North of the Border - Canadian Progressives Move Ahead
ANDRAS, A.
North of the Border - Canadian Progressives Move Ahead Dispatch Analyzes Victory Of CCF in Elections By A. ANDRAS 5p«f«l to Tei Nr* Lusa • j QTTAWA (By Mail)—A new high water mark for the...
...Hence the call for...
...organised...
...Moreover, good raw material must be used...
...I mean this in the most literal interpretation of the word "SHence...
...The temperature inside the drums is 387**F., the meat is in actual contact with them for from 40 to 60 seconds, before scrapers automatically remove it and drop it into trays below...
...An entire civilisation has been destroyed...
...And each one of these sooth-say ers offers us a panacea that is a warmed-over dish of wishy-washy fiddlefaddle which bears no resemblance whatsoever to the realities of life...
...The juke is ordinarily pasteurized during processing but nothing is added—no sugar, nq preservative...
...Fruits and vegetables are usually dried in - cabinet or compartment-type driers...
...11 In the Ontario provincial elections of 1937 the CCF was able to contest only 8 out of the 90 seats in the Legislative Assembly...
...The final product weighs onefourth as much as the raw meat and occupies one-half the space or less, depending upon compression in packing...
...It does not at present toad to miniature chops or steaks or to dried-op sides of beef, though thst may come later...
...once again claims a monopoly on Stettbsav One conclusion at least is obvious- a she* renewal of the fratricidal strife in tt eUea* movement and a consequent strengthening' ef reaction...
...The Liberal government /has therefore two choices...
...But the...
...Completely reversing hi anti-war stand, the CP...
...A pretreatment called blenching, designed to -kill the enzymes and germs that may be present and would later discolor the food or tend to decompose it, is necessary before fraits, vegetables, and meats are dehydrated...
...It won smashing victories in a provincial general election federal by-elections...
...The latter method is most used now...
...That meats breaking about 10 billion eggs or 30 million cases, straining, emulsifying, and drying the contents...
...The Ctttttt nist wss elected by a minority noo-Freneh vets, the total vote having been divided among ftat candidates...
...We need our music and business needs its profits...
...At the time of writing, the newt has otan throegh that the CCF ha* jest woe aaothar provincial by-election...
...The elections also marked the complete defeat of the Liberal government and the return of the Conservatives, under their new name of Progressive-Conservatives, with 38 seats...
...It won no seats and poIled^Lk some 78,000 votes, about 5 per cent of the total In the recent elections on August 4th, the CCF ran candidates in 86 oat ef in* yu constituencies...
...The CCF candidate who ran against the new premier of Ontario, a veteran politician, lost by only about 400 votes...
...There they are topped, trimmed, washed, scraped, snd cut into quarter-inch disks which are spread evenly...
...has built up iti familiar facade of "front" organisations—Victory Clubs...
...Of the victorious candidates, half were trade unionists and two were women...
...Millions of uprooted people are still wandering hopelessly across the face of the earth and it will take years to provide them with some kind of permanent home...
...This is the party's most important task lit some time to come The results of these elections have placed tat Liberal Party in a curious dilemma The pstpn have shown in no uncertain terms their bag of confidence in its leadership...
...Dehydrated meat is from 65 to 78 per cent pure protein, depending on the fat content, and is a good source of iron, phosphorus, copper, and the vitamifl B complex...
...In the evening, a fireside chat from the White House or the hideous noise of machine -gun fire in the Solomon Islands...
...Dehydrated apples, as distinguished from dried, are also being made...
...wen tee teats in the Ontario elections sad one of tat Quebec seats in' the federal by-elections...
...More things have happened during the last feu/ years than during the previous four centuries...
...However, the genuine fear of continued Socialist advances may drive the Liberals and Conservatives into one another's arms...
...Many appreciative comments hsve come in regarding it However work continues at the Beltsville Research Center on cooking and drying temperatures, equipment the permissible fst content of -the raw product, and the nutritive value, and the keeping quality of the dehydrated meat at different temperatures...
...wee by a ess* tiserthlii ssejerity...
...We also could do without 99% of our daily columnists (that would still give The New Leader boys a chance to any their say), and we could then re-read the Spectator instead of perusing Lueila Parsons, and Marcus Aurelru* would be our companion instead of the author of My Day...
...over wire trays...
...Sfat crates of carrots weigh about 198 pounds...
...Steinbergs, bat we would have the leisure necessary for Spinoza and Vauvenerges...
...Research in the Department of Agriculture had shown, however, that if milk fst or butterfat is thoroughly dehydrated, and if all the gas (oxygen usually) is driven off, the resultant product will keep well...
...In like manner two heads, say 4 pounds, of cabbage, shrink to a 6-otnfce drsk, the shredded cabbage having been compressed into the disk when containing about 69 percent of moisture in order to save space in the drier during final dehydration...
...The meat, pork or beef, containing about 20 per cent fst is cut from the bone) sliced op with a knife, then put through a sausage mill and ground to pieces about one and one-eighth inches in diameter, or sometimes to hamburger consistency...
...Every minute of every hour of the day, our mind is pre-occupied by something that is far removed from our real interests...
...Amen...
...I want the world to show its shame over what has happened by maintaining a complete silence for one entire year...
...It is significant that the two Social Credit candidates in the westani ridings wore thoroughly trounced...
...It is noteworthy that both parties spent more time snd money in smearing the CCF during the election campaign than they did in confounding one another...
...cent The vitamin C content is reduced only slightly in processing...
...Cartier is notorious for it* sv severy electioneering methods sad it it as tttrst that the Communists outdid the Liberal party machine in election malpractices in order tt assure the success of their candidate...
...A dosen living philosophies of life have been shot to Hell...
...PeffTfcof Nates From Right to Lett A NEW political force hss emerged in Quean which is challenging the Liberal Party...
...Generally speaking an inert gas, usually commercial nitrogen) sometimes carbon dioxide, fills the empty space in the can...
...Many influential anti-CCF papers have been urging such a course...
...a ~ Undoubtedly we shall consume mere dried snd dehydrated foods after the war is over . than we did before it began, because research is rapidly making snch food palatable and of a set Use1 beeping quality...
...Combinations of dried vegetables end dehydrated meat, all in the form ef< posrder...
...In the morning we can listen to a speech by the Pop...
...It takes eight parts of water to reconstitute one part of California orange juice, ten to one for Florida...
...As steal the end justified the means...
...The vitamin content of fresh vegetables is reduced only about 20 per cent by dehydration" end packing in inert gases prevents further vitamin loss...
...There will he s place for each in the food toda*Vy.of tomorrow A Modest Proposal in Von Loon's Diary A Plea for One Full Year of Silence By HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON IHAVE only one suggestion to make to the forthcoming peace conference...
...or fresh foods...
...Its platform is s tutture of race bias, anti-war sentiment, and clericalism, and its growing strength in Quebec to which it is confined, is s major threat to a national unity already badly strained by tat war...
...A little local prattling of the radio would, of course, be unavoidable...
...This blanching stops all life processes in the food...
...The CCF was at hot given the opperta4 ity to prove its claims of popular support and did so in a manner which pemittSS contradiction...
...Because it set* French-speaking agaaet English-speaking Canadians and bees use it am exploitation not of one class by another Beet one race by another, it will be a stumbling kink in any attempt towards social recoastrsema along national lines...
...stranglehold on that province...
...Originally skim-milk powder was supplied because the whole-milk powder, containing fat, did not keep well...
...I want the whole world to keep silent for an entire year...
...The final product gives the eater something to chew on...
...Five of them had defeated Liberal cabinet members, including the Minister of Labor and another who had publicly declared that "strikers she aid be shot at dawn...
...We never give our brain a chance to rest, and as a result we .never have a moment in which to do a little thinking of our own and we "rattle" rather than that we "live...
...it has province-wide networks ef riding associations and poll-committees, fa Quebec** is still in the rudimentary stage* wftfc its membership concentrated almost entirely at Montreal...
...IN somf to stance* soldiers have actually shown * greater preference for dehydrated than for fresh foods when they did not know which they were being served...
...However, with the creation of tkt new party there has been s sue den shift hi tactics...
...As a militant Socialist opposition in the Legislative Assembly, the CCF will be the spearhead for fundamental social change...
...on the addition of hot water a palatable soup results...
...And while we lost everything we ever believed in, we were gaining nothing new, except a rehash of a few old platitudes now dressed up as "the Four Freedoms" or some other name that means nothing, WEANWHILE, from six o'clock in the morn*** ing until long after midnight we are exposed to tb* absurd prophets of a new day that is as old as the day when the pyramid of Cheops was inaugurated...
...The hitherto too-socialist CCF bat nee become only s pseudo-socialist party, sad <s* CP...
...The C. F as sack k banned in Canada...
...We soon began to neglect it We were busier than ever before...
...meat is next thrown - between two heated revolving drums which fail to meet by about one-eighth of an inch...
...We would not be obliged to listen to the Gabriel Heaters and the Estelle If...
...French-speaking Canada has yet t» become familiar with the message of the CCF...
...For most of our troubles are due to the fact that none of as ...at is ever given a chance to catch up with himself...
...We figured out how much money we could have made during those two minutes while we did* nothing and we went on with our affairs, while only s handful of persons who could not forget (snd God knows, they had reason not to be able to forget) stood -around the monuments erected to their beloved dead and observed the ceremony...
...Should these sooth-sayers be made unavailable to our long-suffering ears, wc might have time to catch up with all the best things that were said and thought since the days of Hammurabi...
...Since the change of "line" in fsvor ef Ike' war, the CP has been unsparing m its eritV ciam of the CCF for the letter's advocacy ef socialist measures...
...The CP...
...The Federal Election— "Usero/s" Otrf oa a Limb I ESS than a week after the Ontario elections, which sent the Liberal government to crashing defeat, four Federal by-elections took place...
...This time I want to handle the matter a Httle more seriously...
...The juice of 26 cases of oranges can be reduced to one small case of concentrate...
...What You Will Be Eating After the War —The Story of Dehydrated Food By T. swahn harding |N a broad way Dehydrated foods will continue * to fill emergency needs, though they will of course* be used much more in the ordinary household run of things as they are perfected...
...Dehydration offers no magic for the production of a high-grade finished product from low-grade raw aiattgiai In the end dehydrated foods must meet rigid specifications and pass requisite chemical, bacteriological, and biological tests, to be acceptable for purchase by the Govern' stent' for lend-lease or the armed forces...
...They contain water for which we should pay about |164 per 100 cubic feet as bought at market...
...OOK at the situation we have today...
...They are next exposed to steam for 6 minutes to blanch and are then placed in the dehydrator at 1S0*-1S0* F. takes from' 1 to 4 hours-to dehydrate vegetables of various kinds...
...This treatment cooks, coagulates, shreds, and blanches the meat...
...I mean this seriously...
...and elected 34 members of the Legislature...
...It is readily reconstituted for use in apple ssuce, as pie filling, or for eating with cereal...
...a narrowly nationalistic, isolationist French-Canadian party...
...The ground...
...If whole milk is carefully processed while very fresh, the dehydrated powdorkeeps well...
...In B. C. the coalition has shown pretty well what the CCF has consistently pointed out: that there is ho fundamental difference between the too old parties...
...Dnr'mg the afternoon we can tone in on Shanghai and Moscow and Sydney...
...Hence dried vegetables can be kept indefinitely at the full vitamin value of the material put into-the container...
...Bart there is no reason to expect that dried feeds will replace canned, qsick-froten...
...Labor Tooth Federations...
...The Army used lsrge quantities of them and also of dehydrated cranberries which msy be made into a beverage or reconstituted for sauce...
...This time the vananf is la s seat held for 2« years by the lertstsj Presator of Manitoba, new leader of tot Pragreaaive-Conservatixve* The CCF sen* date, a young engineer ef 2S...
...North of the Border - Canadian Progressives Move Ahead Dispatch Analyzes Victory Of CCF in Elections By A. ANDRAS 5p«f«l to Tei Nr* Lusa • j QTTAWA (By Mail)—A new high water mark for the Cooperative ConuDormeaM Federation waa established this month...
...efecttoa renalu eesaii mod the important...
...Let there be - soap operas for those who tike soap operas and let there be good music for those who depend upon good music to get the strength that is necessary to carry on, while all around us arise the shambles of what once upon a time was a civilization...
...It mt>, on the other hand, remain in office until IMS— the end of its lawful term, or even longer if the war is* still on—trusting to s favorable tars of events to restore the people's confidents, at the risk of letting the other parties, the CCF especially, take advantage of the interval tt gather strength...
...In the two federal by-elections which it costested, it won one and lost the other by only ¦ narrow margin...
...Orange juice is evaporated under reduced pressure to make the concentrate and, whereas the fresh product contains from 10 to 15 per cent of total solids, the concentrate, contains 65 to 70 pan...
...A dehydrated cheese has also been made...
...Insofar as the CCF is concerned, the by...
...They should arrive at the dehydration .'{dent fresh-pulled, not more than an hour old...
...Dehydrated apples keep well and flo not become rancid...
...Immediately after the last wsr, somebody hit upon the fortunate idea of honoring Armistice Day by maintaining a two minutes' silence...
...As the Liberals are left with only 15 seats, the CCF emerges as the official opposition in Ontario, the third province where it holds that position...
...Cull oranges which are misshaped or blemished, but of which the juice is excellent, are used...
...V'v...
...the Liberal candidates, representing the party in power, lost in all four...
...The "Pro-Cons" will constitute the rump to maintain it in power...
...I believe that my Catholic neighbors have an institution called a Novena...
...Total Wat Committees—from which it hope* to draw ¦sabers into the "new" party...
...There were two western seats and two in Quebec...
...Already, reconstituted dehydrated vegetables compare favorably in quality with good grades of canned goods and in some few instances are equal in quality to the fresh product...
...During this year perhaps 200 million pounds of dried eggs will be purchased for Lend-Lease...
...That means, if I am not mistaken, a week of inner quiet— a few days away from the disturbances of our daily existence...
...Moreover, there will be circumstances even in peacetime under which it will prove useful to have dehydrated fruits, vegetables, soups, and meats...
...Recent election setcesses will also help the Communists gala adherents and popularity...
...If by some lucky break we occasionally do catch up with it we are so completely out of breath that all we can do is to sit and pant and beg for a bowl of water, and then we must be going again—going endlessly snd aimlessly and not having the slightest idea what we are doing except that we are going somewhere and God only knows where...
...The fear of being labelled Tweedledum and' Tweedledee may prevent a similar fusion in Ontario...
...I leave the rest to the reader who, given this general hint, can easily provide the necessary details oat of Ids own daily a I pel haste But when this war is over, then, for the sake of untold generations to come, let us have silence —a year of silence—complete and absolute...
...Tkt Quebec seat, Cartier, in Montreal, is a adits riding, consisting of Jews (61 per east), French-Canadian* (SO per cent) and last tad South Europeans (lb per cent...
...it peuea oooui »w.wv votes, nearly a third of the popular vote...
...It is possible to make a "dehydrated butter'' (or butter oil) if all the gas is removed, which will ship without refrigeration, can be used directly in cooking, or reconstituted by the addition of salt and water...
...I want the whole world to have a Novena like that, but it should last a year and not a mere week...
...Light»« IWSW.*^^colored fruits are usually sulfured before drying while vegetables are blanched either by dip, ping in hot water or, more often, by exposure to steam...
...The "party-line" has taken another turn, lit Communist Party is now reconstituting asstf at s mass movement...
...I want those responsible for the happiness of the future world to establish a year of complete silence...
...Popular ¦ssaau I in in itself net sngtcient to win aa electee*, - In the prairies provinces the CCF is nag...
...I want all radio communication to be stopped for at least twelve months...
...The dried'product then . peels ' off the drums like paper, is crumbled into flakes, and can be reconstituted later by the addition of water...
...But international communications should come to an end...
...Whether the two Government and will have to rely on the Liberal old-line parties will form a Coalition government, as in British Columbia (where the CCF is also opposition) remains to be seen...
...Like meat, eggs consist of water to the extent of three-quarters...
...The product is superior in flavor to the dried fruit and weighs only one-seventh as much...
...It any call a federal election immedistoly, knowing that it most face certain defeat but with tat none that neither the CCF nor the Pro-Cons art sufficiently prepared for a national contest at that the defeat may not be too severe...
...We are like dogs running after a ear...
...It may in all likelihood test« strong representation to the federal Hoots sat win power in the forthcoming provincial taction...
...The process for dehydrated meat is about perfected...
...Only a short month age t national Communist leader stated that t reformed capitalism could satisfy the needs ef the people...
...of yew-roeaai organisation...
...milk powder...
...One of them obtained the highest vote in the province: A local trade-union president, he routed the Liberal Party machine and the powerful moneyed opposition of International Nickel...
...The equipment and successful operation of a dehydrating plant is more difficult than that of a cannery or a quick-freezing establishment There must be skilled and experienced direction and operations must be on a relatively large scale to ensure profit...
...commercial food-dehydration business is not one to be undertaken carelessly or on a shoestring...
...It comes in the form of a flour which becomes a cake- like processed cheese when reconstituted with water...
...While the 18 plants we had in 1940 bad a normal operating capacity of only 10 million pounds, our 80 plants now have one of 285 million pounds a year...
...In many tests by experienced panels the dehydrated vegetables have been pronounced the equal of the best grade of canned goods and in some superior to fresh vegetables.'' Dehydrated soup is manufactured by spraying cooked and pulped vegetables on hot re•yblving*"drums where the water quickly passes off...
...Dehydrated vegetables are usually packaged in B-gallon tins with press-in lids...
...A bit of solid carbon dioxide is tossed in before'the lids are sealed on...
...An ordinary steer which yields about 364 pounds of lean beef will thus provide about 88% pounds of dehydrated meat The product is palatable and will satisfy hunger tight in the dried form...
...have also been produced...
...A "convention'' wiD hew been held by the time this is in print at whin a new name will have been chosen and a legal existence inaugurated...
...It is the Blot Populaire...
...The yield from the 198 pounds of fresh carrots is 17 pounds, or enough dehydrated food to fill two 5-gallon cant...
...it also removes nearly half the water from it Thereafter it is placed in mesh-bottom 'trays and dried two or three hours more in a cabinet drier at 160* F. The water content of the meat is thus reduced to 6 per cent...
...BRITAIN at first took much evaporated and condensed milk from us but one ship will carry as much food value in the form' of powdered milk as four will in the form of evaporated...
...The present trend is indicative of two thing*: one, a deep-rooted desire among the people for some fundamental changes in the social set-up: two, a sharpening of the straggle between the supporters of "free enterprise" and of a socialised economy...
...Of the four seats, the CCF won two...
Vol. 26 • August 1943 • No. 35
