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Smyrna times., 1941-11-27
$14O,OOO FOR
RECREATION
Red Cross Rushing Purchase
of Recreation Equipment
at Army OutpOsts
FORMULATE PROGRAM

The American Red Cross is rush
I ing purchase and shipment of $140,-
900 worth of recreation equipment
for the enjoyment of America S
armed force stationed in Alaska
and at the North Atlantic bases,
Chairman Norman H. Davis an
nounced here. The shipping list
includes motion picture projectors,
monographs and records, pool tab
les, lamps, writing tables and day
room furniture. simultaneously
Chairman Davis announced that the
sRed Cross staff serving the armed
forces at insular posts and recently
acquired bases now totals 40 per-
sons. The Red Cross has under
taken the furnishing of recreation
equipment to Alaska and the At
lantic bases at the specific request
of the Morale Branch of the War
Department, Mr.. Davis said. He
pointed out that the Government
lacks appropriation Immediately
available for the urgently needed
recreation supplies. Of the total
purchases, $4,000 worth of sup
plies will be sent to Alaska and
100000 to the Atlantic bases, the
latter being in addition to a rush
order of $4,000 worth of equip
ment dispatched last month to Ice
land. Mr.. Davis reported that Red
Cross Field Directors and their as
sistants are stationed with the
armed forces in the following bas-
es: Manila, Iceland, Balboa, Canal
Zones, Philippine Island, Trinidad,
Bermuda, Newfoundland, Alaska,
and Hawaii. These trained men
and women he said, are carrying on
the same program of social service
and hospital recreation that Red
Cross workers are conducting in
domestic Army and Navy posts.
The program in Iseland, Mr.. Davis
said, shortly may be extended to in
clude a recreation program for
able-bodies service men and civil
ians. The extent of this new pro-
ject, also undertaken by the Red
Cros at the request of the Morale
Branch, depends upon results of a
survey now being conducted by two
Red Cross officials who recently
flew from London, England, to
Reykjavik, Iceland.
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vice, and C. R. Snyder, Sussex
County agricultural agent, soon af-
ter the start of Land-Use Planning
activity in Delaware's lower coun-
ty. In meeting after meeting,
many a farmer told his fellow
farmers that he wanted to do
something about taking better care
of the woods that make up a part
of most every lower Delaware
farm. When Cobb and Snyder dis
covered the woodland management
work that had been in progress for
a number of years On the Britting-
ham farm, they soon realized that
here was an example of consci-
entious effort in the best use of the
land, an example that can well
serve as a guide to other rural Sus-
sex Countians.
Smyrna times., 1941-11-27
RIGHT FOOD FOR
GOOD HEALTH
Your Health and Vitality De-
pends on Proper Food
and Right Amount
BY CHARLOTTE SPENCER

Thanksgiving is always associat-
ed with food. The first Thanksgiv-
ing was planned to give thanks for
successful harvest. Thanksgiv-
ing 1941 seems most appropriate
time for us to think about our own
food resources and to be thankful
for them.
To begin with, the Americans are
already the best fed people in the
world. A report of the League of
Nations showed that before the
war began only the British Isles,
The British Dominions and the
Scandinavian countries were as
we'll fed as the United States. War
has cut the food standard of living
in all these countries except the
United States and possibly some of
the British Dominions.
Even the American diet can
stand a lot of improvement. But
let us be thankful that we have the
means to make these improvements
at home and at the same time to
extend a helping hand to those
countries less fortunate than our
selves.
We have the land to produce
what we need. Farmers are Civ
ing priority to foods such as milk,
eggs, vegetables, fruits and meats
which are essential for health. The
United States Department of Agri-
culture is planning carefully so
that we will have the makings of
a well balanced diet for every
American.
We have the knowledge of how
to store this food. Never before
have we known so much about how
to preserve foods at their best
flavor and highest nourishment.
Canning and freezing are both
highly developed. We are now
learning how to preserve flavor and
vitamins in dried food. By con-
trolling humidity and temperature
we can extend the freshness of
such fragile product as eggs.
We have the knowledge of how
to improve our health through diet.
While there is much yet to be
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holds the bouquet of the wine.

holds the bouquet of the wine.
Wine should be appreciated by
the senses of sight and smell, as
well as taste," he said.
Granting that the old formula
"red wine with red meats, white
wine with white meat" is a good
general rule, Mr.. Billingsley never
theless thinks a person should
drink whatever wine he happens to
like best. "Only those who know
nothing about wines worry about
being correct" he said. eff you
like wine, it's correct for you."
AL Jolson, Mr.. Billingsley said, is
fond of good red meats. When he
rders tenderloin of beef at the Stork
Club, he wants red burgundy to go
with it, served in a stemmed glass
of generous size, which displays the
wine to advantage.
Virginia Fields likes to start her
meal with honeydew m elon fol-
lowed by jellied consomme. With
the consomme, she drinks dry sher-
~. Her favorite dish is broiled lamb
chops and with it she usually orders
champagne. When she choos
crepes suzette for dessert, she sees
that it is served with glass of
port wine.
Paul Lukas, Mr.. Billingsley said,
is fond of fish. His favorite is SUI
preme of pompano. With this he en-
Joys Rhine wine in tall stemmed
glass. For dessert he often selects
fruit compete and with it likes
champagne.
"a six-ounce stemmed wine glass
in modern American crystal will do
for serving any wine," Mr.. Billings
ley said, although full line Of
stemware in the home sets a more
beautiful table.
$50 why should today's hostess
worry about the foibles of wine
etiquette? She can set her table
with modern American crystal, Sc
lect domestic wines according to
her own American taste, and serve
a perfect dinner
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DEFENSE BOND
@ u IL

@. What simple and satisfac-
tory way is provided for all of us
to express our gratitude for being
Americans
A. The means is the purchase
of Defense Savings Bonds and
Stamps-available to almost every
man, woman, and child. Ownership
of even a 10-eent Stamp carries the
satisfaction of knowing you have
helped the Nation to arm.
@. What denominations of De-
fense Savings Stamps are on sale
at retail stores?
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Mr.. Billingsley ought to know.
Long famed as a host to many of
the worlds outstanding personali-
ties, he knows what foods and what
wines please countless celebrities.
"Since it's becoming difficult to
get imported wines," Mr. Billings
ley said, more and more people
are discovering that wines made in
this country and bottled in tradi-
tional American bottles, are good.
It's the same with crystal" he
continued. "Since imports of Euro
pean glass have been cut off, there
has been a revival of the fine glass
industry in America. The modern
American crystal now coming out
of our own glass houses is sunerior
to any glass made anywhere.
"a fine glass adds to the enjoy
ment of wine. 1t should be a clear,
stemmed glass of generous size so
that it need never be more than
half filled. 1t should have a good
ring and should be slightly smaller
at its brim than at its widest part"
Mr.. Billingsley had good reasons
for his specifications. The glass
should be clear, he explained, SO
that the color of the wine will show.
The narrower at the brim shape
Smyrna times., 1941-11-27
EXPERIMENT ON
SUSSEX FARM
Woodlands Management Pro-
gram on Farm West
of Delmar
CLEANUP FOUND BEST

Turning off the main road into
one of Delaware's typical rural
lanes west of Delmar, visitors to
te farm home of Mr.. and Mrs. M.
S. (Smiley) Birmingham are likely
to comment on the contrast be-
tween the yellow pine wood on the
west side of the lane and a stand
of the same kind of tree on the
other side of the sandy drive. To
answer the curiosity of visitors,
Birmingham will explain that the
piece of woods on the west side of
the lane has been cleared of all un-
derbrush, while the woodland on
the east side of the farm road has
been allowed to remain untouched
by human hands. The graphic con-
trast between these two sections of
woods contains the story of what a
longtime woodland cleanup pro-
gram can accomplish. For Brit
tingham has worked on removing
brush and briars from the woods on
the west side of the lane Out go
the briars and even the lower
branches of the trees, Sn comes a
nourishing covering of shafts that
provides bedding for the Britting-
ham farm animals and retains
moisture for the trees. And trees
in the piece that has been cleaned
out are much larger than those
where the brush has grown wild
Yet the trees in the carefully-man-
aged block are younger, by a score
of years, than those where under
brush is taking valuable plan foods
and moisture out of the soil and
away from the trees.
During the IL years that 66-year-
old Brittingham has been on his
188-acre farm, he has tried to
tackle the cleanup work on the
woodland every three or four years.
The second time over, he says. is a
good bit easer than when the briars
and brush are cut and hauled out
first.
The work that Birmingham has
set out to do is based on his ideas
of better use of the land. He
points out that by taking are of
our woods like this, we aim to get
better growth of the trees. And
even if it's hard to figure out right
now, I'm one of those folks who
thinks that in few years-maybe
10, maybe 25-these woods are 60
ing to provide one of our most i'm
portant cash crops. It's easy for
anybody to see what winter and
odd-time work in just part of our
143 acres of woods has meant in
the way of tree growth just in the
few years ince I started to think
about this business of taking care
of woodland. Of course, prob
ably won't be here to get the bene-
fit of this work, but this is my
chance to pass along something
really worthwhile to future genera
tions.
'Now when I clean up patch, I
always aim to leave little of the
ground cover for rabbit. This
doesn't amount to much, but it
goes long way to keep up the
number of rabbits here on the
place"
Brittingham's unusual woodland
management work came to the at
tention of A. D. Cobb, assistant di-
rector of the University of Della
ware Agricultural Extension Ser
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A. Stores are concentrating on
selling 10-cent and 25-cent Stamps,
in order to get a maximum num-
Der of customers to participate in
the Defense Savings Program.
Many stores also carry 50cent, 81,
and S5 Stamps. Stamps of all de-
nominations may be purchased at
Smyrna times., 1941-11-27
SAVING STAMPS
AT NEW TOTAL
Defense Stamps For October
Total S5,935,934.50; In
crease of 1872 Per Cent
HIGH MONTHLY TOTAL

Sales of Defense Savings Stamps
for october reached total of S5,-
935, ,934.50, establishing the highest
monthly total since the Stamps
were placed on sale last May 1, the
Treasury Department announced
November IA. This figure, compar-
ed with the 1878, 900 worth of De-
fense Stamps sold in September,
shows an increase of 1872 percent.
1t marks the fourth straight month
that the sale of Stamps has risen.
Figures for Defense Bond sales for
October, which were announced by
the Treasury last week, also jump
ed sharpl over September figures
with an increase of 16.5 percent.
Defense Savings Stamp sales by
months Figures rounded to the
nearest thousands:
May .................. S3,475, 900
June 2,S02,0O0
July .................. 3,288,0O0
August ............... 4,454, 900
September ............ 4,978,OO0
October ..........-.... 5,936,0O0
Smyrna times., 1941-11-27
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GO you wish you were connois-
~ seur of wines? You'd like to in
clude them on home dinner menus,
but you're little hazy on wine
etiquette?
Don't worry about it, says Sher-
man Billingsley, owner of New
York's famous Stork Club.
There's too much confusion about
which wine to serve with which
food, what glasses to use, and so
on" he said. "Choice of wines
should depend on persons own
taste, developed through expert
menting, and not on stiff rules and
regulations. The wine you drink
should improve for you the flavor
of the food it's served with. And
the glass it's served in should add
to the pleasure of the wine."
Evening star., 1941-02-02
PROGRESS on the Plate

The regional economic conference
being held at Montevideo between
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
and Uruguay is obviously getting
down to brass tacks and promises
to achieve worthwhile results. Re-
gional handling of common prob
lens is logically indicated by the
basic geographical fact that all five
countries lie within the vast Plate
River system, comparable to our
Mississippi Valley. Nationalistic RI
valries and jealousies have hitherto
prevented broad-gauge handling of
matters vital to their joint prosper
ity. The second World War, with its
inevitable dislocations of interna-
tional trade, has quickened the urge
for common action among these ma
tions of southern South America The
scope and complexity of the issue
can be seen by the fact that more
than forty distinct projects have
been brought up before the confer
ence for consideration.
Especially revealing is the agree
ment reached in committee that
ferryboats plying the waters of the
Plate estuary and the continent
rivers are henceforth to be con-
sidered extensions of the roads they
connect and therefore to be freed
from troublesome delays due to port
formalities when the ends of their
short runs are in different nations.
1t is easy to picture the handicaps
to local trade and communications
where such conditions prevail
OF much wider import is the con-
ferences approval of a draft con-
vention Suspending operations of
the most -favored-nation clause in
dealings between the five partici-
pating countries. This convention
provides that concessions agreed
upon shall remain in force only so
long as they are not extended to
other countries by the usual most-
favored proviso contained in
commercial treaties. This novel prin-
ciple of economic regionalisn thus
Evening star., 1941-02-02

involves the relations of the sigma
tories with nations throughout the
world. f
Theoretically, this might seem to
contradict the liberal principles in
international trade for which our
own Government has stood so
strongly. But the idea of regional
tariff concessions where local trade
could thereby be fostered was in
dorsed by the Pan-American Con-
ference of 1888, and seems clearly
justified by the economic necessities
of the Plate area.
On the other hand, it is doubtful
whether the present conference will
broaden the limited concessions now
being considered into the much more
ambitious regional customs union
proposed in different forms by Ar
gentina and Brazil. Both countries
approach the project from diverse
angles, and the smaller nations shy
at the proposal, lest they might
thereby become economic domin-
ions" of their larger and more power
full neighbors. The touchy national
ism which animates all Latin Ameri-
can countries is likely to slow down
the trend toward economic unifca-
ton. But the trend is obviously
there, and it is favored by the
pressing necessities of these difficult
times.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
WE KNEEL ONLY TO THEE
BIZ the Rt Req. James E. Freeman, D. d. ILL., d. D. C. L.,
Bishop of Washington.

city over the land. In many places the
largest auditoriums have proved made
quate to meet the demands OF the
throngs that came to hear again the
ever-cld and ever-neW story of the
Gospel Distinguished laymen have
joined with those in orders to proclaim
again the mighty truths given to man
kind by the Master. The mission has
not sought so much to stir the emotions
as to stimulate in the minds of men
everywhere the urgency of the Gospel
message. The time is ripe for new
reformation movement. Nothing is more
evident in the life of the world today
than the impotence Of its self-confldence
and man-made institutions.
The old and searching question Is on
the lips of multitudes: Lord, to whom
shall we go? Thou alone hast the words
of eternal life" Men are beginning TO
realize that the mighty teachings of
Christ have relevance to world Condi-
tons and that if Christian civilization is
to be preserved it must be made more
Christian. The Sermon on the Mount
transcends all other messages ever given
to mankind. Magma Charta, the Bill Of
Rights and the Constitution have had
their inspiration and authority from
Him who declared "Ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free. "
The world had lost its hold upon Him
who is the embodiment of truth. 1t had
reverenced Him, sometimes Worshiped
Him, but it had neglected if not aban-
doned His way of life. 1t is learning at
frightful cost what this meanS-shat-
tered cities, disrupted and impoverished
national life, confusion and increasing
fear, countless thousands of youth slain,
all issuing in bitter rivalries and hatreds.
Where, apart from return to the
ways of Christ will the world recover its
security and peace? Upon the Christian
Church & great responsibility rests.
Upon every Christian a duty is imposed
to be loyal to the Christ's way of life
The churches National Christian Mis-
sion, to be held in this city in churches
and halls. beginning today and contin-
uing through Sunday, February g, af-
fords an opportunity for a new demon
stration of an awakened and aroused
church, fresh evidence of its indis-
pensable place in our national life.
Evening star., 1941-02-02

A poster has been produced in Eng
land representing British soldier kneel-
ing before the figure Of Christ. 1t has
received widespread favor and its title
has become one of the slogans of the
British Empire The greatest sover-
eighty the empire recognizes is the
sovereignty of Jesus Christ.
The generous response to this poster
is indicative of the deepened religious
of the British people by reason of the
tragedies through which the empire is
passing. Here is morale in its finest
expression. 1t is more sustained by
living faith In living Christ. To para
phrase the words of another, the British
of their life AS illustrative of this
read the words spoken from the ruins
of Coventry Cathedral:
What we want to tell the world is
this: That with Christ born again in our
hearts we are trying, hard as it may be,
to Danish all thoughts of revenge; we
are bracing ourselves to finish this tre-
mendous job of saving the world from
tyranny and cruelty; We are going TO
try to make kinder, simpler, a more
Christ -Childlike world in the days be-
yond this strife
This demonstration of Christian faith
must find a response here in America
To admire it is one thing; to emulate 1t
another. Despite all evidences to the
contrary, we believe that there is deep
undercurrent of religious feeling cours-
ing through the life of America. Our
people, broadly representative Of the
races of the world, are not as closely knit
as are those of England, and the vast
spaces of this country do not afford an
opportunity comparable to that of Eng
land for developing in brief space a
revival of religious life.
Notwithstanding this, g. great move
ment has been set on foot by the lead
ing Protestant churches of America to
bring to the consciousness of our people
the need of a renewal of their faith and
loyalty TO Jesus Christ. A National
Christian Mission, led by the most out
standing preachers in the country and
from abroad, has been gathering mo-
mentum as it has proceeded from city to
Evening star., 1941-02-02

will result from housing thousands
of additional workers in the central
office area. Also, the new structure
will eliminate 750 of street parking
spaces, with no possibility of reloca-
ton.
Demands of the emergency, Of
course, have first consideration, and
the Navy Department certainly needs
additional space. But before similar
conditions arise in other agencies,
steps should be taken to prevent, as
far as possible, unnecessary tempo
rary" construction,
Evening star., 1941-02-02
Best Luid Plans

In spite of the lessons learned in
the years following the World War,
and Notwithstanding the policy of
the Park and Planning Commits
sion in locating emergency buildings
of functional nature in undeveloped
or industrial areas, the National
Capital is about to be given another
temporary edifice which can well
be expected to remain indefinitely.
This is the addition planned for the
Navy Department Building 1t will
extend from Seventeenth street and
Constitution avenue, at the rear of
the present structure, as far as the
Lincoln Memorial Rejecting Pool.
twenty-five years ago numerous
temporary buildings filled the open
spaces in the center of the city. Navy
and Munitions were superior only in
that they were OF, concrete and
painted white, but even some of the
old wood and stucco structures re-
main in the Mall opposite the mag
nificent National Gallery of Art. It
had been hoped that during this
emergency, temporary" construction
could be located in less ostentatious
surroundings.
In addition to eSthetic factors,
serious traffic problems should be
considered. If Fine Arts Commission
advice is followed, Virginia avenue
soon will be closed at its intersection
with Constitution avenue to make
way for an addition to the Pan
American Building, leaving Constitu-
ton avenue, already congested, to
eare for all the additional flow which