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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Woman's World Using Cotton Bags for Garments Reduces Fabric Cost to Trifle £!rtta 'T'HESE days there’s a price tag x jt\ everything, so when we do come across something free we real ly stand up and cheer. What is free, you aoK? Flour bags, for in stance. Those of you who buy flour or feed in large quantities know that the material in the bags is well worth sewing effort, and they can be made into some of the most attractive gar ments you’ve ever seen. I’ve seen many attractive prints in such bags that make lovely blouses or table linen. And that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of their pos sibilities. Don’t scorn the white bags either, not with all the attractive colors that are available in dyes. Two. or three of the white bags can be dyed at the same time, and there’s at least three or three and a quarter yards of material there for an at tractive school dress for the teen- aged daughter. Most women recognize the value ,of flour, feed, sugar and salt bags, but too often their eyes are closed to their possibilities for anything ex cept towels. However, experience proves that we can use bag fabrics for not only those things already mentioned but also skirts, draperies, coveralls, lingerie, pillows, etc. Just ask some bright 4-H girl how many things she can name that can be made from cotton bags, and she’ll amaze you. A drum bonnet, designed by Sally Victor, is made, of smoky white felt with a band of gold braid across the front of the crown to accent the mink scarf that forms a snug wrap around the shoulders. Cotton Bags Make Year-Round Dresses You don’t have to confine wearing apparel out of cotton bags for just the warmer months. After all, cot tons are a year-round fabric. Be fore you begin a dress project, for example, collect enough of the bags so you can cut out an attrac tive pattern. Then rip these apart and dye them carefully to a shape that will fit you perfectly. Collect several cotton bags . . . Dry the material and press very carefully. It’s no fun trying to cut and sew something that looks worn and wrinkled, so prepare ‘he ma terial to look like freshly cut bolt goods. Some of the choices which you can sew beautifully from cotton bag fab ric are these: A tailored but cas ual dress with long or three-quar ter length sleeves with contrasting colored stitching as the main trim ming ; a full-skirted dress with touches of dainty eyelet or lingerie trimming in the sleeves and at the edge of the skirt; a tailored dress made of two different colors that blend well together. This may be print and plain material combined, or two .solid colors combined. Lay out the pieces of your pat tern on the material before you do any cutting whatsoever. The fabric guide of the pattern will not be of too much help, inasmuch as you are using material which will not fit reg ulation yard lengths. Do not cut until you have fitted everything to gether and then pinned the pattern to the fabric. Pinking shears are ideal for finishing the edges of this cotton material. To make pretty dresses. After the material is cut, sewing is done just as you would on any other dress, no matter what the fab ric. Just because you are using cot ton bags, however, don’t get care less with the sewing. Give it all the care you would if you were mak ing a dress out of ten dollar a yard material, and the results will be well worth the effort. How to Prepare Cotton Bag Goods Get the whole family to help you in collecting the bags and make sure you have enough of them be fore you start on your pet project. As soon as you get a bag, rip it apart and remove the labels. The different type labels respond to dif ferent methods of removal. On some bags, they can be removed by soak ing in warm soapsuds overnight. Pre liminary scrubbing, soaking and boiling will take out others. Exposure to direct sunlight is a good method of bleaching the bags in many cases. When labels do not respond to the above outlined treatments, soak the bags overnight in kerosene or tur pentine, then wash in soap and water. If any color remains, treat them with a commercial bleach. Always remember which treatment works best with certain kinds of bags and file the information for future reference. If you are unable to remove all trace of the label, finish the job by dyeing one of the darker colors that will cover up the last traces. Dark brown, navy blue, da r k gray, green or black are deep entugh for this. Black is the only one which will completely cover a black ink label. If you want to use bag material for lingerie, use the light-weight ma terial and dye in lovely pastel shades such r.s pale pink, yellow or blue. Heavier bags may be used for cov eralls, work smocks, skirts and slacks. In-between weights of ma terial are good for draperies and curtains, pillows and table linens. Trimmings of all kinds add a dressed-up, finished appearance to any garment, especially if cotton bag material is used. Select it with as much care as you do the colors of your dress. Ironing Problems The way your dress looks after laundering depends a great deal upon the ironing technique you employ. Here is the approved order. Iron sleeves first, then the blouse. Then turn to the skirt and iron the hem up and down, never across the width of the hem. Iron collar and trim mings last. Pleats: Iron the hem and the skirt on the wrong side first. Put the pleats in on the right side with a pressing cloth over the fabric to prevent shine. If there are a lot of pleats, pin or baste them in place, then press. Al ways iron with the grain of the material. Shoulders: Use a sleeve board or tailor’s cushion to make them neat and smooth. Adjust the cap of the sleeve over the tailor’s cushion and press the shoulder as far down as the iron will take it. Avoid poking iron into the seams. Zippers: Close zipper before ironing, then place a thick towel under the zipper, a pressing cloth over it. This prevents an ugly, shiny ridge. Fashion Flashes Extravagant gold embroidery shows off well on rich black suits, and you’ll see the same motif on hats, both black, brown and other colors. The suits that are soft in silhou ette and detail are the most impor tant suit news of the year. They outclass the fussy ones in appear ance and wear many times better. If you’re removing some pearl trimming from an old dress, try using it on a hat. It’s being dona very effectively. Pouffs on gloves are another fash ion note you’ll want to use to advan tage on dressy gloves. These pouffs can frequently be sewed on gloves in a contrasting material. Two or three pouffs are the fashion. yUeotfame ^onut RepxviteJi in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspondent WNU Washington Bureau 1616 Eye St.. N. W. ‘Valley Authorities’ Favored By Secretary of Interior Krug R epercussions of the speech delivered in Seattle recently by J. A. (Cap) Krug, secretary of the interior, in which he boldly advocat ed passage of the Columbia Valley authority bill, creating an autono mous regional authority independent of the interior department, for de velopment of the Columbia river valley, are being felt here in Wash ington. They are being felt par ticularly by the die-hards within the department itself. Harold Ickes, long-time predeces sor of Krug as boss of the interior department, found such valley au thorities distasteful and sought by every means to keep within his de partment all the power possible over extension of reclamation, flood control, power (Manufacture and oth er public land development. In so doing, he made the bureau of reclamation the largest manu facturer of electric power in the world. Paradoxically, we do not hear the fervid objections to this government manufacture of power, from utility and other opposition in terests, that are expressed against TVA, which manufactures electric power on a much smaller scale. But Secretary Krug has knocked into a cocked hat any idea that le would follow in the Ickes traditions when he told the Public Ownership league in the state of Washington that “there has been extensive, bit ter and confused controversy over the best method of attaining the most efficient and effective federal government support and encourage ment for that sorely needed eco nomic development. That contro versy focused on the Columbia Val ley authority bill which my good friend. Sen. Hugh Mitchell, intro duced into the last set don of con gress. “The idea of that bill was sound, the principles were right, the ob jective was not only desirable, but, in my opinion, essential to the rapid development of this region. I wish to endorse the idea, principles and objective.” Ready to Fight BOOKS ‘TALK’ FOR BLIND . . . Sightless readers get an inkling of the personalities of leading authors through the Talking Book editions of their works. Here Edna Ferber, at the New York sound studios of American Foundation for the Blind, places part of her autobiography, “A Peculiar Treasure,” on the record. PERSONALITY ON PLATE Talking Books Give Sightless Inkling of Author’s Identity WNU Features Voices of many of the nation’s leading authors now reach blind men and women throughout the ^country on the long- playing phonograph discs of the Talking Books. Main objec tive of the new policy of having well-known writers person ally record at least a portion of the Talking Book edition of their works is to give blind people an inkling of the authbr’s personality, it is explained by American Foundation for the Blind, with headquarters in New York. The foundation re cords these volumes in sound for the<s>- Library of Congress. Some writers personally record whole volumes. Jan Struther read all of her “Mrs. Miniver” on the Talking Book discs while recently Glenway Westcott completed re cording in full his best seller, “Apartment in Athens.” For the six hours necessary to record it, John Mason Brown read all of his book, “Many a Watchful Night.” Trained Readers Aid. Usually, however, the author reads merely his introduction or his first chapter, the recording then being completed by a trained read er from stage and radio. Authors who have co-operated with the foundation in recording the Talking Book editions of their works include Somerset Maugham, Lin Yutang, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Mann, Edna Ferber, John Kieran, Oliver LaFarge and Dor othy Caruso. Talking Book editions reach blind people without the slightest cost to them. The discs, after being re corded, are placed by the Library of Congress in 27 regional libraries from coast to coast which operate departments for the blind. The discs travel back and forth between the libraries and blind Talking Book readers postage free. Range Is Wide. Tne Talking Book brings to the sightless every type of reading mat ter from the Bible to best-sellers. Each side of a record plays for more than 15 minutes reading time, and the electric machine, which resembles a portable phono graph, is easy to operate by touch alone. \ Talking Books are a gift to blind people from the American taxpay er, underwritten by an annual ap propriation by congress for “Books for the Adult Blind.” Thus equalling his predecessor in plain-spoken bluntness, Secretary Krug has thrown down the gaunt let for another bitter fight in the 80th congress over passage of this bill, and also, although he did not mention it, the bill creating a Mis souri Valley authority for the same purposes in the Missouri river basin. Both these bills follow the pattern of the Tennessee Valley authority, and one of the reasons why the two bills, the Columbia river and the Missouri bills, did not get out of committee in the last congress was the veiled opposition by Secretary Ickes, who was reluctant to give up his authority over the projects. With Krug it is different. “I would like,” he said, “to give up some of my power and authority exer cised at Washington and see it ex ercised here.” Krug gave some pointed replies to what he termed “misconceptions” arising about such a regional river basin development body. First, such a body would not in crease federal power in this area. Second, it would not create a “su per federal government,” but mere ly relocate the focus point of cer tain federal powers and functions already in existence. Third, it would not replace the fed eral agencies performing functions in this area which are clearly but a part of a general national program. Fourth, such a body would not interfere with the rights of existing water ( users. Fifth’, power would not displace irrigation as the prime responsi bility of the federal government. Sixth, such a body would not in terfere with states’ rights. Benefit to All “The only honest complaint I’ve heard about setting up an authority in the Columbia valley region is that it would spread low-cost pub lic power more rapidly and more widely, would develop land and min eral resources of the area more quickly and fully, and would with greater success provide the econom ic basis for a substantial increase in population and living standards.” Whether Secretary JCrug also will champion the Missouri Valley au thority bill, introduced by Senator Murray of Montana, is not known. His influence in behalf of the Co lumbia river bill will most certainly put the measure in a position to re ceive more generous congressional consideration than was given the Missouri valley measure. In the meantime, the experts in charge of reclamation and irriga tion, the land office and other de partments affected are decidedly upset over the thought of losing con trol of their projects in the Colum bia valley in the great northwest and the opponents of regi^al con trol of river developments already are marshalling their forces. Johnwc (p.u&jorwiA. CtAAiuruL Sonia. (RdIsl ATLANTA, GA. — Children the world over are basically good of heart, Atlanta’s ex-prisoners of war insist as they map plans for play ing Santa Claus to the youngsters of Bad Nauheim, Germany. The project is being undertaken by the Atlanta chapter of the Barbed Wire club, composed of former pris oners of war. “The Barbed Wire club selected as its first project the job of play ing Santa Claus to little German children. We remember they were our friends,” declared Horace Wood, club president, in appealing for donations of toys and dolls. Wood, former infantry lieutenant who spent five months as a prisoner of war in Germany, recalled an in stance when a German youth gave him a light for his cigarette. “There were other times when lit tle children along the street would give us cheese and bread. This food tasted good to a prisoner of war," Wood insisted. CAMDEN, N. J. — Among the unusual housing plans revealed by the National Association of Housing Officials is the search underway in the Camden area for a surplus navy vessel to house 50 families now without shelter. The drive is adned at procure ment of one of three unfinished and | Idle vessels in the Philadelphia- Camden area. The ship would be used to house evicted and veterans’ Musical Pillow Is Aid to Harmony NEW YORK. — Science’s latest contribution to harmony in the bou doir is the musical pillow—stuffed with radio. Step by step electrical engineers have been attempting to overcome the pitfalls of marriage with such' annoyance eliminators as electric' blankets, spot lighting — and now musical pillows “for individual lis tening.” The pillow speaker is the size of a silent butler and about the same' shape. It plugs into a bedside radio and can be slipped into the pillow case with no one the wiser. Although the manufacturers guar antee the device is shockproof, they v/on’t say the same about the programs that come out of it. The musical pillow, which made its debut in army hospitals, now has been offered for home use. An air line has tested it on some of its runs and is planning to pass out melodic pillows to passengers on trans-oceanic hops. families until more adequate shel ter is available. Welfare agencies back'd by the Community Chest are leading the drive for the housing facilities. A similar housing plan already i* in effect at Alabama Polytechnic in stitute, which is using 93 tugboat deckhouses at Auburn for student veterans. Each unit houses two men with a “second story” pilot house which can be used as a study. GOOD FOR EVIL . . . Preparing for another invasion of Japan, this time carrying the gospel instead of bombs, Jacob Deshazer, one of the orig'nal Doolittle raiders, is shown with his bride as they take a lesson in Japanese at Seattle Pacific college. Idle Vessel Sought for Housing 60 Million Fingerprints on File; Six Million Criminal The fingerprint files of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation now contain the prints of approximate ly 60,000,000 persons, only 6,000.000 : of whom are individuals arrest ed for criminal offenses or as sus pects, says Collier’s. Of the oth ers, 5,000,000 are men, women and children whose prints were regis tered voluntarily for the purpose of personal identification. 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