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The Washington times., 1931-09-01
BY HANNAH WING

The success of a vegetable din.
ner starts at the market. Choose
vegetables which will make a
pleasing color combination on the
plate and which have well-de
fined, contrasting flavors Then,
too, in order to have the meal
properly balanced from a dietetic
standpoint, be sure to include
one vegetable high in protein
such as peas or beans; one
starchy vegetable-potatoes, rice
or macaroni are the usual ones
and one leafy vegetable such as
cabbage or broccoli. After you
have selected a vegetable from
each of these groups your choice
of the other vegetables to make
up the plate may be left to
instinct and preference.
Cooking Is Important
Second only in Importance to
the selection of vegetables is the
cooking of them. Whether you
boil, steam or bake them, do It
with care. If you boil them, by
all mean do it in a set. Of those
triplicate pans which set so nice
ly over one element of your
range. This will save fuel and
space on the stove. Also. turn
the heat down as soon as the
vegets bles start boiling. for water
can get no hotter than boiling,
and cook the vegetables in as
little water as possible.
Let that little evaporate at the
end of the cooking until the
vegetables have absorbed most of
it. Watch out in the case Of
green peas-if you let their cook
ing water evaporate too far, the
peas will become irrevocably
toughenedO And cool the vegeta-
bleS as short a time as possible
in order to send them to the
table looking and tasting their
best.
Some Salient Hints
Don't choose more than one
vegetable requiring a sauce. Serve
the others with just plain melted
butter poured over them. Serve
them from the kitchen il indi-
vidual portions arranged on din
ner plates-having an eye to
color as you place them on the
plates. That is, don't put the
carrots and beets together, but
separate them by portion of
mashed potato or some other
pale vegetable. A more attrac-
tive plate will result from serv-
ing small portions of five differ
ent vegetables. rather than large
quantities of only three or four.
1t is a good, plan to cook an
extra quantity of each vegetable
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Fruit Punch

Boil l quart of sugar with 2
cups of water for 8 minutes.
Boil l can of grated pineapple
with 8 cups of boiling water 20
minutes. strain. cool and add
! cup fresh tea. juice of 6
lemons. Juice of 10 oranges, l
quart of currant juice and the
sugar syrup. Add l gallon ice
water and l quart charged
water.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
THE WASHINGTON TIMES FOOD PAGE
FOOD SLANTS

to make a vegetabl, salad for the
following day. Store the vegeta-
bles in separate covered contain
ers-we find covered mayonnaise
jars excellent-in your electric
refrigerator. One of our favorite
dressings for a vegetable salad is
mayonnaise mixed with chilli
sauce. We do not find it neceS-
sary to use any French dressing
when we use that mixture.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Candied Sweets

Boil or steam sweet potatoes
until they are tender. Peel them
and cut them French style. Place
potatoes in a well-buttered pan,
dot liberally with bits of butter,
sprinkle thickly with brown sugar
and a bit of ground cinnamon
Bake moderately until a nice,
rich brown.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Tasty Limeade

Squeeze the Juice from six
lines and one lemon. Put in
a beverage shaker. Add one
egg white and three drops of
Worcestershire sauce. Fill with
charged water and crushed ice
ard shake vigorously. Sweeter
to taste with powdered sugar.
Serve in tall, chilled glasses.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Egg Sandwiches

Press three hard-cooked eggs
through potato ricer. Mix with
ope-quarter cup stiff mayonnaise,
oHe tablespoon chilli sauce and
one-quarter teaspoon salt. Spread
on thin slices of white or graham
bread, cover and press together.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Snappy Cocktail

Mix 2 quarts of strained to-
mato juice or pulp with l table
spoon grated horseradiSh. 11a
teaspoons salt anI l teaspoon of
sugar. Chill or freeze to a
mush and serve in cold cocktail
glasses.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Luncheon Punch

Boil cup Of sugar with u
cup of water 5 minutes. Mix
2 cups lemon Juice, l cup Of
orange Juice and the sugar
syrup. Pour over crushed ice
and just before serving add
cup of ginger ale. Dilute with
ice water.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Lobster Sandwich

Cream u cup butter, adding
slowly a few grains salt and pap,
rika and sifted or pounded lob
ster coral to color. Spread be,
tween thin slices of white or
graham bread.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Handy Dish

A vegetable casserole dish pro-
vides an excellent means of using
up small portions of vegetables.
gravies, soups and meat. 1; is not
necessarily a hash, as each in
gredient should keep it's identity.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Savoy Sandwich

Boil six or eight frankfurter
sandwiches. Chill, remove skins
and pass through food chopper.
Season with well-seasoned mayon-
naise and a little prepared mus.
tard. Spread between slices of
graham bread.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
ButtermiIk
Chocolate
Cake

Ingredients:
u cup fat.
112 cups sugar.
3 eggs.
l cup butter1nilk.
l teaspoon vanilla.
3 squares chocolate, melted.
"a teaspoon salt.
212 cups flour.
l teaspoon baking powder.
! teaspoon soda.
Method: Cream fat and
sugar. Add rest of ingredients
and beat we'll. Pour into two
layer cake pans which have been
lined with waXed paper. Bake 80
minutes in moderately slow oven.
Cool and frost with white or
chocolate icing.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
Delicious Punch

To bottles of best ginger ale
add l quart of orange juice.
Stir in 2 quarts of orange water
Sherhet
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
a sealed, ''carry-home" package today

season; real fruits always-there's
never a substitute used.
Buy this smoother, finer ice
creamin thesealed, "carry-home"
package. Filled and wrapped at
the freezer, the Meadow Gold
Ice Cream in this container has
never been touched by human
hands.
The dealers who offer you
Meadow Gold give it the same
scrupulous care it receives in the
making, You'll find a soda tastes
better with Meadow Gold. Let
the children have as much of
this healthful, easily -digested
frozen food as they want.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

IT'S the ice cream news of the
i day this new way Of freez-
ing that brings velvety smooth
ness, a rich, creamy texture to
Meadow Gold Ice Cream. Now,
for the first time, you can enjoy
ice cream that hasn't a single
lump or icy crystal to mar its
delicate favor.
Meadow Colds smooth
freeze" brings out to the full
the rich goodness of this finer
icecream. Delicious, sweet farm
cream -. pure milk :. vanilla
and chocolate Aavors made right
from the beans. Fresh fruits in
The Washington times., 1931-09-01
A NEW
METHOD OF
FREEZING

M e a dow G o l d
"Smooth-freeze" Ice
Cream is frozen by
special patented ma
;hinery which reduces
the freezing tim e
from minutes to Sec
onds. The result is
tiny ice crystals and
a velvety smoothness
not obtainable in ice
cream made any
other way.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

TrucklOad after truckIOad of
the fancieSt Peaches the
season affords is now being
delivered to our stores at
most reasonable prices. Buy
your Peaches this week and
save.
The Washington times., 1931-09-01

Pure cane sugar, corn
syrup and gelatine
make Campfire Marsh
mallOwS a healthful,
tasty food. A simple
supper dessert.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

wives. They have nothing to talk about so
that conversation is dying out. They have no
leSurely dinners at home to help them develop
the art Of conversation. They go restlessly
about not knowing what they want to do It
is the only way that they can escape their
boredom.
Mechanically We have progressed thousand
years ahead Of our time. But of what value
Is 1t when our civilization is duh and boring?
In the third century people were so bored with
life that they didn't think it worth fighting for.
They didn't care an iota what happened to the
world That is why their civilization collapsed.
i believe, as Spengler has said, that every
great civilization reaches point Of saturation.
Decay sets in, men grow disillusioned and they
no longer have any enthusiasm for life. Pres
emily there are attacks from the outside and
that civilization goes to pieces.
That is what will happen to u.s. Our civili-
zatton is cracking very badly and a few more
anesthetics will not prevent it from going over"
MR.. VAN LOON thinks that the chief danger
OF Bolshevism lies in the fact that its
followers are the only people today who have a
new belief.
II don't care for the Bolshevists," he said
NOR am in sympathy with their principles
But we cannot overlook the fact that they alone
have sufhcient interest in a cause to go and be
hanged for it.
lis any one interested enough in any of our
present-day movements to go and be hanged
for 1t? For that reason you cannot fight the
BolshevistS with political economic methods.
They have belief, while the rest of the world
has closed its heart to belief Building a mag
nthcent cathedral for several millions of dollars
is not going to make people pious nor awaken
their souls.
There has to be an entirely new movement,
one which has divine fire, so that it win kindle
q spark In the hearts Of people; one which win
make them want 10 live and which win irnbue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

W1llem van Loon, the historian and
philosopher, its energies and tastes
are becoming faded and its brain tired. It
soon will be overwhelmed with boredom. That
it fatal for any civilization, as history has
repeatedly demonstrated.
We have explored every nook and corner
of the EARTH" said Mr.. van Loon. I'VE have
surfeited ourselves with pleasures Of all kind.
We have gorged ourselves with food and led
soft and pampered lives. Whatever we have
wanted to do we have done. We are now like
an orchestra that has been playing so loud and
30 fast that there is nothing left but to make
noise And noise we are certainly making"
he smiled. But that, Of course, is not satisfy
ing u.s."
The historian is a TALL heavy man with
most engaging personality. He converses
readily and quickly, sometimes with light humor
and sometimes with satirical earnestneSs. He
has just returned to this country after having
spent year in his native Holland. There In
an old ancestral house on canal with barges
passing his doorstep, he wrote q chronicle of
the seventeenth century centered around the
life Of Rembrandt, the famous Dutch painter
MR.. VAN LOON has been a newspaper and
war correspondent as well as lecturer
and teacher Of history, art and literature His
primary love always has been history and he
has written numerous historical books which
have been translated into several languages
Because he is student of history and also
has his finger on the pulse of modern civiliza-
ton, it is interesting to have him take stock
of our age.
I'VE are at the present time just about where
the Romans were in the year 300," he said
They had experienced so much, had filled
themselves with the choicest food and wines
and had all the love they wanted, so life lost
its zest for them.
THE fact that we have more comforts and
mechanical appliances has not given US any
better brains or made us any happier. If
Aristotle or Plato were brought to our civiliza-
ton they would be bewildered for few weeks
by our mechanical development. But they soon
would take it all for granted and be totally
unimpressed. These men, who were pre-eminent
In the knowledge and practice of humane life.
would not find us any greater men. The truth
OF the matter is that our brains have Jagged
behind and we have not made any real, vital
difference to civilization.
"Of course, a child of IL today has expert
enced more Of life than men Of so did 800
years ago. But that has only had the result
OF more quickly making him bored and cynical
What people now need Is not more appli-
ances and more leisure. They need to find some
intelligent way to amuse themselves with the
time that they bave. Everything today bores
them, even their wives and other peoples
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

NE Are Suffering
From Boredom and
Cynicism, and That
Ne IRE Today
Where the Roman
Empire Mas in the
Year 500.

y" HIS world should stop, look and think.
1t is moving so rapidly and living
so fast that, according to Hendrix
Willem van Loon, the historian and
The Washington times., 1931-01-15

History Of The Hecht CO.
UN HEN the stock market hit the toboggan and business dropped off
MHAM than ago, said ourselves There things
to do either sit tight and maintain the price Of our furniture
level at which could replace similar merchandise rapidly
m1EzA declining market"
HAPPILY the latter reduce retail fast whole
dropped regardless Of Our send
the result that 1880 turned be
pann year depression We sold furniture than
before during similar period
AND cycle stocks were low position take
advantage the good things furniture manufacturers had Offer We bought
less less because production have
prefer keep their plants going
a all, rather than have them idle
So, bought for this,
Our Greatest JANUARY SALE
...65 Carloads of New Furniture
!. : : :: :: :: ~
worth Of magnificent occasional living
pieces. worth fine and bedroom
suites. OF and miscellaneous
purchased from quality manufacturers
to do
may beer have made - Il
it our business o
January month break all records x(I/ON~ -
Every piece Of furniture is every piece Of =
The Washington times., 1931-01-15

FFee AStO Parking fer CustomewB--
, Street bstaeen sixth and ssventb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Street Repair.

Despite the fact that assurances were
! given by District officials that mistakes
CT p eyious years would net be repeated,
The 1851 street repair program in the
National Capital, which is now under
way, seems TO have been prepared with
very little consideration to the all-im-
portant needs of traffic. In other years
lack Of coordination between various
District departments, coupled with
thoug htiesaness in planning, resulted in
traffic havoc. With COORDINATION again
estab.Ehed, due to a survey of the s.tua-
ton and the adoption of remedial meas
urcs, it was reasonable to suppose that
the actual repairs would be planned in
a manner to offer the least incon-
venience to motorists. But it does not
seem to be so.
A case in point S the repaving of
Massachusetts, avenue and New Hamp-
shire avenue at the same time, with the
virtual shutting of of the three num-
bered streets west OF Dupont Circle
which normally accommodate much OF
the uptown and suburban traffic. And
to make a bad condition worse is the
beginning of repairs on Twenty-second
street at the intersections of l. and c.
III other words. by an ill-planned pro-
gram, it is almost impossible for
mctoyist to reach the downtown section
by any of the streets west of Dupont
Gree.
Why the work on Massachusetts ave-
nue., for instance, could not have been
delayed pending the completion of the
repairs to New Hampshire avenue, and
Why it is deemed necessary TO start OPP
erations at this time on Twenty-second
street, are difficult to understand. After
all, the traffic is present to be accom-
modated and it should be cared for So
far as possible by an intelligent plan Of
street repair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Defends Free Luncheon
Sales of Real Estate

To the Editor of The Star:
A few days ago a grand jury investi-
gated the local real estate situation, and
evidently to its discontinue discov-
cred that there was no law under which
they could indict those responsible for
"luncheon-lecture methods" of selling
building lots, and it was reported as
going so far as to recommend the en-
actment of such law. New, in the
name of common sense and fairness,
why should there be such an enact
ment? What crime can be made of
inviting people to partake of free
lunches and listen to free lectures as
incentives to the purchase of lots, when
the land is there to show for Itself, and
there is no misrepresentation of facts?
Such law would, on its face, be I'M
constitutional as an invasion of per-
sonal rights. Such mcon-fiXing strain
ing for ultra virtue is bound to have
its reaction.
Grand juries have enough to do in
running down real crime without strain
ing at gnat, and should be sure they
are not pandering to prejudices and
business jealousies. We have too many
laws now, and too many ways in which
the rich and powerful predatory inter
ests get away with their meanness and
go unwhipped of justice. while the poor
malefactor gets it in the neck" Sales
of lots to bona fide purchasers who
intend to build homes around Wash
ington should be encouraged as an aid
to the city'S desire bic expansion.
LINDSAY S. PERKINS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Facts as to Service
On Mrs. Willebrandt
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I note from an article which ap-
psared in your paper under March %
date line that Mrs. Willebrandt regards
as amusing" the fact that she could
not be served in Missouri in my libel
suit She undertakes to infer that
she could have been served. but was not.
1t is true she could have been served
in Washington, but such service would
not be valid under Missouri law. She
has carefully evaded service, and on
September &c. 1929, employed Hon.
Jesse Adkins, now a justice of the Dis
trict court there, to appear for her
before Justice Stafford for the express
purpose. as Mr. Adkins stated to JUS
tice Stafford. of keeping her out of the
Jurisdiction of the Missouri courts.
When she successfully evaded service
in this suit. she was found by process
server in New York and served there,
and suit in the New York court was
substituted for the Missouri suit.
1t is true, as stated in your article,
that service in Washington was made
upon the Current News Features. The
suit was by attachment and $4,000 be-
longing to Current News Features was
levied upon, thus making service out
side Missouri good against the Current
News Features. February "a, last, judy
ment was rendered against Current News
Features for the full amount sued for
and the Judgment has been paid, with
the costs of suit.
Please do me the courtesy to pub
lish this in order that the facts OF the
matter may be fully stated.
GUS o. NATIONS.
ST Louis Mo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Safety in Air Travel.

Because of the almost unprecedented
interest aroused by his tragic death, the
killing Of Knute Rockne in an airplane
crash on March 81 generated wide
spread fears that civil aviation, especial
~ passenger transport, had itself suf-
fered a grave, il not fatal, blow. 1t Is
gratifying TO observe from Depart
Enent Of Commerce report on the Rockne
accident that a purely individual, and
wholly unavoidable, circumstance
freak Of the weather-was responsible.
Nothing occurred that justifies in any
way whatever any public anxiety on the
score Of safety in air travel.
II was coating Of ice upon the
transcontinental airplane's wings that
caused the ship carrying Rockne and
the rest Of its passengers, including
nsiosN to their DOOM At firs It was
Epseted that 9 broken prcpsaer va
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20 blame, but the Commerce Depar.-
,nents inspectors found, on more mi
mute examination Of the wreckage, that
weather was the primary cause"
The pilot of the ar liner" says the
official report, knowing from his radio
conversation with Wichita that the
weather was clear at that place, is be-
lieved to have started up through the
low clouds to get above them. In doing
So it is thought that ice collected on
the plane and possibly rendered in
operative certain of the pilots flight in
st9uments that function through the air
stream. The results seem to in
di3ate that on Ginning cut of this ma
neuver the change Of direction occurred
with such unusual rapidly as to build
up an enormous load on the wings,
which in turn brought about the wing
failure"
1t would be thousand pities-and no
one more than the NEST celebrated vic
tim Of the Kansas disaster would be
quicker % second this view-if such ac-
ciGentS were to impede the steady prog
ress and growing popularity of travel by
air. Until men accustomed themselves
to being whirled slong steel rails at
mile a minute the iron horse relied
up a considerable casualty list Today
no che thinks Of danger rs he steps into
train. nor of the lurking perils Of ;he
sea as one boards on ocean liner, even
though the fate of Titanic will never
fade fr~m memcrv.
Human ingenuity, restlessly at work
to achieve mechanical perfoction in all
realms. is destined. sooner or later, to
reduce the hazards CT the plane to the
vanishing point. Meantime. let us re-
main aiim.nded
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Hore fer Chicago.

Chicago. the bad boy of American
cities appears to be in-lined 10 turn
over a new lsal; to take an interest in
its own affairs. AS a demonstration of
its change of heart. the city rolled up
a majcrity of almost 100000 aga n t
Mayor Big Bill" Thompson in the cleo
ton yesterday, and for him substituted
Anton c. Cermack, the Democratic
candidate for mayor The acton Of the
voters yesterday revives rather droop-
ing hope that at bottom the people CT
Chicago are sound and cnce aroused
will clean up. The great trouble in Chi
cago, as in other cities OF TIE country,
Is to get the voters sufficiently aroused
to take an interest in their own gov
eminent Yesterday the vote ran well
over a million, the largest en- record.
Whenever the voters turn out in great
numbers the Thonps-ns are as a rule
defeated.
William Hale Thompson, three tines
elected mayor of Chicago, for total
of twelve years of service in that Office,
became an international clown In
stead of making issues of civic ques-
tons, in some OF his campaigns Big
Bill" spent his time hammering King
George of England and charging that
If his opponents were elected Chicago
would become a province of the British
crown. Ridiculous as such perform
ances appear. Big Bill" was able to
capitalize on them. His government of
the city finally gave rise to the term
Thompsonism." And Thompsonlsm
has been the bane of Chicago for years,
while criminals and gangsters have OPP
Grated with comparative freedom in the
Nations second largest city.
Cermack, the newly elected mayor,
has been chairman of the Board of
Cook County, which comprises Chicago
and a bit of outlying territory. He is
a native of Bohemia and when he was
a young man worked in a mine and
pushed a cart for a living In real
estate he, has amassed a fortune His
pledge to the people of Chicago during
the campaign was for better and clean
er government. A Democratic leader in
Chicago for number of years, he has
overnight become a dominant political
figure in Illinois, for leadership which
is successful in Chicago carries with it
Statewide reputation.
In all probability Chicago will not be
CLEANED up" in week or a month. But
there has been beginning at the polls.
If the people themselves will continue to
take an interest in their affairs and
those of the city government much may
be done in a year. Chicago is on the
eve OF holding another worlds fair.
But Thompson is not to be the host TO
the world as mayor of Chicago.