Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-12

And nobody can add anything one
way or the other to the popular
opinion of Harold Ickes. That's
fixed and fixed in way that should
be very satisfactory to the Old Cur
mudgeon. The only thing that can
be said is that he should remain in
the cabinet. This on the theory
that it is good for any administra-
ton to have an active, itching con-
science, despite the occasional dis
comfort.
At the moment, however, there is
something more important than
either Pauley or Ickes. That is food.
The food that we have and some
other lands have not.
I read an advertisement the other
day extolling the merit of a certain
American wine. Part of the ad was
given over to recipe for pot roast
in which the excellent wine may be
used. 1t read like this:
use bottom round or top sirloin.
Allow one pound of meat per person,
as there will be shrinkage. Have
1t larded by your butcher Insert
one or two sheaves of garlic, if to
your taste, and let it rest for five or
six hours in two-thirds of bottle
of (name of wine), with a pinch of
thyme, a bay leaf, two or three thin
slices of lemon and a sliced onion.
Turn the meat occasionally. When
ready to cook, rub the meat with salt
and scar in butter or bacon fat. Put
1t in large casserole with carrots,
peeled onions and chopped parsley;
pour in the wine in which it has
rested and add one cup of good beef
consomme. Cover and let simmer
from three to four hours, according
to size of roast. If the wine evap-
orates, add little more, diluted with
consomme las it cooks. Serve (name
of wine) with the roast"
Sounds good. Printed in a news
paper of large circulation, the In
ference offered was that anybody
tcan have his pot roast that way in
this free and wel-fed country. One
pound per person, allowing for
shrinkage-of the pot roast pre-
sumably, not the pot belly.
That same day, however, the
President asked the country to con.
slider a temporary shrinkage of the
, national bay window. He asked il
not because the American people
as whole are eating too much, but
because people in a number of coun-
tries are facing starvation.
His most important proposal was
that we subsist for awhile on bread
not as pretty as that to which we
have become accustomed. 1t would
be just as nourishing, it would have
an even better taste, but it would
not be as white. The economy would
lie in the utilization of more of the
wheat, much Of which is wasted In
the process of making pure white
-four, and we would thus be enabled
to send more wheat abroad.
Immediately there were protests
A Congressman from upstate New
York introduced a bill. The bill
would prevent the export of any
foodstuffs until it was determined
that American consumers were as.
sured "the present amount of white
bread" From other quarters COM
plants went up against this alleged
threat to the American appetite.
1t Is not yet possible to tell how
the majority of Americans will take
this new appeal to their generosity
nor how fully they will understand
that famine in other lands en-.
dangers the world reconstruction fol
which we are striving. But it is DOS.
sible to report that the strange
unreasoning cutlery against giving aic
to the countries in desperate neec
seems to come thus far from a small
minority. Most women who hav,
expressed themselves have said tina
white bread is not necessary to tn,
well-being of their families. Mos