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& Canning Is Food Insurance lor Winter (See Recipes Below) i -- ' Early Canning Strawberries and rhubarb, green peas and asparagus are all flaunting their gay coljrs before our eyes and begging Alb be eaten, either now or later. One of the most basic rules in panning is that fruit and vegetables should 4>e panned at the peak of the season to be their best. If you want a good .product, you will have to put up a good food is another way of put- JBng this rule across. ^Canning at best does not improve , Jhe food, it simply preserves it tor future use. Unless strawberries are sweet and bright in color, they prill not become so in the jars. The tene is true of everything else fthich we put up. Less canning sugar will presumably be alloted this year than previously, and it would be well to defckle just how much of what you are r'ng to put up before you start using sugar. It will have to be ftrictly budgeted if it is to reach Jiver all the winter's needs. Those of you who have canned while sugar has been rationed know that it is possible to can with a great deal less sugar if you will put the fruit up not quite so sweet. Most of us can do with less sugar J|b long as we have nice looking firs of fruit. ' I One of the "musts" on your cartffing list this year should be several jars of jams, jellies find preserves to spread on bread next winter if butter supplies are low. The family will greet these fruit con- Lynn Chambers' Point-Saving Means. Mixed Vegetables in Bologna Cups Creamed Potatoes Perfection Salad Toasted Muffins and Jam Chocolate Souffle Beverage flpctions with cheers: 8trawberry Marmalade, j (Makes 12 f-ouaee glasses) / t oranges f I lemons / % cap water H I faut strawberries 7 n|i sugar H bottle trait pectin Remove peels fromoranges and mons; cut off white membrane, 'orce peels through food chopper. ,idd water and soda. Cover and fimmer for 10 minutes. Add orange and lemon pulp and juice. Simmer lor 20 minutes. Add crushed strawberries. Measure 4 <cupe prepared fruit; add sugar. Bring to .boiling and boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in fruit pectin. Let stand j§ minutes; skim; seal in hot, literilized glasses. Currant Jelly. (Makes 4 to 5 small glasses) -4 - ( 1 quart currants *•" " I • V4 cap water --- J Sugar jpa#h and pick over currants but v do not remove stems. Mash a few r? In the bottom of a preserving kettle and continue • until all berries are tised. Add water, cover and heat _^__j(slowly. When fruit is thoroughly |vj_>i*eated, put into a jelly bag or in sev- ".-p^teral thicknesses of cheese cloth and 'drain off juice. Measure 4 cups Juice, bring to boiling point and s boil 5 minutes. Add 3 cups of sug- ;; jar and boil 3 minutes, or until jelly _ , .aheets off a spoon. Pour into sev- . - eral hot sterilized glasses, cover1 . With paraffin and store. •. > Strawberry and Rhubarb Jag*, v "" I (Makes 6 to 8 Glasses) S cops cooked pink rhubarb • S cups strawberries 4 eups sugar Use tender red rhubarb, trim off hard ends, wash without skinning, cut into small pieces. Mix fruit and sugar, let stand several hours. Cook gently in preserving kettle until thick and clear. Pour into ho^sterile glasses and paraffin at once. For canning spring's first fruits, use the directions given in these recipes to save color, food value and quality. Canning Strawberries. Use o|dy fresh, ripe, firm and sound berries. Wash and stem. To each quart of berries add 1 cup sugar. Place in a porcelain enameled kettle (to prevent the berries from turning dark), let stand until juice flows. Cook slowly to the boiling point, then rapidly for 3 to 4 minutes, then cover kettle and let stand overnight. Drain berries and pack into hot sterile jars. Heat syrup until it boils, pour immediately over fruit to within one-half inch of the top of the jar. Adjust cover and process in hot water bath 8 minutes or in pressure cooker 5 minutes under 5 pounds pressure. Remove jars, let cool and store. This is an excellent, if unorthodox method for canning rhubarb. It is prepared by baking the fruit and then canning: Canning Rhubarb. Wash tender, rosy rhubarb and cut into %-inch pieces with a sharp knife. Measure the rhubarb and place it in a baking dish and add V* as much sugar by measure as rhubarb. Cover and bake in a moderate (350-degree) oven 30 to 35 minutes until rhubarb is tender, but whole. Pack into hot sterile jars' immediately after removing from oven and process 10 minutes in a boiling water bath or 5 minutes at 5 pounds pressure in pressure cooker. Cauning Asparagus. Wash young, tender asparagus' and remove tough ends. Cut to fit into jar or in %-inch lengths. Tie into small bundles and place in a saucepan. Add 'a small amount of boilbig water and cook 4 to S minutes. Place immediately into hot sterile jars, adding boiling liquid to within % inch of the top along with 1 teaspoon salt to each quart. Adjust cap and process immediately in a pressure cooker, processing pint jars 35 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. Cannjpg Peas. Select tender, even-sized green peas. Shell and wash. Place in saucepan With boiling water to cover. HeaTto boiling. Pack as hot ' as possibleinto sterile jars. Add 1 teaspoon" salt and 1 teaspoon sugar to each jar. Process in the pressure cooker SO minutes at 10 pounds. Vitamin Value and Retention.^ The more quickly you work once the fruits and vegetables are collected, the better will they retain their nutritive qualities. Everything should be in readiness so there is no time lost going from step to step. If jars are stored in a cool, dark place there is a better chance of their keeping their vitamins and minerals. Released by Weatern Newspaper Ui EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau 'of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. F, Washington, D. C., is able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by^mail, but, only in the column which will appear ip this newspaper [regularly. Veterans Bill of Righto It is virtually certain that this session of the congress will liberalize many provisions of the G.I. Bill of Rights, particularly since President Truman and the Veterans administration have now given added impetus to needed clarification and liberalization. In his message to the congress, the President urge$ that prompt consideration be given for more liberal hospitalization and veterans care, more vocational training under the vocations^ rehabilitation act and to education and training under the serviceman's readjustment act (G.I. bill). The President further urged more specific language for reemployment of veterans under the selective service act, so there can be no doubt about the right of a veteran to get back his old job should he desire it. . The Veterans administration itself will take the lead and spearhead the fight for these clarifying and liberalizing amendments and the administration will have the backing of such organizations as the American Bar association, the American Institute of .Banking, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At this time 22,349 veterans, out of more than two million demobilized, thus far, are taking advantage of the education features of the bill of rights. Some of the proposed I amendments would . include "adequate subsistence and travel allowances for veterans taking! intensive refresher courses away from home; permit instruction by correspondence, particularly from approved educational institutions which have not hitherto conducted corresp<mdence courses." Questions and Answers Q--My husband was given an honorable medical discharge March 9,1943. At that time tfcey did not receive a discharge batton. Where can he obtaia one? Mrs. R. R., Marshalltown, Iowa. A.--At any army separation center, probably at your local draft board, or one may be purchased at almost any army store. k Q.--Has an army officer the Vright to cut off the allotment to his wife and child without any reason? Has he no obligation to meet concerning his family? Wife, St&aeeem, Wash. A.--Yes, he has the right to discontinue his allotment. He has the same obligations concerning his family as any other honorable husband. Q.--I am aiaklng an application for a one-ten track. I have a farm of 2fV acres and need a truck very much. I am an honorably discharged soldier, with two years service. I would like to get a government - owned truck if possible. J. F., Schenectady, N. ¥. -- A.--If you are referring to a surplus war property truck, would suggest that you contact your local AAA county committee or your county agent for information where these surplus trucks are available from a bona fide dealer in your community. You are entitled to afn A-l priority without rad tape if there are surplus war trucks for sale at any of your local dealers. Q---I want to know if a man that has been In the navy 18 months, Is 26 yean old and has a wife and two children, will get a discharge soon? Wife, Vida, Okla. A.--Not necessarily. The navy man will be subject to the discharge system of rating adopted by the navy. Q.--I am a World War I veteraa aad have a Job. Will I have to give ap my Job for a veteran of World War II? Does a veteran of World War 1 have as maeb right as a World War 11 veteran? W. L., Mora, Mian. A.--If you are holding a job now which was given up by a veteran of this war, then the honorably discharged veteran of World War II has a right to that job back under the provisions of the selective service act. A veteran of World War I has all the rights of a citizen of the U. S. A. and as much right as a veteran of this war except for the express benefits enacted for veterans of World War II. Q.--A serviceman owed. his • father some mosey befbre he entered the service. Ifren the father became suddenly ill and was unable to work. The serviceman then provided the father a family allowance from the government. Should the serviceman get credit on what he owed his father for the' amount the government sent? Reader, Hayden, Colo. A.--That question obviously is a. matter for private settlement between the serviceman and hie fa ther. Kathleen Morris Says: The Disappointing Homecoming If Bell Syndicate. --WlfU features. BATTLE NEUROSIS Robert has come home, discharged honorably, after a year's active duty in the navy. Like so many other veterans, he seems Constantly moody and depressed. He is cold to his pretty wife, and unappreciative of her efforts to please him and to help him fit into the old ways of life. His little daughter doesn't interest him% nor his law practice, nor anything that useti to delight him. Robert is suffering from the wet I'known effects of the terrible strain and horror of war. Only time will cure him. Prehistoric Ivory £ Ivory on yctar piano keys could ••ve come from prehistoric rnimal i. Considerable ivory is supplied vast stores of mastodon and loth* found in Siberia and else- Siberian deposits have been for nearly two centuries supply seems to be as inlustible as a coal field. move Victory bonds aad Hard Seasa It was not the wine 'that your head ache, but the sense that I put into it.--Samuel Johnson. Rayen . Xf a rayon garment is to be hung. It is better to hang it over the line io that the weight is even on both sides. Rolling it in a towel is more satisfactory than hanging it. If only a few rayon garments are baft e' thinks there is too much fussing in the way Una does things; flowers oh the tnbfe and beauty parlor every week and taking Jane to dancing school--what the heck does all that matter, anyway." 4 By KATHLEEN NORRIS CA and Robert Adams were married five years ago. They had a little daughter two years old when Bob went off for navy duty in March, 1943. Now, after more than a year's service he is home again, to stay, and has taken up his life where he left off, as a junior member of his uncle's law firm in a small town. Lina wrote Bob constant and affectionate letters while he was away, sent clippings and snapshots and presents every week. She was lonely; she loved the memory of their marriage, their home, their perfect companionship. And of course, as so many mothers and wives are doing, she idealized the Jthought of Robert; he was perfect. Every night she and little Jane looked at his picture and said, "Goodnight, Daddy. Come home safe to Mummy and Jane." Robert got a great reception when he finally did come back, but almost immediately things began to go wrong and they haven't straightened out yet. Both husband and wife write me their respective feelings. Robert says that he hasn't changed at all; he never did like meeting people and going places, he never was especially fond of kids. If lina would let him alone he'd be ell right. He doesn't sleep any too well, and he hates arguing. He thinks there is too much fussing in the way Lina does things; flowers on the tnhle and beauty parlor every week and taking Jane to dancing school--what the heck does soU that matter, anyway. 'Muses by the Hour." Line's letter says, in part: "He USed to be sunny, easily amused, ready to fit into my plans. He simply used to adore Jane. Now tug never notices her, and of course, at the agie i»f four, she hasn't sense enough to be friendly with him in spite a# it. He muses by the hour, staring at the floor; not hearing me, apparently, if I speak, and not answering if he does hear. He won't go anywhere, and even with clients he has a sort of 'what's-the-difference - anyway' attitude feat doesn't help him in business. "The other night," Lina's letter goes cq, "I had a dish he likes for dinner and he said to me briefly and shortly. 'Good.' This encouraged me to say that there ought to be a mixed green sand with it, but that 1 had bunted all over for chives, chicory and cress without success. 'So you hunted all over for chives, chicory and cress, did you?' he said in a dreadful voice. And he got up and slammed Qilt' of the house. He came%ack late and apologized in a sun of grudging way, and I cried all night. I'm so sorry for him, and yet I feel that I can't stand this. "Yesterday I asked him if he simply didn't like me, I seem to irritate him so, and he answered that I could draw any conclusion I liked. I asked him if he would like me to go to fny mother for awhile, and he said that he had seen that coming, and knew 1 was crazy to get away. Do you think this shows actual or is it another wom- 1 - Level Range Unless the range is level you won't get good baking results. For greatest efficiency, burner grates and cooking units must be level too. Low pressure or voltage results in slow cooking. Too high electric voltage causes overheating of units «««< shortens their life. When a new range is installed, or if your old range is cooking slowly or overheating. have a serviceman oheck all these things. it|(wi the Wapk Ads ft "Staring at *he hv thi 1 Birth Rate «The rural birth rate Is nearly twice that of urban areas. Hanky Hint Drop phlegm - covered handkerchiefs in a covered basin or pail half-Ailed with cold salt water, using a tablespoon of salt to a gallon el water. What a number have accumulated, wash thoroughly in hot suds. The salt "cuts" the phlegm and makes the laundering pleas The Longest Stick By ELSIE WILLIAMS MtClure Newspaper Syndicate. WTTU Feature*. ' * ' U ARDY POLK had just finished his supper and ' was tamping tobacco, igto the bowl of his pipe when he heard old Coot's deep bay, followed by the yipping and yapping of all the other dogs. He raised his head with an intent, listening look. "Hear a horse comin' down the road a piece," he announced tO his young daughter 'Melia. She stood a moment at the table with the supper dishes in her hands, and said: "Sounds like Jud Tice's mare." "Reckon 'tis." The moon was just rising in the east as the rider dismounted at the igate. It was Jud Tice's broad* brimmed hat, heavy-set body and jangling spurs. "'Light an* come in," Hardy called. "Hello there, Hardy," the newcomer said in a deep, hearty voice. Hearty--with a tinge of falseness around its edges. Hardy motioned toward the lighted, kitchen door. "Go in, Jud. Cool out here." "Good evenin', 'Melia." Jud's bold eyes looked at the back of her head with its neat brown briads, ran on down the blue shirt and the tight cowboy pants that emphasized rather than concealed her shapely curves. Without seeming to do so, Hardy Polk's cold, Saxon - blue eyes watched Jud narrowlyi "Won't you sit?" he asked. "Don't mind if I do." Jud glanced at the partly cleared table as he sat down. "Ain't that sweet-potato pie, Hardy? Looks mighty good. S*. Hi* Girl Friaml Fint Hi. Sight Suddenly Return,. an, or is it my fault? We're both writing you, and we want a fair answer. Who is right and who is wrong?" • e • My dear Liqa and Bob, my anrer is that neither is wrong. The deep and bitter wrong is when the sons of men turn to world war as a preliminary to establishing world peace. It is as stupid a solution of international differences as was the old custom of men and women going in cheerful groups to a pest house to have smallpox all together and so immunize themselves. But the smallpox inoculation affected only a few persons, and this war is touching us all,. Love Lives On 1 believe that under this present trouble your old love and companionship live on. But Roberthas was inevitable, has come back with a mind and soul and heart scarred by the terrible realities of modern warfare. He has seen the men beside whom he worked, the men who were his companions, blown to pieces, maimed, drowned, frozen, hungry, exhausted. He has gone for months -- not days, not weeks, but months, without those common luxuries Lina has taken for granted; a warm house, a good reading light, quiet meals, the blessed security of America. When he sees Lina concerned for a hairdo, for Jane's dancing slippers, for the Hollandaise sauce and the fresh flowers, a sort of madness at the insane contrast comes over him, and he can hardly breathe the air of home. Lina, on her side, is justified, too. She believed that all he wanted, when he went away, was for her to keep the home fires burning, go on with her nursing twice a week, keep up with her Red Cross work, scrupulously watch for tin aod fat and paper salvages, obey tie food and fuel laws-7-ali these, sh* has done. She hasn't complained of lbneliriess or dullness or food shortages. She expocted praise and she didn't get it. Give .time and patience tc your problem, Lina 'and Bob. It can be solved by a determination to understand and help each other* There will be a million more like it for i the women of America to handle^ Render this last aid to your government; that you lift just one of these difficulties from the great total, that you lessen just by so much the fearful crisis of postwar days. Men yt& make it worth while-- 'Spect 'Melia's growed into a pretty good cook by now."" "Fair to middling » „ . cut Jud a piece, 'Melia.'" Jud licked his fingers when he had finished. "Suce> good. Wouldn't want to hire out av a caok, would you now, 'Melia?'"' Hardy looked at his daughter carefully and. yet abstractedly. "Reckon so," he said'. There was a slight pause. "How's yore wife, Jud?" Jud sighed heavily. "Still atHn', Hardy. Doc says she can't lest too long." His eyes covertly vested on 'Melia going out the door with a plate of scraps- fbr the dogs. "What I come to see- you: 'bout, Hardy--you s'pose 'Meliav could' cook an* tend to Hattie? Neeclln' someone now fltat Hattie's sister's got to go home." "Waal -- reckon she coulcf, Jud. What you aimin' to make it wuth?" "She'd git her keep o>' course. An" --what do you; flgger to be "boat right, Hardy?*" "I ain't sayih'. An* I doano as she could got I ain't got me no flock o' cow hands in the woods like you got, JtaL. r ^ust gat 'Melia.'* 'Melia came back into the room. Jud looked, at the shepely. curves, the roundl young face and the soft brown eyes; Hiis wife was old and scrawny. Stan's she died he'd-- "Talkitt' to yore pa here "bout gittin' you to cook'en* tend Hattie. Could; easn you a red silk dress then, aaf some--some o* them fancy shoesv'" Jud looked at 'Melia's slopeheeLeri cowboy boots. "Wbgp--'* "Melia hestitated, glancing downward, "ite* a gold locket?" she Keeping Eggs Fresh Do not wash eggs until you are ready to use them. An egg shell has a protective film which helps to keep bacteria and odors from getting through the pores. Washing removes that film, and the egg then spoils rapidly. To wipe off soiled spots on eggs, use a rough, dry cloth. Keep eggs in a refrigerator or other cold place to hold their freshness. Because eggs absorb odors readily, store them away from strong-smelling foods such as onions, cheese, pickles and kra*jt. Childrea's Vlsioa Surveys of children of pre-schoffc age indicate that about one out of five has an appreciable erroi in vi- Naehiae Daraaag Machine-made Harm are general* ijr stroager and more durabla thaa those made by hand, but show mora, and are not so soft Hand dan to preferable lor flae garments 'Melia could say anything, Hardly put in quickly, "We'll think it over. Jud. What you aimin' to make it wuth?" < Jud thought » bit and • {hen named an amount he figured would win 'Melia over. Jud rode up to thl Polk shanty around dark, Saturday. Hardy was on the porch, his rhair tipped back against the wall, pipe in his mouth. 'Melia was nowhere in sight and no sound came from the kitchen. "Figgered to come by im' see could 'Melia come Monday mornin'," Jud said from the rickety swing near Hardy. "She ain't goin', Jud. We done talked it over.^ There was a slight glfam of triumph in Hardy's cold .eyes. "Figger she can make more with me. I done jive her a third interest in the cattle so's she can git her a little money. Ruther have money than doodads, 'Melia would." Funny, thought Jud, never thought before that 'Melia's soft brown eyes often -had the same look that Hardy's cold blue ones did -- a .calculating greedy look. "You know the ol' say in', Jud," Hardy said, a touch of humor in Ms dry voice. 'Longest stick gits the persimmon'l" ATLANTIC CITY. -- An arm® private, blinded in, battle somflt iponths ago, who had been told bi#:' army doctors that he never would see again, woke one morning in hi#| hospital bed here to the astound# ^ *ng discovery that his sight had beei|f restored, says a special to the Nevfe York Herald-Tribune. _ Officials at the Tfeomas M. Eng* land General hbspital revealed thaf story, and added that his surpriseK was no greater than their own. : They passed the next four h0ur4 checking the records and sharing their amazement. Pvt. William Myers of Greensburg, Pa., pass^t his time far more sensibly. Fifst he' saw, for the first time, his gir friend; then he saw his mother anc sister; then he saw a moying pic*-^ * ture. * ' pjr Private Myers is 21 years' old4 r^-i and was a machine gunner with the ;, 7th armored division. On July 7«.;( 1944, he was in a unit in the puslr on Paris when German artillery^ found the range of his group; he* felt "a big crashing in my head" and was totally blind at that moment. . Treated la Earope., He was treated in Europe, where his left eye was removed; then returned to this country. Doctors said his right eye would never see again.™ In December he went to the Valley Forge, Pa., General hospital and set to work learning Braille, and the technique of walking with a white cane. While he was there he was invited . to a party in RoJcledge, P9., where 4ie met Miss Bernadette Peppelman-- of 107 Penn avenue. He was depressed-- particularly depressed because tlje, girl he had left behind him had hearjyof his blindness and indicated that she was waiting no longer. "Do you pity me?" he asked' Miss Peppelman. "I'm sorry you have lpst your aight, but I don't pity you," she said. Private Myers fell in love. He needed additional surgery, and was transferred to the English hospital here. The days passed slowly, until he woke one morning to the! realization that a nurse was taking his temperature. He explained later the events of the next few mo--' meats. -'First I realized that I could see her outline; then l saw her nose, ' then her eyes--then I realized I > coiiM seef" Apparently Private Myers saved his secret for a time. Soon after Miss Peppelman arrived from Rockiedgr, near Philadelphia, for a visit. A nurse sent her into the room. "Who are you?" said Private Myers. "Why, Tm Bernie," she said. 'You're Very Pretty.' He looked at her for a moment. "•Weffl."" be said, "you are blonde, and your eyes are blue, and you are very pretty." After that it took a . Ettfie winle,. hut when he was able .. to> describe, stone by stone, the color of her bracelet she realized what: had! happened, and there was a quiet, almost tearful celebration. Meanwhile, Mrs. Carl Myers, his mother, and Mrs. Barbara Youravteby bis sister had arrived to visit « . • - 1* 0 f - ft They walked into his room and ftwtte Myers looked up. "Barbara," he said to his sister, "don't y«* ersr wear anything but a black threes and that old red coat?" Barlaughed. She assumed that. Peppelman had told him what' abe was wearing. , It took even longer to convince the family. Before they began to realise that neither he nor Miss Peppelman was joking, they had left the hospital, and he was walking along the boardwalk, pointing to a flag, describing people's clothes and Anally reading a number plate on an automobile. Suddenly both Mrs. Myeip and Mrs. Youravich realized that this was not all a strange joke. Bade at the hospital, the dactor in charge of eye -ailments examined Private Myers, and assured him the eye wss as good as normal. --perhaps a little better. It would " never trouble him again, the doctor said. •: i ' Datcb Elm Disease Removing elm trees known to ba infected with the Dutch elm disease and all associated bsrk-beetle material will help check this disease. flpiing Thaw 4%awlng of the soil in sprft^rtafter place both from above and below. In view ot the fact that the aoU Just below the frozen layer is considerably above the freezing point, thawlag from below may be relatively Billfold in His Pocket Stop* a German Bullet : AUBURN, IND. - Pfc. Glenn A. Wyatt, son of Mrs. Luella Wyatt, istopped a German machmegun bul- 1. let and lived to tell about it. While L', infection on the French front, Wyatt --•- ^ft something hit him just above the heart. -- When he investigated, he found the slug had gone through his gas mask and stopped halfway through the billfold he had in his shirt pocket. He was later hospitalized because he slipped in the mud and struck his knee on something. Squirrels Wake Him Up At Midnight for Nuts „ HILLSDALE. -- Two fox squirrels think nothing of waking up Charles Wakeman every midnight for a hickory nut snack, and this has been going on for some time, according to Mr. Wakeman. Wakeman saya the ^squirrels scratch at his window every night until he lets them in. They live in a nest outside Wakeman's window. ':0 o I c< Preveats Tarnishing A light coating of clear nail polish put on the metal parts of a handbag when the bag is nejs 'will keep them from tarnishing. --• -------- Longer Service b> Ml each freight cat traveled on the average 25.8 miles per day la 1943, the avers go liad been raised to SI milta par day g ^ gg per cent 0 Sabecribe fsr The PUindeeler "'nV"- .• ' .; ?• • V v i v . , S i k . ' v . - - Ck