Enjoy picnics, but—

beware of

lanning apicnic? Ifyou’ re the

typical picnicker, you'll
probably load your food basket
with deviled eggs, potato salad,
ham or chicken salad sandwiches,
creamed or scalloped dishes, and
cream-filled desserts, If youtake
a good basket like that to apicnic,
you’re flirting with food poison-
ing!

The most common cause of
food poisoning is staphylococcic

bacteria, The staph germs are.

likely to be found in starchy
foods and sweets, such as pot-
atoes, cream pies, and custards,
Salmonella, another bacteria that
Can cause food poisoning, may be
Present in poultry, eggs, meat,
Potato salads, and other foods
When they are not proprly re-
frigerated, Staph poisoning can
hit in as short a time as two
hours, and salmonella poisoning
develops between seven and
Seventy-two hours,

Although this type of food pois-
Oning is seldom fatal, it can cause
an acute illness of short duration,
Its symptoms include abdominal
Pain, chills, fever, frequent vom-
iting, diarrhea, and prostration.

Wherever you suspeet food
Poisoning, get the victim to expel

4S much of the food as possible
from his stomach immediately,

To make him vomit, stick your
finger down his throat or use an
€metic (such as mustard in luke-
Warm water), Call aphysician.

: To guard against food poison-
Ing, follow this advice: Z

Be sure that all foods that need
Tefrigeration are kept cold until
€aten, These include puddings,
Custard fillings, cream desserts,
fish in all forms, scrambled or
deviled eggs, potato salads, and
Other salads mixed with mayon-
Naise — to name only a few.

The best way to keep picnic
food is to use an insulated box
With a tight-fitting cover, Use a
lot of ice,

poisoning

Nevét* NEVER prepare, trans-
port, or stofe beverages or food
in galvanized containers! Acid
action on zine frequently causes
gastro-intestinal upsets of vary~
ing severity,

Wrap refrigerated sandwiches
snugly in waxed paper or alum-
inum foil and pack them into the
chilled insulated box immediately
before leaving home The contents
will remain cool a few hours,

Do not serve hot creamed or
scalloped dishes, especially
those using milk, eggs, flour, or
starch, unless they are made just
before picnic time and kept hot
until served,

If you do not have an insulated
box, plan a menu of foods which
are not likely to spoil; Peanut
butter, jellies, canned meats,
and other canned and sealed jars
and bottles that can be opened
just before using, Fresh fruit,
which should be washed before
eating, can be used for dessert,

If you use ham, egg, chicken,
or other meat salad sandwiches,
don’t make them in advance, Take
along the bread and the mixture
under refrigeration and make
sandwiches at the picnic,

The humble, old-fashioned hot

.dog is one of the safest meats

to take on any picnic, Its skin-
tight individual casing discour-
ages bacteria,

The cook-out type of picnic is
the safest, Foods are eaten a soon
as they are cooked; there is no
chance for food poisoning to de-
velop,

Follow the rules of good hy-
giene: Don’t let anyone with
sores, cuts, or boils prepare the
food; wash hands before handling
the food; protect it from flies
and other contamination,

—ILWU Dispatcher

Pentagon peril shown

“The Military Establishment,” by
John M. Swonley, Jr. Beacon Press.
Available upon order at People’s
Co-op Book Store.

his is a well documented ex-

amination of the Pentagon by
4 veteran battler against con-
SCription, It gives a revealing
Picture of the growing economic
{nd political power of the mil-
itary-industrial complex against
Which former President Eisen-
hower warned a number of times,

_BOOKS |

After long study, Swomley is
Convinced that “The military sys-
“€m is so huge and powerful, the
Mternational situation so fraught
With danger and so capable of
Manipulation for military pur-
Poses, that nothing short of total
World disarmament can restore
the United States to thorough-
8oing civilian control and to gov-
€rnment by the people”

The Pentagon’s $51 billion bud-
Set makes it “the biggest em-
Plover, contractor, purchaser,
Wner and spender in thenation,’
his is one branch of “big gov-

ernment” against which big bus-
iness never seems to complain
although the smallest expansion
-of welfare spending invokes a
flood of protests from the Wall
Street press,

Facts on the concentration of
war contracts, the employment
of retired military officers by
munition companies, the power
of the propaganda and public re-
lations of the armed forces, and
other data similar to those ap-
pearing in Victor Perlo’s “Mil-
itarism and Industry” are effect-
ively marshalled by Swomley,

And he shows why Congress-
men support these big nilitary
budgets and why they howl when
there is any threat to close down
a military base,

He also contrasts the profit
and wage results of big spending
by the military establishment,
He gives facts to illustrate the
way in which the Pentagon con-
cerns itself with labor’s demands
for an increase “of a few cents”
which it regards an “unreason-
able” At the same time it * raises
no similar objection about in-
dustry when millions of dollars
of unwarranted profits are in-
volved,”

Hermitage
houses world’s
masterpieces

he Soviet Union’s Hermitage

museum in Leningradiscel-
elebrating its 200th anniversary
this year. The Hermitage is a
classical edifice built by Cath-
erine II, but reconstructed in
1840-50. It contains one of the
richest artistic and archaeologi-
cal collections in the world, in-
cluding sculptures and master-
pieces from all the famous
schools of painters,

*

In the above photo, visitors to the
Hermitage admire “Girl Witha
Fan,” by the French painter
Renoir.

At the right, the sculpture “Death
of Adonis,” by the Italian Maz-
zuola.

Song of Foreign Relations

This was written by Canadian poet Wilson Mac-
Donald just before he left Canada to attend 150th
anniversary. celebrations for the poet Taras Shev-
chenko in the Ukraine. It was first read at a cele-
bration of Wilson-MacDonald’s recent birthday in
Toronto.

A Scribe of the Order of Fiddle and Fyfe,
whose virtue was never pretending,
decided his greatest ambition in- life
was babies, and babies unending,
(Yes, babies and babies unending.)
And-to show the cosmopolite trend ofhis soul,
He bedded with maids of all nations;
Thus only, he planned, could aman understand
The spirit of foreign relations,
(O, many his foreign. relations.)

His children were Japanese, Chinese and Greek;
he had triplets by one maid in Sweden,

And quintuplets later, say, many months later,
by one little darling in Eden,

(one brown darling in Eden,)
He travelled the earth, and there wasn’t a land

that was not overrun with his breeding;

_ However he did it, I can’t understand,

so why sheuld I try; — there's no needing,

(No, there’s no real reason for needing.)

In the year nineteen hundred and seventy-two,
at ten-thirty-five in the morning,
predictions were made that a Third War was due,
so a Wise Man of Earth made this warning
(O, wonderful message of warning!)
*Let’s make the good Scribe of the Fiddle and
Fyfe
the permanent King of all Nations,
for he’d never make war inthe world anymore
because of his foreign relations,’
(his numerous foreign relations,)

They made the Scribe King of the whole bloody
earth,
And for ninety-nine years there was peace,
All bombing was stopped for he knew a bomb
dropped
might fall on his daughter in Greece.
Or if the bomb fell on the plains of Montana,
or dropped onto Manchester town,
it might not be nice for his sweet daughter Anna
or on one of his sons might come down,
(a truly annoying come-down,)

So praised be the King of the Fiddle and Fyfe,—
the monarch who saved all the nations,

anc praised be the babies to whom he gave life,
and blest be all foreign relations,