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Show 12 NOVEMBER 21, 1051. THE JOURNAL Something New For the Cooks GO SLOW MURRAY REELECTED CIO CHIEF Although millions of words have been written and spoken on our current taxation program too little attention has been paid to one aspect of it which jeopardizes the nations future, says W. Alton Jones in the magazine Service. In the early days of the Republic John Marshall stated that the power to tax was the power to destroy, and James Madison described one way it could be done by eating up the seed corn. What is seed corn? As any farm boy knows, seed corn is that part of the years harvest which is set aside for the next COCONUT COOKIES I't cups sifted enriched flour. teaspoon baking powder. teaspoon soda. 1 1 1 1 1 ext. teaspoon salt. cup granulated sugar. cup brown sugar. cup butter or shoiteningf. egg. teaspoon almond or vanilla cup quick oi legular rolled oats. cup coconut. 1. Sift togethei floui , baking powder, soda salt into bowl. Add sugars, butter, egg and flavoiing. Heat until smooth, about 2 mi1 1 nutes. 2. nut. perature. 1 1 ) 1 2 1 1 1 OATMEAL MUFFINS cup sifted eni iched floui. cup sugar. teaspoons baking powder. teaspoon salt. tablespoons fat. cup quick or regular rolled oats. k cup chopped dates or raisins. beaten egg. 1 The seed corn of business is likewise the difference between what a man produces and consumes. It is called profit, or savings . When political agencies expend a nations savings in . cup milk. Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in fat until mixture lesembles corn 1. meal. 2. Add rolled oats and dates, blending thoroughly. Add beaten egg and milk, stirring lightly. 4. Fill greased muffin pans full and bake in a hot oven (42o F.) ir to 2." minutes, depending on size of muffins. Makes 8 to 1( muffins. . producing enterprises, rather than individuals in the development of new industries, there can be no progress. Two fifths of our total employed in 1930, as Senator Byrd pointed out recently; had jobs in industries which did not exist in 1900. Here are two facts: For twenty years, more and more of our seed corn has been consumed by Washington agencies in producing enterprises Thoughtful men realize that no political organization since the world began ever developed a great industry. Even water works and the post office were developed by the savings and energies of individuals who pooled their resources under . private management CONGRATULATIONS ARE OFFERED to Philip Murray (right) after he was We advise our representatives in Congress, to whom we convention annual 13th CIO at reelected president of the organizations have given the power to tax, that they keep constantly in mind In New York. It is his 12tb term in the unions top post (International) that it is also the power to destroy. They should consider welfare we are distributing present-dawhether the so widely at home and abroad is unduly depleting our seed BUSY HALF HOUR corn, and our eating it today will deprive us of the convena can is But minutes of time. it brief very period Thirty iences and even the necessities of life tomorrow. a of world and in encompass industry enterprise. activity Let us make certain that under the guise of promoting for of minutes Take, example, thirty railroading. deIn the next half hour and in any other average hour of the general welfare we are not, as the Chief Justice feared, any day more than 500 freight and passenger trains will stroying it. start on their iourneys somewhere within the United States, and another 500 will pull into terminals, their runs completed. The transportation output of the freight trains in this THERE IS NO INDISPENSABLE FOOD ton a of will be the period hauling equivalent By Marguerite Miekelsen of freight 37,000,000 miles. When quantities moved and the distances involved are measured, it is found that the railroads The people of the United States are not the best fed in the world, inter-citall than are responsible for more freight hauling even if they may be the most fed! stated Dr. Robert S. Harris, Ph. D., other forms of transport rolled into one. the nations Food Editors at their annual convention in In the same the passenger trains will produce addressing Chicago. transpotatiorn equivalent to carrying nearly 2,000,000 people To explain his statement, the eminent Massachusetts Institute of one mile. At the same time, they will handle more than 90 Technology professor described his woik among a primitive tribe of United States mail. per cent of all It costs a lot of money mountains of money to run Mexican Indians, the Otomis. He found them uneducated, still clinging of $1.40 per week anything as big and complex and extensive as our railroads. to Kith centuiy customs and living on the equivalent So, during those thrifty brief minutes, the railroads will pour per family. into the bloodstream of the economy more than $285,000 in Yet nutritional analysis of their foods compared to that of average of in to and about their $115,000 wages purchases employes, income families near New York and Boston showed the Otomis actually fuel, materials and supplies. And the treasuries of the na- better fed nutritionally in many ways. tional, state and local governments will be fattened by more Dr. Harris did not say the Otomis are better nouiished, however. than $70,000 in railroad taxes. Remember that will happen in just half an hour and it All of us must satisfy three hungers, he stated, hollow hunger from anstomach, hidden hunger from unbalanced nutrition, and humhappens each and every half hour. It is one measure of the empty drum hunger, due to unattractive, unpalatable foods. The Otomis suffer enormous importance of the railroads to America. non-wealt- h non-wealt- V ... year planting Fold in lolled oats and coco- It. Shape dough into small balls, place on greased baking sheet and hake in a moderate over deg. F.) 12 to 1." minutes. These will flatten out duiing baking, Makes .I dozen cookies. Butter must be at loom tem- KEN WORKING! . h . so-call- ed . . . y thirty-minut- e y half-hou- r, non-loc- SALT LAKE charcoal g broiled steaks, and Rocky Mountain Rainbow Trout is featured daily on the Prospector. Whatever your taste, theres a treat in store for you in this streamliners cuisine. Make Your Next Trip a Pleasure Trip Ride the Prospector .. , COUNTING THE STOCKHOLDERS Consult your friendly Rio Grande Agent lor information, schedules ond fores. RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD i j J j j j j j we in the United States are sus- - j His staff proved, through work with the local foods available in Mexico, that tne presence of calcium, iion or the B vitimins in a diet are much more important than the food from which they come. A recent editorial in the Christian Science Monitor serves, The New York Stock Exchange, in conjunction with the Brookings Institution, is undertaking an interesting projHe found, for that chile supplies the Latin Americans ect. The project is a census of stockholders in the United with Vitamin A inexample, comparison to our supply from dairy foods, car- States. rots or green leafy vegetables. Surprisingly, no one knows just how many people hold Protein is another important nutrient obtained differently in vari- shares in the ownership of American industry. There have been estimates many of them. They range all the way from ous countries. For centuries the Indians have eaten corn and bean together, and today nutritionists lealize that this combination makes 5,500,000 persons to 20,000,000. Even the lowest estimates would count about four per sense. The protein of both of these cereals is incomplete, but when cent of the population as participating in the control and eaten together they complement each other. In all parts of the world profits of American corporate business. The proportion may for many centuries people have instinctively combined complementary foods in the same meal. be higher. This is Americas way of distribution Other foods which aie nutritionally better balanced have often is of capital holdings and rewards. There good indication that been eaten alone. Dr. Harris gave oatmeal as an example, saying it is stockholders in nutritionally the best of our ceieals and does not need to be eaten the number of voting and dividend-receivin- g American enterprise is substantially greater than the num- in combination. ber of members of the Communist Party who exercise comob- j - I ' free-enterpri- DENVEP from hollow" and humdrum hunger ceptible to hidden hunger. CITY-DEN- VER Food prepared to your epicurean taste including mouth-waterin- al se parable influence or receive comparable gain from the operation of state industry in Russia. d Moreover, in our capitalist economy, the investor has complete freedom of action. He can buy one or more shares of any security in which he has confidence and he buys at a price which no one fixes, and which is determined entirely by the workings of the free market. If he wants to sell, the market is available to him every business day, and the going price of any listed stock is a "matter of public knowledge. Thats only possible in a free economy. much-revile- I 1 ; f t I Th danger of imposing our food habits on other nations was also emphasized by Dr. Harris. There is no indispensable food, no one food pattern which will best nourish mankind. Dr. Harris pointed out. He feels that other nations need our knowledge and skills, not our foods and food habits. Speaking from a wide backgiound of tesearch and travel, Dr. Har- is is at piesent in charge of the Nutiitional Biochemistry Laboratories in the Department of Food l Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served as a Nutrition Consultant to various governmental agencies, both heie and in Mexico. ? |