WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
J] EW YORK. — This department
flushes a swarm of rumors
about drastic changes in our naval
building plans, said to have been in-
British Disasters 9uctd by new
problems of de-
Bring Check on fense against
lanes and subs
Our Naval Plans Pe disclosed by
British disasters.
So far as we can learn, there are
impending some possible changes in
personnel, and a general check and
overhauling of work on new ships to
date, but nothing revolutionary. It
is indicated that there will be in-
tensive studies and training in co-
ordination of ships, planes and sub-
marines,
At the highest peak of Ameri:
can naval construction in peace-
time history, Rear Admiral Al-
exander Hamilton Van Keuren
is made chief of the bureau of
construction and repair. That
puts him right in the wheel
house of the navy efficiency
drive, as this is the acid-testing
bureau for fighting ships, and it
bears the responsibility for their
being sound and fit, structurally
and in design. Defecis have
been found, and are being reme-
died in several 10,000-ton cruis-
ers.
Admiral Van Keuren, a navy tech-
nician for 36 years, is one of the
most highly rated spec ts In na-
val construction. He smokes a drop-
stem pipe, carries on easily
formally, and marshals engineering
data with a precise mastery of
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Knox, Ky. The fact of his se
is evidence of the cru
tance of the c¢ defenses,
eyes of the hi;
in the
nal
1 command.
From Zanesville, Ohio, he en-
listed in the Tenth Pennsylvania
infantry in 1898 and won a com-
mission as second lieutenant in
the Philippine insurrection. He
ds the army specialist in mech-
anized defense and attack, and
just now the canal is a concen-
tration of swift mechanization.
In the World war, he was chief-
of staff at Brest, and holds the
Distinguished Service medal,
the Navy Cross, the Silver Star
and the Legion of Honor decora-
tions,
ames mn
N HIS new book, “The Defense of
Britain,’”” Capt. Liddell Hart, the
British military expert, says, ‘Our
chief risk of losing a war lies in try-
TN ing to win the
Britain’s Danger war.” His gene
Is in Trying to eral finding is
. that modern
Win, Says Hart _ aannot be
supported in the style to which it
has been accustomed, and observes
that “War will only be ended when
the power-lusting nations recognize
its futility. The growing power of
modern defense is bringing that
prospect in sight.”
In his preceding book, ‘Europe
in Arms,” published in August, 1937,
he thought there was hope of ending
war in the limitations of the mili-
tary mind. Fat-headed generals
would cling to gaudy mass attack
and make war so stupid and ridicu-
lous that anybody surviving would
just forget it. But the trouble with
a war expert is that you can’t bottle
him up, and other nations in the
past have used him as a military
consultant.
In the World war, a stripling
just out of Cambridge, a captain
and a war correspondent, he
gave the generals a lacing to the
limit of the censorship, and, al-
though they growled menacing
ly, they took him into their
counsels. He invented a lot of
new trick plans, including the
“indirect approach’ and the “ex-
panding torrent” system, and
his reputation was well on its
way before the war ended.
He has scolded many of the main
panjandrums of the big war, in the
post-war years, apparently with
public approval, judging from the
sale of his books. He was a war
buddy of Lawrence of Arabia and
ingisted that this human cryptogram
knew more about war than all the
generals put together.
Consolidated Features—~WNU Service.)
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
Let’s All Have Tea
There's some ethiDg so social about
serving tea!
drop in for a bit
laxation, con
of rest
versation flourishes,
hosp itality.
and most gracious ways of enter-
taining — wheth-
er you invite one
may be a cozy,
informal
with only a few
“handpicked
friends invited,
and butter sandwiches,
of perfect]
ments. Or, you may plan a much
larger, more elaborate tea as a
means of entertaining the Parent-
Teacher association, th
club, or perhaps the Women's aux-
fliary of your husband's lodge.
Formal or informal, large or
small, you'll find that beforehand
preparations and carefully laid
plans help to make this kind of en-
tertaining easy. Admit the limita-
tions of your budget, your equip-
ment, your time and strength, and
don't plan more than you can carry
out comfortably and sensibly. Re-
member that a cup of tea and a
slice of bread and butter can make
a party if the tea is perfectly made,
the bread thin,
service dainty and attractive
Keep sandwiches,
and cook es small
your inv
number " guests, bake your favor
ite cakes in jelly roll pans, frost,
and cut into small, diagonal pieces.
Ginger Cream Cakes,
To make these clever little cakes,
use the thin gingersnap or cookie
ordinarily sold on the market. Al-
low from three to five to a serv-
ing. Put together with sweetened
whipped cream in the same man-
ner as in frosting a miniature layer
cake. Cover the top and sides gen-
erously with the cream, and chill
thoroughly. Ground candied ginger
may be sprinkled sparingly over the
tops. One cup of whipping cream
will make six cakes.
Orange Ice Cream.
1 tablespoon granulated gelatin
1% cup cold water
1% cups sugar
115 cups boiling water
1% cups orange juice
24 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons orange rind (grated)
2 cups coffee cream
14 teaspoon salt
2 eggs (beaten separately)
Soak the gelatin in the cold water
for five minutes. Dissolve sugar
in boiling water
and add to the
gelatin, stirring
until dissolved.
Add the orange
juice, orange
rind, lemon juice,
coffee cream,
salt, and beaten egg yolks. Fold
in egg whites and pour mixture into
freezing container of ice cream
freezer. Assemble and cover. Then
pack mixture of crushed ice and
rock salt (use three parts ice to one
part salt, by volume) around the
freezing container. Turn crank
slowly but steadily. When mixture
becomes too stiff to turn, remove
cover carefully, take out dasher,
and pack down evenly with a spoon.
Cover ice cream with wax paper
and replace cover. Repack. Cover
and allow to harden at least one
hour before serving.
One-Two-Three-Four Cakes,
ary dio Tv
eniucingly
1 cup margarine
2 cups sugar
4 eggs (separated)
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
14 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons flavoring
Cream the margarine thoroughly,
Add sugar gradually and cream
together until light and fluffy, Add
Sift flour
measure, add baking powder
salt, and sift together three
times. Add flour, alternately with
milk, a small amount at a time.
eat after each addition until
Add flavoring. Fold in
beaten egg whites. lake in
well greased muffin pans in
ven (375 degrees)
Frost as de-
egg yolks, and beat well,
once,
and
sti IY
for about 20 mint
sired.
Brown Bread Peanut Sandwiches
Slice Boston Brown bread very
thin, spread with creamed butter,
sprinkle generously with finely
chopped salted peanuts.
Parsley Sandwiches.
Slice day- read %-inch thick.
Cut into rounds with a doughnut
cutter, side, and spread
parsley butter, To nake
utter, cream butter, add
lemo juice to taste, and finely
minced parsley.
Banana Nut Bread.
14 cup butter
12 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups gener:
14 teaspoon se
15 teaspoon
2 teaspoons
ites,
toast
baking powder
c up chopped hut meats
wheat br
Cream butter and add sugar slow.
ly, beating constantly, Add eggs—
one at a time
beating thorough-
Mix and sift
flour, soda,
and baking
powder. Add nut
meats and wheat
bran to this mix-
Combine bananas and sour
cream. Add flour mixture alternate
ly with banana mixture-—-beating
thoroughly after each addition. Bake
in well-greased loaf pan in a mod-
erate oven (350 degrees) about 1%
hours.
Note: This bread is really better
it sliced the second day. Delicious
for sandwiches with butter or with
unflavored cream cheese for fll
ing.
ture.
Reception Cakes,
(Makes 90 two-inch cakes)
cups shortening (part butter for
flavor)
cups sugar
egg yolks
cups cake flour
teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
cups milk
tablespoons orange or
extract
1. Cream the shortening; add
sugar very slowly, beating well after
each addition.
2. Beat the egg yolks until very
thick, and add gradually to the
creamed mixture.
3. Sift dry ingredients together,
and add alternately with the milk
and extract.
4. Pour the batter into large jelly
roll pans, which have been greased
and lined with wax paper.
1% lemon
degrees) for 30 minutes,
cut into diamonds.
Send for Your Copy of ‘Easy
Entertaining.’
In her cookbook,
taining,’ Eleanor Howe gives you
suggestions for a Halloween menu,
as well as countless other holiday
meals, children’s parties, ‘‘teen-
age’’ parties, picnics, and a wedding
reception--you'll find ideas for all
these and other social occasions.
Send ten cents in coin to “Easy
Entertaining,”” care of Eleanor
Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave., Chi-
cago, Ill, and get your copy of this
book now,
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Cool, and
Burglar-Proof
Ordinary window latches can be
burglar-proofed by boring a hole in
the turning part of the catch. A
small padlock locked in the hole
will not allow the catch to be
opened,
CENTRE HALL, PA.
DOL LAR MAKE RS
Ask Questions
To Get Ahead
In the World
By G
JORGE T. EAGER
little we use our
opportunities to ab-
in our work,” said a business
man in discussing the success
of John Graham, the president
of an important bank.
‘IT remember when John
started at the mail desk as a
boy just 30 years ago.
hadn't been there three
months before he know more
about postal regulations than our
lawyers, seemed to be friends with
everybody at the
post office, could
tell you in a min-
ute just when you
had to mail a let.
ter so as to have
it in Buffalo next
morning. Any one
with any question
about the mail
soon found {it
easier to say
“Get Johnny"
than to bother to look it up. As he
was promoted from one department
to another it was still the same
story.
“People say he is
formed banker in th The
reason is that he never stops ask-
ing questic.us. I've gotten in a taxi
with him and before long he has
found out how much a driver 1
a day, what share the com
gets, whether the com
to its employees, how
will last and 80 on.
the head of that taxi company
be asking for a loan and wonders
learned
the best
is section.
in-
any
where John Graham ever
so much about his business.
“In one way or another the aver-
age business man comes in contact
with at least 50 people a week.
Most of us never think of asking
them questi Jut think of the
information a man like John
accumulates stores
away each week."
No wor
says "Get
a tough
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sOivea.
PUBLIC TREND
IS IMPORTANT
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* Wanting to Stay?
% Dangerous Subject
tee By Virginia Vale —
HERE'S that
must be admitted about
Bette Davis; she’s not afraid to
stick her chin out. She'll ask
for anything that she thinks she
deserves. If she gets it, fine; if
she doesn’t, she proves that
she’s a good loser.
She wants to do a play that she
saw last summer in Provincetown—
| at least, at the moment of writing
she wants to do it. She persuaded
Warner Brothers to buy it. They're
willing to let her do the movie
sion, after it had been produced on
the New York stage h names
that something in the legiti-
mate theater,
one thing
Ver.
mean
haracteristic
her own ability, she
they won't let her
1’ } y “
Washington,
Gor s to
v
on every cou
y y
5 LPs
autre;
dered liquidated by a
judge. Thirty years ago it was
a leader in its field, a power in
the industrial world. Today it
is nothing but an assortment of
buildings and machinery to be
sold to the highest bidder.
As a rule the cause of the
failure of many a business is
the inability of its manage-
ment to sense public trends,
to study the speed with which they
develop and then quickly adapt
products to these trends,
A large manufacturer of umbrel-
las foresaw the adverse effect of
closed automobiles on umbrella
sales. Sensing the great future
growth of avia-
tion the company
quickly dropped
out of the um-
brella business,
and devoted its
entire efforts to
the manufacture
of parachutes.
Today it is & go-
ing business,
When the auto
mobile business
was in its infancy the United States
was dotted with wagon and carriage
manufacturers, many of them large
and well financed. Out of all of
bility of becoming an automobile
manufacturer.
by the wayside.
small incidents. One of the finan-
cial powers in the aviation business
was asked why he had dared risk
so much capital in the industry in
st
discarding fire engines and trains
the aviation business had a great
future.”
{Bell Syndicate-~WNU Service.)
Gas Masks Developed
For Horses and Mules
PARIS.—-A gas mask has been
invented for horses and mules,
providing them with the same
protection now available to hu-
man beings, cats and dogs.
The inventor, M. Loyer, start-
ed with gas masks for cats and
dogs and worked up to masks for
horses and shes as latter
were especially des to be
quickly adjustable on fright.
ening their beneficiaries. They
serve also as blinders.
f you value your life, don't ever
mention model planes to anybody
connected with the sc heening yf the
“Tailspin Tommy" comic strip. The
other day they were usi sing 10 of the
y planes during the filming of the
picture, called “Danger Flight.”
Danger was the right word.
They were shooting an important
| scene, in which a midget plane is
used to warn “Tailspin Tommy" of
| impending danger. Every time the
plane was turned loose it headed for
{the top of the stage and became
entangled in the rafters and lights.
{| Then the crew had to stop work and
| disentangle it. Half a day's shooting
| was lost in all.
| Those 10 small planes were worse
'than the battalion of transport
planes used in the film. They flew
into houses, broke windows, got
lost in trees, hit the wrong people
or disappeared completely.
“Danger Flight" is the story of a
boy who saved many lives because
he had learned about flying from
model airplanes. John Trent, who
plays the lead, is a real pilot and
knows all about big planes.
ssf
All the members of Jack Benny's
radio show troupe, with the excep-
tion of Mary Livingstone, are facing
the cameras at Paramount
| “Buck Benny Rides Again.” Andy
Devine will be in character, but Don
Wilson plays a straight role. The
two men who turn out Benny's radio
scripts got a break--they wrote the
script for the picture, and get screen
credit for it,
At first it was announced that Nel-
son Eddy was leaving that radio
program because he hadn't time for
lit. Now it develops that his spon-
sors feel that his salary is just a
bit too high, and that other mem-
bers of the cast heartily agree with
them. Six thousand five hundred
dollars a week does seem a mite
high for the once-a-week efforts of
the blond baritone.
ifn
ODDS AND ENDS — They've given
Dinah Shore a new spot on the
nights, opposite Jack Benny:
body has to *buck’ Benny, it mi
bok" quoth she... 4 | in India
bak Bennay Venuta, asking if she'd like
was on the verge of «ee
Three-Piece Knit Suit
Pattern 6312
Mother or big
three-piecer.
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Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Creomulsion relieves prom
of the
bronchial mucous me
No matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of mulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money
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Learning and Thought
Learning without thought is la-
bor lost; thought without learning
is perilous. —Confucius.
OR SPREAD ON LEAD
Riches Trickle Away
Beware of little expenses: a
small leak will sink a great ship.—
Franklin,
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CONSTIPATION
Garfield Tea is not a “cure-all,” but
you want relief from tem
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drugs, try a cup tonight of this fra«
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