Volume 22 Article 1 Number 6 The Iowa Homemaker vol.22, no.6 1942 The oI wa Homemaker vol.22, no.6 Mary Lou Springer Iowa State College Betty Ann Erickson Iowa State College Dorothy Walker Iowa State College Beth Cummings Iowa State College P. Mable Nelson Iowa State College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Springer, Mary Lou; Erickson, Betty Ann; Walker, Dorothy; Cummings, Beth; Nelson, P. Mable; Carter, Virginia; Horton, Helen; Galligan, Patricia; Beneke, Marjorie; Zook, Harriet; Brown, Ben; and Dudgeon, Eileen (1942) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.22, no.6," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 22 : No. 6 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol22/iss6/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The oI wa Homemaker vol.22, no.6 Authors Mary Lou Springer, Betty Ann Erickson, Dorothy Walker, Beth Cummings, P. Mable Nelson, Virginia Carter, Helen Horton, Patricia Galligan, Marjorie Beneke, Harriet Zook, Ben Brown, and Eileen Dudgeon This article is available in The oI wa Homemaker: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol22/iss6/1 T H E I 0 W A JANUARY I 9 4 3 A REVIEW OF ACTIVITY IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS * * When It's Mealtime tn the Army • • • Mess call in the Army ... or Navy ... or homemakers to get along cheerfully with a Marine Corps ... is the signal for a stam­ little less meat than usual. pede to get at a real man-sized meal ... a But keep on asking your butcher for Morrell meal that includes plenty of meat! products. If you can't get what you want to­ You, as a home economist, fully realize day ... try again tomorrow or the next day. the importance of strength-giving meat in Anything with the name Morrell is a treat the diet of these men, so you won't wonder worth waiting for! And in planning meals, that the American meat industry is taking won't you do your part by " sharing the meat" ? care of Government needs first ... ours on Limit each adult to 2% lbs. a week. Never the home front second. serve more ... but don't serve less, either. You Like other American meat packers, John need your 2% lbs. for good nutrition. Meal­ Morrell & Co., makers of famous Morrell time on the home front, and on our fight­ hams and other products, are counting on ing fronts, can be a real force for Victory! JOHN MORRELL & co. GE N E RAL OFFICE S: OTTUMWA , IO WA HELP UNCLE SAM! BUY U . S. WAR BONDS AND STAMPS T H E 0 w A A Review of Activity in the World's Largest School of Home Economics IOWA STATE COLLEGE, AMES, IOWA :::>L. XXII JANUARY, 1943 NO. 6 Editor-in-Chief CONTENTS PAT GARBERSON Managing Editor Keeping Up With Today-Mary Lou Springer 2 DOROTHY LEE CONQUEST Kitchens on Wheels-Betty Ann Erickson 3 Associate Editors BETTY ANN IVERSON MARA BETH pADDOCK Miss 1943, Modeling-Dorothy Walker . _.... 4 Business Manager JEANNE SCHRAM Shall We Marry Now?-Beth Cummings, '39 . _- .... 5 DEPARTMENT HEADS-Mary Ellen Studies Evaluate Our Diets-Dr. P. Mable Nelson 6 Sullivan, Harriet Zook; Alums; Eileen Dudgeon, Bookmarks; Rachel Ann Lusher, Office Manager; Joyce Curley, Rural Homemaking Keys to War-Virginia Carter 7 Cuts; Grace K. Brown and Mary Jane Rice, Assistants on Cuts; Helen W. Hor­ ton, What's New in Home Economics What's New in Home Economics-Helen Horton 8 EDITORIAL STAFF War Activities Recruit Women-Patricia Galligan 10 Virginia Busch Dorothy Ann Olson Norma Dale Helen Jean Peterson Becky Morris Dorothy Roberts Any Meat Today?-Marjorie Beneke ....... _.......... ll Bernadine Nelson Janet Russell Mary Westerfield Alums in the News-Harriet Zook 12 BUSINESS STAFF PHYLLIS KLUSMAN, Treasurer Men Must Eat-Ben Brown _....... _... _. 14 MARILYN MEADS DOROTHY SKINNER Local Adv. Mgrs. Bookmarks-Eileen Dudgeon .............. __ . 16 MARGARET SCHWANZ ABBOTT Asst. Bus. Mgr. Mary Ann Amoss Jean Marquis • Cuts courtesy of The Modern Millwheel, cover; American School Board Journal, page Bettie Bath Bonnie Noel 2; Serve!, Inc., page 3; E. I. duPont & Co., page 4; National Association of Ice Indus­ Verdene Boyken Virginia O'Neil tries, page 7; Furniture Index, pages 8, 9; and Hygeia, The Health Magazine, page 12 Annette DeLay Mary Lee Pence • Members of the Homemaker Publication Board-Dean Genevieve Fisher, chairman of Barbara Dallas Ann Pederson the board, Elizabeth Storm Ferguson, Katherine Goeppinger, Paulena Nickell, Pat Marijean Feik Marilyn Peterson Garberson, Dorothy Conquest, Jeanne Schram, Marabeth Paddock, Betty Ann Iverson Phyllis Frazier Virginia Smith Julie Hartley Mary Ellen Sullivan • Published monthly during the school year by home economics students of Iowa State Eleari'or Koster Medora Whiting College, Ames, Iowa. $1.00 per year. Advertising rates on application. Entered as sec­ Sylvia Lehti Helen Woodburn ond class matter at the City Post Office, Ames, Iowa, under the act of March 3, 1879 Food "laundries" throughout the British Isles are prepared to protect the people. These "laundries" can decontaminate any foodstuffs exposed to gas. Glass fibers, thinner than human hairs, are being used as a covering for camouflage nets. They can be painted with designs that blend with the surround­ ings and often can be painted to keep up with seasonal changes. Because they are fireproof the nets cannot be destroyed by incendim·y bombs. For the first time in any war American troops in the front lines are being provided with their favorite dish. American-cooked ham and eggs now comes in cans. A synthetic rubber from wood products has been developed in Sweden, suitable for bicycle tires but not for automobiles. Warmth of woolen and partly woolen fabrics de­ pends more on weight and weave than on the propor­ tion of wool in the fabric. This was proved in testing fabrics of 100 percent wool against those having 8 percent. Those of the same weight and weave showed VIATION courses for college women are now a about the same insulating ability. A reality. Four commercial aviation companies are participating in the presentation of a course for air­ minded women at Stephens College. They will have Modern science has made it possible to eat candy the opportunity to explore the field of commercial to prevent tooth decay. Synthetic vitamin K is 1"e­ aviation as a vocation. ported to have an anti-tooth decay action and may be taken in the form of sugar candy or chewing gum. Time and what the college student should do with it has always been a jJroblem. C. G. Wrenn of Stan­ Many things are being standardized, including our ford Unive1·sity advises students to schedule their flag. Rigid federal specifications insure that all gov­ time. Any student who spends less than 25 to 30 hours ernment and military flags shall be the same color and per week in study is jJrobably slicing off a part of the shape. The red has been brightened, the blue light­ value of his college life. An additional 20 hours in­ ened and the length is to be twice the width. cludes time spent in classes. Frozen eggs are now jJacked in rectangular cartons Records of women war workers show that they are lined with a special cellophane instead of the old more painstaking, more dexterous and less easily bored round tin cans which weighed 2 pounds ajJiece. In by repetitive tasks than men, according to Prof. Esmond unpacking, the cellophane is jJeeled off. Pie fillings, Shaw of New York City. They are breaking former oleomargarine, jellies and other frozen and dehydrated speed records set by men. Not only are they breaking foods may also be packed in this manner. records on the assembly line, but also there are girl engineers, architects, designers and welders. College-women farm brigades prove that American women will volunteer for the less glamorous war jobs. M etal machine parts from thousands of incom­ Working weekends as a farm laborer not only aids pleted vending and amusement machines have added national defense but also can aid the student's budget an estimated r,ooo tons to the nation's scrap pile. and revitalize dormant muscles. - Mary Lou Springer 2 THE IowA HoMEMAKER For Emergency Duty- Betty Ann Erickson explains how canteen work­ coal containers, each equipped with a bucket for heating nutritious beverages and soups. ers are being aided by mobile kitchen units Prepared at designated central kitchens the food may be transported to different locations where it is S THEIR contribution toward winning the war, needed and the meals are served from the trailer A women in Ames have joined the ranks of home­ counter by the canteen crew. Dishes are washed and makers who are establishing emergency feeding pro­ rinsed in water heated by charcoal or gas burners. grams. With the aid of mobile kitchen units, trained Red Cross canteen workers can operate the mobile canteen workers may supply nutritious, hot meals units promptly and efficiently after completing the where there are widespread epidemics, disasters or in 20-hour training course. The course provides train­ evacuated areas. ing in setting up canteens, in improvising equipment Efficient operation of the movable kitchens requires and in the planning, preparation and serving of food in specialized training which is now being offered large quantities with a minimum of time and effort.