¢ SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST ESTABLISHED 1889 “More ‘than a newspaper, a community institution” Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan, liberal, progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant, “Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: $3.50 a year; $2.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-state subscriptions: $4.00 a year; $2.50 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15¢. When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked to ‘give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for changes of address or new subscription to be placed on mailing list. Single copies at a rate of 10¢ each, can be obtained every . 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Advertising deadline Tuesday 5 P.M. : Advertising copy received after Tuesday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85¢ per column inch. 3 Classified rates 4c per word, Minimum charge 85c. ads 10¢ additional. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance - that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair for raising money will appear in a specific issue. . Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which ; has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher— HOWARD W. RISLEY : : Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN ' Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Photographer— JAMES KOZEMCHAK Editorially Speaking: 3 Fim ei i B3 Community Project No single project could improve the appearance of central Dallas more than the refurbishing of the forlorn Lehigh Valley Railroad station and freight house. These buildings and their surroundings have become so familiar to local people that they probably fail to ap- preciate the poor impression their shabby and down at the heels appearance makes on visitors and strangers. If the railroad cgn’t afford to paint the buildings or apply some color other than the drab mixture of previous paintings then a Boy Scout troop, improvement associa- tion or service club should ask permission to take on the project as a matter of civic pride. And speaking of service clubs — if those that have erected signs along the railroad right of way would ~ straighten them up and paint them so that the rust doesn’t show through, it would be a step in the righ direction. And since this is a community project the Borough _ fathers could add their bit by having the street depart- ment cut the scraggly and unsightly weeds that surround the station and extend along the railroad right of way. We're sure the Lehigh Valley shouldn’t object to this simple project for community beautification. Speaking Of Paper . We see by the newspapers that the great paper qual- ity controversy has now been settled by the County Com- missioners and a Wilkes-Barre printer. What we have not seen is the answer to this question: “Why does the County require costly papers and engraved letterheads, as frequently used for scratch pads and routine work as for correspondence?” There is a wide range in paper prices extending from 20¢ to 99¢ per pound. Rag content is for permanence and costly, and not necessary for ordinary use. Hammermill Bond, a good one and a standard for commercial purposes sells for 24c¢ per pound. There are many other good bonds in the same price range. Let the County's specification writers be realistic when they ask for bids. Infant Slumber Have you stood by the bed of a sleeping child, And gazed on his visage so calm, s you wondered what herb Nature uses to brew Such a wonderful sleep-giving balm? In his room round about are his playthings all strewn Where he cast them while hard at his play; Some loved one will gather them close to her heart, And then, tenderly, put them away. Unmindtul he is of the love that she bears, * # % v = Unmindful, as now while he sleeps, Like the sun through the day and the stars through the night, Just as constant her vigil she keeps. “Who can tell as they gaze on that sweet-sleeping child What the far distant future holds forth? “What affliction or glory or fame may be his Ere he proves to the world what he’s worth. it Who can tel] where the paths of his duty may lead? 0 can say what profession he'll choose? Who can answer the thousand and one little thoughts That run through my mind while I muse? Seep on, little child, on your pillow so white, E "Midst the soldiers; the drum and the fife; May Back Mt. PTA Council will Monday evening at 8, ‘Back Mountain PTAs and go over the calm and the peace which attend you tonight Be yours all the rest of your life. . GeorGe Z. KELLER For decades, newspapers’ audited circulation has kept pace with the increasing number of U.S. house- holds. Since 1920, the number of U. S. households has more than doubled; newspaper circulation has also more than doubled. Back Mountain Council of PTA meet at the Library Annex ] to discuss membership reports of the various programs for the year. President 2 7 = You'll Find Bargains Galore In The Trading Post i Alfred M. Camp urges all presidents and officers to attend, allowed to stand as ‘| all winter. Rambling Around y THE OLDTIMER Heap high the hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn! And now, eyes, farmer’s wintry with Autumn's moonlit Its harvest-time has come, We pluck away the frosted leaves, And bear the treasure home. The above are the first and mid- dle stanzas of Whittier's 1850, “Corn Song,” which itself included thirteen stanzas, and was a part of the poem of the same length in a different meter called “The -Husk- ers.” Parts of the Corn Song were sung in public schools within the memory of the writer. Probably for about half a century after the poem, corn was grown in New England and also here in the manner that Whittier grew it on his home farm. The writer has hand planted four kernels in three foot squares, scared crows away, weeded I and hoed by hand, fertilized, culti- vated with a horse drawn imple- ment, cut by hand, shocked, and husked the ears either in the fields sometimes with snow blowing or on the more comfortable barn floor even as Whittier did. And the corn was stored in cribs and shelled by hand or by hand-powered machine ‘as in the older days. The corn that the poet knew was no doubt what we call flint corn, with kernels somewhat pointed on the cob end and having a shiny con- vex top. While he calls it golden there were occasional red ears and some showing variegated colors. Such corn is no longer seen except- ing in special cases. And the nro | fessional grower in the corn belt; will today produce as much®of the present day dent.corn on a single acre as a good sized field would have grown a century ago. A prominent feature in any rural scene this time of year was the regular pattern of corn shocks standing in the fields. When cutting was done the rows were counted as the work progressed, and corn from a square of perhaps nine or seven hills each way was carried to the center hill which was not cut but ‘an anchor against which the surrounding stalks were stacked and tied. After the ears were husked the stalks were also taken in and used as a low grade feed. Today all this is changed. Near ly all work is done with machinery. Someone found that green stalks were far richer in feed value than brown ones and they are cut in many cases while the corn is im mature, shredded, and stored in silos where the feed is allowed to ferment and used from day to day For the corn grown for grain no one bothers to cut the stalks anymore. The ears are har- vested by machine pickers and the stalks allowed to fall naturally. Corn is still stored in open slatted or wire Cribs Some of it is not shelled at all but ground as feed, cob and kernels to gether. This year the cribs are well filled. New additional ones are seen quite frequently where the crop is very large. Special breeding and selection has developed seed corn resistant to drought and diseases, high yielding, and rich in food value. Producing seed corn is a highly specialized business. In the old days most corn was used on the home place to feed the family and stock. Locally not enough is grown now for local re- quirements. Much must be brought in from the corn belt either as corn or corn products including feed. In one poor year some years ago corn was imported all the way from Argentina. other farm plant shows more varia- tion than corn. In size the plants range from dwarf of three feet or so, to immense stalks twenty feet high. The ears also in size, some only a few inches, others over a foot, some with only a few rows of kernels, others surrounded by many rows. A few varieties have the kernels staggered without rows. Kernels vary in size, shape, color, and content. For human food the most common is the sugar or sweet corn usually used when good size but not fully matured, ranging in color from white through several shades of yellow to blueblack. Most present day sweet corn is yellow. A special corn for that purpose only is the pop corn, grown in various colors, Many food products are made from corn such as white and yellow meal, grits, flakes, specially pre- pared cereals, and corn syrup. Some manufacturing products are being made from the more bulky stalks. Feed is mostly from yellow dent corn. i In conclusion may we add the last stanza of the “Corn Song”— But let the good old crop adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for His Golden corn, Send up our thanks to God! Not forgetting the American Indians from whom we first secured this maize. Entertains Club Oak Hill Pinochle Club vocetily met at the home of Mrs. Bernard Rollman when prizes were won bv Mrs. Francis Fertal Mrs. Frederick Peters’ and Mrs. William Motyka. Others present: Mesdames Harry Swepston, Jr., John Chesnovitch, Thomas Lynch and Ward Jacquish. 2] with a tight roof. Excepting perhaps the bean, no ; fifteen or THE DALLAS POST, Looking at T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE Boris Pasternak, whose face has appeared in so many magazine arti- cles since his novel received the Nobel Prize, will be the subject of a half-hour program titled “The Case of Dr. Zhivago.” The program will deal not only with Pasternak’s position in the So- viet literary world but also will pre- sent to the television audience an intimate portrait of the author and an appraisal of his philosophy and his work by specialists who know him well. The position of the author in Communist society will be discussed | and reported by Harrison E. Salis- bury, former Moscow correspondent of the New York Times; Reavey, former deputy press attache of the British Embassy in Moscow, long-time friend of Mr. into English; Jerry! Cooke, who recently photographed the Russian author for Life maga- zine. The television program will be presented just two-and-a-half weeks before the Nobel Prize ceremonies which take place on December 10. Although Pastrnak has long been regarded as the outstanding living Russian poet, the spotlight of world opinion has been focused upon him {only since the publication ‘of “Dr. Zhivago.” p. m.) Don McNeill, veteran radio host, (CBS-TV Sunday, 5-5:30 ' will be visited by Edward R. Mur- row ‘Person to Person” Friday, No- vember 21. Mr. McNeill and his family will be ‘“at home” in Win- netka, Ill For 25 years, in millions of homes. Don MecNeill’'s casual delivery and ‘relaxed approach have been as much a part of breakfast as the clatter of coffee cups. He began his ‘“Break- fast Club” program in 1933. He's still there and his contract runs until 1970. Claudette Colbert will give her impression of the different kinds of hostesses you meet at parties when she guest stars on “The Steve Allen Show” this Sunday. William Bendix, making a rare departure from his “Life of Riley” role will star as man whose fantasy turns into a terrifying reality in | Red Serling’s drama, “The Time Element” on the Desuli Playhouse” Monday 10-11 p. m. It is the story of a man trapped by frustration as he tries to-warn of the peril of the Pearl Harbor at- tack on December 7, 1941. Too Big to Be Told—Arthur Red Serling, an unknown until he began writing for televisicn, is now one of television's most honored writers. He has won three Emmy awards, two of them for dramas presented on “Playhouse 90” series. Angered because of the rigid cen- sorship of “Time Element,” he says he will never again write a TV film drama (except for his own upcom- ! ing series). Westinghouse who is the sponsor and also has a lot of contracts with the Defense Department, didn’t like the way the Army was presented in Rod’s first copy. . Consequently, he was called back and told to rewrite. In the second version, .the one the public will see, Bendix, the character who in a dream envisions what will happen at Pear] Harbor goes to a newspaper with the warning instead of to the Army. Take Tea and See—Despite the i fact that Chase and Sanborn coffee | | is paying a goodly sum to sponsor a portion of Godfrey's morning shows, Lipton Tea is getting very good return money-wise in the evening. No longer a sponsor.since Talent Scout days, Lipton. Tea has been moving in around the country buying up as many station breaks as possible adjacent to the Godfrey Tuesday show on the premise that people still identify him with their good hot cup of tea. Practically every sale of every product manufactured in the U. S. will be purchased by one of the 100 million people who read a newspaper on an average day. George | Pasternak | and translator of many public works | | of Pasternak FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1958 FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES SINCE JANUARY 1, 1957 Hospitalized Killed Dallas i 1H 1 | Dallas Twp. | 8 [| 3 | Franklin Twp. 3 | Lake 3 14 Lehman Twp. | 3 | Kingston Twp. Fo2 a1 Monroe | dong Noxen oo Joi] Ross boxe Total [722 7 107] EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Ambulance 4-2121 Fire ............ 4-2121 State Police BU 7-2185 | “Life Begins at Forty" By Robert Peterson Many Retired city folk are finding useful niches in smaller - com- munities which need their special- ized skills. In réturn such folk are offered a pleasant, purposeful life and an opportunity to augment pensions and stretch retirement dollars. Rev. David Haglund, 76, retired two years ago following three decades of service at the South Avenue Baptist Church in Roches- ter, N. Y. Shortly after bidding the congregation adieu he ‘and his wife embarked on a long, leisurely motor trip across the country. In the mid- west they stopped for a few days in the village of Enterprise, Kans., where Haglund had lived as a boy. They discovered that the local Bap- tist church lacked -a pastor and was about to fold due to a declin- ing membership. The congregation of fifty members could ‘offer a min- ister only a hundred dollars a month plus parsonage, and this had been insufficient to attract anyone who could bring to the church the leadership it needed. Several members of the congrega- | tion asked a bit timidly if Rev. Hag-. lund might consider taking over as pastor. Up to that moment the Haglunds has assumed that they were too old to continue their min- istry. The» congregation extended . an official call and, after thinking it over, the Haglunds decided to | a most grateful for this oppor- , tunity to continue my work,” says Haglund, a tall; powerfully built { man with a warm, outgoing nerson- | ality. “When I retired from :y | church in Rochester, I was rather i So it was wonder- ful to find this niche which ‘mits me to use my accumulated | knowledge and experience. | “We're accustomed to city | living,” he continued, ‘but we've learned to love small town life. Many people assume that small town life is isolated and dull. But we're finding that with radio, tele- vision, and newspapers we keen abreast of current events as easily as we did in New York. “Since coming here we've added twenty-two new members and ave planning an addition to the church. They've even given me a raise in salary. So I'm enjoying a pleasant sense of usefulness in my old age. “Most small churches have a real need for experienced hands in building up their memberships, yet they can pay very little. It seems to me that the obvious solution to this problem is for small churches everywhere to recruit their pastors from the hundreds of ministers of big city churches who retire annual- ly. There are many among these who would be only too glad to con- tinue their work in a smaller com- ner- munity.” If you would like a free list of “Things Churches Can Do for Older Members,” write to this column c/o (name of paper) en- closing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. SUBSCRIBE TO THE POST This Month And Save 50c Dear “Dallas Post”, 9 November 1958 Munich, Gerntany This is the season of Thanksgiving, And a thanks is sent to you. From a soldier stuck in a foreign land To a paper that has been true. - Each week I find in the box marked “H” One paper wrapped. up ‘When unfolded out bef tight. ore my eyes, Seems to shine a special light. Since June of Nineteen Fifty-seven It’s never missed a week "Till June of Nineteen Fifty-nine, I guess we'll always meet. So to the “Dallas Post” I send, This special thanks and praise For all the extra work that’s done, To give me brighter days. I thank you, PFC. WILLIAM E. HESS RA 13 576 823 Medical Detachment U. S. Army Hospital, Munich APO 407 New York N.Y. | sadly resigned to leaving the field, ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Years Ago In The Dallas Post Ten And.Twenty Years Ago In The Dallas Post From The Issue Of November 19, 1948 Mrs, Lydia Jane Cease celebrates her ninetieth birthday with an open house at her home in Jackson Township. Fire Chief James Besecker says call the fire department before starting to fight the fire. Inspection of homes in Borough and Township show many chimneys uncleaned, oil mops shut tight in cupboards, in- viting spontaneous combustion, and kerosene kept in the homes. Pre- vent fires instead of fighting them, is the chief’s advice. ; Mrs. James Langdon talks on Turkey to the Book Club. Thanksgiving classic will see Kings- ton and Dallas Township in good shape for the annual football game. Dallas Township girls basketball team defeats Kingston High School team, 5 to 3. Forty-two veterans are enrolled at Dallas Township Agriculture School. Little Lee White models a gown decorated with laces made at Na- tona Mills in the Hallowe’en parade. Dallas Rotary Club will sponsor a football trophy, a bronze football | shoe, suggestion of Don Clark, to be awarded to the outstanding foot- ball team of each season, inscribed, and held by that school until an- other school in the Back Mountain wins it. Kathryn Jean Ballantine becomes | the bride of Cletus Holcomb. Doris Dionne Lauzon. Rose. M. Robbins and Arthur Wyant become man and wife. Mrs. D. W. Edwards is feted on her eightieth birthday by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. George. Mrs. Eva Dendler dies at hor home in Noxen after a long illness. Mrs. Forrest Kunkle is chosen president of Silver Leaf. - Mrs. Schoonover of Center More- land is given -a surprise party on her birthday. is wed to Roger 1938 General William S.. McLean, com- manding officer of the 53rd Artil- lery, retired president Judge of Luzerne County Court, dies at his summer home on North Mountain. He will be given full military honors at burial; Dan Richards, Main Street grocer. estimates that $7.57 will feed a family of four for Thanksgiving, everything from soup to nuts, in- cluding plenty of turkey. (Leave out the cauliflower, says the ~ditor, and save fifteen cents. That doesn’t include the bicarb.) ' Community Welfare goal for this area is $1,725; total goal $360,000. Senator James J. Davis makes good on an election promise to George Gwilliam of Plymouth, made last summer at a spaghetti dinner. Reglected Davis takes Mr. Gwilliam along with him on a trip to Europe, ironing out passport delays by a simple twist of John Heffernan’s wrist. Four hours as against the usual ten days. Squire Ralph Davis has.in a cage at Alderson a crestfallen and highly reluctant wildcat weighing sixteen pounds, captured on North Moun- tain in a hollow log. A wounded 300 pound black bear is reportedly roaming the woods on North Mountain, shot by a young Berwick hunter. Govertor-elect Arthur James is guest at the home of Col. Carl Estes, powerful Texas Democrat and publisher of a chain of newspapers. Governor Earle states he wants nobody over fifty named to the vacancy created by the death of Judge McLean. Mrs. Helen Garbutt is installed president: of American Legion. A hit-run driver responsible for the death of (Charles Warren, Shavertown, is sentenced to one and one half years in jail. The culprit. Lawrence Brown of Swoyers- ville, was apprehended in a Fern- brook tavern. . Bedford Hills is suggested as a name of historic significance to take the place of Back Mountain. Harry Lamoreaux, Hunlock Creek, dies of complications. Democrats and Republicans both claim victory in the county, and $85,000 in betting money is held up, awaiting completion of the tally. Dallas, Trucksville and Shaver- town Post Offices are in the market for applications for Postmaster. Lehman school board will open bids for the new school Nov. 30. Lehman and Kingston Township are tied for League championship. Rev. Margaret Swepvpenheiser takes the pulpit at Outlet Free Methodist. Mrs. Elizabeth Henney, 177, mother of Ray Henney of Kunkle, dies in Wilkes-Barre. Alberta Mullen becomes the bride of Edward Miner. Ruth Kresge is wed to Byron Kochet. Andrew J. Sordoni has acquired the Warlington Hotel in Binhamton. Despite increased competition for people’s time@newspaper circulation in the U. S. has reached a new all- time high of 58 million news- papers purchased daily. With Canada added, the figure is over 61 | million newspapers purchased daily. From The Issue Of November 18, ! DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA = | r = Pa 2 x 5 A \ h : | w Barnyard Notes i = : A w 4 | Vi “We applaud Russia’s critics and they honor ours, but both M ostracize their Dr. Zhivagos.” T I was impressed with these words in I. F. Stone's Weekly, pub- w lished in Washington, D. C. for the wek of November 3. Z¢ And since his point of view—which I know is right—is opposite C from what mine frequently becomes, I have decided to publish his e) entire column here. “The test of our own society’s freedom,” says Stone, * ‘is how we CG treat our own Pasternaks.” 1 Here is Stone's column: ti I read Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago” with joy and oliniras tion. In its sensitive pages one is back in the wonderful world of the Nineteenth Century Russian novelists. He is a fine writer, and a brave man; there are passages which, read against the background of Soviet realities, are of a sublime courage. But I find myself more and more annoyed by the chorus of ; Pasternak’s admirers in this country. I do not remember that ‘Life Magazine,” which glorifies Pasternak, ever showed itself any different from the ‘‘Pravda-Kommunist” crowd in dealing with our own Pas- ternaks. I do not recall that ‘Life’ defended Howard Fast for re- ceiving the Stalin award or deplored the venomous political hostility which drove Charlie Chaplin and more veserdly Paul Robeson into exile. The Humiliation of Arthur Miller . Only a few years ago Arthur Miller, an American writer much | less critical of our society than Pasternak is of his was summoned before the House Un-American Activities -Committee, submitted to humiliating interrogation, and threatened covertly with perjury charges unless he recanted past political views. Even today the one movie house in Washington which has re- vived the old Chaplin. classics runs an apologetic. note in its ad- vertising. It is easier for a critic of capitalism and the cold war to live in this country than for a critic of communism to live in Russia. But an . unofficial blacklist still bars some of our best artists and actors and directors in Hollywood and from radio-TV work. The closest analogue to Pasternak is Howard Fast, and until he broke with the Communists he was forced to publish his own books. All of us who are more or less heretical in our society are forced to live on its margin, grateful that we are able to speak (at the cost of abnormal exertions) to a small audience. : Pasternak has universal meaning, for he embodies the fight the artist and the seeker after truth must wage everywhere against offi- cial dogma and conformist pressures. Not a few of our intellectuals in Hollywood and elsewhere on their psycho-analyst couch may say the very words Pasternak puts into the mouth of Dr. Zhivago. Words Which Apply to Us As Well As Russia f i “The great majority of us,” he protests, ‘are required to live a life of constant systematic duplicity. Your health is.bound to .be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what “brings you nothing but misfortune.” Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.” In another passage Dr. Zhivago tells his beloved, “The main mis- fortune, the root of all evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of cne’s own opinion. People imagined it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody’ Ss throat.” "This applies equally ' to present-day America. If The Kremlin Were Wise Unlike Ehrenbourg’s pedestrian “The Thaw” and Dudinstev’s wooden ‘Not by Bread Alone,” the other protest novels of the post- Stalin period, “Doctor ‘Zhivago" is a work of art. Giving itsthe Nobel prize was a political act in the- best sense ‘of the word, for it put world pressure behind the struggle of Russia's jriters for greater: freedom. If the mastersqof the Kremlin were wie they, would han let Pasternak go to Stockholm and they" wound” ‘publish his book ne Russian; such magnanimity and the book’s complete negativism about the revolution would have been a telling answer to its thesis and their critics. B'gness, obviously, is beyond them. ¢ Whatever their folly, let us examine the mote in our own eye. and remember that an American Pasternak who accepted.a Soviet: prize would be hauled up before the Un-American Activities Com- mittee and blacklisted in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue. And few, very few, of those’ who are now praising Pasternak would then say one word in defense of the right to a free conscience. Can From Pillar To Post by MRS. T. M. B. HICKS, JR. By Thanksgiving, the pot of soup on the back of the stove ought? to be thick enough toserve as a hearty appetite-destroyer before the roast turkey, calculated to fill up space while the man of the house sharpens his: carving knife and starts dissecting drumsticks from second joints. ii 3 It was not mtentiondl, Any such advice on the part of a thrifty home-making magazine. meets with a Bronx cheer from this household, but if the soup doesn’t make its appearance on an occasion when there are a lot of people to make way, with it, how on earth are we ever going to get rid of it at all? It’s the expanding type. We refer to it as the high-water soup; in the accordion-pleated soup kettle. Leave it in the dark over night, and it multiplies. hastily and stow it in the refrigerator, and it jells. It started out innocently enough as a pint of soup stock left over from a lamb and mushroom casserole which turned out a little thin. “Cover it ” Making the liquid into a thin clear soup looked like a good idea. at the time. That absentminded handful of pearl barley was probably a mis- take. It is all too easy to underestimate the thickening powers of a handful of barley. A teaspoonful would have been more like it. Boiled up, it turned ‘into a gelatinous mess of barley flavored faintly with lamb and mushrooms. Thinned out with boiling water, it then required two beef cubes to give it flavor, and bring it back to the consistency of soup. There were a few diced carrots in the ice. box, and a half cupful of corn. The result was a pretty blah looking broth, no coloricon- trast, the barley pallid against the diced potatoes. (How did those get in there anyhow? It must have been the little green men. I don’t remember peeling any potatoes. Oh shoot, of course. They were in the lamb and mushroom glop.)" : Clearly, we need a little more color ‘here. tomato puree? The tide isirising in the soup kettle. What started out as a pint of soup has now taken on formidable proportions. It probably needs a few more slices of onion at this point, and a whiff of sweet basil and oregano. And maybe just a little more tabasco sauce. 2 : The next day the pot gets the tag end of the chop suey. That small’ amount of soy sauce won't have too much effect on the flavor. And what about the remains of the rice that went with the chop. suey ? There isn’t much of it, just a couple of tablespoonfuls, and it would be a shame to throw it out. The rice goes into the pot, and the pot goes into the ice-box. In the morning the pot doesn’t hold soup, but something that resembles hash. Could be it would make nice croquettes if cut into slices, rolled in cracker crumbs, and fried in deep fat. But there is too much of it. There is only one thing to do, and that is to add more water and an envelope of Lipton’s onion soup mix. And that cupful of wax beans left over from last night. : It will have to end somewhere, but who knows where ? Talk about the. widow’s cruse, it has nothing ‘on the family or’ economy sized soup kettle, which now is a caldron, on account of the soup outgrew the pressure cooker and is now housed in the largest | size aluminum job, the one with the bail handle that is customarily reserved for jelly making and mincemeat. It’s like the frog jumping out of the well. Take out one ‘cupfal 3 of soup and add two cupfuls of boiling water to what is left, and < presently the frog is so deeply submerged that he’s diving for China | at the bottom of the well. Ey Auvbedy bid for a caldron of ysgetable soup hatore I go AE? So How about a can of a
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