HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
Concerning Mirrors. — Never
hang a mirror where it faces a
glare of light. The back of the
mirror should be protected so that
no light or water could possibly
enter.
• • •
Cleaning Brassware.—Brass or
naments should be put into hot
soapy water to which soda has
been added and scrubbed with a
soft brush to remove any polish
that may have stuck in previous
cleanings. Finish ofT by rinsing
with clean hot water and dry with
a soft cloth.
• t •
That Breakfast Omelet.—That
omelet will not fall if a pinch of
powdered sugar and a pinch of
cornstarch are added to the
omelet mixture.
* • *
Manipulating Velvet.—The usual
method of pressing seams, espe
cially in velvet, is to get a second
person to hold one end of the mate
rial while you hold the other.
Flatten out the two sides of the
seam, then pass the iron along on
the wrong side.
• * *
Vegetable Water Sauce.—Two
tablespoonfuls butter, two table
spoonfuls flour, salt and pepper to
taste, one cup vegetable water or
half cup milk and half cup vege
table water. Melt butter in a
saucepan, stir the flour and sea
sonings into it, and stir over the
fire until frothy. Add vegetable
water gradually and stir constant
ly over the fire until it boils and
thickens.
• • •
Ripening Bananas.—Green ba
nanas can be ripened by placing
them in a paper bag and keeping
them in a dark closet for a day or
two.
• * •
When Mending Gloves.—Slip a
thimble on your finger when
mending gloves and the darn can
be made very easily.
'
Increased by Advertising
In 1869 the per unit of popula
tion value of manufactured prod
ucts in America amounted to $89.60.
For the year 1929 the per unit of
population value of manufactured
products had increased to a total
of $579.70. Advertising created
the demand that called for the
employment of three to four times
the number of workers and re
duced the cost of products to con
sumers.
YOU CAN THROW CARDS
IN HIS FACE
ONCE TOO OFTEN
WHEN you hare those awful
cramps, when your nerve*
are all on edge—don't take It out
on the man you lovo.
Your husltand can't possibly
know how you feel for the simple
reason that lie is a man.
A three-quarter wife may be
no wife at all if she nags her hus
band seven days out of every
month.
For three genrratlon.'vnne woman
has told another how to go "smil
lug through" with Lydia K. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure In the three
ordeals of Ufo: 1. Turning front
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pro
paring for motherhood. 3. Ap
proaching "middle age."
Don't lx* a three-quarter wlfo,
take LYDIA K. PINKHAM'S
VEOETAULE COMPOUND and
Go "Smiling Through."
Right Has Preference
A good and faithful judge pre
fers what is right to what is ex
pedient.—Horace.
hat a difference
good bowel habits can
make! To keep food
wastes soft and mov
ing, many doctors
recommend Nujol.
THE CHEERFUL CHERVE>
I’m tkenkFvl tket I ktve
e sensit 1 v e sovl
Ily emotion* ere deep
end extensive
It redly qvite Fill*
me witV. reptvrov* tkrilli
Jv*t to Oeze et tke moon
tnd Fed pensive!
SEEN
and
HEARD
around the
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
By Carter Field ^
Washington.—How long the pres
ent “breathing spell" in the reform
battle of the administration against
business is going to last is one of
the most important questions in
Washington. Few observers believe
that it is anything more than a stra
; tegic retreat. Most oi mem Deneve
! that the offensive will be renewed,
with fresh vigor, when the present
1 business recession turns, as every
one hopes it soon will, into renewed
prosperity.
Some of the Capitol Hill leaders
predict, however, that even if busi
ness should blossom like the rose
next summer the drive toward
“planned economy” will not be re
sumed until after the election next
November. A few even predict that
it will not be resumed in full force
until after the Presidential election,
though this seems less probable. Such
a long delay is not compatible with
the President's normal mental proc
esses.
Had it not been for the business
recession there would have been a
battle between congress and the
President almost as bitter, and
probably as significant, as that
over enlarging the Supreme court
last winter. Congress was all set
for revamping of the undistributed
earnings tax, and the capital gains
tax, long before the business men
back in the districts and states be
gan to blame the whole recession
on governmental interference with
business management and invest
ment trends. The business reces
sion simply strengthened this de
termination.
But it also determined the Presi
dent to yield, at least in part, and
to lay more emphasis on balancing
the budget. This in turn promises
less government competition with
private business, particularly in the
electric industry.
To Fight Again
The same battle will be fought,
but the battleground will be differ
ent. The President has retreafed to
a stronger position. Son James and
Charley West, Tommy Corcoran and
Charley Michelson, will be found
buttonholing senators and represent
atives to prevent modification from
going too far. rather than to pre
vent any modification at all.
And there may be no fight what
ever to force immediate power
projects into the seven TVA's. In
fact Sen. George W. Norris is al
ready giving out interviews that his
understanding with the President on
that subject seems to be very dif
ferent from what the President now
thinks it is.
As another result of this “breath
ing spell" the President and Sen.
Robert M. La Follette, of Wiscon
sin. seem to be further apart than
they have been at any time since
Mr. Roosevelt entered the White
Houst^
La Follette has never been afraid
of taxes—nor of admitting frankly
that more must be laid on the small
income group. He has consistently
scorned the New Deal intimation
that the rich could be made to pay
for New Deal spending. So he wants
to boost the rates on small incomes
and lower the exemptions as well.
Moreover, he wants the government
to go right on with spending—in
crease it until every available "em
ployable” can be put on the govern
ment payroll.
Strategically, this puts the Presi
dent in between the two extremes,
an extremely enviable political po
sition. It may make very much
harder the task of the southern con
servatives, who hope to win party
control, nominate a conservative,
and really "turn to the right" in the
next national platform.
Tax Revision
President Roosevelt bends to the
gale, to keep the New Deal trunk
from snapping, but even as he bends
he shows clearly the resiliency
which will lend power to the swing
back so soon as the gale has ceased
blowing.
With a congress all set for re
vision of the tax laws to ease the
burden business has been bearing,
the President springs in with his
message saying some changes are
necessary. Then he hints at changes
far less drastic than congress was
determined to make.
For example, he says nothing
about when the tax modifications
shall be made.
Sen. Walter F. George of Georgia,
member of the finance committee
and powerful figure among the
group of southern conservatives who
hope to take control of the party
away from the New Dealers, and
nominate one of their number, in
1940, wants immediate revision of
both the capital gains and losses
and of the undistributed earnings
taxes. Not only that, he wants to
make the modifications retroactive
—to apply to 1937 earnings.
Again, the President wants to use
the modification of the undistributed
earnings tax as another club against
bigness. He says flatly that the
tax could be changed, by granting
exemntions to small companies, so
as to equalize the competition be
tween them and the big ones. Thus,
he says, a long step could be made
in the direction of preventing the
growth of monopolies.
Actually his own Treasury depart
ment has proved to its own satisfac
tion from its own figures that the
undistributed earnings tax did not
bear so heavily on small corpora
tions as on large ones. Actually
most of the suggestions as to why
the business recession had come
was aimed at big business concerns
rather than small ones.
Not This Session
This administration eagerness to
confine modification of the undistrib
uted earnings tax is excellently il
lustrated also in the statement
made by Sen. Alben W. Barkley,
Democratic leader, after a talk with
the President. Barkley said:
"In my judgment, we cannot act
this session (meaning the short ses
sion) on proposals for amendment
of the undistributed profits tax to
relieve new and debt-burdened cor
porations.”
Contrast this with Senator George,
who says:
"There can be no business re
covery unless those who employ la
bor can retain some of their earn
ings to pay debts and to expand
operations. I am confident the con
gress will modify the provision im
posing the surtax on undistributed
earnings, and allow those earnings
to be used by business in the inter
est of the workers."
Some very shrewd observers do
not believe the President will insist
on the text of his first message.
They think it was almost purposely
put in general terms. Certainly it
left plenty of loopholes. Even his
flat declaration against speculative
profits—an old dogma of the New
Deal doctrine—was not specific.
On this point congress is deter
mined to permit the spreading of
losses over at least two if not three
years, in clear opposition to the
New Deal theory that saving for a
rainy day merely makes it rain
harder, and sooner.
Again Soft Coal
"Like the poor, the soft-coal in
dustry Is always with us,” a high
administration official lamented at
a little gathering of the best govern
mental minds.
At present two agencies of the
government, the interstate com
merce commission and the bitumi
nous coal commission, are not just
seeing eye to eye on this terrifically
important problem, intensified at
the moment by the fact that the
administration is straining every
nerve to get business out of its
doldrums.
The National Coal association is
indignant both at the boost in rail
road freight rates on coal already
grantejl by the I. C. C., and at the
preserft demand for a further in
crease of about 15 per cent.
The present increase, the associa
tion’s officials claim, "is to take ef
fect despite the evidence that high
rail rates are diverting coal in large
tonnage to truck transportation as
welljas accelerating consumer use
of substitute fuels which move by
pipeline. To add another 15 per
cent increase to rail freight rates
on coal, as now asked for by the
railroads, will be suicidal.”
The bituminous coal commission,
which earlier maintained that the
increased cost of coal would be
borne mainly by the railroads and
utilities, and not by householders,
iB now perturbed. It is opposing
vigorously the increase now on the
table before the I. C. C.
But the Railroads
But on the other hand, what is to
be done for the railroads? Weak
ness in their stocks is regarded by
the administration experts as one
of the big factors in the recent stock
market slides, and in the general
recession of business. Administra
tion agents have been delving ea
gerly into the possibility that busi
ness could be revived by railroad
buying. First there was the idea of
lending them more money—pour
ing it out. But they learned that
this would interest only a few roads,
chiefly those already in financial
trouble. The stronger roads would
prefer to do their own financing—
if—and that has been the trouble—
they considered the situation justi
fied the spending.
So it has become obvious that the
railroads must be permitted to earn
more, not just to have cheap money
loaned to them, in order to start
any real amount of spending.
On this phase the I. C. C. is in
clined to agree, but it has learned
through sad experience, as indeed
have the railroads, that rate ad
vances are nonguarantee of bigger
earnings. Freight diverts quickly
to trucks. The I. C. C. has rather
reached the conclusion that the only
freight-rate advance that is sure
to produce more money in the rail
roads’ treasuries is one on products
so heavy that truck hauling is un
economic. Of these, coal and ores
stand out like sore thumbs.
But the danger point has been
reached on coal, the bituminous coal
commission believes. It is con
cerned about the switching from
coal to other fuels, though of course
not concerned with whether traffic
is diverted from the railroads to
trucks.
© Bell Syndicate. WNU Service.
.0005 Per Gallon
One of the largest oil companies
in the United States says that
through advertising it is able to
market its product at less than one
half mill per gallon.
3hbwkd about
Sports Broadcasters.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—Somebody said that
there were always two big
sporting events—the one Gra
ham McNamee saw and the
one that actually took place.
But, alongside the present sports
broadcasters, Graham's wildest
flight would sound
like the dulcet twit
ters of a timid love
bird as compared
writh the last rav
ings of John McCul
lough.
Coaches brag of
the lowered percent
age of serious foot
ball accidents this
fall. But oh, think of
the radio descrip
tionists who’ll wind
Irvin 8. Cobb
up the season suf
fering from nervous exhaustion,
wrecked vocal chords, violent rush
of loud words to the mouth, com
plete collapse, even madness.
You’ll be passing the rest cure
sanitarium, and, as the windows
burst outward, you'll hear pouring
forth something like this:
‘‘Oh boy, boy! with one tremen
dous burst, Irish Goldberg is jam
ming his way from the red back
line right through the black inter
ference! Nothing can stop him!”
But don’t get worked up. What
you hear is merely a convalescent
microphone orator mentioning a
checker game between two fellow
inmates and reverting to form.
* • •
Virtues in Snakes.
SOMETHING I said recently about
the folly of killing every snake
on sight, without investigating the
snake’s character, brought a flock
of letters from readers v/ho don't
like snakes.
Even a so-called venomous snake
may have his better side. In Kan
sas, in the old local option days,
you could get a drink only on a doc
tor’s prescription, excepting in case
of dire emergency, such as a snake
bite. So every properly run drug
store kept a rattlesnake on the
premises to serve the citizenry. And
the only time a drug store rattler
ever refused to bite a thirsty stran
ger was when he was all worn out
from accommodating the regular
local trade.
And what though it was a snake
that led Eve astray in the garden of
Eden? He may have brought sin
into the world, but wouldn't we have
missed a lot of spicy reading mat
ter in newspapers if he hadn’t?
Yep, I plead guilty to thinking an
occasional charitable thought for
any decimated and vanishing group.
I feel that way about old line Re
publicans and mustache cups and
red woolen pulse-warmers.
• • *
Political Predictions.
WE TAKE the opportunity to an
nounce that the Literary Di
gest, or rather its journalistic suc
cessor, will not conduct a poll on
next year’s congressional and st3te
elections. The burnt child dreads
the poll.
Let others go around taking straw
votes, but, the way the Digest folks
feel now and, in fact, have felt ever
since last November, they wouldn't
start a canvass to prove that two
and two make four. Because, look
here—what if it should turn out that
two and two merely make some
more Marx brothers or a double
set of Siamese twins?
Anyhow, the business of basing
cocksure predictions on half-cocked
estimates doesn’t seem to be flour
ishing these days. Figures don’t
lie, but the citizens who furnish the
figures may do so, either uninten
tionally or just for the sake of a
laugh. The rise of candid camerasa
tionalizing—say, we just thought up
that word—proves that a photo
graph of things as they are is
mightier than a lot of loose sta
tistics predicated on what the vot
ers may or may not do- and prob
ably won’t, when the time comes.
• * *
Forgotten Stars.
ONCE interviewers clamored for
a hearing and her face was on
half the magazine covers and her
name in letters, of (laming light
above all the marquees. Once im
pressive tycoons catered to her tern
peramental whims; press agent:
waited upon her, courtiers attend
ing a queen. Autograph seekers
besieged her then, while now only
bill collectors desire her signature
| —and they'd like to have it on a
check. Speak of her to the newer
generation, and somebody will say,
’’Who? Spell it, please."
She is all through, all washed up.
But, like the deaf husband whose
wife has slipped, will be the last
person in town to hear the news.
Having traveled a road which is
sues mighty few round-trip tickets,
she still dreams of a come-back.
She is the most tragic and the
most pitiable figure—and one of the
commonest—to be found in this
place called Hollywood. She is any
one of the host, men and women,
who, ten years ago, or even five,
were glittering stars in movieland
IRVIN S. COBB.
Copyright.—WNU Servlca.
TWo >
Little Dolls
1 In Blue m
*r /
1 Alice B. Palmer 4
i
££ AREN’T the dolls beautiful?”
! /\ exclaimed Joan to her
a X mother, as she gazed upon
the finished product of the “Two
Little Dolls in Blue” which Dorothy
May had ordered from Santa Claus.
“They are quite the loveliest I
have ever seen,” spoke mother. “I
do believe that you have put your
very heart and soul into their fash
ioning."
Joan had spent many days and
nights, too, stitching a loving holi
day thought into each tiny garment.
The dainty materials had been
transformed into things of beauty.
The dresses of pale blue silk with
bonnets and slippers to match, had
proclaimed them the “Two Little
Dolls in Blue!”
“Oh, won’t Dot love them?”
beamed Joan, as she again eyed the
dolls from head to foot with a happy
smile of complete satisfaction.
“I dare say this will be her hap
piest Christmas, one that she will
never forget,” said mother.
Christmas eve, with its bright
lights and *heer, was in full prog
ress and the two
little dolls in blue
were being fon
dled by one of
the happiest little
girls in the world.
Rocking in her
own tiny chair
Dorothy May be
gan singing a lul
laby to the dol
lies, wholly ob
livious of the at
tendant sur
roundings. It
was such an
adorable sight
inai uie otners had stopped their
celebrations and were beaming up
on her with transformed emotion.
The spell was broken when Doro
thy May suddenly stopped singing
and called out, “What shall I name
the ‘two little dolls in blue’?”
“Well,” said Joan, smiling
thoughtfully, “since they are
dressed in blue and are two very
important little ladies, why not call
one Alice Blue and the other Elinor
Blue?” And so the dolls were
named.
On Christmas morning in another
house around the corner. Bonny
Jean awoke with the joy of the hol
iday and shouted, “Mother, did San
ta come and did he bring me a
big baby doll with curls and eyes
that open and shut?”
“Yes, dearie, Santa came and
brought you a very pretty doll.”
Then spying it, seated beneath
the tree dressed in scarlet finery,
Bonny Jean clasped it to her breast.
Upon close inspection, she soon
learned that it was the same sort
of doll she had always received,
only with new features.
Just as she was about to burst
into protest at her bitter disappoint
ment there came a rap upon the
door and a kindly neighbor was say
ing, “Merry Christmas.” Then with
a happy smile—
“What is the matter, little girl?
Hasn't Santa Claus come yo<?”
“Oh, yes, he came, but he brought
me the same old rag doll again. I
thought sure it would be a real one
this year, because I’m nine, you
see.”
“Oh, I am so sorry,” said Dorothy
May, with true feeling and thinking
of the two beau
tiful dolls which
Santa had left for
her. Then with a
happy Christmas
thought, she
whispered some
thing very lovely
to her mother.
They all went
right over to the
big house on the
hill nestled un
der its burden of
Christmas snow.
Bonny Jean for
got all about the
rag doll when she glimpsed the ;
great tree through the holly wreaths
in the window. But when she saw
the two little dolls in blue sitting j
beneath it her joy was unbounded.
She clapped her hands and danced
with glee. “Such darling dolls!”
she gasped, breathlessly.
“Their names are Alice Blue and I
Eleanor Blue,” said their little mis
j tress, proudly.
“I want to give you one of them.
Bonny Jean; which do you like?”
With unbelievable surprise, her
i eyes fairly dancing with joy, she
i clasped the beautiful doll in her
arms and asked, "Is—it—really—
i mine—for—keeps?”
“Really and truly for keeps,” said
Dot.
Dorothy May explained it ail to
her mother after the happy little
girl had left, that somehow she just
did not miss Eleanor Blue very
much when she saw how happy she
had made Bonny Jean.
In her heart she felt that it was
truly "more blessed to give than to
receive,” and hugging the one little
doll closely, she whispered, "Mer
ry Christmas, Alice Blue.”
£ Western Newspaper Union.
In Step With Santa Claus
IZ'EEPING up with the Joneses
is easy—it’s keeping up with
Santa Claus that has Sew-Your
Own in stitches currently. We got
a peek at his wares, though, and
frankly we copied some of his art
istry. (You can see for yourself
there’s a “Christmasy look” about
today’s trio of fashions.) And hap
pily you can do more than look
and wish—you can make them re
alities the easy way: just sew,
sew, Sew-Your-Own!
Cute and Cozy.
Look your prettiest in leisure or
on the job in the lusciously femi
the house coat) above, to the left.
Made in handsome silk crepe or
very lightweight corduroy it is as
cosy as a love seat before an
open fire. Make it either in the
short length (see inset) or regular
dress length.
Feminine Flattery.
Polish yourself off in a bril
liantly styled new frock for the
holidays just ahead. Sew-Your
Own’s newest success (above cen
ter) will be your success once you
wear it in the public eye. It s
most gifted in its distinctive de
sign, below-waist slimness, and
all-of-a-piece simplicity. Make
your version the very essence of
chic in sheer wool or satin, in
your most flattering color.
A Blouse or Two.
Tops in the fashion picture just
now is that friendly little item—
the blouse. A completely engag
ing one is shown here for women
He Smiled
LJ E SMILED—and his home was
*■ * a place of happiness.
He smiled—and the children ran
out of their way to greet him.
He smiled—and his co-workers
in business worked better than in
any other place of employment.
He smiled—and his business cli
ents and callers spoke well of him,
and his business increased.
He smiled—and followed the
smile with a brotherly handclasp;
and those who were discouraged
and downcast went out and took a
new grip on life and their work.
He smiled—and while the years
rolled on, he grew younger, be
cause—he smiled.
who sew. Wear it tucked in or
peplum style. And here’s a prac
tical idea: you have a choice in
sleeve lengths. For variety’s sake,
why not make the long sleeved
model in silk crepe for dress; the
short sleeved one in jersey for
sports and all occasion wear? f
The Patterns.
Pattern 1412 is designed for
sizes 32 to 42. Size 34 requires 4,/4
yards of 39-inch material and Vz
yard for contrast. Short length
requires 4Va yards.
Pattern 1394 is designed for
sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size
16 requires 2% yards of 54-inch
fabric.
Pattern 1417 is designed for
sizes 34 to 44. Size 36 requires
2V8 yards of 39-inch material; with
short sleeves, l7/s yards.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
New Pattern Book.
Send 15 cents for the Barbara
Bell Fall and Winter Pattern
Book. Make yourself attractive,
practical and becoming clothes,
selecting designs from tha Bar
bara Bell well-planned, easy-to
make patterns.
© Bell Syndicate. WNU Service.
"Quotations"
Be too large for worry, too noble
for anger, too strong for fear and
too happy to permit the presence of
trouble. Think well of yourself and
proclaim this fact to the world—not
in loud words, but in great deeds.—
James E. Ament.
When everything is new and
startling, the human mind just
ceases to be startled.— Walter Lipp
man.
Every day is a little life, and our
whole life is but a day repeated.—
Joseph Hall.
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