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OF INTEREST TO
1 HOUSEWIFE
Cane-bottomed chairs should be
brushed to remove all dust and
then washed with salt and water
aud placed in the open air to dry.
This treatment tightens up the
cane.
* » •
You can produce your own sour
milk for use in sour-milk recipes
by simply adding a teaspoon of
vinegar to each cup of fresh sweet
milk.
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Carrots can be made crisp be¬
fore cooking by scraping and leav¬
ing in cold water for half an hour.
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Sometimes ink stains can be re¬
moved from the hands by rubbing
them with the inside of a banana
peel.
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FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPON D E N T
the Washington.—Tightening of one of
very few New Deal laws aimed
at federal regulation of wages and
hours—and incidentally of child la¬
bor also—the Walsh-Healey bill—
which is not under constitutional at¬
tack in the courts, is planned by
the administration.
The plan is to reduce the present
exemption under the law from $10,
000 to at most $2,500 and possibly
only $2,000. It is also planned to
add some other restrictions aimed
at preventing the evasion of the
purpose of the law through present
loopholes.
The law as it stands provides that
no concern can be awarded a gov¬
ernment contract which does not
comply with certain restrictions as
to hours, wages and conditions of
labor. Broadly, these restrictions
are very similar to the provisions of
the old NRA codes. But the law
applies only to contracts amounting
to $10,000 or more.
Lots of bidders have been getting
around it by the simple expedient
of making bids for only a part of
any proposed order—the part never
exceeding $10,000. Government pur¬
chasing agencies have eagerly aided
in the process of getting around
this law. They were not particu¬
larly enthusiastic about the law any¬
how. As a matter of fact, most gov¬
ernment purchasing agents are far
from liberal; they are just as hard
boiled as any corporation purchas¬
ing agent.
A good deal of the publicity about
big corporations refusing to bid, in¬
cidentally, has been incorrect, ac¬
cording to officials of the procure¬
ment division at the Treasury de¬
partment. For instance, all the talk
about the navy not being able to
get any bids on copper.
No Bid on Copper
It is perfectly true that the big
copper companies did not bid.
Treasury officials admit. But it is
also true they would not have bid
even had there been no Walsh-Hea¬
ley law. There are two answers.
One is that most copper has been
sold for years through agents. This
eliminated the necessity of the big
copper companies maintaining sales
organizations of greater size than
they wished. The other reason is
that most dealers in copper have
been convinced for some time that
the rise in price of copper—still far
below its 1929 level of 18 cents—
had just started. Thus they were
afraid to commit themselves to con¬
tracts which would bind them to de¬
liver copper at a price specified
now over a period of time in the fu¬
ture. The war scare demand in
Europe alone was enough to account
for this, in the opinion of Treasury
officials.
The new twist in the law would
hit a great many little fellows—
chaps who have been buying in
quantities from the big producers
and then retailing their purchases
to the government in less than $10,
000 quantities. They have been
skimming a nice little profit out of
the unwillingness of the big com¬
panies to subject themselves to the
Walsh-Healey bill.
The profit has been much greater
in some instances than the esti¬
mated additional cost to the manu¬
facturers using this intermediary
method of selling their goods to the
government. The reason for this is
that the manufacturers in many in¬
stances are not convinced that all
the troubles wrapped up in the
Walsh-Healey law would be confined
; to the additional cost. In some in-
1 stances no additional cost at all, the
manufacturers concerned assert,
would be involved.
But bidding under the terms of
1 the law would subject them, they
fear, to all sorts of government
checks—some of them started by
disgruntled employees, some by
discharged employees, but all in all
amounting to a big bundle of trou¬
ble. So they cheerfully allowed mid¬
dlemen to skim a little profit rather
than run the risk.
Farmers Scream
What with the flood this year, and
the drouth last year, not to mention
piling up of surpluses in Europe
against the danger of war, it has
been more than two years since
there was any real need for some
artificial method of curtailing crops
in order to keep prices up. But
to hear the farmers scream to the
old AAA offices—now the soil ero¬
sion offices—one would think that
Old Debbil Overproduction was
right around the corner.
In the nature of things, the farmer
looks ahead. He does not trust the
new soil protecting scheme. Hints
that it is really intended to be a
crop curtailing plan—hints such as
the ruling classifying corn as a soil
depleting crop—do not satisfy him.
He wants something more definite.
He got to understand AAA pretty
well before its demise at the hands
of the Supreme court, and he
liked it.
It was the first time in his recol¬
lection—or in all the folk-lore he had
learned at his mother’s knee—that
the farmer had ever got something
for nothing—the first time be had
ever done anything except come out
at the little end of the horn in his
dealing with the city folks.
CLEVELAND COURIER
There were some sectional twists
also, as particularly in the South,
where the politicians made much
of the fact that this was the first
time the folks in that region had
gotten anything from the North
since the Civil war.
So, despite Secretary Henry A.
Wallace’s statement a few days ago
that he was temporarily abandon¬
ing his production control policy,
and his statement over the radio
that it would be “wise for us to pro¬
duce as abundantly as we can this
year,” there is a drive forming for
a new AAA. Nor is there much en¬
thusiasm among the farmers, if one
can judge by letters pouring in on
members of the house and senate,
for the ever normal granary plan so
dear to the hearts of President
Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace.
The ever normal granary idea fits
in perfectly with many of Mr.
Roosevelt’s other economic the¬
ories. He would like to straighten
out the curves in manufacturing and
trade of all sorts. He would like
to have all years fair years, with
none “good” in the sense of bonan¬
za, and none “bad.” His tax the¬
ories are a part of this theory.
Normal Granary Idea
Many of the letter-writers doubt
that enough wheat or corn or what¬
not will be bought in by the gov¬
ernment for this reserve stock to
hold prices at what seems to the
farmers to be a fair level. Some
are even franker. They insist that
when a crop is short and would nor¬
mally produce high prices, the
farmers ought to get the benefit of
that situation. How else, they de¬
mand, can they ever have what is
really a “good year.”
The bald truth is that they want
the government to protect them
against the low prices inevitable
with overproduction, but they do
not want the government to protect
the consumers against the years of
underproduction.
Which is human enough, and no
one can blame them for trying to
have such a plan worked out. But
it is not the President’s idea, and it
is not Mr. Wallace’s.
Compulsory Arbitration
Congress is not expected to pass
any drastic legislation with respect
to the automobile strike. Most of
its members would not vote, for ex¬
ample, to legalize a sit-down strike,
and a huge majority could be rolled
up against compulsory arbitration.
There is much to be said in favor
of compulsory arbitration, theoreti¬
cally. Practically it finds few
friends. In theory it is in the in¬
terest of the public—in the interest
of all the people as against the very
small minority comprised by the
two sides in most strikes. Assum¬
ing that a body of judicial charac¬
ter with intelligence, fairness and
with no leaning either to the side
of labor or capital could be found,
it would seem an ideal solution.
But try to find some labor leader
who is advocating it! If there is
one thing that the Committee for
Industrial Organization and the
American Federation of Labor
agree about, it is that they do not
want compulsory arbitration. There
may be exceptions, which seem to
prove that this is not so, but they
only seem to do so—they are not
actually exceptions at ali. The
classic instance, of course, was the
Adamson act of 1916. This was the
so-called eight-hour law, affecting
the four railroad brotherhoods.
This was a decision imposed by
congress, on the surface, but actu¬
ally it was nothing of the sort. It
was the demands of the brother¬
hoods incorporated in a law, which
was passed by congress, signed by
the President, and approved in a
five to four decision by the Su¬
preme court.
The labor officials’ theory is that
it is all right to have the govern¬
ment intervene on labor’s side, that
it is even all right to have the gov¬
ernment force the employers in any
given controversy to arbitrate—but
it is distinctly not all right to have
any government agency determine
what the conditions of settlement
are to be. That would impinge too
much on the value of the functions
of the labor leaders themselves. II
might even lead to government su
pervision of the amount of union
dues exacted, or government regu
lation as to how those dues could
be spent!
Not that anyone at the moment
expects any such a move by the
government, but the gentlemen at
the head of the various labor organ¬
izations have never been accused
of being stupid about the possibili¬
ties of any given line of govern¬
mental action, once started. They
are rather keenly alert to anything
which might later on prove an em¬
barrassing precedent.
Much discussion right now is go¬
ing on under cover about the pos¬
sibilities of the sit-down strike. If
put to a vote in congress tomorrow,
no such legalization would probably
be voted. Senators and representa¬
tives are just a little shocked at
what some regard as a flagrant vio¬
lation of property rights. But the
whole thing has not been thought
through, even by the labor leaders
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UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
Elmo @ Western
Scott Watson
He Gave Us “Craps”
\A/HEN v *ae Marigny Bernard de Xavier Mandeville Philippe
was
sixteen years old, his father, who
was Louisiana’s richest Creole
planter, died and left his entire
fortune to the wild and headstrong
son whose every whim had been
granted by the indulgent father.
Within two years Bernard’s guard¬
ian, finding him uncontrollable,
shipped him off to England in the
hope that life abroad might im¬
prove his behavior.
But it didn't. For young Marig¬
ny became even more dissipated in
London than he had been in New
Orleans and finally his guardian or¬
dered him to return home. The
boy came back, bringing with him a
new dice game, called hazard,
which was then all the rage in Eng¬
land and France.
This was at the beginning of the
Nineteenth century and hordes of
Americans were swarming into the
capital of their newly-acquired Lou¬
isiana territory. The pleasure-lov¬
ing Creoles looked upon these ener¬
getic and unmannerly visitors with
disgust and their dislike was fully
reciprocated by the Americans.
They regarded the Creoles as an
effete, alien race and spoke of
them slurringly as “Johnny Cra
pauds” (frogs). When they saw
them huddle around a table play¬
ing Marigny’s new game of haz¬
ard, they called it “Johnny Cra
paud’s game.”
But these Yankees soon found
themselves fascinated by the game
and taking part in it with the
Creoles. Gradually they shortened
the name to “Crapauds” and even¬
tually it became “craps,” the name
it bears to this day. Meanwhile
the man who had introduced it to
this country was steadily losing his
great fortune, little by little. Part
of it went because these despised
Yankees were better with the “gal¬
loping dominoes” than he was. Part
of it went because he was given
to making grand gestures—such as
lighting his cigar with five and ten
dollar bills twisted into “spills.”
Eventually his fortune was all
gone and this grand seigneur of the
New World was reduced to the bar¬
est necessities of life in a tiny cot¬
tage, attended only by one loyal
old negress. In 1868, then a feeble
old man of eighty-three, he tripped
over his own doorstep and died as
the result of the fall. Thus pro¬
saically ended the life of the last
great Creole gentleman. It had
spanned the whole history of his
state and city. Over it he had seen
floating the flags of five nations—
Spain, France, the United States
and the Confederacy—an experience
given to few, if any, of his fellow
Americans.
First “Father of Democracy”
EARLY historians wrote him
down as a “scurrilous young
journalist who yapped at the Father
of his country" because when
George Washington retired from the
Presidency he printed in his paper
a bitter attack on that chief execu¬
tive, even going to the lengths of
declaring that “If ever a nation
v/as debauched by a man, the
American nation has been by Wash¬
ington.” But modern scholarship
has revised that opinion and has
shown that he and his grandfather,
rather than Thomas Jefferson and
Andrew Jackson, were the real “Fa¬
thers of American Democracy.”
His name was Benjamin Franklin
Bache and his grandfather was Ben¬
jamin Franklin. At his giandfa
ther’s knee, in both America and in
France, where he lived from 1776
to 1785, he learned the meaning of
real “democracy." The elder Ben
may have preached the lessons, but
it was young Benny who put them
into practice.
He founded the Philadelphia Gen¬
eral Advertiser, later the Aurora,
and in it he attacked Washington
because Washington was the symbol
of the Federalist faith, which, he
was convinced, was standing in the
way of the development of the dem¬
ocratic ideal in the new republic.
He also attacked John Adams and
that led directly to the passage of
the Alien and Sedition laws under
which statutes Benny Bache was ar¬
rested for libel but never prosecut¬
ed.
He was stiff fighting when Death,
in the form of the yellow fever,
ended his tempestuous career on
September 5, 1798. He was only
twenty-nine years old but he had
labored greatly and accomplished
much. For, in what modern his¬
torians called “the second Ameri¬
can Revolution,” Bache and his cru¬
sading newspaper had broken the
power of the Federalists and
snapped the link between them and
England. Thereby he freed the new
nation from the English idea of a
semi-monarchical form of govern¬
ment. He made certain the victory
of the new Republican-Democratic
party which with the election of |
Thomas Jefferson began a real
democratic rule in this country. For
this he should be remembered rath¬
er than as a “scurrilous young jour¬
nalist.”
Worthy of Your Pride!
V4 OTHER, between you and
Sis is getting to be a
show-off. Last night when
called, there she sat, big as
right in the middle of things
ing about the new dress you
her: how you used a remnant
over from one of your
and got it finished in one
noon—she even had Dick feel
material.
Well, Elsie, you can’t blame
child’s appreciating herself in
new dress. How about
Didn’t you say your jumper
the talk of the Tennis Club
ing yesterday? And haven’t
been spending more time
the mirror since I made my
“Stylish Stout” model? I
feel like a new person in
ine me being vain at my age!
Flatters Stout Figure.
Oh, Mother, you’re not vain
you’re as young as any of us.
just were lucky to find a
larly flattering style for your
ure. That soft jabot makes
look lovely and the whole thing
so slenderizing. But only an
pert like you could make such
dress.
It isn’t being expert, Elsie,
is choosing a pattern that is
designed and giving full
step'•instructions on how to
ceed.
Several Blouses.
I’m going to make
blouse for my jumper soon,
er. I always admired that
pique shirt of Dick’s, so I
I’ll try it for my blouse, since
pattern is a lot like a man’s
in design.
It sounds good to hear you
ested in making something
yourself. Maybe you girls will
turn your Bid-or-Bi Club into
Sew-Your-Own before long.
You can never tell, Mother,
never can tell!
The Patterns.
Pattern 1229 comes in sizes 14
to 20; 32 to 42 bust. Size 16 re¬
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yards for the blouse. Pattern 1847
is available in sizes 36 to 52. Size
38 requires 4% yards of 39 inch
material.
Pattern 1882 is designed for sizes
2 to 10 years. Size 4 years re¬
quires 1% yards of 39-inch ma¬
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