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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05
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ron YQu. Here is one campaign against
the Axis that every one of us at home can
share actively in - the battle against in
flation and for the White Market which
Mr.. Doane discusses on this page. In order
to do your part to help distribute rationed
goods fairly, to help hold down the cost
Of living and to kill black markets, you
should sign the Home Front Pledge:
81 will pay no more than top legal
prices"
81 will accept no rationed goods
without giving up ration stamps"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05
by Charles n. Doane

business legitimately and on the level.
And nobody is going to be able to say that
about me.
You'd think, from some of the things
you hear about the Black Market, that
there isn't such thing left in this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

We are just ordinary Americans. 1t is
the people who have made the Black Mar
ket, the sellers and the buyers, who ought
to be pitied.
My customers aren't faring as well as
they used to, or as well as they might if
they quit me and hunted out the Black
Markets. I'm not making as much money
as used to. or as might if turned into
a Black Market. But when our boys
come back, well be the same kind of
people we were when they went away.
We won't feel ashamed of ourselves.
l guess there are countries where you
have to be cheat and a chiseler to do
business. 1t makes sense to me that my
son and lot of other peoples sons have
gone to war to keep this the kind of a
country where it is the honest man who
has the best chance to set up shop, mind
his business and make living
You don't lose your feeling for that kind
of country overnight - not when you
have sons fighting to save it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

doing it" is such dangerous propaganda.
1t gets 50 that people begin to try to be-
lieve it must be all right, even though they
know it's wrong. They begin to think they
are foolish if they aren't getting their share.
But most people don't really want to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

1t seems to me it's about
~ l am a butcher. That is,
meats. l also sell staple groceries. ]
into business right here in this
thirty-six years ago. and have beer
ever since. 1t has never been big
business, but it has been a good
business. | started out with
horse and wagon, and now we
operate two trucks out of the shop.
/ have been able to raise and edu-
cate a family, and my older son is
in business with me now. The
younger one is an officer in the
Coast Guard. My daughter is mar
RED - her husbands in the Army.
The country is full of butchers
and grocers and filling-station
operators who aren't very different
from me. We are what you might
call the White Market. We are
trying to do an honest business.
1t is not easy these days. But l
know that / would 20 out of
business before / would turn
criminal, and / know that a lot
of others like me all over the
country would. too.
have a lot of war industry
workers among my customers,
and | could be selling more meat
and other merchandise than ever
sold before. if had it. They have
the money and are eager to buy.
But as matter of fact. I'm selling
less than | have sold in years, be-
cause | just don't have it to sell.
When l get sirloin of beef these
days, it is a big event. But then l h;
slice it 50 thin, in order to make it S
out among all the customers who
been begging for steaks, that it tai
the edge off the satisfaction. ha
spend most of my time telling Gust
that haven't got this, and | haver
that.
j DON'T like having my bushes
down, of course. But. I'm not spe
here to complain about all the fussir
figuring we have to do with ration co
and reports. If this is what we have
up with during this war. | can sta
But there is one thing | won
won't be a crook.
! don't say this to set myself uI
saint, or anything like that. | dom
pose you can live in one place as lo
| have, to say nothing OF doing bus
without getting some people mad al
| have had my fights. But nobod
ever been able to say that | didr
Copyright. 1919. United Newspapers Maya.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

~ AN plain American speak his piece?
1t seems to me it's about time.
am butcher. That is, | sell
meats. l also sell staple groceries. went
into business right here in this town
thirty-six years ago. and have been at it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

MEET Charles N. Doane, typical American
IF typical American town. He has live
n that town all his life as his famil
lid for generations before him. He's out
spoken and blunt - and a sincere patrio
as an honest butcher an honest grocer or
an honest filling station owner. People
who have known me and done business
with me for years suddenly seem to think
that would be interested in doing Black
Market business They wouldn't think of
suggesting that would steal, or blow up
an ammunition plant, but yet they urge
me to get them steaks or roasts against
the law.
Just the other day two good church
going women gave me tip about where
could get some Black Market chickens
1t was no news to me- hadn't had any
chickens, except few locally-killed ones,
for months, but / knew all about that
place and plenty of Others where could
get Black Market stuff.
But you don't think ought to buy it,
do your" l asked them.
why not?" one of them asked. after
all, everybody is doing it now
guess they really believed that. A lot
of people do. That's why "everybodys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

This is job that our government,
alone, cannot do But with your help, it
can. It's up to you.
JOHNNY ZERO. Until recently, our flyers
in the Pacific could count on being out
numbered by the Japs every time they
went into action. But they were also conf
dent of coming out on top. One boy. con-
graduated on a victory over group OF
Zeros, said: II should have won. Why hell,
outnumbered the Japs one to FIVE"
SALUTE. THIS WEEK dedicates its Labor
Day cover to the ladies of the home front:
the women workers who have kept the
production wheels turning in factories,
shipyards, on farms, who man transpor-
tation systems, who work in hospitals -
who do any of the jobs that release man
or woman for active service. They're
not in uniform but they are a mighty
part of the Army of Democracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

cheat, when you come right down
to it. Some do, of course. There
have always been chiselers. But l
think my customers are pretty
fair samples of Americans.
And find they prefer honesty
to steaks. They may complain
about not getting what they want,
the same as do about not having
it for them; but they know that l
would get it for them if l could do
it legitimately, and 50 they stick
by me and take what they can get.
VI COURSE there is a Black Mar
ket. I don't know just how big it
is, but it is too big, and gives us
White Market people plenty of
trouble. At a time when food is
scarce anyway, it makes it just so
much the harder to get the food
our customers want and need. Of
course we could get it on the
Black Market, too. You don't
have to be smart to do that. The
fact is, you have to turn down
propositions.
But the point is that there is
White Market. I'm not just a lone,
curious old dodo who insists on
doing honest business, and my
customers aren't a bunch of fools
in sticking with me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-09-05

Names and descriptions Of all In fiction stories
and semi-6ction articles in this magazine are wholly
imaginary. Any name which happens to be the same
that of any living dead Is entirely
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Ra+ioninu
Questions
Answered

HERE ARE more questions
and answers concerning the
rationing of processed food by
the Office of Price Administra-
ton, which begins on March 1.
Q-My family consists of mp
husband, orr two children and
myself. What is my fdmily's
allowance Of canned foods tUhen
rutioning begins?
A-Twenty cans; five per per-
son. excluding those containing
less than eight ounces.
OFF I hare more cans than
that, 1CiH the ertrd cans hare to
be turned IN 1chep rdtioning
beQinsl
A-No. but one blue eight
point stamp will be taken out Of
Ration Book 2 for each can be-
You'd the allowable FIVE.
What 10 Count
Q-Do 7 hare TO count all the
canned foods IN my home?
A-Count all the cans, bottles
and jars that contain eight
ounces or more. Home canned
foods are not included and there
are certain other exceptions.
Q-Eractly which foods are TO
be reported!
A-Include all the following
commercially canned (tin or
glass; fruits Including spiced
fruits) and vegetables. canned
fruit and vegetable juices, all
canned soups, chilli sauce and
catsup.
Q-WW stamps be deducted
for canned foods which are part
Of an emergency shelf to be
used only in case Of an air raid
or other disaster?
A-Yes. All cans of food to
he rationed and weighing eight
ounces or more must be included
in the count.
Reporting Canned Goods
Q-Hor and when wiH these
ertrd cans be reported
A-They will be reported 10
local rationing registrars when
War Ration Book 2 is distributed
on a form called the consumer
declaratio
Q-Where WW 7 get the form
on 1Uhich to report my extra
stock of canned foods?
A-Watch for il 10 appear in
your newspaper sometime after
February Is. Clip it out and
fill in the facts on February q.
Registration for War Ration
Book 2 begins on February %.
and you will save time by bring
ing a completed form with you.
One Form for Family
OWL each member OF the
family I'LL ont one Of these
forms2
A-No. Only one form will be
usel for the entire family, The
form has a space for writing in
the names of all members of the
family unit.
Q-Do include my house
keeper in this list Of names? She
lives tCith ms and eats all her
meals ia orr home.
A-No. List only the men,
hers of the family. Your house,
keeper must fill out a separate
declaration form.
O. What other information
,CiH I be asked TO supply on this
consumer declaration
A-The number of pounds OF
coffee the family had on hand on
Nov. %, 1912, less one pound for
each person whose age is given
as IA or over on Ration Book /.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Relsu 81 Play

II YOU must work under pres
sure. don't play under pressure.
You can't help holding down a
Job that builds muscular tension,
but YOU can choose the recrea-
ton, or do the kind Of exercises
that will relax your ten Q
muscles
Any good gymnasium can help
you out with the sports that Will
balance your work But when
you are on your own as 10 eN-
ercise you can take the kin d
that will relax your muscles and
Hhkiffk Setif- nerves.
Your most likely areas of ten
zion are the shoulders and neck.
Here's an exercise that will
loosen you up: Flop forward al
the waist. trunk and arms dan
Cling. neck limp, knees sagging.
Then very slowly straighten up,
struggling your shoulders loosely
as you stand up Repeat three
times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Library Exhibit
In lis Last Week

THIS Is the last week for the
Wartime Living Exhibition at
Detroit public library
The following booklets, copies
of which may be obtained free
at the library, indicate some of
the many fields in which reading
material is available at the ex-
hibition:
Food and Clothing.
Health for Victory.
Home Maintenance and Re-
pair: Self-Serve.
Family Relationships.
Your Child in Wartime.
Books That Help Mother
Entertain Her Young Children.
Recreation.
Books 10 Read Aloud.
Prepare Yourself for a War
1Oh
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Who Says
Ladies Can't
Slice Bread?

A BREAD slicing contest!
Did you ever hear Of such a
thing? 1t all came about
through Jack Pickering, in the
adjoining office, who thought it
would be a good idea. Bet there
isn't a woman in Detroit, said
he, who can slice a loaf Of bread,
keeping il even to the end.
I'll betcha {. said Prudence
Penny that have a lot of
ladies who can -. right down in
our Homemakers' Club cooking
school.
And so we asked the ladies il
they would like 10 show Mr..
Pickering how its done.
Bring. your own knives, we
said and well have a COM
test at Tuesdays class.
Then we invited Bruno Bos-
cacci, a chef from the Hotel
Statler. who has been slcing
bread for Is years 10 be one
Of the Judges and Tuesday,
promptly at 2 o'cloCk, the fun
began.
Chef Boscacci set the ball
a-rolling by slicing a loaf
with his giant knife in the
twinkling of an eye BRAN
diShing, as he talked 10 the
ladies, not only the knife but
steel which seemed a yard LONG.
Mr.. Pickering came armed
with two knives 10 protect
himself, he said and was a
little astounded al the efficiency
with which the ladies tackled
the spongy loaves for you
see II was fresh bread.
Only rule OF the contest was
that the slices must be as
uniform as possible and
must be the proper thickness 10
NJ into toaSter.
Some 50 women took part in
the contest all had a good
time =. and the first prize Of a
pound Of butter went 10 Mrs.
Leonor Gasso. 4473 Cicotte, who
got % slices out of her loaf In
IL minutes.
Runner-upper was Clara
Champagne, 1874 Van Dyke.
who got q slices in 2 minutes
e. and third Mrs Garbin-
Ski, $751; Clifton rs slices
3 minutes.
Guess thatll hold YOU. Mr..
Pickering guess the ladies
know their bread knives!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Fried Corn

box quick frozen cut corn
! cup sliced green peppers
! teaspoon minced onion
o tablespoons butter or mar
garine
Il teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
"a cup sliced pimentos.
Saute frozen corn. green pep
pers and onion in butter. COW
cred. until corn il thawed and
green peppers are tender, stir
ring frequently. Add salt. pep
per and pimcntos, and cook
until pimentoS are thoroughly
heated Serve, garniShed with
sprigs Of parsley. Serves 4.
THE CHOCOLATE pudding
we will make with cocoa since
chocolate is often difficult 10
obtain. 1t is necessary when
substituting 10 make a few
changes in the recipe. Here
are directions lof preparing the
dessert with cocoa.
Chocolate Pudding
22s tablespoons cocoa
"a tablespoon butter or mar
garine
! pint milk
y cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
u teaspoon salt
teaspoon vanilla
teaspoon butter or mar
Garine.
Melt butter and blend in
cocoa, add to y cup of milk
and stir until well blended. Heat
remaining milk and add cocoa
mixture. Sift sugar, cornstarch
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

"HOW DID Don Juan make
fools of so many women ." in
quires a bachelor wistfully. He
didn't. When the women saw
him, they Just made a leap for
him and made fools of them
selves. There are still some
men like that-but they have no
Byron TO publicize them.
II takes the average woman
five nr-siS years 10 get her hus-
band running along smoothly on
the single-track of marriage
and another woman five or six
minutes to de-rail him.
Love. says a doughboy, is the
recruiting poster, which tempts
man TO sign up for the dura-
ton. Afterwards, he finds that
he's enlisted for life.
THE AVERAGE man pre-
fers light opera 10 grand opera
just as he prefers light women,
who are gay and amusing, 10
grand women. whom he can't
understand.
Alimony, says Reno Ruth, is
an annuity from a love in
surance policy.
Copyright. 1872 by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

Duodome, the two-headed
boy, has two sets of teeth to keep
in good shape. That requires get
ting plenty of calcium and phos-
pilates in his diet. If you've a
head on you, you'll do the same.
Listen to this: One level teaspoon
OF Rumford Baking Powder, as
contained in baked foods, pro-
vides one-third your minimum
daily requirement of calcium,
one-half your daily minimum of
phosphorus! And Rumford bak-
ings are so good you'll wish you
had two heads, too!
FREE; Use Rumford's Time
ly Recipe Material. Write
today-Rumford Baking Powder,
Boz ?, Rumford, Rhode Island.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Get Stretch

Or, you might do the cat
stretch
Get down on the floor on your
hands and knees. Stretch the
right arm and shoulder forward
and at the same time come for
ward with the right knee and
stretch the left leg out and back,
from the hip. Then move for
ward another long, stretchy, step
on the other side.
Finish by folding up on the
floor. Sit back on your heels
and let your forehead rest on the
floor, hands out at sides, palms
up.
Just rest there for a few
seconds. Repeat the entire eXer-
else several times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
SUIT ACCESSORIES

HERE'S A JAUNTY salute 10
spring in suit accessories with 4
military air! Both the becom-
ing VISOR hat and the overtime
shoulder purse are of inexpen-
sive cotton, done quickly in
single crochet and popcorn
stitches. Trim the hat with a
gay ribbon.
Pattern 545 contains direc-
tons for hat and purse. Illus
tration OF stitches; materials
required
Send IL cents in coins for this
pattern 10 the Laura Wheeler
Pattern Department. 1925 Times
Square, Detroit. Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

A GIRL goes into a beauty
parlor, to prepare herself for the
evening 10 come. But when a
man goes into a barber shop it
is usually TO erase the traces of
the evening before.
The only difficulty about d.
vorcing your husband for de-
sertion. says Reno Ruth, is
getting him TO desert you
without making scene.
Love is LIES carburetcr:
marriage. The safety-clutch, and
divorce the shock-absorber.
THERE Is nothing so thrill
ing to girl as falling in love.
But, to man, falling in love
IS like taking gas or ether. He
doesn't know that anything is
happening 10 him, until lis all
ever, and he wakes up 10 hear
the clergyman saying, 4 pro-
nounce you "
The girl, the love or the habit
70 which man clingS, forever.
Is usually the one that he feels
moment.
Marriage is what changes a
"oman.S I-lpve-you-So' into T.
told-you-So,1
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Relax Muscles

To slim your hips and keep on
with your relaxing. make point
Of holding only with the muscles
involved in the exercise.
For instance, in the old tried
and-true hip simmer in which
you lie on your side on the floor,
head pillowed on under arm, you
should make the big muscles on
the back of the hip do the work
Of swinging the leg out in front
and away back and up. Let the
lower leg muscles loaf. Try TO
keep that part of the leg COM
pletely limp.
When you have finished the
exercise, shake your legs loosely
from the hip joints 10 get rid of
any tension in the big muscles.
Copyright. 1913. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Wartime Marketing
inexpensive Kidney Loaf, Fried Corn
And BrusseI S prou+s on Today's Menu

milk over bread and soak. Com
bine all ingredients except bacon
and mix thoroughly Line bot
tom of loaf pan with slices Of
uncooked bacon. Add mixture
and pack firmly, Bake in a
moderate oven $3.50 degrees) for
10 hours
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10

and salt together and add 10
hot milk gradually.
Cook. stirring constantly. UNI
I'll thickened Add vanilla and
butter PeHf into serving dishes
and chill. Serves 5.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
BY PRUDENCE PENNY

SINCE WE had planned our
meals for the entire week and
like TO buy a quantity of foods
in advance, we purchased for
four days during our shopping
tour OF the weekend. This was
done at the independent grocery
store way out on the east side
of Detroit.
We like TO include at least one
Of the nonrestricted meats in
each weeks menu if possible
Today we are featuring kidney
loaf that is delicious and mex
pensive.
Kidney Loaf
Brussels Sprouts Fried Corn
Beet-Cottdge Cheese Salad
Chocolate Pudding
Pork kidneFs will be excellent
in this loaf and sold for about
q cents a pound One pound
gives three large kidneys-suf-
ficient TO serve four. The BruS-
sells sprouts we purchased fresh
for about 25 cents a quart.
These need simply 10 he cleaned
and cooked uncovered in boiling
sailed water until tender.
To make fried corn we bought
one package of frozen corn for
about 25 cents and combined
with other ingredients. The
heets were picked and served
over top of creamy white cot
tage cheese.
Kidney Loaf
pound pork kidneys
cup milk
8 slices bread
Il cup bacon drippings or
butter
2 eggs
112 teaspoons salt
Il teaspoon pepper
3 tablespoons grated onion
Il teaspoon powdered sage
3 slices bacon.
Wash the kidneys In cold
water. Drain well and grind. in
Guiding the internal fat. Pour
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Prudence Penny
Exercises
That Make
You Relax
BY IDA JEAN KAN

MERELY LIVING in wartime
Is a strain And when working
under pressure Is added to living
under strain. Won have 4 double
reason for relaxing, II YOU don T.
you will break down
Try 10 find out what n Is that
builds up tension in YOU II
might be that Won 60 10 bed TOO
late night after night Get mp TOO
late the next morning, and then
rush all day 20 catch up That
would make any one tense.
But the worst Of building ten
sion is. II acts like a snowfall
and gathers size and momentum
on lis way. Try 20 start the day
leiSurely.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-10
Modern Girls Valentine
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Darling, would you have me prove
That l honestly adore you?
Then, oh let me tell you, Love,
All the things that I'd do FOR you,
/ can't learn TO cook and mend
Or to scrub kitchen shelf
But, I'd listen hours on end,
While you talk about yourself.
Td'not feed you home made pies.
Fear not, Love, for your digestion.
But your weakest alibis
l would swallow without question:
AS housewife, I'm no riot,
I'm no gentle "clinging vine;
But know WHEN TO KEEP QUIET
Tell me I'm your Valentine!
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-12-22
ClCANKA
POVEST IL
DOMACIH
HRIBOV
Predstavnik:
Albin Hrovatin

Zopet SO Sc odprla vrata in
prisopla je Kristina.
Wanda, Vanda!' zaklica-
la, "zdaj je vse prav. Srecna 81,
nj tt treba cd hise. Skupaj osta-
neva Ia zmerom in skrbela bonn
zate, kakor da 81 mi sestra."
"Da, da, Kristina je pridna,
ME Sc drill" je potrdila Jer-
ca; "zdaj pa poslusaj, Wanda,
kaj tt recent Pametna bodi in
ne delaj neumnosti! Lagati Sc
ne smes, vzeti ne smes nicesar,
ampak zmeraj prositi, &c bi kaj
rada. Pri delu bodi marljiva, ma
besedo ubogaj in nikoli ne 60
drnjaj"
"Tudi, &c me bodo tepli, ne
bonn rekla nicesar," je odvrnila
ciganka.
Wanda, tepsti te nihce ne
SINE, to ne SINE biti," je vzklik-
Mia Kristina.
"Odraslega cloveka pa Sc de-
kleta povrh nihce ne SINE tepsti,
ampak le opominjati," il je de-
jala Jerca; ''tu nj kakor pri
ciganih &c ii je kaj treba
ali ce imas kaj ma srcu, lie me-
nj to povej! JAZZ sem ii najbliz-
ia, ker Matt zozja, tista velika
lepa gospa V kapelici spodaj, te
je meni izrocila. Nikoli te ne
bonn Zapustila, vedno bonn skr-
bella, da ii to dobro ma dust in
ma telesu. Zaupati mi moras. "
Ciganka je razburjeno segla
po Jercini roki in jo je polju-
bila.
"Ti, tega lizanja Sc 1noras
odvaditi; to pri mas in v nava-
di. Pri mas Sc clovek zahYali in
konec," jo je Jerca prijazno po-
.karala. "Zdaj zbogom obedve !!
Kristina; ako hoces prav veil
ko dobro delo stoIiti, bodi lepo
okoli Vande!'
''Da, z besedo in Z de.}anjem
il bonn pomagala, kolikor bonn
mogla. Rada!" je obljubila de-
kla.
Wanda, pridna bodi, potem
ii DO lepo ma Ravnah"
Ciganka Sc je solzami V
oceh smehljala.
Hladno leto je prislo, dezeV-
na jesen in prezgodnja zima z
obilnim snegom. Sc o veliki no.
ci je sneg pokrival polja, tako
da sc je oranje zamudilo in Sc