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DO YOU KNOW? ....
There's a war boom in babies
Maybe it's draft-dodging, but the basic
explanation is just human psychology.
Women, and men, too, want children
more in war time. They help express
the parents' confidence in the future
as well as their need for security.
Statistics show there'll be 2,500,000
babies in 1942. Maternity wards are
full-space reserved eight months in
advance, with bigger hospital facili
ties in the making.
—V—
"How to Abandon Ship," a new
booklet by Phil Richards and John J.
Banigan, tells how. It should be read
by each and every person going to sea
today. A hand-book of directions on
how to do everything from sprinkling
sulfanamide powder on open shrapnel
wounds to how to kill and eat a polar
bear.
Lifesnits are the answer to most of
the dangers—they keep you warm, are
fireproof (in case of burning oil on
the water) are dark enough not to
attract sharks and are highly buoyant.
A timely little volume and one which
should save many a life if properly
distributed.
Glamor
Earrings lend a "final touch" to
smart summer costumes and are worn
wherever smartly dressed women ap
pear. Some are sleek and shining ear
bobs, others miniature animals and
flowers still others, eye-catching
bangles.
Your beauty operator is just as apt
to bring out a needle and thread as
a box of hairpins when she starts to
set your hair. When hairpins are
scarce you now may have your curls
stitched. The curls are styled and
rolled same as always. Then a needle
and thread is looped through them in
feather-stitch fashion. The sewing is
continued until all the hair has been
rolled into flat even curls, and never
a pin used. It feels more pleasant
than hot pins under the dryer, too.
Then a few snips with a scissors and
the stitches are removed, the hair
combed into soft, natural looking
curls, or brushed out loosely.
It's timely to ask, "How can we
take care of perfume to make it last
as long as possible," now that fine
French perfumes are "out."
FOR
WOMEN
By Mary Moore
Perfumes should always be kept out
of direct sunlight. Strong light and
heat change it or weaken it. Perfume
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deteriorates in contact with air at any
temperature. Keep your bottles tightly
stoppered. If you are buying perfume
for yourself, buy it only in small
bottles. But if you have a giant luxury
bottle, transfer it in small amounts
as needed to your atomizer. Touch a
drop of it to your skin rather than
spray it on your clothes. Perfume has
strange effects on many of the syn
thetic fabrics and dyes being used to
day. But never, never, put perfume
on your skin before going out in the
direct rays of the sun or the results
will be a scorching burn wherever the
perfume has been placed.
At a recent New York fashion show
tunic dresses were prominent in the
models from several of the designers.
One was typically Russian in its side
buttoned tunic line. Made in cocoa
brown, it was worn with a nutria
cossack hat and muff.
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Women
High intelligence is no bar to early
and successful marriage among busi
ness women, according to a survey of
the occupational status and personal
experience of women graduates of a
leading university's school of business
over a 25-year period. Business train
ing and experience are unifying fac
tors in the home, proven by the fact
that 49% of the husbands always con
fer with their wives about important
decisions and problems concerning
their work. It was also proven that
marriage does not have any direct ef
fect upon the salaries of working
women. For the most part, ability
and initiative cause women to work,
regardless of marital status. The
charge of occupational instability
often brought against women cannot
justly be made against the group
studied. It was proven that women
do not change jobs often once they
have found work that is congenial to
them.
Home Front
War economy must reach every
citizen in four principal civilian fields,
food, clothing, transportation and
housing.
Food experts assure us that there
will be no lack of staples. The family
table will be supplied with a balanced
menu through imported goods, such
as coffee, tea, spices, sugar and ba
nanas may not be as plentiful as for
merly.
Don't waste, don't hoard, is OPA's
Consumer Division's advice.
An ample and adequate supply of
warm clothing will be available though
dressing as usual" may not be pos
sible.
Transportation difficulties will mean
fewer trips, fewer out-of-the-neigh
borhood parties and less change of
scenery, but business people and
school children are on the preferred
list.
You should make yourself an old
fashioned scrap bag and save odds
and ends. Save material scraps, zip
pers, flowers, bits of ribbon, old col
lars and cuffs, buttons. They are all
needed somewhere. If you can't save
yourself pennies by refusing old trim
mings, then give them to your "waste
warden." It's now considered smart
to "make do."
Pantry Palaver
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
shows that retail costs of supplying
the dinner table of city families have
gone up 32% since the outbreak of
the war in Europe. The job facing
the OPA is to prevent such a grave
upsweep of food prices as occurred
in the first World War.
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture is asking housewives to buy as
much chicken as possible and to serve
broilers and fryers. In order to en
courage increased consumption of
poultry meat at the time of year when
quantities sold by farmers are great
and prices lower than usual, and in
rder to help conserve pork and other
meat supplies urgently needed for this
ountry's military forces, the Depart
inent of Agriculture is attempting to
i'ocus consumer attention on this sea
ion's record-breaking poultry supply
hrough a national merchandising
campaign.
Some pointers from one of the na
tion's best chefs on cooking chicken
Frying: Half or quarter, then skin
Dry thoroughly with clean white cloth
Salt and pepper by sprinkling and
patting in a mixture blended of 90%
salt and 10% pepper. Dip in ordinary
flour, then into beaten eggs, then into
bread crumbs for Fried Chicken a la
Maryland or into cornmeal for South
ern Fried Chicken. Then place into
wire frying basket and fry at a tern
perature of 375 degrees, shaking
around until golden brown. Place on
a cloth to remove excess grease and
pop into a 400-degree oven for five
minutes to complete the cooking.
Chicken a la King, the favorite of
housewives, th* reigning dish
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luncheons and buffet suppers, can all
be prepared in advance and "thrown
together" at the last minute. Boil or
bake a young fowl and dice. Prepare
pimentoes, green peppers and mush
rooms. Make a cream sauce of flour,
milk or cream, seasoned with a bay
leaf, salt and nutmeg. Saute the diced
chicken in butter with the mushrooms,
peppers and pimentoes. Cool down
with a dash of sherry wine before
adding the cream sauce. Shake the
whole mixture together so as not to
break up or bruise the ingredients.
Let boil up a few moments and add
another jigger and a half of sherry
before serving.
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POLICY IS OUTLINED
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Presi
dent W. L. Allen of the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union has asked the
Western Union Telegx-aph Company
to open negotiations for a 15 per cent
wage increase in accordance with the
wage increase policy set forth by the
National War Labor Board in deciding
the "Little Steel" cases recently.
The board's policy provides for wage
adjustments to meet the approxi
mately 15 per cent increase in the cost
of living, between January 1,1941 and
May, 1942.
In a letter to Ralph H. Kimball,
Western Union vice-president, New
York City, President Allen referred to
the War Labor Board's policy and
said:
"According to the new formula
adopted by the National War Labor
Board, 'if any group of workers av
eraged less than a 15 per cent increase
in hourly wage rates during or imme
diately preceding or following this
period (January, 1941-May, 1942),
their established peace-time standards
have been broken/ and 'those groups
whose peace-time standards have been
broken are entitled to have these
standards re-established as a stabili
zation factor.'
"It is doubtful if in any of the cases
in which our organization has nego
tiated wage increases for the employes
in any particular bargaining unit the
average increase secured for the group
has equalled the 15 per cent average
increase formulated by the War Labor
Board to apply as quoted above.
Unquestionably, Western Union
employes are entitled to at least the
average increase of 15 per cent in
hourly wage rates, less an increase
enjoyed since January 1, 1941, and
am writing to ask whether the West
ern Union will agree to meet with a
committee of the Commercial Teleg
raphers' Union representing all of our
Western Union locals, to negotiate
the immediate application of the War
Labor Board's wage formula or
whether the Western Union will insist
on negotiating separately with each
individual local bargaining unit
"With respect to the approximately
12,000 employes in the Pacific, Lake
and Eastern Divisions (including those
Eastern Division employes located in
New York City) for whom the Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union has filed
petitions for certification with the
National Labor Relations Board, but
for whom we will not be able to ne
gotiate contracts and wage increases
until we are certified by the labor
board as sole bargaining agency,
urge the Western Union to immedi
ately apply to new wage formula of
the National War Labor Board so that
these employes may enjoy the 15 per
cent wage increase to which they are
entitled. I believe that these em
ployes should not be deprived of their
wage increases pending ultimate con
tract and wage negotiations."
Experts must travel a lot and very
fast to retain their standing.
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Lot Angela Examiner.
FACING
THE
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL
Too many people are trying to make
hay while the war lasts. Everybody is
trying to take his bit, from petty
profiteering to wholesale hoggery.
And, as usual, the workers are caught
in the middle.
Price control and rent control were
supposed to stop raids on the poor
man's pocketbook. But the raids still
continue. The cost of living is still
going up. Mr. Henderson's ceilings
are full of holes. They are made of
ubber in many instances or they just
don't cover enough territory.
Now the worker has nothing to sell
but his labor. He can't cheapen his
product "on account of the war." He
can't offer a less expensive service for
greater profit "on account of priori
ties." On the contrary, he has to work
harder and produce more to win the
war. He is giving more and getting
less.
Yet when the worker, milked dry by
myriad profiteers, asks for higher
wages so he and his family can get
enough to eat and carry on, a great
hue and cry is raised about "inflation.
To say that higher wages cause in
flation is just as foolish and evil as
Hitler's contention that Holland and
Belgium were menacing Germany's
borders.
No "Pie" for Labor
Higher wages are not the cause but
the inevitable result of inflation. La
bor is not invading the national econ
omy for purposes of plunder. It
standing its ground in sheer self
defense. Labor is not getting any
pie." It is being handed a crust.
Before going any further with this
statement of facts, let us admit that
are not an expert economist. In
fact, we have a deep and instinctive
distrust of professional economists
knowing from past experience how
figures may be juggled to prove any
lie.
But it seems to us a matter of plain
common-sense that* American workers
today are earning a lot more than
they are getting. In other words, their
productivity has increased tremen
dously. One has only to read news
paper reports of ships being built in
half the time previously required to
get concrete proof of this point. And
this increased productivity is not lim
ited to shipyards. Every war industry
breaking production records and
beating production schedules.
Now labor is paid on a time basis
So if workers produce an article in
less time, it follows that the labor
cost per unit must be cut down. And
since the number of units produced
has mounted so greatly, the savings
in labor costs are correspondingly
heightened.
All of this is incontrovertible. But
while this is happening and while la
bor is saving the government and in
dustry many millions of dollars, the
real wages of the workers are being
slashed by profiteering and inflation
And that means that while the work
ers are earning more, they are getting
less.
The Same Old Greed
Unless the workers are given a part
of the savings in labor costs which
they are achieving by their own toil
America will be killing the goose that
lays the golden egg.
It takes money to live and keep
strong and healthy. The workers are
earning this money. But they are not
getting it. Therefore, the more their
standards are reduced the less efficient
their work will become.
The answer is obvious—pay the
workers a little more toward what1
they are actually earning. But at this
point the reactionary economists and
newspaper editorial writers start
shrieking "inflation." To put more
money in the pockets of workers, they
say, must bring inflation." There is
limited amount of purchasable con
sumer goods, they argue, and if there
is more loose money in circulation
than can be spent for available prod
ucts, inflation results.
In other words, let the rich get all
they want and let the worker starve.
There is the secret behind the solid
wall of opposition to deserved wage
increases! It is completely selfish in
motive. The boys that have don't want
to share with those that haven't. They
don't think Americans should be on
even terms. They haven't yet heard
that when a nation goes to war and
things become scarce, all of its citi
zens must be on an equal footing and
submit to fair and square rationing.
Sure they believe in democracy. But
not when it affects their pocketbooks,
their mansions, their well-stocked lard
ers and their private wine-cellars.
It is not fear of inflation that's be
hind the hysterical opposition to wage
increases. It's just the same old greed.
J. S. Health Sets Record,
Insurance Company Says
New York City (ILNS).—The na
tion as a whole is enjoying the best
health in history, statisticians of the
Metropolitan Insurance Company have
eported. They based the statement
on the record low mortality experi
enced by the millions of industrial
policy-holders of the company.
For the first time, they said, the
mortality rate for the insured group
the January-June period dropped
this year below 8 per 1,000 to 7.7.
Moreover, they added, a new minimum
death rate was recorded for each
month of the half year, except March,
continuing the excellent record of the
latter half of 1941 when new record
low death rates were established
month after month.
llinois Job Placements
Are At All-Time High
Chicago (ILNS).—An all-time high
in the number of Illinois workers
placed in jobs by the United States
Employment Service was set in June,
with jobs found for 30,571 men and
women, Chester W. Hepler, director of
the service in Illinois, announced.
"The predicted absorption of job
less workers into expanding war effort
appears to be definitely under way,"
Hepler asserted. "The June record is
the highest set in Illinois since our
agency stopped referring applicants
to work relief projects."
A further indication of increasing
employment is the agency report that
the number of workers applying for
jobs during June dropped 10 per cent
under the number of job applications
in May.
Priest Gets Factory Job
Cincinnati. The Rev. Alexander
Bogioaca, 55-year-old priest of St. An
drew's Rumanian Orthodox Church, is
now working as an assembly hand for
a machine tool concern. He took a ten
week course at a vocational high
school before getting the job.
"OUR LOAN NO. 738062 is a store manager
who owed a friend some money. The friend
was drafted and needed his cash. That's
where we came in.
"Our loan was made the friend was
paid and everything is "hunky-dory" now.
This store manager tells us he used a part
of our loan to pay his taxes and a past-due
furniture bill. Besides, he was able to start
a family budget and now has extra money
for war savings bonds. That's fine and
dandy. It's just the way we want to help
you, too, whenever you can use extra cash.
Just say the word."
Carl Sanor, Mgr.
Hours—9 to 6:30
Open Monday Night
Electrical Workers' Local
Oldest Member Dies At 93
Freeport, L. I. (ILNS). Charles
Ebel, a founder and oldest member of
Local 3 of New York City, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, died on July 24 at his home here.
He was 93.
In 1891, Ebel loaned the initial
$1,000 out of his savings to form Lo
cal 3, the loan being made during a
strike of electrical workers in New
York. He had held many offices in the
union and at his death was on a union
pension.
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