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Evening star., 1946-03-06

Dear Miss Dix: am an ex-serv-
iceman with three years of overseas
duty. 1 am % years old and am
going with a girl whose mother is
widow. Both the girl and the
mother are very pretty and attrac-
tive. The mother has fallen in love
with me and will not let me call on
her daughter unless I bring the girl
home early and then take her out to
some place of amusement.
This puts me in a very embar-
RAISING position as I am in love with
the girl, but the mother refuses to
let me marry her. What should I
do? TRUELOVE AND SUG.
Answers-Well Truelove and Sug.
I'll say you are in a hot spot. Be-
lleve me, you are in more danger
than you ever were on the battle
field, and it will take so much
strategy and fineSse for you to es-
cape safely from your perilous posi-
ton that am tempted to advise
you to go A. w. O. L.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
SUGGESTIONS.

(Fron1 Mrs. P. L. M, Silver Spring. J
There is something about the
RCH that makes you feel you SIM
ply cannot go on receiving such
helpful hints without reciprocating
So here are answers to some ques-
tions and also a few hints that I
have found helpful to me.
Midnight Snacks-One that we
have found is good is a "cannibal
sandwich" Use leftover rolls or
Dread and toast on one side under
the broiler. Then turn over and
spread the. other side with raw
ground beef. Add salt and pepper
and broil until meat is brown. An
other snack is cinnamon toast or the
old "Dagwood" sandwich. Then, too,
we have found a prepared welsh
rarebit that is good, warmed and
served on saltines Another is to
through in your bun warmer with
the valve opened, of course) on top
Of the stove.
Mrs. T. d. S.-Perhaps your hus-
band would enjoy one of our IA
vorite dishes Brown u pound
ground beef (for people, in butter
or margarine until very brown, add
salt and pepper to taste and about
medium onions or onion f1avoring
(the more onions the better-that's
jokeD Then add tablespoons
rounded of flour Add enough wa
ter to cover meat and stir until
flour thickens, cover and let simmer
about q hours. This is a good
meat stretcher for any of us and
Is delicious served on boiled or
mashed potatoes.
One secret of good brown gravy
In this or Swiss steak or pot roast
is to brown your meat first, very,
very, brown. A friend of mine once
swore was going to burn my Swiss
steak but she likes the dark rich
gravy. I also brown an oven roast
on top of stove before baking to
make gravy browner.
To keep crackers and cookies
fresh Indefinitely. Put Immediately
after opening in screw-top jar. A
gallon paint jar can be cleaned to
Hake an excellent cracker jar.
Another hint to parents with
child and preschool-age child. Sleep
the school child in separate room
Evening star., 1946-03-06
LvifH lovely yelling accent.

Very gala was the opening night
in Washington of He Who Gets
Slapped" playing at the National
Theater. Balmy evening airs must
have prompted many women to
dress up to spring for this occasion.
Flower hats dotted the audience
with all the pretty colors of the
rainbow. For the most part, these
were tiny half hats; many were
crownless. Some had straw brims
with flowers encircling the crown
line and accenting pretty hairdos.
Others were simply lovely circlets of
flowers. At any rate flowers have
taken the place of feathers on thea
ter-going hats, and that looks like a
sure sign Of spring!
Any number of Washington's fair
ladies turned up in formal attire.
Somehow we wished that more
women would wear formal dress to
Evening star., 1946-03-06

Old?
By Josephine Lowman

In the past and among certain
peoples. husbands prosperity was
judged by the weight Of his wife.
The fatter she was the more stand
ing he had in the community. Fatty
deposits increased prestige! Mod
ern women often spend everything
they can get on their backs but
these more primitive ladies put 1t
all in their stomachs.
Modern man does not require, or
care for, this kind of ego building.
This is the day of streamlined nv-
ing, with sleek cars and planes, and
trains and mammas.
Actually, even today many women
eat much more than their bodies
need. The spices, condiments and
refined foods Of civilization, tempt
us to eat more than we require. We
are prone to eat for taste rather
than for health and this Is re-
grettable because it places q strain
on our internal organs and also
puts dents in our figure fendersl
An average woman, doing light
sedentary work, needs from 1900
1900 calories a day. A man do
ing sedentary work needs from 1900
to $500 calories every "a hours. If
you lead an active life you will re-
quire more calories. Your build also
influences the number best suited
for you. If you are a large man or
woman you must have more calories
than If you are average or small.
AS a general rule, it is best to keep
your weight at the best figure for
you at 80. Stay the way you looked
and felt best at that age. You can
the number of calories
you require by multiplying your
best weight by Is if you lead quiet
life, by 1S if you lead a fairly sed-
entary existence, and by 20 If you
do fairly heavy work, housework,
etc. If you indulge in manual la
Dor, of course, you will need even
more.
If you wish to have my leaf1et No.
Al for women who wish to gain
weight and also the "Nine-Day
Gaining Diet" send a stamped.
self-addressed envelope with this re-
quest to Josephine Lowman in care
OF The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

For that pair of angels, gay little
play outfits they'll adore wearing.
Sister wears dainty pinafore, or a
playsuit with ruff1ed top and bonnet
to match. Brother will want several
of these boldly checked playsuits for
sun tanning weather.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 14S4 is
for sizes l, 2, 8, and years, re-
quires ia yards of So or 80 inch
matesial; bonnet, u yard; boys
playsuit, IL yards of So or 80 inch
fabric
For this pattern, send 20 cents, in
coins, your name, address, pattern
number and size wanted'to Barbara
Bell, The Washington Star, P. O..
Box SO, Station G, New York 19,
N. Y.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
sender's full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star, and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility for
them.
Betsy CaSiceH.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
By Peggy Roberts

If we can't have fresh flowers, the
next best thing is lovely cluster of
pastel colored sweet peas in pink,
mauve, yellow and flame embroidery.
Pattern envelope contains hot
iron transfers for three designs, COL
or chart, stitch illustrations and full
directions.
Send Is cents (coin for Pattern
No. R2374 to Needle Arts Dept, The
Washington Star, P. o. Box 172, Sta
tion D, New York 8, N. Y. Please in
clude your postal zone number.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

when possible; this avoids lots of
sickness.
A good dressing for hearts of let
tuQe is to mix Is mayonnaise with
2a chilli sauce, add salt and pepper,
also chopped olives if you like. Very
tart.
Mrs. F. H. H., regarding recipes
for two. would suggest you start
with the more simple foods and
learn to cook them perfectly. I
started with broiled steak and then
broiled sliced ham and am still
hearing the praises of my husband
after 10 years of married life. Also
to brown and roast a pot roast with
potatoes cooked in the gravy is an
other good one that men like. Then
you can go in for more complicated
things. Try your steak broiled S
minutes on one side, 10 on the
other and 5 minutes again on the
first side. He" will love it.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

Two The hep
under pointed
the masterpiece The second
and of
the uaHey Mr. Kenneth Hopkins S for
Evening star., 1946-03-06
NECKTIE RUGS.

From Mrs. B. M, Silper Spring.
This is to the lady who wanted to
know how to make necktie rugs.
Make a foundation of grass bag.
bind all around. Rip ties, press.
cut ~ Inch square pieces, fold
across. Gather two raw edges, make
pufts, sew on foundation in rows.
beginning at outer edges. Go to
middle.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

Thank you very much for the
recipe for Moist Coconut Cake"
I never dreamed that I would get
it so soon. 7 have made the cake
and 1t turned out well-and really
is moist and delicious. Thank you
again for the very many times you
have helped me.
Evening star., 1946-03-06
Readers Clearing House
CLEANING FELT HATS?

SdI11aINllNd ELL I1h 10!
From Mr.. P. G., Washington)
Would appreciate advice on best
way to clean ladies' felt hats from
dark smoke and heat marks. These
were saved from house fire. The
hats are made of good felt.
X
ADHESIVE TAPE MARKS?
RESTORING STIFFNESS TO NET.
From C.. F. ", Arlington.)
I read RICH every day and have
received many wonderful sugges-
tions from your column. I am Won
dering whether some one can tell
me how to take marks made by ad-
hesive tape off of a painted wall. I
have taken some of the marks off
with a cleaner; it took some of
them off but they still show. Any
suggestions will be greatly appre-
ciated.
To answer Mrs. o. L. B., Falls
Church, about restoring the stiff
ness of net, place waxed paper over
the net and press it with a moder-
ately hot iron.
Evening star., 1946-03-06

PINEAPPLE DOLLY.
From Miss d. M. H., Washington. J
For Mrs. D. A. L., Washington.
Directions for an oval pineapple
dolly can be found in book, which
may be purchased at local 5 and 10
cent stores. Book No. 217, Old and
New Favorites-Doilies.
From Mrs. M. D., Wdshinaton.)
If she wishes she can get lovely
pattern from the address below:
The Royal Neighbor, Needlecraft
Department, Rock Island, Ill. Pat
tern No 7193. It takes about 10
days to get this pattern.
mrs. c. w. P. Lorton, Va
Send Is cents in coin to Pattern
Department, Southern Agricultur-
ist, Nashville l, Tenn, for Pattern
No. 1888. This is an oval pineapple
dolly.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Nichol r the
parents of a daughter, born Sunday.
Sept. 8, at a Billings hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Fitzpatrick
and son Tom visited recently in
Butte with Mr.. Kilpatrick's broth
er-in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Cosgriff.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11

Tuesday, Sept. II.
The Royal Neighbors will feature
a bingo party and pot luck sup
per to follow at the l.. L. club
Each member is to bring a guest
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11
CALENDAR
Ooming Events.

Friday, Sept. Is.
The Theta Rho Girls club will
hold their regular meeting follow
ing a 6 o'clock pitch-in supper at
the L.. l.. club.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11

Thursday, Sept. II.
The Girl Scouts association will
meet at the home of Mrs. o. A
Brohaugh at 1880 p. m.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11
"Bdd BdSCOmk'
WEEKLY PROGRAM

Feature No. 2
A grand little Matrimonial comedy
packed with fun for the whole fam
lily.
With
William Bendix Grace Bradley
Airline Judge Max Baer
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11
Monday, Sept. 16.

Monday, Sept. 16.
Laurel Woman's club will hold its
first meeting of the new club year
at the home of Mrs. C. B. Calvert
at 2:30 p. n. Charles B. Sande
will be the guest speaker. Refresh
ments will be served by the execu-
tive committee. Guests are well
come.
Laurel outlook., 1946-09-11
HAAuxiliary
@Activities
Thursday and Saturday Shows
GAS and $500 P. M.
Friday, one show, 8 p. M.

September 17-Social meeting at
the home of Mrs. Packard. This
being the date of the signing of the
Constitution of the United States,
159 years ago, Sept. II, 1887, the
program will be in keeping with
the day.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Where Is the Police Force?
By Raymond oIey

whether intervention is necessary can
not be left to the country concerned.
For the very presence of disorder is
proof that no authority exists which
can be trusted to decide whether inter-
vention is necessary.
The Charter, in Chapter 7, provides
that the Security Council shall invoke
international force whenever it decides
that such force is necessary because OF
threat to peace. Member nations
agree, upon demand by the Security
Council to contribute armed contingents
to such forces. The SIZE disposition and
command of such forces are subject to
agreement, but all member nations are
pledged to hold Immediately available
national air-force contingents for COM
blned international enforcement action. ="
There is further provision for abun-
dant military staff agencies to advise
the Security Council and to administer
the international armed forces. The
Military Staff Committee has been ap-
pointed and is having meetings con-
current with the Security Council. But
concrete provisions for a police force
have not yet emerged.
The UNO is the hope of the nations
Tor peaceful relations. It's Charter has
broad provisions for just such trouble
some questions as are now before it.
released by the Associated Newspapers)
Evening star., 1946-04-01
End of q Mandate

The signing of treaty of mutual
assistance and alliance between
Britain and Trans-Jordan puts an
end to the British mandatory re-
gime that has subsiSted in the lat
ter country since the peace settle
ment after World War I, a quarter
century ago, and creates new SOW
ereign state which will be candi-
date for membership in the United
Nations.
The political evolution of Trans
Jordan from subdivision of the old
Ottoman Empires Arabic provinces
to sovereign statehood has gone
through several stages. AS the
name implies, the country is the re-
gion adjacent to Palestine east of
the River Jordan and the Dead Sea.
Somewhat larger than Palestine, it
has a very small population of some
100000, largely Bedouin nomads,
albeit much of the land could be
CuIGiFdGCQ Wy oSlClltlllS AAl6dClOli
and dry farming. Trans-Jordan
was originally included in Britain's
mandate over Palestine, though the
Balfour declaration did not cover
Trans-Jordan in its plan for Jew
ish national home" Nevertheless,
many Zionists have urged that
Trans-Jordan should eventually be
opened to Jewish settlement. That
aspiration has become increasingly
impracticable with the rising tide
of Arab nationalism and has been
finally eliminated by the end of the
British mandate.
Britain's present action had been
foreshadoWed last January by a
statement of the British govern
ment advocating the termination of
the mandate and the acknowledge
ment of Trans-Jordans sovereign
status. In this Britain was follow
ing the precedent of its renuncia-
ton of its mandate of Iraq and of
its protectorate over Egypt more
than decade ago. All these actions
Evening star., 1946-04-01

Since most issues now disturbing the
world are caused by the delayed retire
ment OF armies in Iran, Greece, China
and elsewhere, the solution would seem
to be the immediate creation and use of
the UNO police. authorized by the
Charter. The dispute over Iran is being
handled by traditional and heretofore
unsatisfactory diplomatic methods. If
the issue were not so serious, the method
OF handling it would seem almost
comic Russia claims that it is with
drawing as fast as safety permits. Iran
seems to be incapable of taking over the
custody of its own provinces. Since the
place needs to have some stabilizing
forces from outside, the UNO, properly
organized. should assume control by
forces of its own.
Instead. the Council Is listening to an
1ranian diplomat, stationed in Wash
ington, whose ideas seem to differ from
those of his home government. Mean
while, the simple question whether there
has been an agreement in Teheran
seems hard to determine. The real
principals in any such deal are Moscow
and Teheran, and the UNO contact with
the latter has been hand to establish.
Meanwhile, Moscow has protested
about the situation in Greece, where
British troops will remain for an in
definite time after the elections Just
held. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
says the troops will get out "as soon as
conditions allow" but that certain un-
specified conditions" must be met.
In Manchuria, Russian troops are
moving northward, but are not out
There also, the excuse is the danger of
uncontrolled outbreaks. American troops
are in China. The British are in In
donesia. And in many other spots in
the world the forces of the great powers
Gnger on.
Nothing is 50 clear as the fact that
civil disorder and war is the prime cause
Of international war. If the UNO is to
fulfill its peacemaking function it must
reach into any country where the peace
Is endangered. And the Judgment Of
Evening star., 1946-04-01
The Peoples Army

Never lacking in courage, General
Jacob L. DeverS, commander of the
Army Ground Forces, has demon
strated typical temerity in COM
menting on the recent wave of criti-
clSm directed at the Army in gen.
eral and its So-called caste" system
and other alleged evils in particular.
admittedly" he told an audience
at Wheeling, West Virginia, some
of the things for which we are cri-
cized are true in some respects, but
most of the items are magnifed out
of proportion to their Importance.
And he pointed out, significantly,
that some of the exaggerations and
hysterical outbursts seem to follow
the line of subversive forces bent on
turning the Nation against itself"
General Devers used the latter
term advisedly. He stressed in this
connection fact that should be
kept in mind in weighing some of
the loud and intemperate attacks
which have come from sundry
sources since VI day: The army is
not clique or an autocracy, apart
from the people and from the Gov
ernment. 1t is an instrument of
and for the people, and any effort
to turn the people against the
Army is tantamount to turning
the Nation against itself" 1t is a
peoples Army because it is COM
posed of no special class or caste,
but of enlisted men and officers
drawn from every State in the
Union and from families in all
walks of life. It's regular brass
hats" only a few years ago were
West Point plebes fresh from the
cities of the East, the cotton coun-
try of the South and the plains and
mountains of the Middle and Far
West. They were appointed by the
elected representatives of the peo-
pie in the House and Senate. Such
a democratic system of providing
regular officers for our Army does
not encourage the development of
military castles or cliques.
AS General Devers frankly con-
cedes, this method of raising and
maintaining an Army does not pre-
clude occasional misfits, occasional
mistakes and occasional abuses.
There have been all of these in the
huge Army now being demobilized.
But the exceptions to the general
rule of Army conduct should not
be permitted to becloud the mag
nifcent achievements of the Army
as whole, nor lead to unjustified
dlsparagements that may have the
effect of weakening an indispens-
able instrument of national defense.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

civilization can only be created on the
basis of obedience to universal law,
clearly defined to which every issue is
referred, and with organs of adjudica-
ton and enforcement. not of peace, but
OF law. Otherwise, the most dynamic
OF the great powers will push for the
elimination Of the others to the one
world of a single authority, extending
itself by acquisition of the power
assets OF the defeated and the weak, to
the point Of war or to the point where
its rivals capitulate before an over
whelming consolidation of superior force
There is no world order, because there
is no law and no stakeholder, nor does
UNO even create the mechanism for
working in this direction. Mr. Gromyko
acted before the Security Council like
the representative of a "herrenvolk .
He was caught in a lie, and he did not
even attempt to make the concession to
truth of trying to support the unverac-
lty. He described as an existing under
standing one he hopes to get if the rest
OF the world will grant his government
time-and which it will get if the Ira
man government sees that it is only a
pawn. Small countries have lost faith
in the promises of Western democracies
None again are going to close other
exits on mere faith.
Now in the midst of such a struggle,
absolutely inevitable in a totally lawless
world, report is released by the State
Department to Congress urging the Gre
alton of worldwide chronological mo-
nopoly OF atomic energy under this
self-Same, unreformed UNO. The mo-
nopoly would build nuclear fission plants
around the world, to offset those in the
U. S. A. 1t would take over ownership
OF our atomic plants and operate them
with persons who would rise above ma
tional affinities"-like the members of
the international Soviet party perhaps
The controllers of such a monopoly
would be the dictators of the world
The struggle for power, exemplified in
this session OF UNO would then, of
course. center in a struggle for the
control Of the monopoly of the instru-
ments of life and death, for human
civilizations. Every life in the world
and all the freedoms of civilizations
would depend on that monopoly being
in the hands. not of normal human
beings, but Of gods!
We shall not escape reality by thus
trying to turn nightmare into an
Elysian daydream. Wisdom begins with
facing the facts, the first of which is
that UNO is a house built on the shift
Ing sands Of impetuous, childish assump-
tions
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1946-04-01

Sooner or later we shall have to force
our minds away from the empty slogans
that are passing for thinking.
We have based all our hopes for peace
on UNO. Yet every meeting produces a
fresh crisis and an insoluble dilemma.
Each issue is argued pro and con in a
worldwide press and radio war of
nerves, but We do not face the reality,
seen in advance by some sober but un-
listened-to critics, that these crises are
inevitable. They are in the nature of
the so-called peace structure of UNO
itself, which has taken on the sanctity
of fetish. If an organization is based
on the sands of false assumptions, it
will not work, no matter how great an
Elijah chorus chants its praise, any more
than an improperly constructed engine
will run by verbal exhortation.
The main assumption of the San
Francisco Charter was that three great
powers, one of them embodying totally
different concept of civilization from
the others, can remain united" without
putting their sovereign interests in
obedience to a clearly established law
OF nations. For this assumption there
is no basis in reason or historical
experience. No alliance Of great powers
has ever endured except as a defense
against actual or potential enemies
The enemy is the only cement.
The second assumption was that these
particular great powers are peace
loving" For this there is neither his
torical nor relational evidence A gen.
Grafton ago, imperial Russia played
major role in provoking the World War,
according, at least. to the documents
published by its revolutionary heir, the
Soviet Union. The entire Communist
philosophy Is based on war-on the
struggle for power. And no one can
forsee what circumstances and move
ments within any country may change
it, at any time from a pacifist to
belligerent and expansionist frame of
mind
The third assumption was that all
three powers were satisfied by and large
with the prewar status quo and the
equilibrium of power relations among
themselves. That was from the begin
ming, pure wish-dream with no foun-
dation even in probability.
The destruction of the power of the
mighty Axis and its satellites and the
failure to reconstitute that world in a
manner that would neutralize their as
sets. opened an epochal opportunity for
adding the assets to one or the other of
the Allies. When a rich man dies with
out will, has there ever been unity"
among the contending heirs?
A world order capable of preserving