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Evening star., 1951-11-15

The dessert supreme for holiday dinner.
SUNDAY.
Meat Loaf Brown Potatoes
Broccoli Gnger-Pear Salad
Lemon Ice Boz Cake
Ginger-Pear Salad.
Canned pear halves IA cups pale dry ginger ale
envelopes uniavored gelatin tablespoon lemon juice
" cold pear sirup Preserved ginger
"a cup pear sirup
pears sru2 Soften gelatin in cold Heat
u to boiling; add gelatin; stir until dissolved Chill
whites Place hail.
up each of individual inches in diameter
pans with gelatin mixture chill until arm unmod on salad
Garnh with balls OF cream cheese and chopped nuts
Serve with mayonnaise. Makes servings
MONDAY
Veal SteO Uith Dump1ines
Lima Beans Carrot Salad
Apples Baked in Maple Srup Tea
Apples IN Maple sirup.
y to p cup maple sirup Heavy
Peel and quarter apples Arrange apple
snoU to come haway up on the apples Add salt Bake in
until tender.
hot or cold with cream or ice cream Serves L.
TUESDAY.
cubed Steaks Mashed Potatoes
Sweet-sour Red Cabbage Green Beans
Fruit Jeuo
Sweet Sour Red Cabbage.
quart red cabbage tablespoons brown sugar
2 sour apples tablespoons vinegar
tablespoons fat Salt and pepper
Water tablespoons -four
cabbage add salt to tae add apples
in frying add cabbage and apples
Pour boiling barely and cook until
and vinegar; add to mixture Cook
little longer and hot. Serves to 6.
WEDNESDAY.
Old-FaShioned Split Pea Soup
Toasted French Bread Tomato Avocado Salad
Ratsin-Rice Pudding
Old-Fashioned Split Pea Soup.
" dried split tablespoon flour
l-inch cube fat salt pork or " teaspoon salt
ham bone Few grains pepper
/ slice onion cup milk
tablespoons butter
with cold Soak several hours overnight
quart pork ham bone and onion Simmer
until soft Rub through sieve Add butter
together with salt Dilute
with milk adding to make cups Garnsh with
crisp croutons. Serves to 8.
Evening star., 1951-11-15

Pears and ginger ole combine fovors.
THURSDAY.
THANKSGIVING DINNER.
Hot Tomato Juice
Roast Turkey Gtblet Crazy
Chestnut Stud7ng Sweet Potatoes
gcaHoped Onions Asparagus
Relish TrGy
Nutty Pumpkin Pie Coffee
Nutty Pumpkin Pie.
3 tablespoons 1h cups strained cooked or
teaspoon cinnamon canned pumpkin
" teaspoon nutmeg cup milk
u teaspoon cloves
"a teaspoon ginger l egg yok
"a teaspoon salt ! egg white
15 cup New Orleans molasses l chopped nut
9-inch unbaked pastry shell
Mix cinnamon nutmeg cloves ginger and salt Com
bie with moasses and pumpkin; add milk eggs and
yolk add. Beat white stiff; fold meats
Pour into pastry shell Bake F. As minutes or
until inserted knife comes out clean. BY "Vi.
Evening star., 1951-11-15

Is minutes in 300-degree oven.
The cookie dough keeps we'll in
the refrigerator. Bake at leisure.
These cookies are hard when first
baked. To mellow and soften
place them in a tight container
and add an apple. To mellow
quickly add slices of apple. I can
assure you these cookies will keep
a long time. To send overseas
place in tight container and each
cookie wrapped in wax paper
Add whole apple and seal lid with
paraffin.
Evening star., 1951-11-15
SUNDAE TOPPING.


fFrom Mrs. J. D. S.. HerndonD
Mrs. G. B., Washington. This
is a recipe for nuts prepared in
sirup. For each quart shelled
nuts. make a sirup of cup sugar.
g cups honey and / cup water.
Boil 10 minutes. add nut meats
and boil 10 minutes more. Let
stand over night. Then cook until
nuts are tender. about 10 minutes
boiling time. Add ! teaspoon va
nilla and "a teaspoon salt per
quart and put into hot sterile jars
and seal. Keeps indefinitely.
BAYBERRY CANDLES.
From Mrs. C. w. M. Siluer
Spring.
Miss A. P. Bayberry candles.
Boil l quart Of bayberrieS in 2
quarts of water. When all wax
has dissolved from berries. drain
liquid into clean container and let
stand until wax or top Of water is
hard. Skim this of and melt and
mold. One quart bayberries make
one 8-inch candle. II Is not nee
essary to use candle ends as these
dilute color and fragrance of real
bayberry.
Evening star., 1951-11-15
BRAN MUFFINS.
(Frout Mrs. c. E. c., Tdkomd
Park

(From Mrs. c. E. c., TdkomG
Park
This is a recipe for bran muf-
fins that I think the reader would
like. They are made of the reg
ular dry cereal. Two tablespoons
shortening, "a cup sugar, l egg
(WeQ beaten), l cup sour milk
or buttermilk. / cup all-bran,
cup flour, l teaspoon baking
powder. u teaspoon soda, u tea
spoon salt. Cream shortening and
sugar. Add egg and milk. Add
all-bran and let soak until most
of the moisture is taken up. Sift
flour with baking powder, soda
and salt. Add to first mixture,
stirring only until flour disappears.
Fill creased muffin tins two
thirds full and bake for 20 to 25
minutes at 400 degrees. This
makes 8 large or IL small muf-
fins.
Evening star., 1951-11-15
WHITE FRUIT CAKE.

fFrom Mrs. +. L. r., Alexandria,
I am an ardent reader of your
column and hoped some day /
might be Of help to one of your
readers. i wish to answer Mrs.
j. L. II. of Alexandria for her
request for a white fruit cake.
I have a recipe that I used last
Christmas and it was excellent.
One half pound candied pine
apple, u pound candied cherries,
l2 pound candied lemon. orange
and citron, l box white raisins,
Ia cups fresh coconut ground
fine. u pound hazelnuts, 12
pound English walnuts, 4 cups
flour sifted four times (use part
of this to -four fruits, 2 cups
sugar and " pound butter
creamed together, 8 eggs added
separately (unbeaten) and u cup
milk. Bake in 800 degree oven al
most 2 hours. Line a creased pan
with paper and grease. That fresh
ground coconut is very impor-
tant. 1t keeps the cake moist. 1t
must be fresh. not boxed nor
canned.
(From Mrs. J. D. S., Herndon.J
For j. L. T., Alexandria. White
Fruit Cake. One cup butter,
cups sugar, 4 cups sifted flour, "a
teaspoon salt. teaspoons baking
powder, grated rind of l orange
70 cup orange juice, l cup seed
less raisins. "a cup candied. mixed
peel (shredded). " cup candied
cherries (halved), u cup candied
pineapple (shreddeO. "a CUP
blanched almonds (shredded) and
6 stiff1y beaten egg whites.
Cream butter and sugar until
very light and work in sifted dry
ingredients alternately with graf
ed orange rind and juice. Add
fruits and nuts and mix thor
oughly; fold in stif11y beaten egg
whites. Turn into a large well
creased loaf pan and bake in mod
crate oven $3.50 degrees) about
i1l2 hours. This cake is quite
moist and keeps for weeks. but not
too long on account of the fresh
orange.
Evening star., 1951-06-10

OF the tangible, is designed ito lift the
shoemaker above his last, to carry the
merchant beyond his store, the lawyer
beyond his brief. the nurse beyond her
temperature chart, the teacher beyond
his examination papers and the minister
beyond his sermon"
John Dewey. keen observer as he is,
has declared it is his opinion that one
of the chief characteristics of the Amer
lean people is "externalism." BY that,
he means preoccupation with the ma
terial surface and instruments of living.
There is no slavery more to be feared
than that. We might paraphrase Robert
Louis Stevenson and say: "Our world is
so full of number of things, I'm sure
we should all watch out lest they cave
in on us and smother u.s.
Some years ago the floor of a storage
room. where was piled high a multitude
Of things. caved in. 1t was building oc-
cupied by 5-and-10-cent store. A per-
feet avalanche of gimcracks rained down
on the people beneath. The next day the
newspaper stated that there were no Seri-
Gus results. but that the surprised shop
perS were almost buried under the flood
OF things from above. That is parable
of frequent modern happening which
is, indeed, serious, often fatal. Some one
has suggested with touch of humor
mingled with tragedy that a half Gen.
tury ago it was very common to find
book conspicuously placed on the center
Of nearly every parlor table. In those
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Army Tradition

Speaking as the wife of an Army Of
ficer, the sister of four, and the aunt of
several, feel reasonably familiar with
Army traditions. So, with this back
ground. find myself at variance with
Gen. Marshall's remarks to the West
Point graduating class.
For four years these young men have
been soberly indoctrinated with the
motto of West Point: DUTY, Honor,
Country; so, it seems to me. that the
adjuring Of these young officers by Gen.
Marshall, to "a generous understanding
of the position an officer holds in a
great democracy" was wholly gratui-
tous. and in the present political cli-
mate, in questionable taste
Never, in my long association with
servicemen of all ages and grades, have
/ ever heard. by word or implication,
Of any difficulty in adjusting democratic
procedures with any given military pat
tern: that the military is, and should
be. subordinate to civilian control, is an
established principle, a self-evident
truth, and have never heard it queS-
toned before
Therefore, am forced to conclude
that Gen. Marshall was using his ad-
dress to the West Point class as a
sounding board, to rally moral support
in his present unenviable position. He
pleads for understanding" and sym
pathy," qualities conspicuously absent
when his hand guided the ak that ig-
ANONYMOUSLY cut down one of West
Points most famous soldiers.
Ruth Brabson Overton.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Marine Hymn Centennial

The Marine Corps is celebrating the cente-
nary of its famous hymn, but 1t does not know
whom to credit with its creation. Again and again
during the past Is years inquiry has been made
into the origin of the song, and several theories
about it have been developed But nobody really
knows who wrote the words or who wrote the
music Perhaps considerable number of per-
sons had parts in its production. Major William
F. Santelmann, leader of the Marine Band, says
that is possible that the tune preceded the text
He thinks it may have been Spanish folk
melody that crossed the Atlantic to Mexico and
was adopted whistled and hummed by American
Marines in Mexico City in 1851. One single Ma
rine' is supposed to have penned the first verse.
He is thought to have obtained the idea for 1t
from seeing Corps flag bearing the legend
From the Shores of Tripod" PIN reference to the
campaign against the Barbary pirates in 1905.
That very flag, by the way, is believed to be
in the Marine Corps museum at Quantlco, Vir-
ginia. But the banner cannot talk, and there Is
not much likelihood that the mystery OF the
hymns author ever will be solved. The music,
however might be traced. Indeed, it has been
by no less celebrity than John Philip Sousa.
1.-THE March King" identified the theme as
feature of the opera, "Genevieve d'Brabant" by
jacques Ofenbach It may seem incredible
that the same hand wrote the original score
of the Marine Hymn and the now once more
immensely popular "Tales of Hoffman, yet
there are points of resemblance between the
two works. From the Halls of MonteZuma to
the Shores of Tripoli" could be cousin of a
sort to the lovely Barcarolle, currently on the
unofficial "hit parade"
Major Santelmann suggests that Offenbach
was familiar with the Spanish folk song and
made it into duet for two soldiers in his opera
about the unfortunate medieval heroine. Ger
tainly. the first man to put the theme of the
hymn on paper was Offenbach The Marine Band
leader explains: "All these great pieces have
changed and been changed as time has passed.
Even The Star spangled Banner, as we know 1t
today might not be recognized by Francis Scott
Key, If he were to return to earth to hear 1t
played or sung" =
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Chiones and Christianity

In the May 81 issue of The Star, the
Formosa story. Events in Korea May
Cause Revival Of Chiang's Power" struck
a chord with me and with many of my
friends here, a group especially inter-
ested in the Chiangs.
We deplore, seriously, the oft-repeated
prejudices concerning them and hope to
be able to disperse this by the publica-
ton of the facts regarding them. I
believe it would surprise even The Star
to know of the many evidences we have
OF the remarkable work for Christianity
the Chiangs are accomplishing.
Not SO long ago the Fredericksburg
Trinity Church sent Nine. Chang
Kai-shek SIS check for relief work
The madame wrote back:
Tell them that the money has been
placed In the work fund of the Chinese
Christian Women's Prayer Group. The
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Senator Kefouver's Mistakes

In attacking the Washington Board of Trade
for its opposition to his home-rule bill Senator
Kefauver is guilty of several mistakes.
One of his mistakes is to blame the Board
of Trades opposition for the naction in Congress
which has stalled the legislation. This naetion
is due to the unwillingness of Senator Kefauver's
colleagues in House and Senate to report the
bill They are the only ones who have the votes
to produce action Members of the Board of
Trade have no votes. as WaShingtonians in
Congress or anywhere else. The votes are what
count-in Stalling or in approving legislation.
Another of his mistakes is to credit the Board
of Trade with power in Washington, and by
implication a sinister and selfish power, which
does not exist and which the board has never
possessed or sought. To refer to the boards
directorate as "the little ogarchy," "the invisible
government of the District of Columbia for many
years" and to the District Commissioners as
the "lackeyS of the Board of Trade" is to indulge
in form Of shoddy nonsense that one does not
willingly associate with the Junior Senator from
Tennessee.
There has been nothing invisible about the
Board of Trades decision, after ballot among
its members, to oppose the Kefauver BILL There
has been nothing invisible about its repeated
Endorsement of an amendment of the Constitu-
ton as the proper way for Washingtonians to
obtain legitimate voting rights as American
citizens-the same voting rights enjoyed by
Senator Kefauver's constituents in Tennessee.
There has been nothing invisible about the
publicly recorded testimony of Board of Trade
spokesmen against the Kefauver bill or their
cross-examination on such testimony. There has
4. been nothing invisible about the work of the
Board of Trade for the past 81 years, work which
began IA years before Senator Kefauver was
born as an organization of Washingtonians
working for the best interests, as they them,
of the Capital City. Nor has there been anything
Invisible about the numerous times the boards
"lackeys"-the District Commssioners-have
called on the Board of Trade to undertake work
for the city that its members are equipped and
ready to perform.
But it seems to The Star, that the greatest
: mistake made by Senator Kefauver is to lower
himself to the level of name-calling and motive
attributing in criticizing opposition to his home
rule bill For this hurts Senator Kefauver more
than it hurts the Board of Trade or helps his
bill. There is nothing new in this tactic. 1t Is
one of the first methods learned by any ward
politician looking for votes To his credit. it is
not the sort of thing that Senator Kefauver has
relied upon to gain his present eminence as
DISTINGUISHED member of the United States
Senate. It is a matter of sincere regret to his
admirers The Star Is sure, tn see him ADOPT it
now for it creates disconcerting doubts which
extend beyond the controversy over home rule
Evening star., 1951-06-10
East Germony's ia

throughout East Germany the Soviet-con
trolled Communist regime has just completed
three-day "plebiscite" that serves as another
reminder that the techniques of Red totalitar-
ianism are fundamentally the same as those
that characterized Nazi totalitarianism under
Hitler The only difference now is that the new
Fuehrership speaks with Russian accent
Otherwise, in terms of truth and freedom, there
has been no essential change, except that the
whole business seems somewhat cruder because
the people carrying it out-such as the notorious
Gerhart Eisler-look even more unappetizing
than their brown -shirted predecessors.
Thus. like similar shows in Hitler's day, the
three-day "plebiscite" has resulted in an over
whelming Eyes" vote by the people of the Soviet
zone The question they have voted on-"Are
you against remilitarization and for peace
treaty for all Germany in 1951?"-has been put
to them, of course, solely and simply to support
the Kremlin's phony anti-war campaign and lts
ceaseless propaganda drive aimed at undermin-
ing the Vests German policy and our overall
allied effort to cope with the threat of Red ag-
gression in Europe According to the latest count,
something like SO per cent OF the voters have
= said "ja" to the question.
But this "ia" must be regarded as being IN
many ways even more farcical than the "ia" that
used to resound throughout Hitlers Third Reich.
For the East Germans have registered the vote
under numerous kinds OF pressures and implied
threats Though assured by Eisler and other
members of their Kremlin-serving Communist
regime that they could say "nein" If they wished,
they have had to mark their ballots in the open,
with informers and secret police looking on, and
they have had to bear in mind that they live
under '1aw" that exposes them to the severest
punishment if they are caught opposing Soviet
sponsored peace" propositions of the sort set
forth in the "plebscte" That is why free groups
in West Germany urged them to play along with
the farce and say Eyes" rather than risk ex-
pressing dissents.
The results of the "plebiscite," in other
words reflect the sentiments of the East Ger
mans about as accurately as Moscow propaganda
reflects the truth. Dragooned to the polls, with
apathy written all over their faces, these voters
at least the overwhelming majority-undoubt-
edly feel pretty much the same as their COM
patriots in West Germany. They know that the
Kremlin-whch has spent millions of dollars
through its puppet Eslers to get out the vote
has staged this event merely to support the big
lie that Anglo o-French-American policy is keep
ing their country divided and dragging 1t toward
war. But that lie, in view of the Soviet Unions
policy of aggression and the rearmament of its
European satellites, has become SO blatant and
Evening star., 1951-06-10
! Also Have my Day
By Bruce Borton

Eleanor Roosevelt does not happen to
be my personal pin-up girl, but I have
profound awe for her amazing vitality.
and I give her full credit for a kind
heart and genuine desire to do good.
Her column, MY Day." amply demon.
strates that desire by chronicling her
restless activities in all four corners of
the Lords vineyard. She is drawing up
big code at the U. N. to make all the
nations have higher ideals She is lee
turing for the League of Unmarried
Mothers. She is saying a few words
Tor India and Israel and Ireland and
Tahiti. And always she is calling for
more money to be appropriated or COLI
lected for these good causes and a hun
ored others. 1t makes very full MY
Day"
I also have my day." A recent SAM
pie ran about like this:
8 am.-The morning paper tells me
that New York City has just adopted
the biggest budget in history. This
means that taxes on homes will be
boosted, and that the sales tax will be
3 per cent instead of per cent on every
dollar spent for daily living.
10 a.m.-A meeting of the board of
the hospital Of which I am a trustee.
After canvasSing every other possibility,
we find ourselves compelled to add an
other dollar to the daily cost of a bed
In our wards. This means that the
people who have only little money df
they have none. they are welcome at
our free clinic where we treat nearly
l,5O0 a day. will be paying $40 a day
heavy load to carry. Yet, even with
the extra dollar. the hospital will still
be losing 1927 a bed a day.
Noon-A meeting of the trustees Of
savings bank. The thrifty folk who
try to save something for their old age
used to get at least per cent year on
their savings. Now they get per cent.
And what do you think? The Govern
ment is proposing to tax the savings
banks and the insurance companies In
other words, thrift, which used to be a
virtue. now Is to be treated-like liquor
and tobacco-as personal indulgence
for which the addicts should expect to
be penalized.
In the afternoon mail-A beseeching
letter from the president of my college
for much needed funds.
p.m.-Meeting of the trustees Of
abled. A wonderful work for the bravest
and most deserving folks in the world.
But where, oh, where. can We garner the
$150,000 to meet our annual deficit?
Eleanor's activities are mostly on the
promising end. The folks with whom
spend My Day are members of the
politically voiceless middle class. On
their bowed shoulders the proposed new
$40 billion tax bill will fall most
heavily To them all good causes look
for their principal support. Whenever
the One Worlders make new big COM
mitment, it is they who will have to
foot the major part of the bill.
Some day. dear Mrs. Roosevelt, whose
heart beats so warmly for everybody
all over the world who is trying to get
our money, some day please say just
few kind words for those who must
pay and pay and pay.
tcopSrsht, 1851, King Features Syndicate. AEl
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Fifty Years Ago in The Star.

dispatch from Pittsburgh to The Star
Tor June s, 1901, said: "a great, 36-inch
mirror, belonging to
telescope Mirror Newtonian reflect
Broken ing telescope at Lick
Observatory, was
shattered into many fragments yester-
day in the workshop of Prof. John A.
Brashear of this city while it was being
drilled to convert it into Cassegrain
glass. AS result, it is probable that
the long projected expedition of the
Lick Observatory into the Southern
Hemisphere will have to be postponed
Prof. Brashear will make new mirror
for the Lick scientists, but the glass for
this cannot be obtained from France
in less than six months. The great
mirror was inches thick and weighed
about 400 pounds. It was valued at
$4,000, but the greatest loss is in the
delay it will cause in the starting of
the South American expedition" Prof.
BraShear, known to thousands of scien-
tiflc workers as "Uncle john" was
celebrated mirror maker He was born
at Brownsville, Pa, in 1910 and worked
in machine shop as boy and in the
steel mills as young man. Meanwhile,
his avocatjon was systematic astronomy.
He polished his first lens-a 5-inch-
at night after his regular labor was
done. It brought him the friendship
of Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley of
Allegheny Observatory, later secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, and
through him the support of William
Thaw, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay
Frick and other millionaire philan-
thropists. To-day his glasses are still
in use not only in America but in
Europe. the Orient and the islands of
the Pacific" Prof Brashear died in
1920, Pennsylvania's "best-loved citi-
zen" Dr., Charles G. Abbot who knew
him intimately, said of him last week:
II can see him perfectly in my minds
eye. He was a charming person. with
a fine sense Of humor. His work goes
on out there In Allegheny"