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Show Hl Phillipr J THE TRADE-IN HOME Dr. Harvey N. Davis of Stevens institute predicts that the postwar world will bring a house that can be traded in for a new one every three or four years. It will be made of paper and plastics and will be delivered de-livered in packages, assembled at high speed and have a prescribed "trade-in value" each year. We assume it will be ordered by color, with a Duco finish, and that every little while pop will hear mora-mer mora-mer say: "Now remember, Chidsey, this is the day you wash and simonlze the bungalow." Can't you imagine the situation when considering the Home of the Future? The folks will be sitting around the old (aged three years) homestead: Mom What was that? Pop What was what? Mom That funny noise I keep hearing. Pop Oh, that's the house. It's beginning be-ginning to RATTLE. Mom Yes, and it's full of squeaks. I suppose we ought to take it in and have it tightened up. Pop How long have we had this home? Mom Lemme see . . . they delivered de-livered it three years ago Fourth of July. Pop Well, there ain't much sense trying to go on in a house much longer than that. It's stood up pretty pret-ty well. Mom I don't agree with you. We had trouble with this house from the minute they delivered it. It never was what you'd call a smooth job. Pop You didn't take the care of It that you should. Mom Now don't go giving me that stuff. I was very careful about this place. Pop Well, I guess I'll phone the builder and see about getting a new one. They've got some pretty smart houses on the market this season. Mom Mrs. Maloney just got a new home and it would knock your eye out. It's got sensationally new lines and comes in three colors. It is heated by radio. Pop That's nutbin'. They're turning turn-ing out a house now that's heated by television, Mom I read about a seven-room job where you can raise or lower the windows by pressing a button. Pop And they say there's a model out this year with a gadget which Installs or removes the screens by hydraulic pump. Mom What do you think they'd allow us on this place? Pop Oh, about 50 per cent of the original purchase price, I suppose. I'll have the man come over and appraise it. What are you doing tomorrow? to-morrow? Mom Why? Pop I thought maybe we could go down and look at a new house and maybe take a DEMONSTRATION! "Urge Clare Luce for Vice President." Presi-dent." Headline. This department is all for Mrs. Luce as vice president. If there is any place in America where glamour glam-our is desperately needed, it is in that office. It would be nice, too, to be able to look at the little girl babies and say: "She has the same chance every other girl has to grow up and become vice president." We can imagine the women making mak-ing regular trips to Washington just to see what the Vice President of the United States is wearing. Says Elmer Twitchell The rubber shortage doesn't seem so critical now after we have..chewed on the wing and neck of the holiday birds. Some of the turkeys we have seen look as if they were retreads. That tie-up racket persists. We went into a store to buy a turkey yesterday find the butcher tried to make us take a goose, a pigeon, a rabbit and some pigs feet as well. The Nazis have a new war weapon, the most terrible of all time. And gosh are they scared of it! A proofreader quit the job today because the Russians had captured 300 more of those towns no two people spell alike. Then there's the fellow who swears he was hijacked on the way home from a turkey raffle. m ... Problem This Is the question that makes Hitler Hit-ler pout: Is Inonu in or is Inonu out? The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad grossed more money than at any time in its his tory in the past year, $179,604,388 This was $23,000,000 over the pre vious year. The common stock U 65 cents a share and the preferrec $2. It just goes to show what I bad influence financial prosperit; can be. |