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Thursday, May 18, 1030
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers'
Counsel Division, A. A.
A»
Washington, D. C.
Getting Kid of .Moths in Furniture
If your furniture has wool or mo
hair anywhere in its construction, you
may be due for moth trouble. Here
are a few tips on how to guard against
having your furniture ruined by
moths.
Present methods for mothproofing
fabrics are still in the experimental
stage. They are sometimes success
ful, but they cannot be relied upon by
the consumer as a check against fab
ric destruction. Fabrics guaranteed
to be moth-proof, however, usually are
more reliable buys than those not
guaranteed.
Slip covers provide only moderate
protection, and then only if they are
securely attached to the furniture,
leaving no open spaces for a moth to
get underneath the cover. Remove
slip covers at least once a week to
give the furniture a thorough clean
ing both by brushing and vacuum
cleaning.
One way to keep moths from getting
to the inside of furniture is to select
a piece tightly lined with cotton. Such
lining, if unbroken, will prevent moths
from getting inside, but will not keep
them from attacking the surface of
a fabric.
Bare spots on the fabric, loose pile,
or development of minute tubes on the
fabric surface arc all signs of moth
infestation. Look for these in shaded
spots of the furniture, on the back, or
near the cushion.
Fumigation, done properly, is one
way of getting rid of moths. Spread
crystal paradichlorobenzene over the
piece of furniture, 2 or 3 pounds to
the ordinary sized chair. Wrap the
chair completely with old blankets
and keep it in a room of 70 degrees
or over for several days to do the job
thoroughly.
If you live in a cold climate, you can
rid your furniture of moths simply by
leaving it outside for a few hours any
time the temperature falls below zero.
Ordinary household sprays usually
don't work, since the fabric must be
saturated with the fluid to get rid of
all moth larvae.
Light mineral oil sprays will kill
all moths they reach, but be sure they
will not spot your furniture fabric.
Kerosene or gasoline are partially ef
fective, but leave disagreeable odors
and present dangerous fire hazards.
Don't Destroy The Tops
It's the tops of the beets that count
most for nutritional value, not the
beet roots.
Though more roots than tops are
eaten, the contribution of the roots to
nutrition is a minor one.
Beet greens rates as excellent
sources of Vitamins A, B, C, and G,
with very rich* supplies of iron and
calcium besides, to say nothing of
their delicious flavor. Now is the time
of year when you can buy beets with
fresh tops. Look for those that are
young, fresh, tender and with clean
leaves. If they are slightly flabby and
wilting, they may still have a good
deal of freshness left, hut if they are
slimy, pass them up.
Use little water when you cook beet
greens, and to get the lrtost food
value and flavor out of them, don't add
soda to the cooking water.
Eat Fish for its nutritional value—
not because you think it will give you
a bigger brain.
When the president of a State teach
ers' college only a few years back ask
ed the parents and teachers of ele
mentary school pupils in J4 states if
they believed that eating fish improved
the brain, 59 out of each 100 or the
parents answered 'yes,' and 32 out of
each 100 of the teachers answered
'yes.'
The notion that you need lots of
fish in your diets as a 'brain food' is
a myth. There is phosphorous in hu
man brains and also in fish, but that's
as far as the similarity goes.
Fish is a good food, but don't ex
pect it to make yoy brainier.
Why Weights and Measures
Protection?
Do you know how merchants and
consumers gain from honest and ade
quate weights and measures enforce
ment
Consumers' Guide, publication of
the Consumers' Counsel Division of
AAA, asked this question of its read
ers in a recent contest 011 weights and
measures.
Here is how the winner of the con
test—a housewife of Metaline Falls,
Washington—answered the question:
"Consumers gain from honest and
adequate weights and measure en
forcement because they can make easy
price comparisons and obtain maxi
mum values in merchandise for every
dollar expended.
"Merchants gain from 'honest and
adequate weigl'ts and measures en
forcement because they are protected
against unscrupulous, short-weighing,
a s e- e a s u i n o e i o s a i
competition and consumer confidence
promote better trade relations."
TO BIO READ SOFTLY
They apparently had not met for
some time. They were sitting in the
twilight together listening to the lan
guorous roll of the sea below.
"And you say that last week you
were in town where 1 live?" she ask
ed softly.
"Uh-huh."
"And you thought of me, John '.'"
"Yep," replied John. "I said to my
belf, 'Whj, 1 remember—thio i* where
wlxat's-her-naine lives!' "—Urchin.
Federal Workers
On Low Salaries
Wrong Impression Created
By High Averages of Civil
Service Commission
Washington, D. C.—After a thor
ough analysis of the statistics made
public by the U. S. Civil Service Com
mission regarding the average sal
aries paid to Government workers,
President Charles I. Stengle of the
American Federation of Government
Employes said the method pursued by
the Commission in deriving the "aver
age" remuneration of Government em
ployes was exaggerated because of
the excessive number of high salaried
officials included in the estimate.
More than half of the Government
employes in the District of Columbia
get salaries ranging from $1,000 to
$l,S0O, and three-fourths of the em
ployes covered by the Commission's
inquiry receive less than .$2,200 an
nual salary, he said.
The text of Mr. Stengle's statement
follows:
"The Civil Service Commission made
public the results of a survey of Gov
ernment salaries, taken by the samp
ling method, and announced, as a re
sult, that the average salary in the
Government service is $1,871, the aver
age in Washington being given as
$2,000 and that in the field as $1,838.
"Doubtless these are mathematically
correct as arithmetical averages, but
they give, 1 believe, an entirely erron
eous impression of conditions in the
Government service. Two points I
wish especially to emphasize:
"First, that because of the large
number of high-salaried officials in
Washington, the 'average' as given
by the Commission is misleading and
second, that the relative large num
ber of Postal Service salaries of $2,000
or better in the field service means
that non-postal field salaries must
average considerably under the $1,838
figure given.
"The Commission makes the situa
tion somewhat clearer when it points
out that more than half the Federal
employes in the District of Colum
bia receive between $1,000 and $1,800,
and that three-fourths of the em
ployes covered by the survey get less
than $2,200.
"The Commission's tables show that
3(5,710 employes in the District get
less than $1,500 a year, and 1,522
less than $1,S0). Of 112,500 employes
in the District, 74,093 got less, and
fewer than 38,000 got more, than
$2,000, which is the group figure clos
est to the 'average' given by the Com
mission, namely, $2,0GG.
"The Commission also points out
that the largest salary group is be
tween $2,000 and $2,190, in which are
included a large number of postal em
ployes and some Customs and Immi
gration groups.
"Just as the high salaries in Wash
ington among top officials weight the
arithmetical average so that it tends
to mislead, the large number of pos
tal and other salaries in the $2,000 to
$2,199 bracket brings up the arith
metical average for the field.
"It would doubtless be a consider
ably lower figure than $1,838, pos
sibly $100 or more lower, if we had
the field service average eliminating
the Postal Service employes, and the
other groups whose pay is fixed by
law at or above the $2,000 figure. The
postal figure is high because postal
employes have long been unionized
and thereby have been able to win
good wages and working conditions."
WOOL LABELING LEGISLATION
Washington, D. C.—Why is "shod
dy" inferior to new wool is answered
by the National Wool Growers Asso
ciation as follows: "First, the process
of tearing up old rugs, rips, breaks,
shreds, splits and frays the already
worn fibei's greatly deteriorated by
wear and service. Second, where cot
ton, rayon or other fibers are present
in the worn rags, the wool content is
further deteriorated by acids used in
burning out the foreign fibers. Third,
the reclaiming process largely breaks
down the original structural formation,
thus decreasing the tensils strength,
the resilience, the wearability and
much of the heat and cold resistence
of the fiber." The Schwartz-Martin
bill now before Congress would require
accurate identification and labeling of
fiber content by woolen manufacturers
as a protection to the consumer.
COST OF MARKETING KEDUCED
Washington, D. C.—L. D. 11. Weld,
Director of Research, McCann Erick
son, Inc., New York City, in a speech
before the 27th annual meeting of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
discussing the need for a reduction in
differential between factory cost and
price to final consumer, said: "Many
people constantly complain that cost
of marketing is altogether too high
and that '.something ought to be done
about it.' Well, something has been
done about it. A most extraordinary
situation has developed in connection
with chain stores. They are by far
the most important development in
marketing in the last fifty years, and
they are the most efficient and cost
reducing mechanism that has appear
ed."
II1PPOLATU.3
Inspector a pair of trousers in his
shop in Athens, a tailor queried, "Eu
ripides
Answered the customer, "Yah, Eu
mcnides."—A wgwan.
It dot-]! require rnudi ammunition
to shoot off your mouth.
Washington, D. C.—A strong pro
test to reduce the three per cent Fed
eral tax on payrolls to provide an ade
quate unemployment compensation
fund for the benefit of millions of job
less in the United States was contained
in a letter sent by President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor to Chairman Robert L. Dough
ton and the other twenty-four mem
bers of the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Emphasizing the admitted fact that
benefits now paid to the unemployed
are far below the amount necessary
to maintain decent living standards
Mr. Green presented unanswerable
arguments in favor of maintaining
the present tax rate and providing
more adequate compensation for the
millions of working men and women
who are thrown into the unemployed
army through 110 fault of their own
The text of Mr. Green's letter fol
lows:
"The American Federation of La
bor is concerned about the proposal
that the Federal tax of 3 per cent on
payrolls under Title IX of the Social
Security Act should be reduced.
"It is only the uniformity of the
Federal tax which has encouraged
States to enact unemployment com
pensation laws and to build up funds
from which benefits could be paid.
"If the Federal tax is reduced, few
States would be able to resist the
pressure from employers to equalize
interstate competitive conditions by
reducing their taxes to the level of
the lowest State, or to the new low
level established by the Federal law.
"The effect on the funds and benefit
systems would be disastrous.
"In many States any material re
duction in the tax rates now would
make it impossible to pay even the
existing scale of benefits. No State
is paying benefits which by any rea
sonable standards can be considered
satisfactory.
"No reduction of rates should be
considered until more adequate bene
fits are adopted and have been paid
for a long enough period of time for
the efTect 011 the funds to be certain.
Standards Are Too Low
"The present low standards of bene
fits, proposed in Federal draft bills
used by most States in framing their
own laws, were never considered ade
quate. They were proposed in the
belief that they were the utmost that
could be paid if the tax rate were 3
per cent.
"Half the members of the Commit
tee on Economic Security which draft
ed the Social Security Act believes
that the tax rate should be higher.
"It is unreasonable now, after only
one year of benefit experience and
with inadequate benefits, to reduce the
tax.
"Benefits must be substantially
raised before any change in tax rate
should be considered.
We strongly urge you to vote
against any reduction.
"One of the recommendations of the
Social Security IJoard for amendment
of the Social Security Act was that
the unemployment compensation tax
provision be combined or made iden
tical with those of the old age insur
ance which relate to employers in or
der to simplify record keeping and re
porting.
Larger Employer Coverage Urged
"Specifically two recommendations
were directed to this end:
'The Board recommends that the
present Federal restriction to employ
er: who have had S or more employes
iii 20 or more weeks during the year
be eliminated r.o that the unemploy
ment compensation provision would
cover all those having one or more
employes, just as in the case of old
age insurance.
'The Board recommends that the
Federal payroll tax in connection
with unemployment compensation be
limited to the first $3,000 of annual
wages, if that maximum is retained
in the old-age insurance tax provi
sions. Though the Board recognizes
revenue somewhat, it believes that
that such a limitation would reduce
this advantage would be counter
balanced by the advantages to be de
rived from making the Federal tax
pro ijioiii identical for both pro
grams.'
THE POTTERS HERALD
MW
A. F. of L. Opposes Any Cut In Payroll
Tax for Unemployment Compensation
"The American Federation of Labor,
aware of the serious disadvantage
mentioned by the Board in the limita
tion of revenue, is nevertheless aware
of the advantages of uniform tax pro
visions for these two parts of the so
cial security program. It feels strong
ly, however, that unless real uniform
ity is attained the fund should not be
reduced by this limitation of the tax
to the first $3,000 of annual wages.
"The American Federation of Labor
therefore respectfully requests you to
consider these recommendations of
the Board together, and to vote
ag'ainst the reduction of the tax unless
coverage is at the same time extended
over employers of one or more at any
time.'*
Pay Law Violator
Sentenced To Jail
Columbus, O. (OLNS).—Mrs. Marie
Amarose, local owner of a chain of dry
cleaning establishments in several
Ohio cities and a consistent violator
of the Ohio minimum wage law, last
week was sentenced to ton days in
jail and fined $100 and costs by Co
lu IMP lis' Municipal Judge Fred J. Mill
er, who found her guilty of violating
the minimum wage law by paying a
woman employe $5 for a week's work.
This was the second conviction of
Mrs. Amarose in two weeks on pros
ecutions pressed by James P. Walsh,
Jr., superintendent of the minimum
wage division of the Ohio Department
of Industrial Relations. She was fined
$100 and costs in Dayton municipal
court on a similar charge of failing
to pay the required minimum wage
for the dry cleaning industry.
Judge Miller scored Mrs. Amarosa
in a statement from the bench before
passing sentence, declaring: "This
Act (the minimum wage act) is one
in which the state protects those who
are driven by hunger to accept wages
that cannot support life and decency.
Lack of the bare necessities of life
compels many persons to accept work
at any wages offered by those who
have no regard for human rights. This
law, in my opinion, should be enforced
rigidly."
SAD TALE
"If you refuse me," he swore,* "1
shall die."
She refused him.
Sixty years later he died.—Widow.
IN THE EARLY DAYS
OF BASEBALL,
UMPIRES WORE
FROCK COATS,
CAARl&O CAA/ES AND
OfflC/A T£D
WHILE SITTING OH
A CHAIR /N SACK
1
OF HOW PlAT£—±
IT C0ST5 THE
U.S. APPROXIMATELY
ANN RUTHERFORD, MICKEY ROONEY
AND VIRGINIA GREY IN "THE HARDYS
RIDE HIGH." WHICH STASIS AT THE
CERAMIC THEATRE SUNDAY.
CO, 000,000
TO BUILD A modern battleship FOR
THE NAW i
THE FIRST UNITED STATES
NAVY COMPRISING EIGHT VESSEL^ COST
ear S/3#.333l the boats were.
BOUGHT AND PITTED Cc to*
THIS SUM AT THE
Cf- THE Jt£\CLur,ZSAJi/ HAJ?—
Ohio Rules Mine
Situation "Strike,"
Denying Benefits
Fewer Unemployed Receive
Benefits From BUC
In April
Columbus, O.—Approximately 0f,
000 jobless workers received $2,527,
348.39 in unemployment compensation
during April, a drop of 7f/r in total
benefit payments from the preceding
month, according to a statement issued
last week by H. C. Atkinson, Adminis
trator of the Ohio Bureau of Unem
ployment Compensation.
Total unemployment checks aver
aged $10.03 while partial unemploy
ment benefits averaged $5.11 for the
month. This was an increase of seven
cents for individual checks for total
unemployment and 24 cents more for
partial unemployment, on an average,
than in March.
Fifteen per cent of the Ohio claim
ants received regular checks for $15
and 50 per cent of the checks were
for $10 or more, the Administrator's
report states. Since last January,
over $(,750,000 has been paid to cov
ered unemployed workers in Ohio.
An increase of 87'f in initial claims
received for April as compared with
March was attributed to conditions in
the mining areas of the state, where
a shutdown of operations has been in
effect for several weeks.
Administrator Atkinson ruled last
week that "conditions existing in the
Ohio coal mining region constitutes a
strike", and denied the applications of
13,820 workers for unemployment
compensation for that reason. An ap
peal to the Board of Review of the
BUC from the Administrator's decis
ion is expected.
Compensation benefits disallowed by
this decision would have reached
about $2,800,000, as approximately
15,000 workers in about 1,000 mines
are affected, according to BUC esti
mates.
A report of the Ohio State Epiploy
ment Service division of the BUC re
vealed that placements made with
private employers during April total
led 10,354, an increase of 20 per cent
over March and G3 per cent over April
a year ago.
Applications for employment were
received from 32,958 persons-who reg
istored for the first time with the Ser
vice, an increase of 11 per cent over
March. The active file of job ap
plicants numbers 429,917, the report
stated.
THE POCKETBOOK
of
KNOWLEDGE
B/
TOPPS
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VANV
THE PEOPLE OP
SYRIA ALWAYS,.
EAT 2 U/NPS
OF CHEESE
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bSS
l6.272.QOO SAVINGS DEPOSITORS IN
I9IO LA5T YEAR THERE WE«?c
4^ 226.
776 A 173CREASE
"V -£SS THA.V SO EAKs.
Seek More Liberal
Rules For Lawyers
Government Service Would
Be Kept Open For Night
School Graduates
Washington, D. C.—The American
Federation of Government Employes,
affiliated with the A. F. of L., is en
thusiastically backing the bill intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Mor
ris Shepoard of Texas (S. 1010), to
keep the government service open to
graduates of night law schools and to
lawyers who may have had no for
mal training.
In explaining the bill, the A. F.
E. said:
"There has been in recent years a
strongly backed movement to increase
the educational requirements for ad
mission to the bar, and what is per
haps considerably more important so
far as the Government service is con
cerned, certain agencies apparently
are disposed to refuse appointments
to legal positions except to graduates
of 'approved' law schools."
Representatives of many law
schools, legal fraternities and other
associations, appeared before a sub
committee headed by Senator Neely
of West Virginia to use the passage
of the bill.
President Charles I. Stengle of the
American Federation of Government
Employes was among the witnesses.
He contended that restrictions on the
opportunities afforded qualified attor
neys in the Government service run
counter to the spirit of the President's
executive orders for a career service.
He strongly supported the bill.
Dr. John R. Fitzpatrick of Colum
bus University presented endorse
ments of the bill from various or
ganizations. William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
sent a letter urging its passage.
Walter Bastian, president of the
National University Alumni Associa
tion and a former president of the
District of Columbia Bar Association,
said that organized labor must sup
port the hill, since otherwise there
would be a stratification of the legal
profession and only young people
from families of wealth would be able
to become lawyers.
Peach Eaters Aid
California Union
San Franci.co.— A nation-wide ap
peal to members of Organized Labor
to buy more canned peaches to pro
tect hard won conditions for Union
cannery workers and assist Califor
nia's great agricultural industry which
buys heavily from other industries
throughout the nation, thus affecting
workers in many lines, was issued to
day by the California State Federatioi
of Labor.
"The situation is that we have a
surplus pack of more than 6,000,000
cases of canned peaches from last
year," said Edward D. Vandeleur, sec
retary of the California Federation.
"The canning peach season is al
most here. If the surplus pack cannot
be moved, canning operations will be
cut and thousands of cannery and
other workers will lose employment.
"If the pack is cut the growers must
take heavy losses on their crops. Pack
ers say that unless the surplus is
moved at once only about one-half of
this year's peach crop will be canned
The average yearly return to Califor
nia peach growers is estimated at $10,
0OO,o"0. A one-half crop canned mean.
a $5,000,c0 cut to the growers alone,
to say nothing of what Union Labor
will lose, and the general effect on
business.
"We are therefore appealing .ill
members of Organized Labor U
IJUV
two cans of peaches a week to help
dispose of the surplus, or ask for
peach pie or preserves in their eating
places.
"Remember, we have only organized
the workers in the canning industry
in the past two years and after a hard
fight succceded in winning improved
conditions ami higher wages for them.
If heavy unemployment occurs this
year it will weaken the structure we
have built at a heavy cost.
"Without going into statistics, it is
a matter of record that the growers
and workers in our agricultural indus
try buy millions of dollars worth an
nually of everything from tobacco and
the luxuries, to flour and grain, ccreal,
sugar, rubber, glass, electrical and
chemical products, to tin, iron and
teel, machinery, automobiles and an
.'idless list of manufactured products.
"The great buying power of the
agricultural industry, as well as work
ers in ail lines dependent upon it
throughout the nation will be impaired
if the surplus peach pack is not sold.
"California canned peaches are
cheaper this year than ever before.
Research by governmental agencies
show they are high in important vi
tamins. They are usable in a variety
of ways, and make particularly de
licious pie and other bakery products.
''We therefore, earnestly appeal to
all members of the Labor Movement
to give us their help in this situation
in the interest of all workers who
might be affected by failure of this
year's peach canning crop."
NOT ON HER L11L:
iv.if.: "Decline 'love,' Miss
Miss Jones: "Decline love, profes
r? Not me."—Georgia Cracker.
The man who really know. iumself
doesn't tell all he knows.
The fellow without wee 1^ nioie
than often without virtue.
PAGE
On Capitol Hi
By GEORGE L. KNAPP
Washington, D. C.—Washin
being invited to take a frank 1
itself, as Eugene Pharo put it
Washington Post. The Departm
Research of the Council of
Agencies here has drawn up a
of maps and figures which te
truth about the national capita
the truth, and the whole truth,
any American large city—and
palling proportion of small citi
villages—is calculated to ma
patriotic citizens squirm.
Slums anywhere are a social
but slums in Washington are
inexcusable. There is money ai
er here to wipe out such thing
it was left for the first Mrs. Wo
Wilson to lead a fight against
dwellings and I doubt if all of
are gone yet. There are plen
other slums in the capital, and
of them are shown on the "rent
which is the first to be published
empha.-izes the southwest, sou
and northeast sections. Take
up New Jersey Avenue, with
sions here and there to the left
walk a mile west on street,
your eyes open as you go and
come back knowing that ther
slums in the high-toned northwes
tion, too.
It is devoutly to be hoped
Council's revelations will be s.
the farthest corners of the co
for many reasons. To name
Washington belongs to the
country, and the whole country
terested as never before in the
that the Council has been prr
And, as in practically every soci
vestigation of the last three
WPA had a large hand in the
1
The high cancer death rate of
ington can be explained, not ext
ol part by the fact that a larger
portion of people have reachet
cancer age in the capital, than in
other cities. The writer remer
well writing back home from his
visit to this city "Washington
city of old men you see at least
as many of them, in proportio
Capitol Hill as in the Loop of
cago." But to live to the age
cancer is most prevalent is jus
same economic problem in W3&
ton that it is everywhere else, "i
"J
A .-urvey of the Works Pro
Administration shows that the
age age of workers is just und
years, and that the average ter
employment is a little over a
One out of six—16.7 per cent
been employed by WPA for
years or more and a heavy pie
derance of long term workers
about 45 years of age. Adminisi
Harrington sums up thus:
"Workers have been on
WPA program for an avera
continuous period of barely 0.
a year, and 70 per cent of
workers were assigned after
depression period beginning
the fall of 1937. ... In the mai
the WPA is providing tempora
work and incomes for unemploy
workers during periods of thr
individual emergencies betwc
regular jobs."
Some day, perhaps, this nation
get up to the standard set by Col. 1
rington when he took his present
sition as head of WPA, that
work will be provided for wot
when private "enterprise*' fails
investigate Fraudulent
Claims For Ccmpensat
Columbus, Ohio.—Investigation
fraudulent compensation benefit i:t
has been inaugurated by G. S. Kai
baugh, director of the unemploj. n
compensation division of the B.11
of Unemployment Compensation.
"It is possible that ignorance
misunderstanding of the law
cause certain innocent persor
make violations. Therefore, wc
should obtain accurate inforn.a
from one of our bureau reprcsentaii
concerning the requirements of
Ohio law," Mr. Kallenbaugh pt
out.
"To qualify for benefits, an tv
ployed man or woman must i
worked during 20 weeks for a co
employer in the year immediu
prior to filing of claim. Max
benefits for total unemployment, u
the law, are one-half the av
weekly wage, to be paid the w
for not more than 10 weeks.
"Certain kinds of employment
not covered by our state law ear
under such employment are not
ed as benefit credits.
"The exempt employments an
ricultural labor, domestic service
private home, service as officer
crew of a vessel on navigable wai
of the United States, govern men.".
ployment, family employment, or
vice for non-profit charitable ani
ligious institutions," Kallenbaugh
JOHN CLRTIN DIES
Toledo, O. (OLNS,1.—Funera1
vices were held here May 9 foi
E. Curtin, 3G, executive secrett
the Toledo Central Labor Union
1937, who died unexpectedly &
home May 0 of a heart attack. I
leaders served as active pall br'
while the honorary pall bearer,
eluded civic as well as labor leadc
A Resolution expressing regret
adopted by the Ohio House of Ri
sentatives from Lucas County ir
91st and 92nd General Assemblie..
Never otand un your dignity thci
nothing- in the world so slippery.