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__ WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
U. S. Acts to Move Consumer
Goods to~ Market? British Press
Drive to Boost Postwar Exports
— Rplpased by Western Newspaper Onion * -
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns thev nr. .
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American troops go into action in troubled port of Trieste to break
up clashes between Italian and Yugoslav factions demonstrating for
control of city. Bitter fighting between both elements continued de
spite Big Four effort to preserve peace by internationalizing area for
10 years. One G.I. has been killed and another wounded while trying
to maintain order.
INVENTORIES:
Hit Hoarding
Hitting at the withholding of mer
chandise from the market in antic
ipation of higher prices, Civilian
Production administration drew up
stringent inventory controls on man
ufacturers of electrical appliances
and other scarce goods.
At the same time, CPA disclosed
that exports may be limited if ship
pers move out a flood of goods at
high prices to badly depleted for
eign markets. Restoration of OPA
price control would make such a
step unnecessary, it was said.
Under CPA regulations, invento
ries of finished goods would be re
stricted to 30 days. Included are
refrigerators, furniture, washing
machines, electric ranges, sewing
machines, vacuum cleaners, cam
eras, asphalt and tarred roofing, in
sect screen cloth and galvanized
ware.
Production material and parts
also must be held to minimum
needs to prevent heavy buying
against possible future price in
creases.
PRICE CONTROL:
Union Pressure
While house and senate conferees
Were striving to work out a com
promise OPA bill
satisfactory to the
President, both the ilf;
AFL and CIO ex
erted strong pres- U
sure for reasonable |*'
pricing of consum- i|
er goods. K . mm
Addressing the m Mi
Brotherhood of BL
Maintenance o f iß&y # H
Way Employees in
Detroit, Mich., William Green
AFL President Wil
liam Green pledged his organiza
tion’s support in the battle to save
OPA and backed up the union’s
threat to seek higher wages in the
event adequate legislation is not
shaped.
Meanwhile, local leaders of the
CIO-United Automobile Workers ral-
lied their member
\ ship for a buyer’s
g str *k e throughout
W *4>. : m the country or
~y -f M dered by UAW
j|| Chieftain Walter
Reuther. As the
1% drive was to get
; . underway, Dun &
. Bradstreet figures
showed that the
-r-weekly index of 31
'Valter Reuther food commodities
had soared to $5.20,
onl y 1.2 per cent below the $5.30
Peak of 1919. Since expiration of
CPA controls, prices had rocketed
19 P er cent, it was said.
WINE FOREMEN:
W in Pact
Paying the way for recognition of
anionization of foremen in coal
aunes, pending court approval, the
scleral government signed a con
*act with John L. Lewis’ Clerical,
echnical and Supervisory Workers
-overing 146 employees at four bi
uminous pits of Jones & Laughlin
j g l company in Pennsylvania,
in reaching an agreement with
, ewis as operator of the mines un
ei seizure orders, the government
'•ipulated that the contract could be
»oided in the event that a federal
'° ur t of appeals issued an injunc
10n a S3inst the action. Coal op-
p r,J tors long have deferred recogni
|]°“ of a foremen’s union, assert
that supervisory personnel were
GOOD NEIGHBORS:
When Argentina issued a special
stamp to honor Franklin D. Roose
,,c ‘‘ on *be anniversary of his death,
“ e Probably never realized the tre
iv,en j US Merest it would arouse or
, . demand that there would be
? r h- An active supporter of the
P Uatelic division of the Pan Amer
., uR union, Argentina sent up a few
nousand copies for distribution, in
- . she sent twice as many as is
customary, but in a few days that
amount was exhausted.
a part of management handling pro
duction in the compahies’ interest.
Under the pact negotiated by the
, U. S. and Lewis, foremen were
given wage increases totaling $1.85
t a day plus overtime after 40 hours,
i The terms were made retroactive
to last May 22.
1 ARGENTINA:
Friendly Dispute
Although remaining a fast friend
[ pf Great Britain, Argentina prom
ised to take its dispute with London
over possession of the strategic
Falkland islands off the southern
tip of South America to the United
Nations next fall for settlement.
Long held by the British in the
face of Argentine protests, the Falk
lands lie astride the Straits of Ma
gellan and Cape Horn leading from
the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
While Britain, as a major sea pow
er, has held on to possession of the
Falklands because of their com
mand of an important water route,
Argentina considers them essential
to its national security.
Aside from their strategic value,
the Falklands are of little impor
tance, being a cluster of barren,
gloomy islands.
BRITISH TRADE:
On Rebound
Known for their genius for com
merce, the British are making brisk
efforts to revive and expand their
postwar trade, which economists
agree must surpass prewar levels if
Britain is to reduce its wartime ex
port debt and preserve a high stand
ard of living.
In one, of the first steps toward
rebuilding its trade, Britain con
cluded bilateral monetary agree
ments with the countries of western
Europe and Czechoslovakia for pay
ment of goods. Reaching behind
Russia’s “iron curtain” in the Bal
kans, the British have been nego
tiating for an exchange of goods
with Romania, Bulgaria and Hun.
gary.
Always a large exporter to South
America, Britain has sent a special
business mission to the continent to :
drum up trade and clear the status
of British investments. Whereas
British exports to Argentina to
taled 80 million dollars before ]
the war, London hopes to increase
shipments to 120 million dollars by
next year.
JUSTICE:
Free Spy Suspect
The jury had just returned a ver
dict of not guilty on five charges
of spying against 30-year-old Nico- l
lai Redin, Russian naval lieutenant.
Elated by the finding, the stocky
defendant rose to his feet, crossed .
to the jury box and shook hands ,
with the seven men and five women.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the ,
jury,” he said in heavily accented j
! tones, “I want to thank you for the ,
I fair trial I have received here in
America.” Then shaking hands with
Judge Lloyd Black, he declared:
“The friendship between our two .
countries has existed and will ex
ist.”
Redin’s acquittal followed Judge .
Black’s censure of the prosecution 1
for building up the international as- ,
pects of the case, with their im- '
plications of U. S. and Russian dif
ferences. Arrested in Portland,
Ore., last March as he was about 1
to board a ship for Russia, he was ]
charged with obtaining and at- j
tempting to transmit secret plans of
the new 14,000-ton destroyer tender, ;
USS Yellowstone.
0/L Uul JcUinL . . .
In compliance with the AAA .
act of 1938 providing for mar
keting quotas of wheat only
when supply exceeds demand,
department of agriculture an
nounced there would be no mar
keting quotas or acreage allot
ments during the 1947-’4B pro- i
duction season. The action was 5
taken after consideration of the
heavy world and domestic de
mand and the low level o I |
stocks existing. ‘
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA
11153
ELMER TWITCHELL
ON RESTAURANTS
Either the wrong men are operat
ing too many lunchrooms and res
taurants in this country or else
they’re just too scared to speak to
the help about things.
•
“I do my share of eating in mid
die class eating places,” said Elmer
Twitchell today, “and it is my con
viction that most of the operators
are glorified dog-wagon men. I
am no chef myself but I could gel
up better dinners with an old broom
and a bucket of switch-gfease.”
»
Elmer was quite sore. “What’s
become of the old-fashioned restau
rant proprietor who wanted things
right? Whatever happened to the
chef who had pride in his work?
Where is the old-fashioned bartend
er who knew how to mix a drink
right?” he demanded.
“It’s years since I have run
across a proprietor who has a con
science, thinks it important to hold
his trade and won’t water the soup,
cut down the portions more than
necessary or feel upset if he dis
covers the potatoes have not been
served cold.
•
“And I am not referring merely
to the Grade B restaurant. Some of
our best clubs are now employing
cement mixers as chefs.
*
“I had a business man’s lunch at
a private club last week and I still
can’t figure if the manager and chef
were former pig feeders or just a
couple of boys who confuse human
beings with seagulls.”
♦
Elmer wanted to be fair. “I ad
mit it’s hard to get foodstuffs,” he
concluded, “but it seems to me the
boys should know what to do with
it when they get it.”
• • •
Ex-Pfc. Purkey in
A Quonset Hut
Dear Ed:
Well now I know how it feels to
live inside of a egg, or even inside
half a egg. The wife and me has
just got one of them Quonset huts.
We already got roundshoulders and
we stoop over even when standing
up.
♦
After you have been in one a day
you have no more doubts about the
world being round. Already I am
working on a book which I will call
“The Half Egg and I” or maybe
“Life With Low Ceilings.” The first
thing you got to learn is not to get
off a chair too sudden. You can
tell how long a couple has lived in
one of them huts by the bumps on
their noggins.
*
A real love life is necessary on
account of if a couple do any scrap
ping there is no neutral corners tc
go to after the knockdowns.
—Oscar.
* * •
His doctor" declares President
Truman is at the peak of health aft
er 14 months in the White House. He
has gained 10 pounds, has a deep
tan and can throw the veto 300
yards without puffing.
* ♦ *
The Italians roamed the streets
crying, “Down with America, Eng
land, France and Russia.”—News
item.
*
Fourth down, no gain!
** * *
“In the evening the President saw
a movie ‘Janie Gets Married.’
News item.
♦
Ideal picture for him would have
been “The Grin Years.”
* • •
A Russian newspaper man visit
ing this country says he saw $2OO
boxes of cigars being sold here.
Nonsense! It’s just the impression
anybody gets from looking into a
cigar case and trying to locate
something for 10 cents.
• * *
“Summer hotel rates are up from
15 to 100 per cent all over America.
Hotels that were on the verge of
closing as a result Of the war years
have heralded better times by jump
ing rates in some cases from $2O
for two people in a double room to
s6s.”—News item.
Elmer Twitchell went into one the
other day and asked for a room
with cross inflation and a view of
the banditti. He reports that the
hotel in which Washington once
slept has become the inn where even
a Rockefeller burns up.
• ♦ •
AIN’T IT SO?
“Too Few College Teachers Are
Inspired, Speaker Says.” News
item.
Brother, it’s hard to be inspired
When you’re underpaid and tired.
—Larry Singer.
• • *
The United Nations is still hunt
ing a site for a permanent home.
How about Dodge City, Iowa?
• * •
We know a fellow who would write
his congressman but doesn’t know
how to spell OPA.
Woman's World
Brighten Up Home by Making
Couch Covers and Slipcovers
£lrlla
Cp VERY homemaker arrives at the
point where everything at home
looks happy. Usually this is
when the children have passed that
gangly stage and don’t seem to
concentrate on wearing out the fur
niture since their activities take
them outdoors a bit more.
Or, if you don’t have children,
perhaps you suddenly cast a look
about the house and discover that
the furniture has faded and is not
exactly on the better side of sev
eral years wear. It’s really a sim
ple matter to cover taded uphol
stered chairs, and particularly
couches.
If the day-bed or couch has no
arms or back, it is very easily cov
ered with one of the new informal
couch covers. You’ll find after get
ting into the work that the job is
even easier than making a dress,
so don’t let the size of the couch dis
turb you one whit.
Select the material with the great
est of care as to color and weave.
The color should harmonize with
the room and yet add some sparkle
and newness to the entire decora
tive scheme. A weave that wears
well is desirable, and, if the fabric
is plain colored, perhaps you can se
lect one of the new fabrics with
a nubby texture or an interesting
pattern woven through it that adds
so much decorative interest.
Fabric Measured on
Couch to Be Covered
To cut the cover to fit the couch,
select a piece of material long
enough to cover the couch and touch
the floor at both ends. The ma
terial, "when placed on the couch,
should touch not only the floor at
both ends, but also in the front.
If it is not wide enough to extend
fully across the couch to the back,
the fabric will have to have a seam
where it shows least. If a floral
pattern is used, match the two
pieces together before sewing.
This informal type of couch cover
is hemmed with a narrow hem on
all sides and allowed to hang free
on all sides. If the couch is placed
next to a wall, tuck the cover un
der the mattress on the wall side
to make it stay in place and give a
better effect.
For the tailored cover, a little
more work is necessary, but the re-
Add decorative touches to the home. . . .
suits are well worth the effort. This
type of cover is made to be cut in
two pieces, one piece of material
being used to cover the entire seat
and enough to hang over the sides.
The second part of the cover is
that which is used for the flounce
or the pleat. This is gathered or
pleated and pinned and cut sep
arately (and may be pieced very
easily without showing), then at
tached to the first part.
For the tailored type of couch
cover, lay the fabric on the seat.
At the corners, pin a seam through
the band of fabric which you have
cut for the top section. If you
are skilled at sewing these seams
may be stitched without basting, but
do this only if you have pinned
them carefully together and are
sure the corners are properly
squared to give a tailored effect. The
seams are sewed on the right side
By making u sneui sli/xover.
of the fabric and may be finished
with an upholsterer’s seam, cording
or piping.
Let us assume that you have cut
the seat part and the band (which
should be one inch wider than the
depth of the mattress) to go around
the mattress part. Then you are
ready to cut the pleated exten-
I
Summer Fashion Notes
Waffle pique is popular for lingerie
touches on black costumes. You can
use a touch of it on the neckline,
on cuffs or other decorative touches.
Hats are going sensible again,
and undoubtedly will carry all the
lovely feminine touches that so en
dear them to women. Rhinestones,
roses, veiling and velvet are sched
uled to do the trimming job for
the se*«on.
Cool, Open Sleeves
*
A white linen dress, made with
open sleeves, scooped out neck
and wing sleeves by Adele Simp
son spells cool perfection for sum
mer.
sion which will act as a skirt. This
should bo cut wide enough to reach
from the band to the floor, allowing
for a seam at the band and a hem.
The pleated edge should be cut
twice the length of the band to allow
for nice, full pleats; or, if you pre
fer, pin the pleats in and cut ac
cordingly.
To finish, hem the pleat and join
the pleating to the band, allowing
the corded edge to head the pleats.
Cording may also be run down each
comer. ....
•» .WiV. \i ‘■‘"‘■'hi
Ruffled Edge Looks
Pretty on Couch
If you are using a studio couch
in an informal sort of room, you
might plan to make a ruffled edging
for the skirt. This is done much
the same way as the pleated edge.
Plan to use 2Vz times as much for
pleating as you use for the band,
and be sure to allow for the seam
and the hem in cutting just as you
do for the pleated type.
Hem the ruffle before attempting
to gather It, as it will be easier to
work with a straight piece of ma
terial. The gathering may be done
by hand if you can sew very fine
stitches, or it can be done with a
very loose stitch on the machine.
It is very important that the gath
ers be very even. If you plan to
finish the cover with a piping in con
trasting color, baste the ruffled edge
to the band before joining the ruffle
Slipcover Material
Select attractive colors, but
don’t neglect serviceability when
choosing material for your slip
covers and couch covers. A firnj
weave, as well as fast colors, and
colors that wear well are quali
ties that you will want in the
Jong run.
For cording or piping use con
trasting colors, but make sure
here, too, that the colors will
wear well, and that the edges
can be turned under easily
enough to avoid raveling.
To get the most satisfaction
from your goods, chodse a fabric
that is designed for the other
furniture in your room. In early
American rooms, chintz, simple
striped effects, cretonnes and
homespun are the most effective.
For simple, modern rooms,
choose plain solid colors with
good weaves. Consider such fab- |
rics as linen, novelty cotton and
duck—all of which are very
sturdy.
If all of your house is predomi
nantly Victorian, you’ll enjoy
ginghams, calico and novelty cot
ton. In this case, be very care
ful that the colors you choose
harmonize with the other pieces
of furniture you already have.
For real style in the afternoon
dresses, you’ll find lovely floral
prints in silk. Painters, like Gau
guin, seem to have been the inspira
tion.
If you’re young and tiny, you’ll be
perfectly at home in a shirred bod
ice and a dirndl skirt. Puffed
sleeves are in with all their femi
ninity and should make summer
clothes even more eye-appealing.
'improved*
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chico go.
Released by Western Newspaper Union,
Lesson for August 4
I.psson subjects nnd Scripture texts se
lected und copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS AND THE SABBATH
LESSON TEXT —Exodus 20:8; Mark
2:28-28; Matthew 12:9-18.
MEMORY SELECTION—This is the day
which the Lord hath made; we will re
joice and be glad in it.—Psalm 118:24.
“The Sabbath was made for
man,” and was ordained of God for
the good of man’s body and soul. It
was intended to be a day of glad
fellowship with the Lord.
Since the Sabbath the seventh
day was essentially one of rest
and worship, the principles which
surrounded it and directed its life
may be applied to our day of rest,
which is the first day of the week—
the Lord’s day.
That word “rest” sounds a little
strange in this busy world of ours,
and yet it is an important one. It
means quiet for the struggling one,
calm for the troubled, repose for
the weary, cessation of labor for
the worn-out one.
God in his infinite wisdom saw
that without rest man would soon
destroy himself, and he made pro
vision for one day in scVen when
labor should cease and man should
be free for that recreation of soul
and body which should fit him for
the labor of the week.
I. A Day of Holiness (Exod. 20:8).
God gave his people a holy
day to balance up their days of la
bor and to bring blessing to their
souls. On that day he decreed that
they should come apart from their
labors, turn from secular interest
and turn their hearts and minds
to the unseen and the eternal. Man
would become so engrossed in the
things of this world that he would
soon forget; therefore, God com
mands him to stop and worship.
That should be sufficient to cause his
people to “remember” the day “to
keep it holy.”
Notice that the day of rest was
to be not only for the family, but
also for servants and for visitors.
The employer who unnecessarily
operates his factory or office on Sun
day violates this commandment.
Note also that the man who is to
rest on the seventh day is supposed
to work on the six days. Some
neglect to do both.
This matter of keeping the Lord’s
day holy is one which has tremen
dous implications in the lives of our
children. Many men and women
who have had built into their own
characters the stalwart virtues nur
tured by family attendance at di
vine worship have hot only forgotten
their own continuing need, but are
destroying the interest of their chil
dren in church attendance.
It is serious enough to go astray
In one’s own life, but to lead one’s
children astray is an appalling re
sponsibility. Let’s keep the Lord’s
day as a holy day.
11. A Day of Helpfulness (Mark
2:23-28).
The formalists of Christ’s day, the
Pharisees, had overlooked the heart
of God’s law and the holy living
which it was intended to produce,
and had bound up even the observ
ance of the sabbath (which was in
tended to be a day of rest and glad
ness) in such a mass of technical
“thou shalt not’s” that it was a day
of fear.
The accusations against the disci
ples because they had taken and
eaten grain was not on the ground
that they had stolen, for the law
(Deut. 23:25) guaranteed that right
to the one who passed through his
neighbor’s field. The Pharisees con
tended, however, that the disciples
had worked on the Sabbath in pick
ing and hulling the grain.
God’s laws are helpful laws, and
it is only when men pervert them,
or add to them their own traditions
and interpretations, that they be
come burdensome to anyone who is
God-fearing and obedient.
111. A Day of Healing (Matt. 12:
9-13).
Jesus made it clear that healing
of the body (yes, and of the soul)
was most appropriate on the Sab
bath day; in fact, that is the very
day for it.
The healing of the man with the
withered arm revealed that back of
the Pharisees’ professed concern
for the Sabbath was a real hatred
for Christ. It is an appalling thing
that in the house of worship on the
very Sabbath day, these men,
outwardly so religious, were plot
ting against our Lord.
Jesus cuts across human hypoc
risy and hatred to declare that the
true keeping of the Sabbath is to do
the work of God. No work of neces
sity (like plucking the grain) or of
mercy (like healing the withered
arm) is ever out of place on the day
of rest.
A word of caution is needed, for
some have sought to interpret this
Scripture as providing biblical
ground for doing all sorts of things
on their day of rest. That day is
for man’s good, not for his deduc
tion. His greatest good is served
by rest, worship, spiritual develop
ment, Christian fellowship, and the
doing of deeds of necessity and
mercy.
The desecration of the Lord’s day
in our time is a serious matter.
Let us not contribute to it.
