the georgeto herald wedneaday may 31st 1944 thi mixing bowl by anns all an hydro hem economist hello homemakers showers are in the air but they are not raining any thing except gtfts and happiness tor prospective brides many a future bridesmaid or favoured wedding at tendant is busy this mouth planning special shower parties for the bride- tobe with all the multitude of things which demand consideration and time at this busy season it is a relief to and that there are delicious party re freshments that can be prepared quick ly in advance delicate colours are always a part of the shower partv so why not serve cheese salad mold alone with sec tioned fruits oranges and grapefruit and siloed apples cheese toast strips tiny hob biscuits filled with honey 01 marmalade orange fluff queen of f eart cakes and coffee or punch the heartshaped cakes do not call for individual moulds but are made ixom a sheet layer of cake and cut out with a heart cookie cutter queen of heart cakes 1 cup shortening 1 cups sugar 3 cups cake flour 3 tsps bakta powder h tsp salt 1 tap flavour ing extract 1 cup milk 6 egg whites cream the shortening add sugar gradually and cream together until fluffy and light sift flour and meas ure mix and sift with baking pow der and salt add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with the milk add flavoring fold in well beaten egg whites pour into greased i ahauow baking pans bake 35 mins in an electric oven 326 degrees f remove from pan and when cold cut with heartshaped cutters make sevenminute frosting and divide it into thirds add different colored fruit coloring to each and frost cakes top only in wartime seven mdrore frosting ltt cups granulated sugar s tbeps cold water 2 egg whites un beaten 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tbsp corn syrup fruit coloring combine all ingredients except fla voring and coloring in top of double boiler mix thoroughly place over boiling water and heat briskly until mixture holds lt shape remove from are add flavouring and colouring beat until cool orange fluff 2 eggs grated rind of w lemon 1 tap hot water 2 tbeps lemon juice 3 tbsps sugar grated rind of 4 orange 3 tsps orange juice separate eggs beat yolks with 2 tablespoons sugar add grated rind and the fruit jtrices add hot water beating continually cook mixtures in top of double boiler until rt coate spoon stlir ng constantly pour over whites which have been beaten lutiff with remaining tablespoon sugar iptfe into glasses chill in electric re frigerator and serve take a tip 1 when a recipe calls for jiuts and you can obtairi some peanuts rub off the hulls and excess salt with a damp cloth and use a small quantity if recipe calls for 1 clip of nuts you may use one half cup chopped pea- nuts and use one extra tablespoon of hour 2 if cooking utensils are soaked immediately after the food has been removed they may be easily clean ed cold water is best tor eggs milk or doughy substances hot water acts more quickly on greasy foods the question box mr t e asks do you get the best nucrltive value by cooking spin ach anc adding it to the cream sauce for soup or using raw spinach answer since spinach cooks quiefc- 1 and because more flavou is ot- tadned by using minced raw spinach cook in milk for three minutes and thicken in double boiler for 15 min utes this will give the best nutritive value but do nit hesitate to use left over spinach vegetables in a cream sauce for soup mrs m p asks recipe for white- cake using small amount of sugar sugarstaring white cake h cup shortening 23 cup of white corn syrup h cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of flavouring 2 cups of cake flour 3 teaspoons of bak ing powder vx teaspoon salt 3 egg whites sift dry ingredients together threo times cream shortening with sugar add flour mixture alternately with syrup then fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and flavouring and bake in layers at 350 degrees f for about 29 minutes icing teaspoon salt 1 egg white i cup light brown syrup tea spoon lomon flavouring tea spoon almond flavouring add salt to egg white and beat un j til stiff use high speed of electric mixer add com syrup gradually continuing to beat add flavourings beat until icing holds a peak anne allan invites you to write to her in care of the herald send in your suggestions on homemaklng prob lems and watch this column for re plies new cpr locomotive glass to be postwar model the blue limousine by h louis raybold mcclure syndicate wnu service engine no 1200 the first loco motive to be built by the angus shops of the canadian pacific railway company in montreal to the companys own design since i9il is pictured above on the trial tracks before being- taken over by w m neal cbe the vicepresident from h b bowen chief of motive power and rolling stock under whose direction the engine was built and who worked at angus shops as an apprentice in 1105 on the classes of locomotives it will replace an entirely new class designed for that part of the company s program for postwar power re placement dealing with more th in 600 of the older locomotives engine no 1200 will go to west em canada eventually while engine no 1201 of the same class due from angus shops in june will stay in the east responsible for the design of the 1200 was f a benger chief mechanical engineer locomotive and his staff while the work at angus shops was under the con trol of h b naylor works man ager there and the supervision of d l thornton assistant works manager locomotive in the pic ture with mr neal during his inspection left to right are mr thornton mr naylor mr ben ger mr bowen and mr neal mr neal was particularly in terested in the cab in which he ih pictured in the inset for it was here that 1600 pounds was lopped off the total weight of the engine by reducing the portion of the cab oerhanging the boiler at the back and by using aluminum instead of steel in the upper structure the overall weight re duction was from 8000 to 10 000 poundi on the 1200s compared to the next nearest class in the cpr power lineup thereby en suring the widest running rights over bridges and other restricted trackage material for the construction of the locomotives at angus shops was arranged for and work com menced before restrictions upon such material were put into effect the actual work of build ing these engines was made to fit m with the general maintenance and munitions program so as not to interfere in any way with the war effort hushes cleaver mp answers globe and mail editorials land girls are keen on job clip each stalk an inch oeiow me eartn later they 11 be weeding and picking strawberries later still cherries peaches apples it certainly makes you stiff ttie says janet tufper in the globe and mail coming from all over ontario to the niagara peninsula members of the farm service force are now busily en gaged on the fruit farms and marker gardens of this district at least two geo girts are repreeenced down there barbara faram ana rots niel sen in saturdays globe and mall janet tupper had a very interesting sketch of the camp outside of st ca tharines and barbara faram was pic tured along with a numoer of other girls getting their huts in readiness we reprint the article which gives some klea of the routine at a ram service force girl war worker resting a printed sign on the door states austerely please do not disturb- but inside the hut one of a double row of seven at the ontario farm ser vice force camp just outside this city you can hear rustles and energetic thumps laughter and chatter as th farmerettes change out of their work- clothes for supper theyre war work ers all right but all the resting they do is when theyre from 10 pjn till fi am to be exact by ttoe end of this month a ful complement of 60 girls will be at the camp to go out every day to work for 30odd farmers in the surrounding district already 35 of them from all over the province smiths falls kit chener stayer belleville toronto are on the job most of them farming for the first time in their lives tbeyre typical of the 25 000 ontario high dhoot boys and girls who will enlist with the force to turn this boudays into profit for themselves as veil as for canada s vital food pro duction any one who wab down the ratted road past a spickendspan red white and bbw rnswthor between fragrant jot and deeerted- during me day teevtw mnwrtng fanners i tepjtfc op tttetr over francis of smith falls but soon you don t notice it and it s a lot of tun- as he sharpened a outing knife on his emery stone a e howard straw boss on one of the rarms gavehis novlc farmhands top praise rheyrc workers he said tney dont fool around leo a neighboring watch dog who barks at every one who isn t a farmerette hung around ap provingly in the backgrouncr back at camp the director and her three young assistants are busy house keeping all are provided for the force by the ywca at the hostel a tar- papered hut that serves as dining room living room and kitchen mrs d selvage camp director rooks after food housing laundry and bookkeep ing she plans the sturdy balanced menus shops for meals handles che multifarious business of pay separate books for the 10 cents healtfi msurancr that entitles each girl to free medical care the savings accounts coiiecte the 450 weekly board money the girls live in nissentype huts used here for the first time this year by the force and planned also for camps at oooksville and beanwrvlue ist year the girls slept in tents here at oter camps barns hotels and pack inghouses are tamed into bunx houses each hut has four cots rour racks full of gay summer dresses for even ings and days off and four dressing- tables each made from two orange grates like as not there are also tour sets of pinup pictures brothers ana beaus in uniform anothet special fea ture of this camp is its hospital a room painted white with a wenequip ped medicine chest every camp has its sick room but the st catharines girls tell you that this or m something special us quite a job to get all the painting just right youa think theyd be ured at the end of the day said mrs selvage not them the minute they come m they rush to the showers then est on their best okrttas out come tbe matt up and their hair is all buffed out tbe curlers on tnefc h wbfk tbeyre wortdna- out continued from page one then too there ts another feature which must be r pracu ally all ol our industries are honestly performing wonderful war work just as soon as a parliamentary committee would start a public inquiry into the operations of an aircraft factorj or shipyard the question would at once vrise in the public mind li to ha was wrong with that mduttrj an implication would at once arise that there was something wtoiir if cur meetings were in public your commit tee would hesitate to start inquiries with rosjeci to in honest industry perofrmlng an important war task but under our present practice no such deterrent exists wt haie visited manj war plants in this country we have unearthed honest mistakes and hove made recommendations which have re milted in the sa- are all of this has been done with out harm to the war effort and with out injury to industry 1 am reminded i that one of our first inquiries of sub committee n 1 was the british com monwealth air tlraining scheme the editorial under date of may 5th it is stated x quote unfortunately the public ac counts committee has been dor mant for years and the spelal argest air training scheme in the world no one would suggest that there was anything wrong with this undertaking of which we are all so proud but we did and in regard to this effort that honest mistakes had been made and we did further the rene gotlation ol contracts in respect to the air observer schools and in respect to the elementary training schools which achieved substantial savings to sum up the reasons why we hold our meetings in secret are 1 in secret meetings we obtain all of the facts 1 2 secret meetings do not in any way harm the morale of honest industries 3 when appointed wc were express ly instructed that our sole task was to search for economies and that wc were not to function as a public accounts or propaganda committee the british committee was not giv en the power to check into past ex penditures we were given the power to check into post expenditures but on our appointment were expressly told that the only reason why we should check into past expenditures was to lead the way to present economies we have no power to prosecute anyone if we fmd wrongdoing we of course re port it to the proper authorities should we at any time fail in this duty the evidence cannot be concealed because it is given in the presence of opposition members and these mem bers armed with the facts can then compel production of the facts through the regularchannels of government and havethematter inquired into by the public account committee this is not just surmise on my part be cause there ts on record an instance v here opposition members did bring up a matter unearthed by the wai expenditures committee which they thought should be investigated in his i wtcr ce the oppostlon members on bringing the matter to a public hearing before the public accounts commlute found they were in error and did not proceed further but this example quite clearly proves my as sertion in this regard i belivc very strongly that all pub lie business should be transacted in public the public are deeplj inter csted in the manner in which their money is being spent publicity is a strong deterrent to wrongdoers there th u delayed untn mttnjgbt ttie camp its deserted every one goes to town to the movies ifoey ha fan and theyre a- m of am said lata qkd rfwv ernment as a substitute this statement is not true war ex penditures committee was not ap pointed aj a substitute for the public accounts committee the public accounts committee is not dormant the committee held nuiny sittings last vear and is now in session mis year obviojoly these untrue statements are made to mislead the public now let us come to the facts the moneys which we have saved canada s war effort means that this money is not going to individuals and companies by way of profits you know just ns well as i do that when you start nterfering with profits just as soon us you touch a man s pocket book he can think up a lot of good reasoni to attack ji is true that no one has had the courage lo criticise is directly for the m hlch we have saved lor caajruawar effort but all of the ayssjjjiave been flank attacks at the present time a cc liberate attempt is being made to stir up public indignation over the fact that our meetings are in secret our opponents know full well tha public views more strongly than i do in this regard we still have all of the normal machinery for the protection of the public purse it is the duty of the opposition and the duty of the wartime information board to keep the canadian public and tbe world fully acquainted with all particulars ol this country s war effort if ther should oe wrongdoing and we are very proud of the fact that we have had no serious scandals but if there should wrongdoing there a the fullest possible right to public trial before the public accounts committee and just here i would like to state that it any op posit lor member if any mem ber of the house of commons believes that there is any foundation to the clark boot charges he can sponsor these charges from his seat in the house of commons and they will at once be investigated by the public accounts committee at public hear ings any member who makes such charges loses his seat if the charges are not sustained the fact that no opposition member has done thla ciear y shows the amount of confidence which they have in the clarx chargea as i said a moment ago the war ex penditures committee is an additional committee over and aoove an of the normal safeguards of government we do not spend any money our task is to find economics we were given extraordinary powers and we were clearly told how we should exercise them it is an undisputed fact that we have effected millions of dollars of savings for our war effort now coming to the reasons why cer tain groups m this country want to do away with the war expenditures com mtttee since we have saved millions of dollars for canadas war effort it is quite evident that this campaign is not sponsored on patriotic grounds one large dally printed an editorial making deliberate untruthful state- of fact to mislead the public j wul give you one at them in this editorial under date of may 50i rt is ted i quote rrfortunately the pmc accounts oonan to drgmant for years and thswcttroimntttee en warbi- pcp waa ooncedsd t 12m gpr- hearings would nullify the effective- ness of our work keeping these facts in mind i am quite content that the public should reach their own con elusions while i do not lor a mom ent suggest the meve which han inspired such attacks i do state with out fear of contradiction that at tempts m some quarters to do awaj with the committee or to nullify its eflectivepess has greatly cheered us in our endeavour to check waste in re gard to the war effort and i believe i can safely assure all who do not lika the way this committee is functioning or who would like to get rid of the war expenditures committee that this oommltee will continue in its struggle to check waste and greed until the won writes one of the most practised arrangers and conductors in the realm or raato music is harold green of winnipeg whose name comes up regularly on network program be is currently obcb new musical show ftorjtateners on tba nraidai and points west x7hen the carltons pulled into the new brunswick touring camp their first thought was of th blue limousine hod it arrived ahead of them7 a survey of the small grassy park set on the hilltop revealed no sign oil it among the few cars scattered about not that there was any hope to be gotten out of that it had happened before that they had gone to bed assured that they had eluded their camp follower only to and in the morning it had arrived sometime during the night but if they were really pursuing us mother had insisted julie carl ton they would make some effort to become acquainted but they dont they keep by themselves ft the trouble was that ever since mrs carlton had realized that her little girl was growing into an ex tremely pretty woman she had sufj fered from the complex that her daughter would be the natural preyv of all members of the other sex and there had been certain circum stances that almost justified her fears were they not at this present moment taking a trip to cure julie of an absurd infatuation for the boy next door that frequent bete noir of fond mothers of course julies father absolute ly scouted the idea that any car had deliberately pursued them from springfield through the white moun tains up the maine coast and across the border and now he pointed out the prob ability of their having turned off on the road that led to predericton theyve just been fhpg a trunk route like the rest of us he ex- plained hammering a tent stake mto the ground havent seen them all day have we well daddy julie grabbed her fa thers arm there it is now the blue limousine i in a cloud of dust from the gravel road arrived the huge car of ancient vintage for all its recent coat of azure paint hardly had it stopped before the longlegged youth whose appearance had grown so familiar stepped out cast his glance toward a square of level ground farthest from the carlton car and indicated the spot to his father m the drivers seat with a gesture well said mr carlton very firmly these tourist camps are free to all and as ive done nothing to put any one on my trail theyre welcome to track me to hudson bay if i go that far and for anything ive seen to the contrary that young man doesnt even know our julie exists the next few days however could but show if there was actual inten tion behind all this if the blue limousine party timed then depar ture with that of the carltons who were remaining over for several days to take m side trips to nova scotia and prince edward island there would be little doubt that they the carltons were the object of an inexplicable pursuit on the second night the blue limousine was still there but the carltons spending twpdays in am herst were unawareoftne fact the third night the car was gone but notauofthe equipment on the following morning mr carlton rising early for a speedy getaway saw the long legged young man come out of his tent look arounda bit then start pitching out the duffle bags yet it is doubtful if he would have done what he did had not he ob served half an hour later his daughter julie sauntering over from the pump in the young mans com pany had there really been other opportunities for them to meet throwing down the tent pole he was disjointing he strode over to the blue limousine and addressed the young mans father sort of funny how you people are trailing us he said abruptly the other man looked sheepish then grinned with a caution glance in the direction of his wife tent he came over to carlton and whispered in his car say i m glad of a chance to tell you all about it it was my wifes idea we ve been doing this motor camping business for fifteen years been everywhere got so there was no kick out of it going the same old places so abby suggested we get a thrill by not knowing where we would land up last we took was last summer and we took every third concrete road but this sum mer she says let s follow the first camping party we see after pulling out of the athol camp and it was you we havent meant to be a nuisance my son is just getting over an illness and his fiancee is off teaching in a girls camp so wj brought him along hes kind disgusted with his mothers idea bi you sure have taken us into a fine country 1 when julies father told her she sniffed that nice young man told me all about it this morning shw said and by the way dad nilea wrote me that it i dont come home pretty soon to get the ring he bought me eh dartre op here after mel mr carlton threw up his handa neverl he cried being chased oy prewar itmomlne is bad cough bat theft rattle trap fifcrvek of nlwoothing dotal we atari 1wberftefliytwwi- 7 r 5 r