Show THE GARLAND TIMES UTAH GARLAND WOMAN'S WORLD THE READER'S Floors Can Be Repaired or Carpeted Inexpensively 67 Ertta I ' Haley Easy LD floor are a teal problem anyone can tell you who has lived with them First of all they don’t look nice no matter how loveSecond ly your furnishings they may offer any number of discomforts such as snagging you while and Innumeryou walk squeaking able cleaning problems There are many ways to fix old floors which offer problems and they may cost but little Much of the work does not have to be professional as long as one Is patient and does it carefully What should be done to the floors depends greatly upon the type of house and furnishings you have as well as the purpose of the room In which the floors need attention Some floors may just be worn and as such need care which the homemaker can give to bring them to life again It's surprising what or a few lovely paint or varnish can do to an rugs used discretely old floor It may even be that a coat or two of wax with some polishing an renovate the floor completely Floor Cleaning Treat Old Oak or Soft Wood Floors Accordingly If you have oak flooring In your home no matter how old how battered or how wide the cracks between the boards try to retain the original type of flooring It may be necessary to relay part of a very bad floor of this type with new Milady can stay as crisp and clean as her chlnts apron while doing a grubby chore like mopping If she uses this new sponge mop which has a attachment The mop will absorb up to twenty times Its owa weight in water benzine which should with remove grease Floors been painted before the old finish removed remover they have been waxed preto have have paint When you want to paint old wax with gasoline or Denatured alcohol will remove old shellac These are inflammable materials and should not be used near a flame Old painted floors can also be spattered for good effect The floor is painted green brown or black and While the paint is still damp use red green or white paint with a stiff whisk broom attached to a long handle This will give a effect and take off steel wool viously them Ktep linoUum wsxtd polisbid board to close up bad cracks Use old lumber for this if at all possible so that it will match the original ' floor Old oak floors which are badly marred can be replaced stained and then waxed once a month with an electric polisher If you like ah antique finish stain after replanlng All wood floors will look better when they're waxed at least once a month and they're the kind of floors which people notice when they walk into the room Soil from waxed floors can be removed by going over the floor with a clean damp cloth dipped lightly in turpentine or liquid polish and cleaner The floor should be allowed to dry before polish is applied Soft wood floors found frequently in old homes of the Colonial and cottage type may also be replaned and waxed for a new look If however they are in poor condition they may be painted in dark green maroon brown blue or black If they are being painted for the first time the floors should be washed with soap and water Go over them with a cloth dipped in rugi frit from mil Floors Need Beyond Linoleum dtrt snd grit Repair If the floors are in such bad shape that they cannot be repaired or if the expense is too great it is best ONCE OVER- - Ignalz Irks Senate Probers By H I Now then where are weT I think we're all tied up and the heat is on me ss usual Also somebody is stealing the signals Q— Very well Do you or do you not believe baseball players need protection by the United States Congress! A — The way things are going there Is no telling who will be called in next to help a player I've seen everybody else called In from the bullpen to help me this week and now except a Congressman they’re- waving for him baseball a Q— Do you consider business! A— It has everything business has the businessmen's $150 except lunch Q — Would you call It a violation of the laws! A— No It has to aell frankfurters at the same price as others I am not Q — You misunderstand considering hot dogs in connection with baseball A — Baseball ain't baseball without ’em mister Q— Q — Doesn’t the reserve clause prevent a player from leaving the himself! minors and bettering A— All I know Is a pitcher don't always better himself by getting tut of the minors and joining the majors Suppose he has to meet the Yanks the first weekl I Q— Bat Is it not an unfair practice to let one clnb keep a good player n a farm team for year wbea he might weU get a Job with soother club! A— Yes and a Q— What de you mean yes and no! A — This Is a tight situation and I am mixing np fast stuff with my slow staff cushion the rug when it’s In use You'll get loti more wear from thi rug If you havo s pad Many 0 these are decidedly Inexpensive There’s tendency today to csr pet the entire house or apartmen in the same colored rug For thL reason something neutral should bi selected as neutral beige or gray If you desire to use some of thi other shades and your furnishing go with them select green marooi or others Lighter rugs are preferred cur rently to the darker ones but the are more perishable tod If yoi live In a clean community ligh colored rugs are certain to hold up but If there Is soot it would bi wiser to Invest In the darker colon Select good but moderately price If rugs are too cbesj carpeting they do not wear well and nevei look nice If you purchase too ex pensive rugs it may be wasteful t change the color scheme once It’i necessary not believe there free labor market in baseball as anywhere else! A— I get In and ont of the box so often that tf there was a free labor market I wouldn't eve make the distance from the ballpen to the mound sometimes But doesn’t the very spirit of fair play call for a competitive market in which all talent can eQ— D you be s ngage! A — The last time I was called in to save a game I pitched only two balls before the manager two coaches the whole infield and four guys I didn’t recognize were surrounding me and trying to save it too If that ain’t free labor competition what la! Q — Do you believe something should be done about cartels! A — No If you get a cartel the thing to do Is lay off and let nature heal It Do you think It Is right to players like dumb oxen! A — I object to that word f‘dumb" Some oxen In baseball are as smart as oxen anywhere Q — What Is your opinion of Leo Durocher! Why drag Leo Into this! It’i custom to drag Leo Into anything Answer the question ' A — I think If he had got Laralns Day onto video 11 games sooner the Giants would be out ahead now trade Talent snd ability are everything In the great American game No gam can be won without these qualities can It! A — Art you klddln’? Didn’t you hear about how Casey Stengel won that one from the White Sox last week wKh nothing but two thumbs a monkey wrench and a lot of confidence in raln!- - BOOK Chemists and chemical engineers are transforming the life of small towns and rural areas as completely as they are remolding metropolitan city life Dr N Howell Furman president of the American Chemical Society reported recently “Chemical scientists and technologists serve modern man every moment of his life wherever he may go’’ Dr Furman asserted outlining the theme of the society’s diamond jubilee meetand by local ing which will be held in New York September sections in all parts of the country National during September Chemistry Week When a handful orchemists of ganized the American Chemical Society in 1876 chemical activity was confined to a few centers principalIn the ly larger Although they met In a small room they cona substantial stituted part of the nation’s chemists at that time Chemical the American Use Small Rags Today Society with 65000 members Is the For Accent largest organization of professional If you do not want to go to thi scientists in the world Its 137 secexpense of large rugs or in every tions include membership wall carpeting to solve problen state In the union floors something can possibly b Floors have not only become Chemicals Carpet done with small rugs One way ha: For Easy Solution Dr Furthe nation’s first Industry already been suggested: the use man noted but the tendency of a monotone When floors are bad and linoleum linoleum with scattei to locate dustrial establishments cannot be used carpeting Is a good rugs on top of that tor accent solution as It not only gives a luxHooked rugs can be made at plants near sources of raw materidiffusion urious look but also hides all sorts home and these may be madt als has led to widespread of and chemical of flooring defects Before carpetmanufacturing do larger than you ordinarily Many new towns and ing make certain that the floor is you want to cover more of the processing rural or even uninfloor even and that all squeaky boards They go well with Amerlcai cities formerly owe habited areas their existence are nailed In place so the squeaks Provincial furnishings activiand growth to the expanded are eliminated Small woven rugs can be attached Linings or pads should be used to and used In hallways to solve floot ties of chemists and chemical engineers modern civilization in to the well as serving as protect carpeting problems these The profound change have scientists and engineers KATHLEEN NORRIS brought about in our dally Hve are by ne means confined t communities with chemical dustries Dr Furman observed The air we breathe the water GIRL who has been an absolute we drink the clothing we wear fool in her teens may grow up the health we enjoy the cars problem Is this I don’t feel fit tc eventually to be a wise unselfish we drive the houses we live In be this man's wife I feel that one useful woman of his sisters would nnd the wide range of objects be a better But the trouble Is that while she mother to we nse throughout the day all my children I feel the Is still acting as a fool she commits and reflect thia transformition past staining spoiling every' herself to various conditions and thing I water of drinking Chlorination try to teach them of characwhen she wakes up to common Now ter purity and for example is a feature of modern sense and something like balanced that Gerald may have to accept life in the smallest towns as well as she finds herself so enjudgment high public office I feel that some of the largest cities Fluoridation tangled In difficulUes that the rething about me and all that old water to prevent tooth decay espesult is often a state of deep discour- weakness and foolishness has remaj cially In growing children agement and depression come up to hurt him cently met with medical approval This is Ethel Nevln’s case Ethel "I want to go away— away — away following a test and promwrites me from Wilkes Barre on — from persons and scenes that have ises to take its place with chlorinacuriously enoughl — her husband’s always been higher and finer than tion as a public health practice In advice as her greatest anything I knew as a Inasmuch our cities am I girl difficulty stems from this very same frightened a woman has to have Large cities like Rochester NY husband the sltuaUon is unusual some some help to live are now fluoridating their water to say the least She says that her certain training parts in life and I’m nol supplies but Dr Furman found It husband thinks my advice may help fit for this one I’m witli stamped that the tests were first significant her and commonness sordidness and made in two smaller New York Ethel writes that when she was a associations with boys as Ignorant cities snd Kingston Newburgh girl she "did what all the other and headstrong si I was myself Records of tooth decay among chilgirls did We went through gram' Help me to see this in a right light dren In these adjoining communimar and high school grades together Help me to find courage to do wbal ties during the test period clearly and at about 13 or 14 began to get la right” that the Incidence of established pretty Intimate with boys When I dental caries or tooth decay was Well of course I wrote this wom17 was I already had had lovers — an who is only 33 now that she was less In Newburgh where the water I know this sounds horrible but I not different In from the rest of us in supply was fluoridated than am telling you the truth— and that that whole passages from Kingston the control community year I took my first job and got feeling the past might well be wiped from where there was no fluoridation and of course got myself engaged our records and that we had bea small Kentucky city Maysvllle into trouble haved as stupidly as selfishly as was the first In that state to treat Learned a Lesson blindly and sometimes as harmf- Its drinking water with fluorides "Well Mom and Dad got me ully and wrongly as possible Dentists at Maysvllle were chiefly through that and I learned my les' responsible for promoting fluoridason The lesson was right there for tion of water Larger Kentucky me to learn all along my mother cities followed suit was a fine woman and she did her Life in West Branch Iowa best to warn me but nothing could of a century ago is compared with small town life today by former president Herbert Hoover in hie memoirs The townspeople then churned their own butter and made their own dyes Many of the necessities of life which people then Is Big are now provided for themselves Problem supplied by industries founded on of “GOOD" the research end technology AMERICANS lyjANY have long since entered the vast chemists and chemical engineers shadowland of A wide range ef products of criminality" research chemical engiand In Coronet author Peter Nelson neering has special Importance for the home tows dweller and scores the growing tendency for the Main Street businessman "easy money” and the "something more living for nothing” attitude which he say apace Enjoying with than the city dweller is ripping our moral fabric to room for a gardes and driveslrtady bst $ tovtrt shreds hi overown with roof way and As examples of the keep me from making a fool of myhead he is the particular benewhich la on the Inself The boy behaved like the little criminality” ficiary of such products as plant of scared rabbit he was got his aunt crease he cites the examples foods and roofing pesticides to aend him west to college got into "padding" the expense account the to name only a few materials fixer the citizen who the army and died In an army ho- parking ticket The need for education In science gets the chance to make his Insurspital to keep abreast of and technology ‘I know I had no right to feel so ance company pay for some repairs of the chemical the expansion humiliated and so mad but some- on his house and earns a few dollars to boot dustry and profession was stressed how the thought that he and I really by Dr Furman who is head of the ‘Although the crime bill in Amerhad thought ourselves in love and chemistry department at Princeton might have had a little boy or girl ica for frauds burglaries embezzUniversity lements and similar crimes runs of our own sickened me It really "Many members of the profession sickened me and for about six to $7000000000 Nelson annually” trainyears love affairs meant nothing to writes "there can be no doubt that receive their first scientific smalling in the high schools of our me I studied I had a year at Ox- petty swindles sr astronomically er communities” he pointed out ford and I had a book published higher” Chemical American "The Society Nelson’s article quotes the comabout cooking Then I married Gerald We bad known each other three plaints of a warehouse supervisor is interested in aiding high school teachers to interest young boys and years snd he knew all that he who revealed that his men annualwould let me tell him about myself girls in the profession Many local ly take home thousands of dollars In sections of the eoclety make a praclong before be asked me to marry valuable tools clothing and merchim handise "They'd quit If I told tice of Inviting high school studentsatto and teachers of chemistry them they were stealing" amid the "So here came what I never dared section meetings tend dream of In my ugly teens A fine aupervisor " ‘From who?’ they'd man admirable and earnest in ask me All they know la that they WatchP-A- sk every way a fine old home set In work for some big mysterious corpdeep garden a fine family all oration— and It’s no money out of Are you one of the several million ready to welcome me To make the anybody’s pocket” who is a prospective Americans Gerald told me of The proprietor of an expensive picture perfect watch buyer this year! If you are his own Infatuation for a married eastern restaurant complained that b sure to consult your homa town woman In France and most of the his customers take home Jeweler whole bad story This woman killed silevrware and dishes His emla like a fine auA fine timepiece herself Be told me this of course to ployees appropriate slabs of bacon tomobile — only an expert really can balance what I had told him He pounds of butter expensive cuts of tell its performance possibilities like that steaks and other foods "Once I put And your local who has jeweler detectives at the doors” he said Feels Unclean fin been selling and servicing "We have a beautiful daughter of “but they threatened to boycott the is the best watches for generations and five younger sons going place When the workers found out in your community qualified person down to twins of three months My they almost went on strike” to rely upon when It comes to the cities Wife Rues Early Indiscretion A Are You Another Straight Crook? Crime Phillips should to use linoleum esneclally in halls bathrooms children's rooms game A rooms or kitchens monotone linoleum can be used as a base for scatter rugs in any of these rooms Linoleum will wear longer if it is kept waxed whether it is of the inlali type or printed type waxes are good because they do not have to be shined floor in the For the linoleum kitchen sweep daily with a soft broom and wipe spilled foods as For weekly or quickly as possible use a damp cleaning mop wrung out very dry When the use linoleum needs more cleaning a mop wrung out in mild soap suds be All strong should powders avoided as should coarse brushes It’s not wise to flood the linoleum as this may covering with water Rinse and dry Injure the covering thoroughly and quickly When dry apply a new coat of liquid or wax In rooms other than the kitchen linoleum can be cleaned dally with an mop Sweep with a soft broom for weekly cleaning and when soiled clean and as you do the kitchen linoleum DATE Chemistry Has Changed Life In theSmall Towns of America Moral A New Dr N Howell Forman In addition to reviewing the progress made by chemists and chemical engineers during the past 75 Dr Furman declared the years diamond will jubilee observances focus attention on the prospects for even greater progress in the future Since smaller communities will not only benefit from new chemical but will play a subdevelopments stantial part In bringing them about the American Chemical Society through ita local sections will parallel the program of National Chemical Week observances in New York In communities with observances and schools throughout the country la the The week of September time for the people of opportune America’s home towns to learn the fabuloua story of chemistry and the vital effect it has had on the ordinary man In his everyday living for Here again U an opportunity the local merchant by exhibits and to tell the local comadvertising a worthwhile story the munity story of "Chemistry— Key to Better Living” Watch Inspection Time Is September 6 to 15 Too often the owner of a fine watch is apt to take hie timepiece for granted —and forget to bring it to his good friend the local Jeweler for a necessary periodical check-uand oiling The Jeweler of America win be reminding the public ef this fact daring national Watch InS t spection Time September l5 and It would bo well for the of a quality watch to possessor visit the service department of his community Jeweler for the needed timepiece check-oHero are a few "do’s” and "dont’s” for protection of your watch: (1) Always take your watch to a quality department for any necessary adjustment cleaning or repair (2) insist on genuine factory replacement parti Wind it once a day prefer(3) ably In the morning And when you wind it take It off your wrist (4) Try not to expose it to extrema hot or cold conditions (5) Keep It away from perfume powder or loose tobacco crumbs And abov all if the watch (6) or stop should lose Its accuracy don’t try fixing It yourcompletely self Tinkering with a fine watch movement can be an expensive exYour community’s watchperiment to maker makes it his business nurse watches back to health A periodical cleaning of your wrlstwatch is a "time” eaver In two The repairman not only reway moves any dust or dirt that might but have sifted Into the movement also congealed dirty oil Like any machine year precious watch movement needs ell —and the right U— te protect He moving parts against frictional wear Tha lack ef proper to often results la lubrication this wear and ultimate or complete stoppage ef the movement Avoid all possible shocks to your watch Remember many an automobile’s shock absorbers havt been broken when going over a deep rut in the road and even a watch can take Just so much jolting When you wind the stem of the the action tightens the timepiece stores new and energy mainspring needed to run the watch Wind it gently with the thumb and finger and itop when you feel that tha tension is at the maximum it can take without damage Your Jeweler's Advice purchase of a watch He will give you excellent advice When (electing a watch personal with In etyle together preference must first pocketbook capabilities At that point howbe considered in a position to ever your Jeweler is help you to select a fine watch which he knows is built to give you service over accurate dependable the coming years His store and reputation are the guarantee behind sell the product he ' |