rhubarb in small pieces (do not peel). Combine with remaining ingredients and cook for about 2 hours—or until the mixture is the consistency of fruit butter. Pour into sterilized jelly glasses. Cover with melted paraffin. Chili Sauce, 4 quarts ripe tomatoes 6 apples 2 onions 1% cups brown sugar 2 cups vinegar 1 tablespoon salt 3 tablespoons pickle spice 2 teaspoons paprika Peel chop fine the tomatoes, apples and onions. Add the brown sugar, vinegar i /V anc * anc * 1 L —spices tied in a J spice bag. Cook 1 slowly yntil thick, 1 h\ st i rr i n S frequent -1 r ly. Remove spice , bag. Seal in hot sterilized jars. I 1 Send for Your Copy of ‘Better Baking.’ Your homemade jams and jellies will taste twice as delicious when you serve them with homemade bis cuits and rolls. You’ll find tempting and unusual recipes for bread and rolls in Eleanor Howe’s cook book, “Better Baking." Mountain Muffins, Cheese Roll Biscuits, Peanut Butter Bread, and Hot Cinnamon Rolls; you’ll find test ed recipes for these and other de licious baked foods in “Better Bak ! ing.” Send 10 cents in coin to “Bet . ter Baking” care Eleanor Howe, 919 . North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, ! and get your copy of this cook book [ now. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Kitchen Polisher To freshen kitchen cabinets that ’ have become dulled by frequent washings, rub them occasionally with furniture polish. This renews the gloss and makes cleaning the next time easier. Welsh Rarebit 1 To prevent cheese from becoming I stringy when making Welsh rare • bit melt it in the sauce after remove t ing the pan from the flame. 1 > For Sandwiches ; Put fresh bread that is to be used 1 in making sandwiches into the re - frigerator for an hour and it will • cut more easily. WHO’S NEWS |H| WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features —WNU Service.) NEW YORK.—Some people don’t know when they are well off. Karl Ulmanis was a milk man at Lincoln, Neb., for five years, and . • »r » doingall Anyone in Need right> before Of Good Milk he went back Wagon Driver? to Latvia to be president of the country and sit on a hot seat for 25 years thereafter. It was er roneously reported that he had fled, as the Russians moved in, but the news today is that he is still around, and has broadcast a message to his people to be nice to the invaders. Nobody knows the trouble he’s seen. Considering that steady job he had, it looks like a score for the isola tionists. In Lincoln, in 1909, he was Karl Ullman, not Ulmanis, for mer dirt farmer and country ed itor in Latvia. The dean of the state college of agriculture got him the milk route, so he could work his way through college. He was graduated in the allot ted time. He was steady and dependable, and might have been mistaken for a Nebraska farmer. One day, he discarded his bib overalls, appeared in a store suit and was seen no more in those parts. Everybody liked him and they were especially shocked by the fact that he owed about $l,OOO, which he had borrowed to start a cheese factory in Texas. Six years passed when A. L. Haecker, one of his creditors, had a letter from him, enclosing full payment of his debt. He explained that he had a nice job as president of Latvia and was glad to be able to pay what he owed. Other bank drafts followed. The $l,OOO was paid in full. As president and foreign min ister of Latvia, he lived in an ancient, turretcd castle and ruled in a medieval throne room. On the wall behind his desk, the medieval heraldic em blem of Latvia was crossed with the green pennant of the Ne braska State College of Agricul ture. But he wasn’t having a wonderful time. The country was under czarist Russia when young Mr. Ullman ran his newspaper. An indiscreet edi torial brought about his departure for Lincoln by devious routes. To stave off Nazi aggression, he made himself dictator in 1934. 'X'HE possibility of South and Cen tral American countries picking up empire salvage before the U. S. A. works out its hemisphere de- Gen. Übico Out fense + planS seems to have To Beat Hitler to been but British Honduras lightly re garded. How ever, here’s little Guatemala reach ing out for British Honduras, and Sir Samuel Hoare’s mahogany for ests and mills therein, according to news reports. Gen. Jorge Übico, dictator of Guatemala for the last nine years, brings forward in the files the tale of a British pirate who snatched British Honduras from his country 60 years ago. “Los ers weepers, finders keepers.’' Whether that applies to the wreckage of empires seems not to have been covered in interna tional law. General Übico is the only living ruler who looks like Napoleon. He often is called the “ ‘Little Napo | leon’ of the Tropics.” He was elect ed for his first one-year term as president. He survived two revolu tions during this term, and then set aside the constitutional limitation against more than one term—and has had eight repeats, so far. The general received a tech nical and military education in the United States and Europe, and rose to political power through various provincial and national offices. He entered the national assembly in 1918, He concentrates on road-building, sanitation, agriculture and voca tional training for young people. He has been strongly pro-U. S. A., and reports from Wash ington are that our state depart ment probably wouldn’t make much of a fuss over his grabbing British Honduras—as long as Hitler doesn’t get it. Brilliantly educated, hard-boiled and diligent, he has worked out in his small laboratory his own idea of an authoritarian state. Monopoly is the central idea. He grants ex clusive concessions in basic goods and industries. To restrain grab bing and grafting, he establishes a probity department in his cabinet. Anyone working for the government or doing important business with it, has to file a complete inventory of his own and his family’s possessions. If these goods and chattels increase too rapidly, the general’s busy little gestapo is on the job. w [jTil.Pbillipj- # CABINET MEETING The President—Gentlemen, these are your two new cabinet associ ates, Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson Secretary Hopkins—Pinch me; I still think I’m dreaming. Secretary Ickes—l was positive this was coming. Mr. Hopkins—What made you pos itive? Mr. Ickes—The boss’ statement that he wasn’t even considering it Mr. Knox—l feel strange here don’t you, Henry? Mr. Stimson—No; I’m equally un comfortable anywhere. Mr. Knox—Gosh, I never thought I’d land in a Democratic adminis tration. Mr. Stimson—lf you’re surprised, imagine my amazement! Mr. Ickes—Why should either of you be surprised? A Republican is apt to wind up anywhere. Look at me! ♦ * * Mr. Knox (still incredulous)—lt seems funny here when I think I ran on the ticket in opposition to Roose velt. Mr, Ickes—That was no opposi tion! • • * The President—Now Frank and Henry, you know all the boys. There’s Mr. Morgenthau who has charge of all the money. Mr. Morgenthau—All what money? The President—And you all know Harold Ickes. Harold, are you sur prised to find Frank Knox here? Mr. Ickes—No. I always said Re publicans make the best Democrats. The President—You all know Miss Perkins. She is the secretary of labor. Miss Perkins—Did he say Is or WAS? ♦ • • The President—And you know Harry Hopkins, the secretary of. .. 1 of . . . what are you secretary of, Harry? Mr. Hopkins—l lost all track of that. The President—And there’s Mr. Hull. Voice —I propose that the cabinet now sing “Hull, Hull, the gang’s all here.” Mr. Stimson—Well, Mr. President, I am anxious to get to work as sec retary of war. There is much to be done. I assume I am to have full authority there. The President—You’ll find out. Mr. Knox—l think I’ll go over to the navy department at once and get things going. The President—l’ll be right with you. Mr. Knox—That’s what I’m afraid of. * * * TELEVISION OPERA 'T'ELEVISION is making headway. More and more homes are now getting their radio noises illustrated. It is possible not only for the fam ily to argue over the radio words, but over the radio pictures. Grand opera got its first tele vision broadcast the other night. It proved that it is entirely possi ble to throw a fat tenor’s voice into your living room, and the tenor with it. Elmer Twitchell is so sensitive to the conventions and such a slave to form that he dresses for television opera. “It is a nuisance to dress for a radio program,” said Elmer today, “but I never can get used to opera in any form unless I am all dolled up for it. I climbed into my dress clothes as soon as I found that Pagli acci was coming over the radio. I just couldn’t help it.” But what mpde Elmer sore was the way Mrs. Twitchell reacted to opera by television. She went out and bought a new ermine wrap for it. “Believe it or not,” declared El mer today, “that woman has me run ragged. Do you know what she proposed when it was announced that the Metropolitan Opera com pany would broadcast an opera by television, right into our living room?” “No.” “She put on all her jewelry, had a facial, spent four hours having her hair done and then insisted that we go over to the corner garage, hire a sedan with chauffeur and be driven right up to our radio set in style! • • • PROVERBS FOR 1940 Feed not to others your uncooked thoughts. • • • Millenium: The cry of laziness. • • * Conventions are the silly sands on which Proficiency is stranded. * • * No man should win or gain aP' plause if ethics cannot bless hi cause. • • * Our ideals are often smothered b> the dollars we have earned.