Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, January 09, 1947, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextDISPLAY HISTORIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON.—Attorney Gener al Tom Clark is hatching a unique plan for selling civil liberties to the American people. He will send a special tram through the 48 states carrying some of the priceless treas ures of American freedom. It was Clark, working quietly be hind the scenes, who had more than anyone else to do with organizing the president’s special committee on civil liberties, which will study southern lynchings and race prob lems. Accordingly he has evolved the idea of sending a special train across the United States containing the most sacred doc uments of American history which guarantee our freedom. At first Clark proposed equipping two special cars with showcases which would display the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independ ence, the Emancipation Proclama tion, the Constitution and so on. However, he found that the Proc lamation of Emancipation by which Lincoln freed the slaves was in the hands of Abraham Rosenbach of Philadelphia, famous collector of old manuscripts. Clark, therefore, called Rosenbach to tell him about his plan and ask for the loan of the proclamation. Rosenbach agreed to cooperate, nnd suggested an entire train instead of two cars. Ho offered to help raise the extra money and, as a result, it now is planned to equip an entire special train with showcases in which will be displayed the most cherished documents of American history. Soldiers will guard the train, just as guards stand watch continually over these documents in the Library of Congress. In addi tion, as the train arrives at each state border, an extra car will be added displaying the historic docu ments and civil rights mementoes of the state. Finally, Clark plans to have large size duplicates of the freedom docu ments “blown-up” as permanent ex hibits to be left behind in the high schools of each city through which the train passes. • • • IKON CURTAIN STAYS DOWN Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton, who has tried desperate ly to lift the iron curtain, recently was prevented by the Russians from visiting Moscow. Benton was scheduled to fly to Moscow with Chester Bowles, his old advertising partner. But the Rus sians found Benton had only 48 hours in which to make the trip, let him get ns far as Berlin, then stalled him for 48 hours, claiming Moscow weather made it impossible for his plane to land. Finally, Renton went back to Paris, where he checked by cod ed cable with the American em bassy in Moscow, found that the weather in Russia had been per fect during the time he was be ing barred from the Soviet capi tal. Benton, who is in charge of state department information, has tried to beam radio broadcasts into Russia In order to give the Russian people the real truth about the USA. Many Russians don’t even know that the American army and navy partici pated in the war against Japan. • * * NEW WAGE POLICY A new policy line in preventing strikes was agreed on at a secret meeting of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach nnd his top advisers. Hereafter, government mediation machinery will swing into action four to five months before union con tracts expire in major industries, in stead of waiting until union demands nnd strike threats are in the air. It is felt that many serious work stoppages can be avoided if union demands are anticipat ed and negotiations begun well in advance of contract expira tions. First major industry on which the new policy will be tried will be the maritime, which faces another pos sible work stoppage in June. At that time, union contracts of seamen of the AFL nnd CIO on the west and east coasts expire. • * • PROBE MONOPOLY The department of justice is trying to decide whether to bring anti-trust proceedings against American Tele phone and Telegraph company for freezing out small competitors. In dependent would-be manufacturers of telephone equipment have little chance to break into the market be cause of the A. T. & T. policy not only of owning all its own equip ment but buying it from its own Western Electric company, a 9S) per cent A. T. & T. subsidiary. * • * CAPITAL CHAFF The coal strike may seriously af fect next year’s potato and apple crops, according to the department of agriculture. The trouble is that the shortage of coal tar curtailed supplies of insecticides, which are needed to fight such crop pests as the chinch bug, the European corn borer, the coddling moth and the potato bug. . . . James Mead, re tiring New York senator, now has the inside track for chairman ship of the Democratic national committee. NEW INVENTION TALKS BACK . . . Designed by Dr. Donald H. An drews, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins university, a new method of radio reception through superconductivity Is shown by Donald (Sandy) Andrews, 5, son of the inventor, who holds the balometer, which fa the heart of the new method of radio detection. Using no tubes, antenna, transformers, condensers or even electrical currents, the radio waves can be received and demodulated. Material is Columbian nitride, ATOM-SMASHING RY COSMIC RAYS SOUGHT . . . Nobel prize win ner Dr. Carl I). Anderson, seated, testing atom-smashing equipment, while Dr. Robert Brode, cosmic ray expert, looks on at ground labora tory, Inyokcrn, Calif. World’s leading physicists have taken their laboratories into the stratosphere for the first time to seek answers to atom-smashing by cosmic rays. R-2!) bombers were used to take scien tists to 40,000 foot altitudes during the search. DISPLACED JAPANESE ... Among: the war orphans back from Mukden and llsinking area pictured arriving at Shinagawa station Is Ishiko llosoda, 10, right, carrying the ashes of her mother in a white bag around her neck. V.s.v.-s STUDENT MOTHER . . . Carolyn Larid, freshman home economics student at University of New Mexico’s home management house, is learning the duties of motherhood. With a look that Is both beatific and challenging, the cherub in the bath puts it up to Miss Larid to name the next step in the* bathing process. The baby is Patsy, 10 months old, who has not bftc-n spoiled despite the fact that the entire class takes turns at being her mother. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA >A. ON TOP AGAIN . . . Leon Blum, new premier-president of France, ; who recently w 7 as elected to France’s highest office. The 74- year-oid Socialist succeeded in forming a cabinet. He is credited with arranging loan to France from U. S. I : ■l. Jteii, PILOT HKRO . . . Roland J. Brown, Miami, Fla., pilot of DC-4, who was given credit for saving 5(5 passengers and crew of 4, when his plane collided with another plane over Maryland. He landed safely at Washington’s national airport. MRS. AMERICA . . . Mrs. Fredda Acker, Anderson, S. C., who as sumed title of Mrs. America, when the winner wouldn’t go on a 20-week tour. She will use $5,000 prizo money to build home and en dowment for her baby son, John. JUNIOR GROWERS PREXY . . . Jim Spell, Columbia, Miss., high school senior who has been elected president of the National Junior Vegetable Growers association for 1947. He is shown with some of the vegetables he raised in A & P con test, which brought him first hon ors and a $5OO scholarship. PRINCESS AND HER ‘GODPAP. PY’ . . . Field Marshal Jan Chris tian Smuts, prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is show’n holding the youngest daughter of Prince Paul of Greece, his god daughter, while a guest of the royal family. He was on his W’ay home from meeting of United Nations conference in New York. Oriental Scholar Improves Nutritive Value of Rice By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., I Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. - Do you know that an invention of a young Per sian-American may rid the orient of its greatest curse, malnutrition? Do you know how it happened 1 that some of the most beautiful clas sics of Middle swer both, hJ would have been Baukhage able to answer either. It was the inventor, himself, M. Yonan-Malek who enlightened me in two and a half hours of the most charming and informative conver sation in which I have indulged in many a strike-darkened, politics clouded Washington afternoon. Briefly, he has invented a process which keeps the nutri tive value of rice in the kernel, boosts the rice yield by 25 per cent, cheats rice-eating beetles and weevils out of their annual million dollar banquet, but probably most important of all, leaves the Vitamin B factors in each grain of rice intact. Since the rice-eating countries ac count for half the world’s popula tion and since malnutrition is a seri ous problem in all of them, the in vention seems a little less than rev olutionary in its potentialities. It is already the basis of a going concern. Polish Vitamins Out of Product | My acquaintance with rice has been a nodding one, furthered by periodic visits to Chinese restau rants. 'When I ate the underpinning of the celery sprouts and strips of chicken, I didn’t realize that the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt would have approved its polished white ness. I didn’t realize that that pol ishe’d whiteness had been achieved by 19 different cleaning, milling and polishing operations. And I cer tainly didn’t guess that those 19 op erations had robbed my rice of 76 per cent of its thiamine, 56 per cent of its riboflavin and 63 per cent of its niacin and most of its food value. White rice, it seems, is a fetish that goes back to the days of the Pharaohs when white was the sym bol of royalty. Some unnamed chef with a deep sense of the fitness of things didn’t like the idea of his Pharaoh partaking of crude, ple bian-looking rice. So he ordered the royal millers to polish the grain to a pearly whiteness. The millers com plied, never realizing they were pol ishing the food value out of the food. The poor people of Egypt went on eating their rough unpolished rice. And nobody guessed why they were heavier than their rulers. This situation lasted until the French revolution when the revolutionaries insisted on their right to keep up with the royal Joneses. They wanted pol ished white rice too—(and white bread). They got it, and have been getting it ever since. The custom has persisted until today when we still require our rice millers to strip away more than half the vitamins from our rice and wheat. This is not so important in potato and bread-conscious America, but in oriental countries where fre quently the word “rice” and “food” are synonymous, it’s something else again. Six hundred thirty million orientals derive more than 40 per cent of their food calories from rice —and if the rice is polished, they are losing vital nutritional values at every meal. Malek became rice-conscious back t in 1938 when one of his friends wished aloud that he could figure out some way to increase rice con sumption in the United States. At that time, tons of rice were rotting in the California rice ■ fields for want of a market. Each season, this country’s rice growers were being left with a surplus of at least three million bags of rice, i The industry was slowly going | broke. Malek went at the problem in the approved American tradition. He polled representative California BARBS • , , by Baukhage I see by the papers that factory smoke makes cabbages grow big ger. And making the factories smoke makes bigger appetites for bigger cabbages. • • • Are you an unkind person? May be. We learned in our copy books that “politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.” I housewives to find out why they 1 weren’t serving more rice at their dinner tables. He learned that they were tired of burned pots and pans and sticky gummy rice. “If we could only buy canned rice, ready to heat and serve," they would sigh, Malek tried to oblige. For several months, he cooked rice and canned rice in his own home, in indus. trial kitchens, in government lab oratories. But the rice invariably looked and tasted like flour paste. Long Memory Aids Research One day, however, he tried cook ing and canning the patna variety of rice from India. The results were somewhat more encouraging. The canned kernels seemed less gela tinous, almost fluffy. Then he re membered something he’d read about the natives of Assam. It seemed these natives suffered less from beriberi than did natives of other oriental regions. Malek took to the research books, and discov ered that the Assamites parboiled their rice. That is, they soaked it for days in water to loosen the tough hulls, then they steamed it. Up to that point Malek had been trying to can polished white rice. Rice whose vitamin filled bran layers had been cleaned, hulled, milled, scoured and polished away. This was the first mention of the treat ment of rough paddy rice be fore it was milled. He leaped on it as a possible clue. He managed to get from a friend a bag of rough paddy rice—prepaid fortunately, for by this time, Malek was walking to and from his experi mental laboratory, unable to afford even a car token. He soaked the rice for days. When he needed to parboil the rice in steam, he found an unused ster ilizer at a nearby hospital where the internes were glad to help him. Even his neighbors in his apartment building were oh hand to help him spread the parboiled rice on the roof to dry. Now he had his precious parboiled paddy rice. But the tough hulls on the kernels posed a problem. An ordinary rice mill handles rough rice in carload lots. The only way for Malek to mill a hundred pounds was to find a hand mill. Well, he found a hand mill and ground the hulls from the rice. The rice was canned, and this time the kernels that rolled out were hard, dark, chocolate colored and separate. At that time, Malek didn’t know he had accidentally driven the wa ter-soluble bran layers into the rice kernel itself. He only knew this rice was distinctly different than any he had canned before. What he had to do then was to determine the length of time to soak the rice, what temperature to use, under what steam pressure to par boil it. It took Malek months, work ing with makeshift equipment to hit upon the right formula. Finally he obtained rice which, when canned, came out fluffy, with each grain separate and perfectly tender. The layers of bran driven into the kernel imparted a differ ent nut-like bran flavor—and the long cooking at high temperature had made the rice sterile. But the best part of all—which he discov ered through scientific analysis— was the fact that this new rice was unbelievably rich in vitamins. The army and navy were inter ested, and Malek offered them his patents for the war’s duration. At the present time he’s busy licensing rice mills here and abroad to use his process. About the only thing he has left to worry about now is how to obtain the rice in order to process it. The rice supply, as any grocery-haunting housewife will know, is not what it used to be. The world supply of rice is short this year, and a large percentage of rice raised in the United States has been allocated to countries where rice is a sta ple food. This scarcity explains why rice, along with sugar and syrup, is the only food still re maining under price control. But once the world supply in creases, there’ll be more rice, more nutritious rice, more flavorful rice. Furthermore, Malek guarantees that the brand-new bride won’t have to make any last-minute switches in the dinner menu because the rice she cooked turned out all wrong. Oh! what about the Aramaic classics? I couldn’t do justice to that one not without a little more space and a lot more help from Malek. They now have invented an ex ploding scarecrow that goes bang every three minutes, says Business Week. It won’t take the crows long to know that a barking dog does not bite. • * * Plate glass production has reached all-time high, says Busi* ness Week. So have babies and automobile accidents.