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Show Page SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1952 THE JOURNAL 2 SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS THE READER'S DATE BOOK' 0 Main Street and the World Some Promotion Ideas Could Be Fun for the Patient Housewife Average Citizen Is Saving More, Sales and Profit Survey Reveals The National Association of Retail Grocers has come up with a promotion that should be a lot of fun for the housewife, especially if hubby is the kind of fellow who belittles his wifes kitchen activities. Even if he is one of those men who does not stand in awe of the frying pan, it still should be good fun. man of the With the idea of transforming the kitchen-helpleof efficient Association the National house into an emergency cook, National as has Retail Grocers designated Sunday, January 27, Husband in the Kitchen Day. On this last Sunday in January. NARGUS is suggesting that the husreached thousands of individuals band take over the cooking duties with specific help in budgeting, spein order to gain experience and cific materials for school and youth organizations, industries and other civic groups. NARGUS But the committees main objecplans to make this tive is to teach thrift to the nation an annual event, as a whole, to get the nation living with the objective within its means. This can be acthat local mer-- y complished only with thrift in the chants tie in with home and local community. the promotion Thrift In the minds of most We shouldn't assume that the people means merely saving housewife can be in the kitchen money, W. W. Townsend, nafor three sure meals a day, 52 tional economist, said recently. weeks a year, said Mrs. R. M. However, the word carries an of Kiefer, secretary-managbroader connotation. infinitely NARGUS. The man who can Thrift is living within our means, sling a handy skillet Is never at consuming less than we produce a disadvantage when his wife building character by makes a trip home to mother, to making provision for our own detakes her bed with an attack clining years and the continuing of migraine or has a night cut comfort of those we leave behind with her bridge club. ey when we pass is a means to all these ends, but is not the end itself. These ends are found in the purchase ol a home paid for out of subsequenl earnings, the buying of life insurance to provide an estate at once in case we die, giving our children the higher education which should increase their earning capacity and going into business for ourselves with capitol we have accumulated. These are examples of thrift, and all these applications of the word have contributed to the growth and prosperity of our nation. The fate of the nation depends upon whether we live within oar means or beyond oar A pamphlet entitled What Every means, individually or collecMan Should Know About Cooking, tively, Townsend concluded. published by NARGUS, is being disNational Thrift Week will be pubtributed free of charge by the asso- licized in home town papers and ciations headquarters office at 360 national magazines. It is a good N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, time to begin the lesson of thrift Illinois. in the home. Mrs. Kiefer proposes that the housewife take time out to help her husband learn some simple, tasty New Jersey Group dishes. Among the things she sug- Seeks Old Glasses gests he learn about cooking are In 1933, when the late Mrs. Arthur how to bro;i a chop, fix a juicy, E. Terry was working in a Red hamburger, or add a little Cross food station in New York City, flourish to canned stew. she noticed that many people could On National Husbanu it the not sign their names because they Kitchen Day, NARGUS sugcould not see. They could not see gests that the husband be given because they needed eyeglasses, and could not afford to buy them. She discovered that there was no service which would supply eyeglasses to these people, and thus set up her own project to take care of this need. After first begging from her friends for their discarded eyeglasses, and then appealing through newspaper articles, magazines, and the radio, the packages began coming into Short Hills to the Eyeglass from every state in the Lady union, and from several foreign countries as well. Her idea was tc turn discards into something useful In the years since 1933, her idea has developed Into a fall charge of the kitchen, even smoothly running system. It is to the cleaning up job. Boy, how this: eyeglasses from those who he is going to like that! no longer need them are put to is that proper use, and thus supply new However, it emphasized, when his wife is in regular control glasses and artificial eyes for of people each year. thousands of the situation, the husband should to 1951, more than 62,000 peoUp keep out of the kitchen. No woman wants a straw boss standing around ple had been helped. Distribution of new glasses and while shes preparing meals, Mrs artificial eyes is as uncomplicated Kiefer said. by red tape as possible. The need for optical scrap Is Thrift Week greater now than ever, as the de17-2- 3 mands upon New Eyes for the Set for January Needy is ever increasing. Please The National Thrift Committee, help by sending your old eyeglasses the sponsor of National Thrift Week and gold and silver scrap to New has been working Eyes for the Needy, Inc., Short (January ), for 35 years in the field of thrift Hills, New Jersey. As 30-d- ay cease-fire-lin- ss confidence in the culinary depart-ment- . home towners had expected, the proviagreement in Korea expired without final agreement between the Communists and the United Nations in their peace talks. As a result, it will be necessary to redraw the cease-fir- e line whenever all other armistice points are settled." Although progress in the talks has been slow, the over-a- ll picture is to show. are Results beginning encouraging. most important, is the slackening of fighting, reFirsthand possibly in in a number of casualties on both sides. This the sulting great drop is to as continue long as the talks are in progress, because, policy likely We will not sacrifice as Gen. James A. Van Fleet told correspondents: our men needlessly. What is the use of thousands of casualties If it is questionable what good they would do? Second, the United States and its allies have a general idea, although somewhat inaccurate, of the number of fighting men held by the Communists in their prisoner-of-wa- r camps. United Nations, negotiators, however, are still pressing for a full accounting of more than 50,000 unlisted Allied prisoners. The U.S. has asked specifically what has become of 1,058 Americans not on the official Red prisoner-of-wa- r list. How soon a final agreement can be reached in the talks is anyones guess, but distrust on the part of both sides will not hasten it. As an example, the Reds charge the lack of agreement due to extraordinary arantics . . . colossal bungling, criminal negligence, and master-rac- e Americans. the rogance by On the other hand, the Allies charge the Communists have run true to form . . . With few exceptions the talks have been marked by the familiar Red pattern of delay, deceit, and diversionary tactics. PEACE TALKS e sional ORDERED TO SAVE . . . Superior Judge Frank Swain, Hollywood, ordered actress Diane Cassidy to invest 10 per cent of her salary in savings bonds after she argued she was having difficulty living on 3200 per week and paying back debts from her income. er self-disciplin- e, PRICE CUTS Rural and small town families, by far the largest of mail order patrons in the country, are wondering if the angroup on thousands of items by the firms located in Chicuts nounced price cago is an indication of things to come during 1952. Midwinter sales catalogues of the four biggest mail order houses in the business list lower prices on thousands of items. It is the biggest cut in years. One firm cut the price on an refrigerator from $262.72 to $212.75, a 25 per cent mark down on mens shirts, and price reductions ranging from 80 cents to $2.30 on tires from last falls levels. The firm also listed 400 price cuts on both wood and metal fuhuture. on.-Mon- well-brown- 17-23- Their program THE OLD SOCK According to Secretary of Commerce Sawyer the average citizen in the home towns of the nation are putting more and more of their money in the old sock and keeping it there. He says savings are greater now than at any time in the last five years. Sawyer is all for this saving spree of Americans amounting to an annual rate of $22,000,000,000 because he believes it has helped turn the tide against rampant inflation. He warned, however, that if Americans spend these savings in a new wave of buying, inflatary pressures will surge up again. Personal incomes rose from $225,000,000,000 in 1950 to $251,000,000,000 in 1951. Now, in the early days of 1952, the rate is about $260,000,000,000. ed National education. GRADE . . . Jockey Charlie Burr rode his 300th winner of 1951 recently at Tropical Park, Fla., recently aboard Four No Trump in the eighth race of the day. He became the seventh jockey to ride 300 winners in one year. MAKES has (Released by WNU Fliliril.) SALES SAG The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, in a report of business conditions during the last quarter of 1951, said sales in the nation dropped under the previous quarters level for the first time since 1949. The report also said the profit sag, which began at the end of 1950, continued with manufacturers returns' amounting to 15 per cent before taxes and 23 per cent after taxes. Sales fell off $2,600,000,000 during the period. Only four of the 22 industries covered in the report recorded an increase of profits before taxes in the third quarter of last year. They were petroleum, food, tobacco, and apparel and finished textiles. The commissions did not attempt to interpret the general decline in business. It was obvious, however, that decline was due to a consumer buying lull that started early in 1950, shar increases in defense taxes, shortages of materials and controls on scarce metals. Most observers believe the trend can be expected to continue during the early part of this year. GOP CIRCUS The race of Republicans to secure the GOP president nomination is taking on the atmosphere of a circus so many are joining the show that spectators are going to miss some of the acts. The latest is Harold E. Stassen.- Already active are Sen. Robert Taft of Grune-walOhio and Gov. Earl Warren of California. Remaining to join the big d . MYSTERY MAN . . Henry mops face after refusing to show is Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, considered by many the white hope testify at open tax scandal hearing of the Republican party. in Washington that he had demandThe other candidates had this to say of Stassens announcement: reced. The special Every American has a right to run for President and its well that the a contempt action Republicans should have a wide choice. ommended Taft. His (Stassens) candiagainst him. dacy should stimulate discussion of national issues and he will unWardoubtedly be an important factor in the Republican convention. ren. - sub-committ- ee THE SUMMARY Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose popularity with the American people has increased since the Japanese peace conference in San Francisco, recently summed up the American foreign policy for 1951. Dividing the global picture into four sections, he had this to say: 1951 was a period of progEurope and the North Atlantic The ress and growth . . . The North Atlanticjear Treaty organizations military command has gone forward . . . The important decisions that must be made early in 1952 have to do with the quantity and quality of European military forces, German participation in the defense of Europe, and creation of a European defense community and a European army. The Near and Middle East We lost some ground. Hie Suez waterway and Iranian oil crises offer dangerous opportunities for exploitation by the Kremlin. On the other hand, Greece and Turkey are bright spots. The Far East In Korea, the UN must against a renewal of VOTES AGAINST SELF . . . Communist treachery, even if an armistice guard is signed. Uruguay President Dr. Andrea The Pacific The past year was one in which progress was made Trueba casts ballot In election to abolish presidency and substitute toward building a structure of peace through a series of treaties with for It a nine-ma- n council. The con- Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Japan. stitutional change was approved by a majority of about 29,000 votes. |