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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, August 16, 1940
Brazil Launches ‘Good Neighbor’ Warship
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Washington. D. C.
GENERAL PERSHING
SUMMER SALADS
(Recipes Below.)
General Pershing's solemn warn­
ing that unless aid is given the Brit­
ish fleet to resist Hitler, the United
States faces certain attack, was not
a reply to the appeasement broad­
cast of Colonel Lindbergh. When the
A E. F. commander decided, after
a study of confidential military re­
ports. to come out of retirement
and speak to the nation, he did not
know that the flyer also planned to
talk.
Also, Pershing wrote his speech
without any knowledge of what Lind­
bergh would say. However. Persh­
ing did tune in on the latter's broad­
cast But it was only tor a few
minutes.
The General of the Armies be­
came so incensed at Lindbergh's
views that he turned off the radio
and snapped. "That's outrageous.
I'm saying nothing-about that young
man in my talk tonight, but I shall
Putting teeth into the declaration of Pan-American unity in defending the Monroe Doctrine, Brazil leads
make it my business to do so on
the parade of South American nations In speeding preparedness by launching a new destroyer, the Marcillo
another occasion.”
Dias, at Rio De Janeiro, one of the six clans “A" destroyers being rushed to completion. Mrs. Getullo Var­
gas, wife of Braiil'a president, christened the vessel.
TENANT FARMERS
Despite all the good intentions of
Henry Wallace regarding the share­
cropper and tenant farmer, the in­
side fact is that both have been in­
creasing in numbers and decreas­
ing in security, year by year. For
anybody who wants to write an­
other “Grapes of Wrath," there is
more abundant material than ever.
It is not being shouted from the
housetops, but between 1930 and
1935, the number of farm tenants
increased at the rate of 40,000 a
year to reach the staggering total
of 2.865.000. The 1940 census, when
the figures are out. is expected to
show a still higher figure.
Privately agriculture department
officials admit that they are just
about licked, and have almost aban­
doned their drive to reduce ten­
antry.
There are three reasons for the
increase in tenant farming:
1. Increased mechanization. Best
index of this is the mounting sale
of tractors. Technological unem­
ployment, which long ago hit the
factory, has now come to the farm.
2. Reduced acreage. To prevent
price-depressing surpluses,
AAA
contracts with farmers to plant less.
This means fewer tenants are need­
ed to plant, tend and harvest the
crops. Meantime, the rested land
next year gives higher yield, neces­
sitates further reduction of acre­
age.
Seven thousand Indians representing 30 tribes of the Southwest will give demonstrations of chants, games,
3. In spite of AAA efforts, how­
ever, tenants and sharecroppers are races and ceremonial dances at a celebration which opened at Gallup, N. M., August 14, to continue for three
not getting proportional benefits of days. The celebration marks the twentieth annual Inter-Tribal ceremonial. Sixty different types of Indian dances
AAA payments. The money goes to will be exemplified. Above are shown typical scenes from the ceremonial.
the landlords, many of whom are
insurance companies and absentee
owners. AAA officials, headed by
Cully Cobb, have insisted they can't
make an issue of this or they will
lose landlords' compliance.
Shareci opper Security.
Economists in the department are
now making a drive for security for
tenants. This represents a radical
shift of direction. For until recent­
ly. the drive was to convert tenants
to owners, with government aid.
Instead, r<. lizing that many ten­
ants are incapable of owning and
operating a farm, AAA planners are
not trying to decrease the number
of tenants but to increase their in­
come and security. It is pointed out
that tenantry in England is much
higher than in the United States
*80 per cent against 42) but that
the English farm tenants have a
degree of protection unknown here.
First step in this direction is . to
formalize and legalize the relation
between farmer and tenant by
bringing in -a simple, uniform lease
to bind the relation between them.
Over 80 per cent of all tenants
and sharecroppers have only ver­
bal agreements with their landlords.
Conferences in the agriculture de­
partment are preparing for such a
drive.
Preliminary material has
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, who announced his in­
been drawn up, under Economist
This i* I H-y car-old Peggy Van
tention of supporting Wendell L. Willkle for President, is shown at the Vllet of Glen Ridge, N. J. What la
Dover P. Trent, The country will
piano after acting as judge in the Barber Shop Quartet contest at the Peggy doing? She’s drinking iced
soon hear about the “flexible farm
New York World’s fair. The Happy Warrior made a quintet by Joining coffee. Ko what? Just as a symbol
lease.”
the winners in "The Sidewalks of New York," his campaign song in of coffee, “the drink of Western
Approximately a million tenant
hemisphere friendship."
families (5,000,000 persons) move the Presidential race of 1928.
every year.
Benefit payments,
poured out by the billions, never
touch them. They are the big un­
solved problem of the New Deal’s
agricultural reform.
I
• • •
Salads, in summer, are as impor­
If you’re planning a picnic for
tant as swimming or tennis, or golf!
a crowd, be sure to read Eleanor
Nothing tastes quite so good as a
Howe’s column next week. You’ll
cool, crisp mixture of fresh greens,
And in it Miss Howe's own tested
or fruits, or vegetables, served with
recipes for picnic foods—a recipe
just the proper dressing. The very
for a chocolate cake to serve 25
word is refreshing—like a drink of
hungry picnickers; directions for
cold, sparkling spring water after a
making barbecue sandwiches or
long and dusty hike.
meat loaf for the same size
Very light salads may be served
crowd: and a recipe for a gallon
as an appetizer first course, if de­
of inexpensive chocolate chip ice
sired. Dinner sal-
cream.
ads.
too.
are
light; they may
be served as a
stiffen, add remaining ingredients.
separate course,
Turn into wet mold and chill until
or with the main
firm. Unmold on lettuce. Serve with
course
of
the
mayonnaise or fruit salad dressing.
meal. For lunch­
Fruit Salad Dressing.
eon. salads may be somewhat heav­
2 egg yolks
ier, because the main luncheon dish
*4 cup strained honey
is likely to be light Many times, a
Juice 1 lemon
luncheon salad is a whole meal in
Dash salt
Itself, served with bread or crisp
1 cup whipping cream
rolls, a beverage, and dessert. And
Place egg yolks, honey, lemon
there are many times in informal juice and salt in top of double boiler
luncheons and dinners, when salads and cook >4 hour. Remove from
do duty for dessert
flame, beat with dover egg beater
What makes a good salad? Plenty and cool. Whip cream and then pour
of crisp, fresh greens, a blend of the chilled honey mixture into the
fruits or vegetables or fish, a zesty whipped cream—beating entire mix­
dressing and a dash of color, say ture with dover egg beater. Serve
the experts. To make salads appe­ with any kind of fruit salad.
tizing and refreshing, as they should
Appetizers.
be. everything must be fresh, crisp,
Cut the crusts from slices of very
and well chilled. Greens are fresh­ fresh bread. Spread bread with
ened in ice water for half an hour, cream cheese generously mixed with
well drained in a salad basket or paprika. Roll as for a jelly roll
bag, and left in the refrigerator to and slice in very thin slices. Brush
chill. To prepare with melted butter, toast lightly, and
head lettuce for serve immediately.
salads, cut out
French Dressing,
the core or stem
(Makes m cups)
with a pointed
*4 clove garlic
knife, and let cold
(grated)
water from
lumps sugar
faucet run
tablespoon salt
this opening,
tablespoon pa-
water forces the leaves apart
prika
cleans them.
cup oil
Use other greens besides lettuce
V4 cup vinegar
for garnishing salads, and in mixed
Grate garlic on
green salads, as well Watercress,
lump sugar, and
tender inside leaves of raw spinach,
let stand before using, for several
endive, escarole and romaine are
hours. When ready to mix, place
good for variety.
all ingredients in order listed in jar.
Add cubed, leftover meats to green Shake vigorously and serve.
salad, for a hearty main dish. And
Tomato Jelly Rings With Salmon.
for hot days, plan fruit salad plates
(Serves 5 to 6)
/
for lunch pr supper.
1 tablespoon gelatin (unflavored)
Peeled oranges, sliced and served
14 cup cold water
with fresh, whole berries, with let-
2 cups tomato juice
tuce, watercress or endive for a
1 tablespoon sugar
garnish, make an attractive and re-
*4 teaspoon salt
freshing meal.
Dash pepper
1 bay leaf
Crab Apple Salads.
1 teaspoon onion (minced)
(Serves 6)
% cup celery (chopped)
6 eggs
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Pink pure food color
1 pound can salmon
12 cloves
Watercress or lettuce
6 tiny sprigs of green
Salad dressing
1 head lettuce
Soak gelatin in cold water. Com­
■4 cup mayonnaise
Place eggs in saucepan, cover with bine tomato juice, sugar, salt, pep­
boiling water and simmer gently un­ per and bay leaf, and bring to a
til eggs are hard cooked (about 15 boiL Strain. Dissolve softened gel­
minutes). Remove shells while eggs atin in the hot liquid. Allow to cool
are very hot, then while holding egg until the mixture begins to thick­
under hot water, flatten both ends of en. Fold in onion, celery and lem­
the egg until it takes on the shape on juice and pour into individual
of a small crab apple. Paint a tint ring molds. Chill until flrm; just
of pink on each egg with pink liquid before serving unmold on beds of
color; place a clove at the stem end watercress or lettuce. Fii enters
of the egg and another at the blos­ of salad rings with large flakes of
som end. Add a tiny sprig of green salmon. Serve with salad dressing.
at the stem end and the “crab ap­
Have you ever realized that ev­
ple” will be complete. Arrange let­
tuce cups on individual salad plates; ery single one of us Includes, in
place one egg on each plate and our daily routine, several hundred
homely, household tasks? And have
serve with mayonnaise.
you ever discoverd by accident some
Fruit Salad.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Toss lightly together in salad bowl simplified, easy, and practical way
Rep. Joe Martin, new G. O. P.
of
doing
one
of
these
tasks?
Then
one cup watermelon balls, one cup
national chairman, has added to his
muskmelon balls, one cup honey you know how valuable a book would
staff Dave Ingalls, campaign man­
be
that
contained
several
hundred
dew melon balls, 1 cup seeded rec
ager of Sen. Bob Taft.
cherries, and 1 cup diced celery. just such helpful hints on homemak­
The famed Indiana Two Per Cent
ing.
Add french dressing in sufficient
club is virtually broke and practical­
Send
10
cents
in
coin
to
“
House
­
quantity to thoroughly coat all
ly defunct. Harshest blow was the
fruits. Serve in bowl lined with hold Hints," care Eleanor Howe, 919
new Hatch act. This is costing the
N.
Michigan
Avenue,
Chicago,
and
chilled greens.
you’ll receive your copy of this help­ club hundreds of “dues” paying
Golden Fruit Salad.
members.
ful booklet, promptly.
(Serves 6)
.'Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
1 tablespoon gelatin
G. O. P. TROUBLES
2 tablespoons cold water
Tasty Cases
The campaign organizing difficul­
1 cup juice from canned pineapple
Green peppers, cut in halves and
(hot)
simmered for 10 minutes, make ties of the faction-scarred Demo­
Mi cup sugar
tasty cases for creamed or scalloped crats have been widely advertised.
Little has been said about it But
Few grains salt
fish. After the peppers have been
■4 cup orange juice
Ailed put them in the oven for five the Republicans are having their
troubles too.
¥« cup vinegar
minutes or so to brown the tops.
1 orange (cut in pieces)
Real reason for that gathering of
1 cup raw carrot (coarsely grated)
Clothes Space
party chiefs at Colorado Springs last
1% cup crushed pineapple
For additional clothes space in the week was to clear away a batch
Soak gelatin in cold water and dis­ closet fasten a bird-cage hook to the of inside snags which have caused
solve in hot pineapple juice. Add top of the closet door. This will hold the Republican machine, after more
sugar, salt, orange juice and vine­ six or eight hangers and will keep than a month of activity, to be less
gar. Cool, and when beginning to long dresses up from the floor.
than one-third organized.
Southwest Indians Join in Tribal Ceremonies
Girl Scouts Sponsor Hemisphere Tics
Inter-American friendship will be the slogan of the annual Inter­
national encampment of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from 15 countries
in the Western hemisphere which opened at Camp Andree, N. Y., on
August 14r to continue for two weeks. Girl Scouts are shown en route
to the camp grounds. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, honorary president of
the Girl Scouts, is shown in Inset.
V. F. W. Convention
Joseph C. Mrncndcz of New Or­
leans is expected to be elected com-
mander-ln-chlef of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars at its forty-first an­
nual convention opening at Los An­
geles, Calif., on August 25.