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THF NP.WRFWWV SUN. NTTWHUPPy. S. C. "^OW is the time to use every scrap of old woolen goods that you have on hand. That old coat the moths got into; the dress from which spots cannot be removed; the trousers that are ragged at the knees—all of the material in these may be made into handsome hooked rugs that you will be proud to own. The square rug in the sketch was designed to fit in a smart dressing table corner. The rose- and-ribbcn design in the chintz skirt and window valance was copied in making a border and center flower for the rug. • • • NOTE: This illustration is from BOOK 19 which also gives directions for three other rag rugs that you may make en tirely from things on hand, as well as directions for making slip covers and re modeling old lumiture. To get copy of BOOK 10 send 15 cents direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Bills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 19 cents for Sewing Book No. 10. Name Address —cover with warm flarmAl —equ£h oular aches, pains, coughs. Breathed- in vapors comfort irritated nasal mem- bmnes. Outside, warms like plaster. Modern medication in a base contain ing old fashioned mutton suet, only 25c, double supply 35c. Get Penetro. For Only 10/Now Dr. Hitchcock s LAXATIVE POWDER That’ll Do It **Your son says he doesn’t want to get married.” “Yeah? Just wait until the wrong girl comes along.” Relief At Last For Your Cough Oreomulslon relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Oreomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION lor Coughs, Ghost Colds, Bronchitis Early Stained Glass The first stained glass in Amer ica was made by Evert Duychinck of Holland, on Long Island in 1635. Gather Your Scrap; ★ ★ Throw It at Hitler! WNU—7 10—44 That Na^in<? Backache May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action Modam Ufa with Iti harry and worry. Improper eating and f exposure end Infeo- _r etrein on the work of the Iddneye. They are apt to become over-taxed end fail to filter excees add and other imporitiaa from the Ufe-giving blood# Yon maw mdTv nagging boctaieho. baa dacha, dlaataeas, getting op nights, leg pains, swelling—feel constantly tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder are somo» times burning, scanty or too frequent urination. Try Doon f f Pitta. Doon’t help tbs kidneys to pass off harmful excess body waste. They have had more than half • ntury of public approval. Are * by grateful uaers everywhesn, 1 nmghborl mended by : DOANS PILLS Washington, D. C. SHOE FIGHT A hot fight is raging backstage between the WPB and the OPA over shoe leather. Inside fact is that the shoes you are wearing are in ferior not entirely because the best leather is rightfully being allocated to the armed forces. That is only part of the story. Another reason why your shoes are inferior and your shoe bill high er is that certain industry moguls in WPB’s leather and shoe branch have been blocking a program to prolong the wear of civilian shoes by the application of wax and oil treatments to soles. The process costs only two or three cents a shoe, but many manufacturers don’t like it because it isn’t flossy enough. They say that consumers prefer shoes with a high, light polish on the sole, though they admit that this polish robs the sole of some of its wearing quality. Bureau of Standards experts have testified at hearings of the senate war-mobilization committee, headed by West Virginia’s Sen. Harley Kil gore, that the use of oil (by actual test) prolongs the life of shoes 14 per cent, while soles treated with wax preparations last from 30 to 41 per cent longer. This has been corroborated by leading industry spokesmen, includ ing Paul C. Wolfer, a vice presi dent of the Douglas Shoe company, who is a consultant in the standards division of the OPA. Wolfer not only urged general adoption of oil- wax treatments but intimated that the government should crack down on the shoe industry and require it. In addition to cutting down the nation’s shoe bill, another factor Wolfer emphasized was wartime conservation of leather. So far, how ever, the OPA has made little prog ress in selling the oil-treatment idea to the WPB. Some manufacturers have adopted the sole treatments voluntarily, but only on a very lim ited scale. The big shoe companies, OPA claims, are antagonistic. In this, they have the potent backing of the WPB’s leather and shoe branch, headed by Lawrence B. Sheppard, a vice president of the Hanover Shoe company. Before the Kilgore committee, Sheppard expounded at length on “manufacturing difficulties'. . . lack of conclusive tests,” and other ob jections to a government order re quiring the oil treatment of soles. His statement was effectively con tradicted by other witnesses, who brought out that tests had been ade quate and that facilities for sole treatments could be installed throughout the country with little difficulty and at small cost. NOTE: The Kilgore committee has finally sent a hot note to Donald Nelson demanding that he issue an order to compel the general adop tion of sole treatments by shoe com panies. • a * DESK ADMIRALS The navy is doing a magnificent Job whenever it goes into action in the Pacific, but members of the. Tru man committee are not convinced that this is true of all the desk ad mirals or their flunkies in Washing ton. Among other things, they are casting a curious eye at the manner in which Adm. Ernie King and his staff preserve the myth of being “at sea” when actually they sit at desks in Washington. To make the myth more realistic, Admiral King lives most of the week on a yacht in the Potomac. It is a small yacht and his multitudinous staff has no room to live there with him. However, they draw extra pay for the hazards of life “at sea.” So when payday arrives, the pay master carries a satchel down to Admiral King’s yacht to pay off the staff. The paymaster knows full well that the men are not on the yacht. However, he goes through this ritual, then comes back from the yacht to the navy department, where he finds the men and gives them their pay. a a • STEEL-WAGE DISPUTE Hard-working Will Davis, chair man of the War Labor board, is hav ing a tough time selecting a panel to settle the vital question of wages in the steel industry. He proposes a panel of three, one representing labor, one the steel industry, one the public, with three alternates. But though he has called up all sorts of people and literally begged them to serve, their patriotism seems deficient when it comes to labor disputes. Meanwhile, the steel companies, faced with retroactive pay for what ever wage decision is finally handed down, are getting restless. a a a THE POLITICAL TREND This department is not afraid of a Fascist government in America. It’s afraid of a Croonist regime. Signs indicate a growing danger. » Down in Louisiana frinstance, the next governor, unless all signs fail, will be a fellow who has leaped into fame as a crooner, guitar player and radio entertainer. He is also a Hol lywood cowboy actor, which helps when the mob makes an appraisal of the qualities of statesmanship in this gooney era. • Jimmy Davis who goes around with his guitar singing “Yon Are My Sunshine,” “It Makes No Dif ference Now,” “Nobody’s Darling” and a fine selection of corny num bers has won the primary and is as good as elected. * This is an age of screwball tastes and if the G.O.P. wants to lick Roosevelt it had better run Sinatra and Crosby. > Statesmanship is of no account to day if it doesn’t record well for juke boxes. • Public leadership cannot quickly be established in America without a good list of ballads, some musi cal instrument and a mike. In Lin coln’s day it was “From log cabin to White House.” Today it’s “From 'Pistol Packin’ Mommer’ To Any Office Within the Gift of the People!” ♦ What a candidate used to do with oratory and a statement of beliefs he now does with “Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet” and "All or Nothing at All.” • Both Wendell Willkie and Tom Dewey are making a fatal political mistake in not proclaiming their candidacy through a rendition of: Mairzy doats and dozy doats And liddle lambzy divey. • Years ago in order to get the votes for public office in this country a man had to have solid opinions, some experience in public office, a platform and an opinion on the tar iff. Now all that is necessary is a Crossley rating. » Down in Texas the question right now is not “What experience has he ever had in government?” but “How many records did he make in the last year?” * Yon can fool all the people some of (he time and some people all the time; and, with a good radio per sonality and a fair musical routine, yon can fool all the people all the time. • • • THE BEACH BELOW ROME Anzio! Just another coastal town! A fair sort of vacation place, sleepy now in winter drabness. A no-ac- count spot in a tough war. That’s what you thought, Joe. Maybe, crashing through it, you called it a bum town. Well, you were right in a way. Two great bums lived there once. Couple of guys named Nero and Caligula! Nero and Caligula, two of the great bums of history. Bums with color and class, but murderers and torturers and tyrants to a fare-thee- well. They were born around An zio. The name of the town was changed on ’em to get rid of the bad taste. Maybe, on a pass from hell, their spirits stood there in the 1 shadows along the beaches when the Yanks landed. They were big, noisy brutal guys, Joe, but craven against odds. They must have been pretty scared when they saw you Yanks leaping ashore from landing craft. • Nice guys, Nero and Caligula! They poisoned their wives and kid dies, when they couldn’t devise something rougher. They were close to all-time tyrants, but in points they didn’t rate up with certain top Nazis. The people caught up with them in time and they got the works. If alive today they would have strung along with Adolf and Benito and Hermann. They were the type. They liked to torture the weak and to kick the helpless around. * Once Caligula held a public ban quet in the middle of a bridge for the fun of seeing it collapse, drown ing the merrymakers. Hitler would have liked that. Caligula did crazy things. He once appointed his horse consul. You know all about Nero, Joe. He was the swastika type. Sweet boy, Nero I He poisoned his own mother for what you would call “a dame.” He killed his own wife. • MERRY-GO-ROUND C New Mexico is more aroused over the Bataan atrocities than any oth er state, because the entire New Mexican National Guard, being able to speak Spanish, was sent to the Philippines and those who survived were captured there . . . FDR may have a hard time carrying the state. <L “The Shortest Route to Japan” is the slogan of the Korean Affairs in stitute, which has just opened of fices in Washington. It is urging use of Korean bases only 600 miles from Tokyo. A star, Nova Pictoris, has just blown up. Looking down on earth, a star’s indignation must be pretty close to the explodir.3 point most of the time these days. • • • Some suggestions were recently made to our airmen that they cut out the highly suggestive names painted on some bombers. They were too rough. We Mlive just heard of one result. One of the bombers that has been doing terrific battling over Germany bears the name “Wabbit Twacks.” \A7 E ALL know the war isn’t over ^ ’ yet—and there isn’t one of ua who knows when' this happy day will arrive. But we at least know it won’t last forever, and that we can’t lose unless we beat ourselves. It ia at this point that I would like to give you a new postwar major profes sional sport—which happens to be bas ketball. I got the tip and the idea from Sergt. Herb Goren, a for mer sporting writer on the N. Y. Sun who is stationed now at the Greens boro, N. C., Basic Training Center No. 10, which rates first among army bas ketball teams. It is Sergeant Goren’s belief that basketball is not only ready for its place in professional sport, but that in addition army and navy teams could turn in a tremendous job for the war effort in the way of bond selling and aiding the Red Cross. I agree with Sergeant Goren. For basketball is the game that has more combined players and spec tators than any other sport. “The best basketball in tbe coun try is played by service teams,” Goren says. “Great Lakes domi nates tbe Midwest. Norfolk Naval Training station and Mitchel Field stand out along the Atlantic coast. Greensboro’s Army Air forces team is cleaning up in tbe South’s tobacco belt. St. Mary’s Pre-flight is the headliner on tbe Pacific coast. “Basketball interest has grown tremendously with its spread to army posts and navy bases. It is altogether likely that the game will emerge in the postwar period on a big-league professional scale. This is a natural outlet for the great bulk of basketball talent that flourishes throughout the service stations . . . a natural outlet, too, for the huge followin'; that has been drawn to the gauie. “Given a Judge Landis to assure its integrity and keep faith with the fans, it can hardly miss. A high commissioner must rule the sport. It is the first step to professional success. “I do not know why such interest cannot now be sustained by playing an Ar.my-Navy basketball game in New York’s Madison Square Gar den. Or in the Chicago Stadium. Put it anywhere—even in Soldier Field—and it would come close to selling out. Sooner or later your basketball fan can visualize a world series that will be the court game’s counterpart of baseball’s October classic.” The Greensboro Team I talked to Sergt. Herb Goren at the baseball writers’ dinner. “I am amazed,” Goren told me, “at the number of pre-aviation ca dets on our post who have become sold on the game. Next to their af fection for the mechanics of flying, they’d rather talk basketball than anything else. “Put such an army team in the Garden against any of the crack navy teams—Great Lakes or Nor folk Naval Training station or any of half a dozen others—and it would be a cinch to swell the funds in Army and Navy Emergency Relief. “Here are a few of the players on the Basic Training Center No. 10 quintet: “Pfc. George Senesky: Holder of the intercollegiate scoring record at St. Joseph’s, Philadelphia, last sea son. He is the choice of Philadel phia sports writers as the outstand ing athlete of 1943. “Pfc. George Mahnken: Six feet eight inches tall—one of the tallest military policemen in the army. He was an All-America center last sea son at Georgetown. “Pvt. Dick Gray: Captain at Vil- lanova two years ago and a profes sional last year in the American league. “The attitude of Senesky may be taken as typical of this whole team. He is a bright boy, and when the war is won he could step into any job and prove his ability. But basketball is in his blood. If the professional game were placed on a big league level, he would be one of the first to join the ranks. “Big Mahnken feels the same way. He is eager to go across—as soon as the basketball firing ceases —but he wants to come back into the sport on a businesslike basis. John points out that there are thou sands of basketball players in the service who hope to see the game conducted on a major league scale, so that they could enlist their serv ices to the thing they know best.” • a a Tunney for Competition “The report or the rumor that I am against competitive sport is just 100 per cent wrong,” Comdr. Gene Tunney, just back from the South Pacific area, told me. “I can tell you this—the navy V- program was worked out in my of fice. This encouraged competitive football, baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming and every other form of competitive sport. I, with other navy men, was completely back of this program. GrantlandRlce n SEWING CIRCLE A BIT early, perhaps, to speak of graduation frocks, but the lovely young miss no doubt air ready is thinking of the time when she will want one of the prettiest, most youthful of frocks that she has ever possessed. This one is a love and can be used as her nicest dance dress later on. a a a Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1941 la In ilzes 10. 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 12. long dress requires 4V« yards 39-lnch material; short dress, yards 39-inch material. Spring Beanty. IT’S a wonder garment—you can *■ use it as the base for half-a- dozen costumes. Wear the jumper with gay blouses—the jacket with separate sports skirts, with slacks. Jacket and jumper worn with As cot scarf makes a smart spring suitl lUOUSEHOlD rllNTS^ Two large staples nailed to the end of a porch step will make a handy bootjack for removing heavy rubbers. ► • • To remove the odor of onions from knife or hands, wash them in cold water. Hot water sets the odor. a a a When making gravy, stir with a slotted spoon. The liquid runs through the slots and does not spill over the stove. • • • If yon have some worn out socks and do not know what to do with them, put them to work in your mop clamp. They will make a fine mop. END UXATIVE HABIT THIS EASY WAY! Millions Now Take Simple Fresh Fruit Drink — Find Harsh Laxatives Unnecessary It’s lemon and water. Yes I—just the juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon in a glass of water—first thing on arising. Taken first thing in the morning, this wholesome drink stimulates bowel action in a natural way— assures most people of prompt, normal elimination. Why not change to this healthful habit? Lemon and water is good for you. Lemons are among the richest sources of vitamin C, which combats fatigue, helps you resist colds and infections. They also supply Bi and P. They alkalinize, aid appetite and digestion. Lemon and water has a fresh tang, too— clears the mouth, wakes you up I Try this grand wake-up drink 10 mornings. See if it doesn’t help you! Use California Sunkist Lemons. You breathe freer al most Instantly as Just 2 drops Penetro Nose Drops open your cold- clogged nose to give S ur bead cold air. utlon: Use only as directed. 25c. 2Vi times as much for 60c. Get Penetro Note Drape .