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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

Americans have never known how
to shop for meat. One says that the
most nutritious parts of every car
cass are seldom chosen at all, but
60 into making fertilizer or feed.
Blood, lungs, stomach, pancreas,
kidney, brain, sweetbreads and
hearts-these are among the items
which the housewife passed up with
untroubled conscience on her shop
ping tours.
One nutritionist remarked that the
meat packers who knew the pecu-
liarities of the people, put choice
tidbits like those mentioned above
into their canned dog food. AS a
result, he says, much dog food was
superior in nutritive value to some
Of the meat canned for human con-
sumption.
"There is one thing we shall do
well to remember" the nutritionist
declares, "and that is there is no
evidence to support the theory that
when we buy expensive cuts of meat
we are buying more or better pro-
TEN than the cheaper cuts would
provide US.
Generally speaking, American
habits of choosing, buying, preparing
and serving meats have been waste
full of both food value and money.
Americans in the main have scorned
the animal organs and the cheaper
cuts of muscle meat, tasteful and
nutritious though these may be.
Many people habitually spurn fat
meats. On the other hand, we rush
to buy the cuts which include a large
proportion of bone and gristle, which
represents waste"
Find Adequate Diets.
The National Research council in
a recent report on nutrition asserted
that inadequate diets and malnutri-
ton in varying degrees occur fire.
quently in all parts of the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
ALEUTIANS:
RCAF Joins Raids

American airmen keeping up their
marathon bombing tactics in the
Aleutians were joined by Canadian
pilots flying U. S. Warhawk fighters
in attacks on Jap-held positions on
Kiska.
Whether the bombings were a
softening-up prelude to American
land and naval action against the
Aleutians or a diversion to hamper
enemy activity observers did not
know. But they were unanimous in
their opinion that any assault on the
Jap-held Aleutian positions would
be considerably more difficult than
had the American offensive against
South Pacific Guadalcanal.
A naval communique said that the
continuing raids, made by Liberia
tor and Mitchell bombers and War
hawk and Lightning fighters scored
damaging results on the main camp
area and runway on Kiska.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
COAL SHOWDOWN:
FDR Mopes Swiftly

Blunt had been President Roose-
velt's warning to John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Workers,
to end the tie-up in the nations soft
coal fields.
The need for blunt action, how
ever, had been clearly evident,
for even at the moment the Presi-
dent had threatened to use his pow
ers as commander in chief to pre-
vent interference with the war eff
fort, $4,000 miners already were on
strike and a walkout of the entire
100000 bituminous miners had been
threatened. M sal
Terming the miners walkout as
.strikes against the u. S. govern
ment ITSELF the President said that
such action was clearly a violation
Of labor's ''no-strike" pledge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

considered that most of them have
something on the ball.
For instance:
It's the style to eat potato skins.
Baked potatoes or potatoes cooked
in their jackets have lot of good
minerals just beneath the skin, so
when they're thrown away we're not
getting the greatest nutritive value
for our money. And this brings up
the subject of eating the green's I'M
der salads. Valuable minerals and
vitamins are stored there to be had
for the eating.
The sugar supply should go far
Their now because it's considered
good manners to stir tea and coffee
vigorously after adding sugar, SO we
can get its full sweetening value.
This will be even more important
when iced tea days appear-if we
have the iced tea.
We used to eat bread and gravy
when we ate alone, or put aside our
Sunday manners, but now it's
the style to eat gravy on hot bis
cults, mullins and bread. Every
homemaker is being asked to save
all drippings and to serve them as
gravy to extend the good meat flavor
and add nutritive value to the meal.
Everyone likes to eat around the
bone of juicy broiled lamb chop
or a piece of fried chicken, and now
we're not only told that it's permits
sable from the standpoint of man.
ners, but we're encouraged to follow
this procedure because it's the trend
in the style toward patriotic eating.
Every particle of meat is precious
these days.
Learn to Carve.
Not the very least of the sugges-
lions is one directed toward the head
man as well as the little woman.
Nowadays, if Papa does the carving
at the table, Papa is advised to
learn how to carve.
1t seems there's more to carving
than merely wearing the badge of
authority; indeed, good carving
avoids waste, assures uniform Sic
ings Important to the preservation
of harmony in every honey and af-
fords extra servings.
Perfectly elementary in itself is
the fact that sharp knife is essen
tial to good carver. And equally
elementary, good carver should
take enough interest in his tool to as
sure its care. Thus, knives should
not be let loose in drawer where
other metal can dull or nick the
blade. A properly sharpened knife
can be kept keen for a long time by
dozen strokes with a steel before
use.
In carving any cut of meat, it is
desirable to understand the anatomy
of bone structure of the cut to be
carved and to remember that meat
should always be carved across the
grain. Steak, because it is tender
and the meat fibers are already rela-
lively short, is an exception to the
rule.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
WITHHOLDING TAXI
Painless Extraction


Soothing words to taxpayers faced
with rising federal levies were spo-
ken by Chairman Doughton of the
house ways and means committee
who declared that the 20 per cent
withholding provision of the pending
pay-as-you-go tax bills twill not re-
suit in a single extra dollar being
taken from the taxpayers pocket
book"
'The proposed 20 per cent with
holding is only method of collect
ing currently all or part Of the taxes
imposed by the existing tax laws"
he said.
Mr.. Doughton said that from some
persons will be withheld more than
is needed to pay their taxes and
from others, less. Refunds will be
made later if too much has been
withheld.
"All salary and wage earners will
be called upon to file regular in
come tax return on March 49," he
said. "The amount which has been
withheld from their wages will be
credited against the actual tax
owed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
By AL JEDLICKA
leased by western Newspaper Union.


Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Time was not so very long ago
when all of this nutritive and
vitamin talk sounded kind of
silly.
That was the time when al
most everybody thought that
vitamins were something that
came in capsules or pills; when
women figured that they knew
all of the tricks of the culinary
trade, and when we all liked
food for its taste and gave little
consideration to it's minerals,
proteins, carbohydrates, etc.
Plates were heaped with po-
tatoes and meat; if there were
any kids around, few vegetables
were served because they didn't
like them; and then more pota-
toes and more meat, and finally
a great big slug of pie, was put
down to top off a coed meal.
If the Little Woman came home
from some cooking school all
worked up about the science of food
and its preparation, the head man
dampened her enthusiasm by gently
but firmly advising her that all that
vitamin and mineral stuff was the
bunk, and meat and potatoes were
good enough to keep the world going.
In fact, the head man argued in
vincibly, hadn't the world been liv-
ing on potatoes and meat, ETC., since
mans memory runneth, and hadn't
she, as we'll as he, been raised on
the old standbys-and, what was
wrong with them? Nothing! OF
course.
But that was before December z,
1941. A lot of things have happened
since then and one of them is Mr..
and Mrs. Americas attitude toward
the vitamin and its encourage. Meat
and other rationing have thrown us
on the defensive and it is now a
question of stretching foods, finding
substitutes and all of the time seek
ing to maintain nutritive values.
The upshot of the whole thing is
that we might emerge from the war
with more intelligent knowledge of
food, of the purpose of its varieties,
and consequently be in a-position to
guide our healthy growth by exact
standards.
If we were to be awfully enthu-
siastic about the situation, we might
say that scientific nutrition may be
the one big development following
the war, just like the automobile
came into it's own in 1919. But lot
of people who will find it hard to
reform their old eating habits prob
ably would argue to the death that
we were wrong, because the airplane
will be the thing with peace.
Must Find PrOteins.
Since meat rationing came along,
food experts have been pointing out
the necessity of seeking other
sources of protein. In so doing, they
have consoled us no end by their
reminder that, after all, it's not the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
HERES WAY no BUY BONDs-GET MORE Sleep

An extra hours sleep in "the near
side'' of the evening was recon-
mended as war thrift measure by
the National Thrift committee. With
small wage earners facing the neces-
sity of buying more and more war
bonds. the National Thrift commit
tee issues the warning that drastic
economies on the home front are
unacceptable. Health-giving sleep will
automatically curtail many extrava-
gances, in the opinion of the COM
mittee. $500 5
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
RUSS-POLES:
Issue Is Territory

Territorial differences came to
the fore as the principal issue at
stake in the Polish-Soviet controver-
sy, although the break in diplomatic
relations had been caused by de-
mand of the Polish government-in-
exile for an investigation Of the al
legged massacre by Russians of TO-
600 Polish troops in the Smolensk
region.
In a statement which neither
opened nor closed the door to recon-
ciliation, Premier Sikorski affirmed
the Polish governments policy of
aiming at friendly relations with
Russia, but challenged the Soviet's
right to claim the western Ukraine
and western Belo-Russia.
The Poles demand a return of the
eastern part of the territory they
ruled before their 1899 collapse. The
Russians who took this land over,
and were in turn routed by the 1941
German invasion, say that the land
is historically theirs.
Whether the controversy could be
preached remained a problem for
United Nations chancellories to
worry about.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
REFUGEES: .Sls'
u. Britain to Hid

Plans to ease the plight of war
refugees in areas outside Of occu-
pied Europe and to reject any meas
uresethat might involve bargaining
with Germany were believed by OBJ
servers to have been embodied in a
set of recommendations agreed on
by delegates to the Anglo american
conference on refugee problems,
held in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Observers indicated that the con-
ference's recommendations include
the tempOrary relocation in Africa
Of $4,000 refugees now in neutral
countries until the end of the war,
as well as provisions. for the feeding
and care Of refugees unable to leave
neutral countries. Il III As4
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

meat that makes meat valuable, but
the protein it contains.
"Meat is necessary to our diet be-
cause of it's high protein content"
writes one nutritionist. g. There
fore, other foods high in protein can
be made to do as well.
Zone of these" the nutritionist
continues, sis fish. Perhaps during
this war our domestic cheese will
come into its own. From the simple
cottage cheese to the fancy Swiss, it
equals in quality any in the world
and could be used to great adyan-
tage, being superb as food because
of the high quality of its proteins."
Soybeans have been found to be
extremely high in protein and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
BOOM:
Postwar Tie,U Bright

A potential era of unparalleled
prosperity" faces the United States
as soon as the war ends, the de-
partment of commerce reported.
''The major potentials," the re-
port said, twill be present the day
after victory is. won-employment
on an unprecedently high level, the
greatest productive plant of all
time, national income ut a peak
hardly dreamed of in pre-war years,
with large accumulated savings
and an unmeasured demand for
goods denied to the consumer by
the wars exactions.'
One 'big problem" the depart
ment asserted, is to prepare now
to so manage these factors as to
translate potentials into realities,
adding that this, is primarily the
job of private enterprise, aided and
supported by government"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
MASSACRE:
Japs Ape Nazis

Employing the same terroristic
technique that their Nazi partners
had used in massacring the inhabi-
tants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, Jap
troops slaughtered every man, wom-
an and child in the coastal areas of
China where many of Maj. Gen.
James H. Doolittle's fliers had land
ed after the bombing of Tokyo.
This latest sequel to the Japs' ex-
ecution of some of the American
fliers captured after the raid was
related by Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau, in an address in
San Francisco.
Reports covering the Chinese eli
dice" were received from General
issimo Chang Kai-shek, who de-
clared that the Japs had reproduced
on a wholesale scale the horrors
which the Nazis had inflicted in
Czechoslovakia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

CHORES: Smith college students
viii be called upon to give one
hours service daily. without remu-
neration to the college in the hope
Of eliminating the necessity of an
additional fee to meet rising cost,
President Herbert Davis announced.
BEER's A beer rationing system
limiting purchasers to So pints
month has been decided upon by the
Ontario liquor board ..ss...ss.1.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

MEMOIRS: Paul Reynaud, for
mer French premier now lodged in
q small dark cell in a prison in the
Pyrenees is spending his time writ
ing memoirs.
MARKSMANSHIP: Allied medium
bombers scored direct hit on a
2,000-ton Japanese vessel in the Ara
fllra sea, north Of Australia, the
United Nations headquarters an
nounced.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

have always been in them, is no esti-
mate of their value. A serious fam
lily conclave over expenditures Of the
first quarter of the year is sure to
result in discovery of ways to save
money.
"The first thing that cutters up
budget" says the committee, sis
debt. Loans, installment payments,
charge accounts and delinquent bills
are heavy tax on any income.
Obviously, the only way to get clear
is to pay off,"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
TUNISIA:
Smooth Tean,tUOrk

Irresistibly the Allied offensive in
North Africa had rolled on toward
Tunis and Bizerte.
Like well-co-ordinated teams the
various commands performed their
tasks. Principal objective of the
British First army had been the
Axis last mountain barrier before
the plain of Tunis in the Medjez-El-
Bah sector. Chief assignment Of
Lieutenant General Pattor's Aneri-
can troops had been the overwhelm-
ing Of three enemy hill positions on
the road to Bizerte. And although
the. American forces ran into heavy
counterblows in their enveloping tao
tics around Mateur and Tebourba,
they had continued to drive ahead.
While these two strategic move
ments were being carried out as a
prelude to a combined Allied as
sault, French troops in the south
executed a naneaver that had cut
the Pont-du- Fahs- Enfidaville road
and exposed the flank of the Axis
troops facing General Montgomery's
Eighth army.
While the Germans faced the in
evitable decision of final surrender
or humiliation their commanders
were using every possible device to
slow down the Allied advance. Re-
sistance against the British First
army had stiffened sharply at the
crest Of Bou Aoukaz mountain, over
looking the valley to Tunis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14

Spring cleaning Of budgets is rec
commended by the committee as an
aid to the purchase of more bonds
by every family. Recognizing that
most budgets are as full of old hab-
its at this time Of year as closets
are cluttered with clothes, the COM
nittee suggests a family conference
upon items to be discarded for sim
plifed living, with consequent saw
ing. Out-moded budgets, the COM
mittee says, are unpatriotic in war
time, and the fact that certain things
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
TEEN-ACE:
Workers Aid War

More than 100000 boys and girls
between IA and IS years of age
will hold full or part-time jobs this
summer, Katherine Lenroot, chief
of the Children's Bureau of the de
partment Of labor, said.
Miss Lenroot urged local COM
munities to protect the health of
boys and girls of high school age
who are combining school with part
time jobs, working through vaca-
ton. or entering fulLtime jobs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-14
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Allies Tighten Tunisia Trap on Axis;
Russ Offensive in Caucasus Menaces
Germans Bridgehead at. Novorossisk;
FDR Emissions Postwar Youth Service
eoin:
Release dhr Wte fgeusnan nipu.
The Omaha guide., 1943-01-30
TRUE TO a FIGHTING TRADITION!

ton a be een only in terms of
the FEPC's background and the cir
cumstances under which it has OPP
Grated. on June %. I941, President
Roosevelt Issued his celebrated Elk
ecutive Order 1902 declaring it to be
official United States policy ito
encourage full participation in the
national defense program by all cit
liens of the United States, regard
less of race, color. creed, or national
origin" The order directed that
all contracts between the govern
ment an dprivate firms should en-
body an anti-discrimination pledge
The Fair Employment Practices
Committee was set up to act as an
enforcement agency. The commit
tee included representatives of the
public-Mark Ethridge, a southern
publisher, was its first chairman
Of the A. F. Of L. and the CIO, of
Negroes. and of industry.
To American Negroes Executive
Order $500 was a sort of minor F.
Emancipation Proclamation. It was
more than a pious thought; the or
der established concrete machinery
as we'll as a firm moral foundation
for carrying on the struggle against
discrimination. To an equal degrea
Of course, the order aroused the
hostility and hysteria of the white
Supremacy fanatics in Congress
and elsewhere. They have never
been willing to concede that when
a Negro asks equal employment
rights he is not 'propositioning''
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elope.

elope.
After Pearl Harbor speculation a.
rose Immediately as to whether the
Administration would continue its
frontal attack on discrimination or
yield to pleas for "unity"-on jim
Crow terms. The FEPC was con-
tinued. Government officials from
President Roosevelt down uttered
repeated pleas to employers to
break down racial barriers on the
assembly lines. AS the scope Of
the war effort became apparent, it
was equally clear that the need fer
maintaining the anti-discrimination
drive had grown rather than dimin-
ished.
Yet the FEPC faced mounting re-
sistance. Representative Rankin
and other noted Negro-baiters took
the floor Of the house to decry its
activities. Throughout the first
year of its life the committee oper-
ated on a budget Of $50, Then
last July, the President announced
that the FEPC, which hda been an
independent agency directly respon-
sible to him, was being merged with
the War Manpower Commission.
This step aroused widespread fear
that the agency was slated for slow
death; it was pointed out that it's
funds would be subjected to Con-
~gressional approval, that its acts
would be submerged in the larger
politics of the Manpower Commits
sion. After months of negotiation,
however, McNutt granted what ap-
peared to be virtually autonomous
Status to the FEPC. He also prom
ised to help obtain an increase in
its budget. l have no reason to be-
lieve that McNutt was not earnest
in these commitments. But other
things were taking shape.
For one thing, the State Depart
ment, it is reliably reported, took
exception to hearings which the
committee was planning with re-
gard to discrimination against Mex
lean laborers in Texas. The hear
ings did not occur. A high navy
official suggested to the FEPC that
hearings scheduled for the Detroit
area would hamper navy morale
building" plans. Il understand
that this protest has been with
drawn since the current row broke
out.) The Railroad Brotherhooda
Joined the railway magnates in be
The Omaha guide., 1943-01-30

ity, New York CITY. PnOr to her
entry into the service she was heal
of the Department of Physical Ed
ucation for Women at West Virgin
ia State College.
Auxiliary Georgia Harris posses
IS a Masters Degree from Atlanta
University. Atlanta, Ga, She Wa
a teacher in the Public schools OF
Indianapolis, Indiana. Auxiliary
Sara Bland, is a graduate Z
from Los Angeles General Hospital
She was highly recognized as a sur
gical Technician for the Army
Nurses Hospital, Fort Baker, Cali
fornia.
Auxiliary Yeola Lynch holds a
Bachelor of Science in Education
from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn,
N. Y, Prior to her call to the army
she was typist an dclerk for tho
City Department. of welfare, New
York City.
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ies2 Can we afford it in the face
0 fthe man-power demands of the
production program and the crucial
challenges of psychological war
fare? To put it bluntly. the hopes
Of Negroes have been raised, and
their disillusionment now be be far
more disactrous than if the Presi-
dent had never shown a willingness
to waeg this battle. There are del
icate balances which must be aL-
hieved in pushing the campaign a.
gainst discrimination; the FEPC
was fully sensitive to them. But
now, swiftly. the President must
act to silence the doubts and des-
pair which will envelop the Negro
population. The FEPC must be
kept alive. It's right to function
freely must be reasserted. There
is not much time to retrieve the
ground already lost.
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the boss's sister; the FEPC newt
ably became the target of attack in
all the best lily-white circles. But
it went to work with Impressive
sobriety and a clear awareness Of
the potentialities of the SITUATION.
In retrospect one might say that
the FEPC's chief defects were the
product of timidity.
After holding public hearings the
committee published findings of dis
elimination in many areas and is
sued cease and desist'' directives.
Last April II, for example, it ex-
posed discriminatory practices N
ten key manufacturing plant il
the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
It hit both employers and unions
There is no way to estimate con-
clusively the effectiveness of these
reports and ~directives. Function
ing with a meager staff and limit
ed funds. the committee could not
undertake to police as we'll as 10
probe. If defiance of its orders
was extensive, no showdown ever
took place. Reports indicate that,
whatever its limitations, the FEPCs
exposures were sufficient in many
important cases to alter longest
ablished hiring policies. It's act
ivities helped to create a climate If
opinion in which employers felt a
growing guilt about their tradition
al prejudices-in so far as they af-
fected war work. This was the e.
sential beginning from which great
ly improved practices might dew
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of Music in Voice, upon completion
Of this course he was made the I'M
derstudy to "Porgy" in George
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess."
Pvt. Arthur D.. Gilllard. 18th
Special Service Unit, possesses a
Bachelor of Science from Arkansas
State College; Pvt. James o. Tea
que holds a Bachelor of Science
from Knoxville college. Knoxville,
Tenn; Pvt. Thomas Wheaterly has
a Bachelor of Science from Ala
bama State Teachers College. Pvt.
Fres w. Alsop. Medical bet. sou
has a Phi. D. from the University of
Pennsylvania in Physiology.
In the vanguard of the Woman's
Auxiliary Corps, Auxiliary Muriel
K. Falsett, 33d WAC Company,
holds a Bachelor of Science in Ed
| ucation from w. Va, State College
and a Masters Degree in Physical
| Education from Columbia Univers-