BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
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105 Billions'. Be Calm
103 Eyes for ai| Eye
. The Unexpected Pleases
Fourth Plate for Ua
Secretary Ickes -has a real plan, and |
possesses what might be called vidlon
in spending. Lie has confidence In this
country and its wealth. As chairman
of the resources board, Mr. Ickes fa
vors spending $105,000,000,000 in the '
next 20 or 30 years on public works.
Do not "stand and gaze," or fall back
ward ; that Isn't so much money for
Uncle Sam. Mr. K, H. Kcker, whose
Metropolitan Life Insurance company,
biggest In the world, has assets of $4,
000.000,000, wHI tell you that in really
good times the United States' Income
was $80,000,000,000 a year, $00,000.000,
000 for wages, $30,000,000,000 of other
income.
"An eye for an eye and a tootn for
a tooth" may suit old-fashioned "cap
italistic" countries. It does not appeal
to Russia. There, to avenge the killing
of one man, Kirov, Stalin's friend, 28
more have been shot, making a total
of 103.
"A hundred and three eyes for one
eye, a hundred and three teeth for one
tooth," is a high price, and the number
killed may be Increased.
The unexpected is Interesting and
Is the essence of humor. Two did gen
tlemen, falling In their attempt to
strike oil, retired to the poorhouse.
In the poorhouse backyard they found,
first, a good coal deposit, then struck
oil. '
Louis Mosenza of New Jersey went
hunting deer, walked 20 miles, found
nothing. At night he found a large
deer hanging In his kitchen. It walked
Into the front yard, Mrs. Mosenza
?hot It.
Charles Dana Gibson, able artist,
with friends went moose hunting, trav- |
eled far, by buckboard in the Maine
forest, found nothing, packed guns,
drove back to the station. A fine bull
moose and two cows walked across the
track. They could not get out their
guns in time.
An NRA report says the United
States comes fourth among nations In
the march toward recovery and is grati
fied. There was a time when fourth
place did not particularly gratify
Americans, but "small mercies thank
fully received."
Interesting in the report Is the state
ment that countries still on the gold
basis?France, Italy, Belgium, Holland,
Switzerland?show the least progress.
Catholics and Protestants in Ger
many unite In a pro-Deo ("For God")
movement to counteract the "godless
Bolshevik propaganda."
At the same time various religious
authorities in Germany quarrel among
themselves and the head government |
seeks to "Germanize" the Christian I
religion, annoyed perhaps by the Idea
that the "one God" should have been
given to the world by the Jews.
Rumania's parliament discussed a
young lady with red hair named Magda
* Lupescu, for whom the Rumanian king,
Carol, has shown some partiality. It
was suggested in defense of King
Carol that "his critics are too weak to
be immoral."
That new view of Immorality would
surprise several well-known charac
ters, including the good St Anthony.
It was not understood that the man
who said he could "resist anything ex
cept temptation" was a person of un
usual strength.
Mr. Joseph J. FIske observes that
?mong the "one hundred and eighty
one who had Incomes of a million dol
lars a year during the war, the Jews
may be counted on the fingers of one
hand." He thinks this Interferes with
Hitler's theory that members of the
Jewish race control the world's money
and own most of It.
That theory, of course, is nonsense.
There Is no Jew among the richest men
in the United States, who are, or were
until recently, John D. Rockefeller, An
drew W. Mellon, Henry Ford and
George F. Baker.
Wise King Oeorgc cf England knows
which way the straws are blowing.
Friends wanted to give him, by sub
scription, a new yacht costing $150,
000. He thanked tliem. said he could
get along well with his old snlllng
boat, and advised that the $150,000 "be
applied to people out of work." That
kind of king stays on his throne.
The marquess of Donegal tells the
London Sunday Despatch that Chancel
lor Hitler, flying over east Prussia, was
attacked with gunflre from another air
plane, that fled at high speed after
missing.
Perhaps that did not happen, but It
might happen.
United States cotton growers decide
by a vote of 9 to 1 thnt they want an
extension of the Hankliead act, limit
ing the production of cotton. Conse
quently, production will be kept down
and prices forced op. So far so good.
Another result will be that foreign
countries will gratefully Increase their
cotton production, safe from compe
tition of United States surplus cotton,
and this country's cotton export trade
will gradually fade away. Perhaps
that la "all right." Cotton growers
should know.
c. Kins Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNU Sert Ics.
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PVDDIi' an' PIC
(TO by JIMMY GARTH WAIT E CO
GRAMPA
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WHAT on earth are you afraid of?
What do you think that I am made of? <
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Goggily eyes
And an ogre's face?
Terrible whiskers ^
All over the place? f
Great big ears
And a great big nose?
E-nor-mous hands
And an Elephant's clothes?
If that's the way you think I'm made
I hardly wonder you're afraid!
? by Harper & Brothers?WNU Service.
SAUSAGES GOOD FOR QUICK MEALl
_ Suitable for Dinner or Lunch
as Well as Breakfast. (r^?
Br EDITH H. BARBER
'T'HESE crisp days have made us
* think of sausage. The housekeeper
who has a business job as well as her
regular home work does not usually
have time to prepare sausage for
breakfast?the meal with wtfclch It Is
usually associated.
I really like sausage better tor lunch,
unless It Is for a late Sunday break
fast on a day when there are to be but
two meals. There Is no reason, how
ever, that the pleasures of the table
typified by sausage should be limited
to any hour of the day. For that rea
son I have chosen It for the quick
meal which Is served at night, and
which can be called by any name you
like, just so It Is heavy enough to be
the big meal of the day.
I like tc bake sausage after prick
ing each link to prevent bursting while
cooking 1l a hot oven. It needs no
watching, and there will be no spat
ter of grease on the surrounding wall t.
I am supposing that the previous nigh*
enough potatoes were boiled or baked
to serve for two meals and that these
need but to be cut Into cubes and
creamed.
I suggest the use of a little minced
onion with string beans, particularly
canned. They should be heated glow
ly and should simmer In butter until
you are ready to serve them. I saw
such beautiful preserved figs In glass
the other day that It reminded me
how good they were. The busy house
keeper will do well to keep some on
hand with her other canned fruits.
Stewed or baked figs are also dell
clous. Figs should be soaked only a
short time, and It la possible to soak
them while getting dinner, to cook
them In the oven while dinner Is be
ing senred and cleared away and then
to have them ready tor to-morrow's
dinner or breakfast.
Any dried fruit can be cooked.
Long soaking Is unnecessary for any
of them. It does not Injure other
fruit, but It makes tigs tasteless to
soak them too long. Flavor Is drawn
out of the skin and does not seem to
return with standing. Figs need little
or no sugar If they are cooked In
just enough water to cover. The
dried and canned California figs are
here In large quantities now. They
have not quite the same flavor as the
Imported figs, but are as delicious.
The busy housekeeper should keep
several boxes of dainty cookies on
hand to finish out dessert There are
so nlany delicious sweet wafers and
cookies of all kinds offered today In
a variety of flavors that she can al
ways hare a choice.
Quick Meal.
Baked Sausage
Creamed Potatoes String Beans With
Onions
Hot Rolls
Preserved Figs Coffee Cookies
Tomatoes Stuffed With Fish.
Select firm tomatoes, cut slices from
top and remove part of pulp. To each
cup of flaked raw fillets, add two tea
spoons minced onion, one tablespoon
lemon Juice, two tablespoons of melt
ed bntter and a sprinkling of paprika
and the tomato pulp. (This fills about
six tomatoes). Stuff tomatoes with
mixture, place a small piece of bay
leaf on eaeh, place In greased baking
pan and bake for fifteen minutes In a
hot oven (450 degrees F.) until to
matoes are tender.
Serve with white or brown sauce.
Fruit Syllabubs.
1)4 cups cream
2 egg whites
H cup powdered -agar
V4 cup candied cherries
V4 cup shredded almonds
14 cup orange Juice
1 tablespoon lemon Juice
S small slices angel food cake
Whip cream, beat eggs, fold In sugar,
and then the cream. Fold In the fruit,
nuts and fruit Juice. Line a glass dish
SIDESLIPPING
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"la it difficult to borrow money J"
"Not the Brat time. The aecood touch
It what call* for great aklll."
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Big Sturgeon Yield*
$20 Worth of Caviar
WllllaUii-, Minn. sturgeon
weighing 100 pounds and contain
lug 20 pound* of caviar, valued at
$1 a pound, was taken lu the Otter
tall river, near be re.
| . It was the largest fish taken In
many years, although pioneers re
called sturgeons weighing 200
pounds. And one?grand-daddy of
them all?whlcff" tipped the scales
at 262 pounds.
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with angel food and pile mixture on
top. Serve at once.
? Egg and Tomato Canape;
6 round fried bread
2 hard cooked eggs
2 tomatoes
1 sweet pickle
Mayonnaise
Lettuc^
Peel and slice eggs and tomatoes.
Spread bread with mayonnaise and on
each piece place a slice of tomato and
a slice of egg. Mince the pickle and
egg that Is left, mix with mayonnaise
and use as a garnish.
Cheese and Anchovy Canape*.
3 tablespoons salad dressing
1 cup cream cheese
1 tablespoon chopped anchovies
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
Bounds of fried bread
Blend salad dressing and cheese
thoroughly, stir In the anchovies and
parsley and heap In small pyramids on
rounds of fried bread.
Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service.*
<SMy ^Neighbor
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ONE cupful of prunes, which have
been soaked overnight, pitted,
chopped and added to one and a half
cupfuls of bread crumbs, makes a de
licious stuffing for roast duck. Moist
en the stuffing with cold water.
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Leftover vegetables can be combined
and served as an escalloped food, or
they can be used In soups.
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Rub Indian meal over a greasy sink
and It will be much easier to clean It
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If postage stamps nave become glued
together, lay a thin paper over them
and run a hot Iron over the paper.
The mucilage will not be affected.
?, the Associated Newspapers.
m WNU Service.
Gold Mining Is Active
in Alabama and Georgia
Birmingham, Ala.?A modern gold
rush In Alabama and Georgia Is peo
pling the hills between Alexander City,
Ala., and Dahlonega, Ga., with more
amateur and professional gold miners
than the two states have seen In years.
The Hog Mountain mine, near Alex
ander City, has launched an expansion
program which will Involve annual ex
penditures of about $125,000 when com
pleted. With a shaft already down 200
feet, it Is producing gold at the rate
of $17,000 a month.
The mine Is paying more than $5,000
monthly In wages to about eighty la
borers. Its Investment In mining and
gold recovering machinery thus far
amounts to about $200,000 and will be
greatly Increased under the announced
expansion program.
For Double Service
A convenient and attractive addition
to the chimney corner Is a bench with
a hinged seat. The space for kindling
wood and paper. Paint the bench a
bright color and It will lend a cheerful
note to this much-used part of the
room.
Paint on Dry Surface
Paint adhesion cannot be expected
on a damp surface, or on one covered
with wax, grease, oil or grime. Shel
lac all knots and pitchy places. Allow
the first coat to dry thoroughly before
applying the second coat of paint
President's Office Has Been Reconditioned
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The reccmdltlonlng of the executive office* of the White House, designed to provide more space for the nation's Chief
Executive and his Immediate official family, Is finished. This Is a Tlew of the President's own office. It Is richly furnished
to produce ? dignified effect, and conspicuously noted In the fittings are Old Glory and the President's own flag, both
behind his desk-chair, and his ship model.
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Captures Laurels With Her Lambs
Katherine Sheldon of Oneonta, N. Y., Is shown with her lambs that won
top honors at the International Live Stock show in Chicago. This is the third
time her lambs have won the first prize.
Lights of New York II STEVENSON
After looking over a collection of old
prints and photographs In the Museum
of the City of New York, I endeavored
to visualize the city a hundred years
from now. That was a difficult task
because New York will be so different.
It's a safe guess, however, that few, if
any, of the present structures will re
main. Modern apartment houses are
built with a life expectancy of fifteen
years. Modern skyscrapers might last
a century were it not for continual
change. On Broadway, a modern 12
story building was torn down after a
dozen years. Nothing was the matter
with it, but the site was wanted for
a much taller office building. Homes
also are Impermanenr. The Vander
bilt chateau at Fifty-eighth street and
Fifth avenue, If it had been built in
Italy, from whence came the idea,
would have stood for centuries. In
New York it lasted only about forty
years. Former Senator William A.
Clark built a mansion on Fifth avenue
that would have stood for five hundred
or more years. It cost several million
dollars to wreck it after twenty-five
years. But it came down and an apart
ment house now occupies the site, while
a commercial structure stands where
the Vanderbilt chateau stood. New
York still has some Revolutionary
landmarks. But they grow fewer as
time passes.
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Experts seem to agree that the New
York of a century hence will be a
much pleasanter place in which to live
in many ways. Just happened to re
call an article I read in the Sun a year
or so ago. It told of skyscrapers much
taller than those of today, each occupy
ing from three to five blocks, but each
with plenty of light and air because
they will be surrounded by lower build
ings. There will be more parks also
and Central park will be extended
away to the north, the Sun said. Parks
will actually be a part of the skyscrap
ers because the terraces or set backs,
will be planted witu flowers, vines,
shrubs, and even trees. With trees,
there will J>e birds. Think of>a New
York office worker toiling away with
the song o? a robin or a lark in his
ears! Not hard to believe, though. A
start is already being made. The elev
enth floor terrace of the RCA building
In Rockefeller center is being turned
Into a garden and penthouse dwellers
not only have gardens but little trees.
Traffic congestion will be a thing of
the past because streets will be built
on two or more levels so that various
speeds may be maintained. Subways,
if they are in existence, and they will
be, unless a faster form of transpor
tation is evolved, will also be on sev
eral levels with trains of varying
speeds so that distance will be cut
down to such an extent that New York
will consist of the entire metropolitan
area, and thus take in from 5,000 to
7,000 square miles. Long-distance
transportation will, of course, be by
airplane. Again, a start has been made.
New York already has a double-decked
street?the Miller express highway
running along the margin of the Mud
son river from canal to Seventy-second
street. In some places in the subways,
local trains run above express trains.
And, of course, there are airplane lines
extending over the entire country, it
being possible to eat an early dinner
in New York and a late breakfast in
Los Angeles.
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Still, visualizing New York a cen
tury from now is difficult It is even
more difficult to try to picture it a
thousand years from now, for there is
a belief that by that time, that which
we know well today will have vanished
completely. Of all New York's struc- S
tures, possibly the only one that wHl
remain will be the Cathedral of St J
John the Divine, many years in the j
building. Also, some great tunnels
that carry water to the city 500 feet
beneath the surface. But the tunnels i
cau hardly be Included in the picture ?
since no one ever sees them.
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Turning from the future to the past
there is Fraunce's tavern, where Wash
ington said good-by to his troops at
the end of the Revolution. It's the
oldest building in Manhattan.
6. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service.
JLJOW IT STARTER
? I | t, JEAN NEWTON
"A Stranger in a Strange Land"
??T SENSED a complete lack of sym
1 pathy there. I felt like a stran
ger in a strange land."
The other day a man said that with
reference to a new field in which he
bad undertaken to work. And he used
the terms in which for centuries people
have expressed the same feeling of
loneliness, of isolation, "a stranger in
a strange land."
The words go back for their origin
to the Old Testament We And them
in the Book of Exodns, which con
tains the history of the Israelites in
Egypt. It is in the second chapter,
telling of Moses in the land of Mldian,
how he dwelt with Ite'uei, the priest
of Midian, and married his daughter,
Zipporah. we find:
"And she bore a son, and he called
Ids name Gershom; for lie said, I have
been a stranger in a strange land."
e. Bell Syndicate.?WXU Service.
Prophecy of Inventor
of Airship Comes True
Salt Lake City.?The prophecy of
her father, who constructed an airship
in ISO, that his children and grand
children would fly In large air liners
came true here when Mrs. Lizette
I'ierce Dibble arrived on one of United
Air Lines'coast-to-coast transports from
her home in Boise. Mrs. Dibble de
scribed her first airplane flight as
"simply grand." She is the widow of a
Blackhawk Indian war veteran and a
daughter of James Madison Pierce,
early Utah inventor.
Her father constructed an "airship"
.shaped like a boat and powered with
a small motor, nine years before the
famous Wright brothers made their
first successful flight 4n Kitty Hawk,
N. C, in 1903. He had firm faith in
aviation. Lack of fnndy caused the In
ventor to give op Ms experiments on
a "flying machine." I
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ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS.?Well ail I k?ow
U just what I read in the papery or
what I am fortunate enough to get
t" the miil
"? "ell
this week we are
doubly fortunate
lor I don't believe i
am betrayinj ,ny
breach of etiquette
when I reprint a let.
ter that I just re.
ceived from the
worlds most re
markable woman,
Miss Helen Keller'
We often exchange
some word.
"noau llftn. *?
?T.m- Here
I come. This time all I want is the loan
ot your voice. The American Foundation
(or the Blind has produced and per
fected what is called the talking-book.
These books are reproduced on a ma
chine which is a combination radio and
phonograph. A book ot about ninety
thousand words can be recorded on a
dozen dies, thus bringing to the blind
the pleasure and satisfaction of reading
by ear any time they choose. Instead of
having to use the tedious method of An
ger reading or wait upon the conve
nience of others to read aloud to them.
In addition to the talking book they will
have a radio.
"These machines are sold to the
sightless at actual cost. The Library of
Congress is having a number of records
made which it will loan through Its
various branch libraries for the blind,
but unfortunately the vast majority of
the blind cant afford the machines.
During the last few years the British
Broadcasting Company has on Xmas
afternoon each year made the appeal
for funds to purchase radios for the
blind in Great Britain, and over the
period more than twenty thousand
radios have been furnished. It has been
suggested that a similar appeal in this
Country around Xmas time be made
and might secure equally as good re
sults for talking-book machines.
"The Columbia Broadcasting Com
pany has been approached in this mat
ter, and will be glad to co-operate and
give us time over their system. My job
is to get some radio personalities to
make the appeal. Rest assured that no
precedent will be established, in regard
to doing something outside your con
tractual radio obligations, since the
blind are recognized as a class apart
from all other handicapped groups. Be
it said to the credit of humanity that
no one would begrudge the blind a
special service.
"I am writing this letter from the
Doctors Hospital where I am staying
near my dear teacher who is ill. She
who has for almost fifty years been my
eyes and ears and is now quite in the
dark herself, but her physician is hope
ful of being able to give her back a little
sight.
"I am making a similar request to
.Edwin C. Hill, Alexander Wollcott, and
yourself. Day and time will be arranged
If my three friends, or even one, will
grant the request. With good wishes
yours sincerely, Helen Keller."
ivow aint tnat a wonaenui leuer, auu
what a wonderful thing that is for the
blind, and in a telegram 1 just today
received, the date has been set for
January 16th, nine thirty to ten. (I
Imagine she means Eastern Time) ar.d
John McCormack is to sing. I have such
fine and broad minded sponsors in my
radio work, the Gulf Oil Company, that
I dont even ask them permission in a
case like this. They wouldent even ex
pect it. Now what I am trying to do is
to get this letter to you before Xmas,
(in most places It will be printed on
the Sunday before Xmas, so that will
?till give you a day to act.) Your radio
stores will know about it. The most I
know of it is from this letter, and its
called a "Talking Book," a combination
radio and phonograph. So you still have
time to do a good deed, one of the most
gratifying 1 know of.
Isnt that an odd thing about that
marvelous teacher of hers being sight
less? She is a remarkable woman, the
combination of those two women, the
tedious work, and devotion on both
sides, I doubt if its paralell is in history.
If any of you younger folks, or kids
are not familiar with the case of this
wonderful woman,,
Helen Keller, and 7.
her remarkable v ^cr'r*,
teacher, make your '
folks tell you about ^
her, make your v
teacher give you a l\vV ^ -
whole class hour's
lecture 011 her,
one of her own
books "The Story ^ ^
of My Life" that de
scribes her almost
miracle life. It will /M?
be one of the leg- ? Tile
ends of our Country. People ?
million are out of work, and mill-?JS 01
more are out of things tbev a: - -,Q
but when you think you can s:-1 ?t *
you can hear, you can talk. T' '
wonderful letter was written
dne who was denied all these, a*.*
she was trying to use her talents t 1
ones whom she felt were 1 ? :e "
fortunate than her. Rememh re t
radio for Xmas for some blind oC>'' aofl
then tune in on her programme
January sixteenth. Thank you.
? 1934, UcXmmgkt Syndua.*, /*?