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Washington.—Some time ago I re
ported in these columns that Mr.
Roosevelt had sent
Six Men, a commission to
Six Views Europe to study
consumer co - op
eratives. I said at that time that
the commission was likely to find
itself unable to reach an agreement
concerning a report to the President
on the consumer co-operatives and
that in the event they were able to
reach an agreement, the publica
tion of their findings would be de
layed until after the election.
The commission has returned to
this country and has gone through
its labor pains to the end that there
are six different views, an opinion
by each of the six different com
missioners concerning the value or
lack of it that consumer co-opera
tives have.
But it is important to know de
velopments concerning this commis
sion because it appears that by en
gaging in an investigation of the
consumer co-operatives, the Presi
dent has awakened a number of
different interests in our own coun
try to the fact that there are some
kinds of co-operatives which are
not helpful. The fuss stirred up by
failure of the six commissioners to
reach an agreement makes it seem
unlikely that there will be any una
nimity of opinion in congress if and
when Mr. Roosevelt attempts to
gain action in a legislative way to
encourage creation of these co-op
eratives. In other words, if a move
is made in congress, or if the Chief
Executive attempts to force con
gress to enact legislation favorable
to consumer co-operatives, we are
likely to see a vigorous legislative
battle. Personally, I hope that hap
pens. Unless that end materializes,
there is every likelihood that the
average person who has not access
to full information will be inclined
to favor consumer co-operatives,
without realizing he is lending his
influence, whatever it may be, to
fostering institutions that in the end
are certain to cause heartaches and
financial losses.
I am in a position to say that the
one thing upon which the Presi
dent’s commissioners were able to
agree was that consumer co-op
eratives in Europe constitute the
focal point for radicalism. Not a
single consumer co-operative was
found, I am told, that was not con
trolled, managed or inspired by radi
cals of one breed or another, mainly,
communists. These hotbeds of radi
calism constitute “pressure groups”
that have been able to impress gov
ernments in the various countries of
an ability and an influence that do
net actually exist with them. That
is to say, these groups, like minority
groups everywhere, are cohesively
organized and they are vocal, in
addition. The result is they have
been able to force upon peoples in
many countries restrictions over
private and independent initiative,
or to gain for themselves exemp
tions and privileges not accorded to
others. The result is an obvious
alignment of peoples into fresh fac
tions, the tendencies of which are
dangerous.
• • •
It may be news to many persons
that we have consumer co-opera
tives in this coun-
Tugwell s t r y anc j that these
Activities agencies or units
already are being
fostered by the United States gov
ernment. I refer to the activities of
Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell, who
has installed in the resettlement col
onies various and sundry consumer
co-operatives. It may be news as
well to many to learn that Mr. Tug
well has spent almost two million
dollars in financing these co - op
eratives to get them started. And
the third bit of news respecting
this circumstance is that a book
written by James Peter Warbasse is
being used as a guide for the crea
tion of these consumer co-operatives
in federal resettlement projects.
Now, the name of James Peter
Warbasse may not seem important.
Many persons have written books,
but there are not many volumes ex
tant in the United States that ad
vocate changes in the form of our
government. Yet, there are proposi
tions in the volume to which I have
referred which do just that and
these books, as I have said, are
serving more or less as a guide for
the people whom Professor Jugwell
has “resettled.”
With this brief presentation of the
facts, it seems to me it does not
take much imagination to see the
basis upon which the promoters of
the consumer co - operatives are
building their structure- in this coun
try. Taking these facts into con
sideration with the information
brought back by those who made
the study for Mr. Roosevelt, it is
made to appear at least that a for
eign link is somehow or other being
forged, and that link, I believe, is
designed as a fundamental unit in
the general radical program to
change the form of our government
as well as the form of our national
life. I can arrive at no other con
clusion.
There is still another phase of this
general proposition of consumer co
operatives that
Another ought to be of in-
Phase terest to every
producer in this
country. Let us assume,' for ex
ample, that they were perfect in
organization and management; that
they prospered and expanded in
numbers and that they were ren
dering genuine service to the peo
ple. If that condition were to obtain,
does it not occur as a natural ques
tion that with so much strength,
the consumer co-operatives would
eventually establish a class align
ment between producer and con
sumer? It seems to me that the
natural course of events would lead
to this end, and if it did lead to
this end I am afraid that because
there are more consumers than
there are producers, the producers
would get the dirty end of the deal.
They would be short-changed be
cause they would be outnumbered.
This phase seems the more im
portant because the food stores, food
fields generally, are the sectors in
which these consumer co-operatives
operate best. As a matter of fact,
the food field is the most fertile field
for experiments anyway and here
is quite apparently another experi
ment that has fastened, or is fasten
ing itself as a parasite upon the
agricultural industry of this country.
I know there has been some ar
gument that the consumer co-op
eratives are the answer to the effort
to destroy chain stores. That is not
so. Chain stores in foreign countries
have licked the co-operatives. They
have virtually destroyed them
where the co-operatives attempted
to drive the chain stores out of busi
ness. It becomes important then to
recognize that while the United
States has many chain stores, it
has not now and never will have as
many chain stores as it has inde
pendents.
Again, here is a threat to in
dependent business men, particular
ly to the small shop owner, whether
he be in a large city or in the thou
sands of small towns and villages
where the owners of such stores
are important to their communities
and pillars of strength in our nation
al society. If the consumer co-opera
tives get going, I predict a further
decline in the number of independ
ent merchandise houses through
out the United States. For that rea
son, if for none of the others that I
have outlined, it does seem impor
tant that the consumer co-operatives
move in this country should be
stopped in its tracks and that those
responsible in an official way for en
couraging this sort of thing should
be shorn of power.
• • •
It may seem a far cry from the
farm field to the price of beer as a
working man finds
Then it, but there is a
There’s Beer direct connection
and recent devel
opments again demonstrate the fact
that our whole economic structure
is quite closely related. There is an
increase coming in the price of beer.
Either the working man and others
Who like beer are going to pay more
for it, or else they will get a smaller
glass. The answer is that ingredients
entering into the production of beer
have increased in price to such an
extent that, according to official
figures, the brewers are now paying
about $1.50 more for the things that
enter into the production of one
barrel of beer than they did when
the sale of beer again was
legalized.
This circumstance is significant
for the reason that it shows conclu
sively how tampering with the cur
rency upsets the general balance
within our economic structure and
results sometimes in displacement
of markets and sometimes in dimi
nution of sales. In the case of beer
it probably will result in a dis
placement of markets, rather than
any decline in the amount of beer
consumed, despite the fact that the
ultimate consumer will be paying
more.
This condition is of interest to
agriculture generally because it has
always been contended by the pro
ponents of open sale of beer and
whiskey that a substantial new out
let for farm crops was made avail
able by the repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment. Rather, it was a res
toration of an old outlet that existed
before the Eighteenth amendment
was adopted. But there has been a
combination of circumstances, large
ly the result of governmental mess
ing, that has mitigated against the
farmers obtaining full benefit from
repeal. These may be enumerated as
follows: Devaluation of the dollar,
crop restriction under the Agricul
tural Adjustment act, higher taxes,
and a tendency on the part of the
Roosevelt administration to increase
imports from abroad.
In the case of the devaluation of
the currency, the main purpose, as
announced by the Roosevelt admin
istration, was to increase prices. It
has had that effect and has made the
brewers pay more for the hops they
must import from abroad, and they
must import hops because our own
production is insufficient.
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE ★★★
THE life of a motion picture
star leaves a good deal to be
desired, no matter how much money
or fame or fun he has. There’s the
little matter of the effect of the
studio lights on the players’ eyes,
for example. You don’t hear so
much about “Klieg eyes” now as
you used to, but the danger is
there just the same.
William Powell has had really se
rious trouble with his eyes of late,
and Eric Blore is so careful of his
that he will work only a certain
number of hours a day—about four
or five. Can’t afford to take risks,
you know. Blore is a delightful per
son. Has an English accent off the
screen as well as on. Goes visiting
on other sets in his favorite cos
tume, a resplendent lounging robe
and dark glasses.
When motion picture actresses
come to New York for the first time
they usually state
p/' for publication that
tkey i ust cou^nt
i wait to see the
H sights the places
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that all tourists want
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s Shirley’s case that
was what she did
. &'■ : really want to do
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Anne Shirley York > she was taken
west when she was
five, and when she took her first
eastern trip not long ago she made
a bee line for Central park.
She drove around it in the morn
ing, dashed off for lunch, and re
turned io walk around it in the aft
ernoon. After looking forward for
years to doing just that, she couldn’t
get enough of it.
“Dodsworth” is a grand picture,
one of those perfectly finished pic
tures that Goldwyn so often gives
us. In the making they seem to
have done something to Mary As
tor’s voice; it is a velvety contralto.
Walter Huston gives a superb per
formance, of course, in spite of the
fact that he played the role so often
on the stage that he might be ex
cused for being awfully tired of it.
On the RKO sets they call Helen
Broderick and Ann Sothern “The
Rocking Chair Twins,” because the
girls insist on having rocking chairs
to rest in between shots, instead of
those canvas-seated arm chairs with
their names on the backs.
And there the girls sit and rock
and rock, for all the world like old
ladies on country hotel porches.
Lily Pons will try anything. She
is working hard on “Street Girl”
at present; remember when it was
made as a silent picture with Betty
Compson? (Incidentally, the title is
going to be changed.) But she is al
so getting ready for appearances
with the Metropolitan Opera com
pany in New York, so she is learn
ing to dance.
She will sing in “Coq d’Or,” and
will also dance. Heretofore when
this opera was given, the singers sat
on the sides of the stage and mere
ly sang, and the action was taken
care of by trained dancers. Lily’s
role was danced by the premiere
ballerina, the last time the opera
was performed.
Jeanette MacDonald seems to like
long engagements. She was engaged
to Bob Ritchie for years and years,
but nothing came of it—perhaps be
cause Gene Raymond came along.
Now he and she are engaged, but
say that they won’t be married un
til June.
John Boles has a new movie con
tract, which he wouldn’t sign unless
it stipulated that he ________
wouldn’t have to
sing! He has been
rushing about the .
country making per- |
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and doing so well “
that he kai to play j* jgi
return engagements
almost everywhere,
His delightful wife, ■gF* / ;
Marcellite, jour- t
neyed to New York, nsafflkk,
planning to see him j o fa n Boles
there between hops.
Meanwhile his latest picture,
“Craig’s Wife,” has been released.
Rosalind Russell is the wife, a role
wh.ch permits her to be as dis
agreeable as she possibly can.
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Odds and Ends . . . Shirley Temple’s
getting fat . . . George Raft bet $2,000 to
$3,000 that the Giants would win the
World's series . . . Constance Bennett
owns some race horses and Claudette Col
bert is thinking of buying some . . .
Richard Cromwell is enjoying his vaca
tion from the movies; he is appearing on
the stage in “So Proudly We Hail,” and
doing very well with a difficult role . . .
Robert Montgomery fairly haunted the
theater where “Night Must Fall” played
when he was in New York; wanted to
play the leading role in the screen ver
sion if i letro bought it, and they did . . .
The pre-view of “The Garden of Allah”
will be held on the largest commercial
plane on the American service.
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Satin-Clad Brides Go Victorian
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‘T'HE importance of period fash
ions for evening this year means
that they will be reflected in the
gowns worn at many smart autumn
and winter weddings. There is a
quaintness about the early Victorian
fashions that especially offers al
luring possibilities to brides who
would have a “picture” wedding
scene.
Young brides with slender figures
can wear becomingly these demure
gowns of Victorian inspiration in
silk taffeta or heavy slipper satin.
The lovely gown pictured creates
romance and poetry for the modern
wedding scene. This 1936 version
of a Victorian wedding gown is in
terpreted in traditional ermine-white
pure silk satin. The basque buttons
quaintly down the back. The full
sleeves give the broad shoulder ef
fect that accents, byway of con
trast, the slender girlish waistline.
The bride carries a prayer book
with gardenias.
Os course one’s bridal party must
carry out the idea so the flower
girl has a period look in a Victorian
cream silk taffeta princess dress
that is gored to fit at the waistline
with a widely spreading skirt which,
by the way, stresses the new length
for little girls party dresses this
season. This wee maiden ties a
lavender silk ribbon in her hair and
carries a bouquet of purple asters
and cream colored gladioli with a
silk tulle frill.
The bridesmaid befittingly wears
a cream silk satin Victorian gown.
The full sleeve, slender line and
back fullness are important style de
tails that present-day designers are
definitely introducing in their new
est creations. A demure little brown
silk net bonnet adds to the quaint-
SILVER LAME GOWN
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Never have gleaming metal
weaves been more fashionable than
they are at this very moment. The
interesting note about these glamor
ous fabrics is the fact of their im
portance for dressy daytime wear
as well as for formal evening. Os
course their styling tunes them to
afternoon as does that of the charm
ing dress pictured. Fine allover
pleating distinguishes this silver silk
lame cocktail gown. This very beau
tiful silk silver lame comes in be
guiling color tones, which makes it
particularly adaptable for the mak
ing of the costume blouse or the
tunic that completes color harmony
for the ensembled costume.
ness of the costume. The flowers
she carries are purple and cream
asters.
If one prefer that the attendants
dress colorfully rather than keep
strictly to cream satin, they may
wear pert gowns in autumn hues
of peau de soie or silk taffeta with
puff sleeves and full skirts. As
quaint and as “period” looking as if
she had stepped from the fashion
pages of a Godey appears a brides
maid who is gowned in a frock of
lavender silk taffeta with a tiny
wine-colored silk velvet hat sur
mounted with three hyacinth blue
ostrich tips. An armful of purple,
rich red and cream asters adds to
the color glory of the picture.
One thing is certain, whether she
is a classic bride in traditional satin
or in soft clinging fabrics, or a
bride in quaint frock of Victorian or
directoire inspiration, she will be
dressed in silk of one type or an
other.
This year it is good style to have
one’s attendants wear the same
style and the same fabric as one’s
own gown, only in different colors.
If desired, the bridesmaids may
all wear the same color, or that
which is novel and new, different
shades of a basic color, giving some
what of an ombre effect to the group
as a whole.
For the important evening en
semble, smart trousseaux will in
clude a black velvet evening gowfi
which will make the bride look like
a re-incarnation of Sargent’s famous
“Madame X.” Top it off with a
matching hip - length silk velvet
jacket and it can be worn on the
honeymoon for dinner and formal
wear.
© Western Newspaper Union.
SILHOUETTES BACK
TO FORMER TRENDS
Just when we’re getting used to
high, broad shoulders, flares, perky
short tunics and important long
ones, along come Paris dispatches
with the news that styles which im
mediately followed the war are be
ginning to make their influence felt.
That means a neat, plain, slim sil
houette.
It isn’t only news from Paris that
indicates the trend. A London de
signer sends over street frocks in
the newest of woolens made on
straight lines with only discreet, ex
pertly tailored encrustations of the
fabric as trimming, at belt, sleeves
and occasionally on the skirt above
a short, V-shaped slit in the center
front to making walking easy. Even
tunics are sometimes made on
straight lines.
Rich Fabrics Mark Styles
for Autumn and Winter Weai
Rich fabrics always signalize the
advent of the fashions of autumn
and winter. Rich lames and fur for
evening things will be used, and
hats will be correspondingly re
splendent. Bright flowers and feath
ers on velvet comprise the theme of
the new millinery. Flowers on black
velvet are especially good for a hat
that is good to perk up a late sum
mer costume or point a new autumn
dress.
There is a shallow, little black
velvet pillbox with dangling,
stemmed pink geraniums that is our
favorite, but we would settle for a
tall witch’s crown hat of black vel
vet, topped by perky red and white
cellophane flowers.
Shining Furs
Fur capes of shining black cara
cul, nutria and Persian, from waist
to three-quarter length, with
squared shoulders will be a favor
ite choice of well-dressed women.
Fur stole collars trim the coats of
many three-piece ensembles, gray
wolf on green wool, brown lapin on
plaid and leopard with rust.
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A little hot milk added a little
at a time while mashing potatoes
will make them light and fluffy.
Heat but do not boil the milk.
• • •
A few bread crumbs added to
scrambled eggs improves flavor
and makes an extra serving pos
sible.
« • •
A tablespoon of lemon juica
added to the egg in which fish is
dipped before frying gives it a
delicious flavor.
• • •
Knit and crochetted frocks
should never be hung from closet
hooks or hangers if they are to
keep their shape. Even eyelet
cotton frocks will stretch less if
folded and laid flat, or hung
doubled across a wooden hanger.
• • ♦
Before laundering lace curtains
soak them for an hour in cold
water to which a little borax has
been added. Then wash in warm
soap suds.
• • •
Doeskin and chamois gloves be
come stiff and harsh unless
washed in tepid suds and rinsed
in slightly soapy water.
• * *
To protect paper when cleaning
paint use a piece of heavy card
board about 12 inches square,
moving it along as you wash paint,
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Seems Pat’s Front Had
Retreated to the Rear
Pat, being a sound sleeper, had
slept through the racket set up
by his alarm clock, and, conse
quently, when he did
found himself late for work. Hi.
hurriedly dressed and rushed off.
In his great haste he did not know
that he had put his trousers back
to front. Alighting from the bus
outside the factory, he slipped and
fell into the gutter. The conductor
went to his assistance.
“Are you hurt?” he asked.
Pat looked down at himself and
noticed his trousers.
“I don’t know about being hurt,”
he grumbled, “but I must have
given myself a bad twist.”
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