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Show General s. Housewives Aid National Defense Plans Johnson Products for Home mi HUGH IM'WIP By Buying Synthetic rhi.FhiHipr I5y Mfrial WNC thoughts at the close of only a few weeks more in which to: 1 Get its discomforts away from some. 2 Sleep on a mattress stuffed with anthracite coal in a bed that is a souvenir of the metal industry worst Become accustomed to mosquitoes in bedrooms, crickets in the closets, hornets in the sun porch, ants in the table linen and spiders all over the premises. 4 Drive from 100 to 500 miles in an overloaded flivver with poor brakes, no one de3 sun-shiel- that, grows the greatest issue. The excuse is that Mr. Roosevelt must become perpetual President because his great abilities and performances make hirn ttie one and only indispensable American in the critical hour. The questions ut issue arc "H'liat abilities? What performMr. Roosevelts principal ances? duties and policies he in the fields of agriculture, labor, industry, American finances, foreign relations and, more recently, national defense. His performance in each field is a heap of complete and utter wreck- d, fective headlight and a constant aroma of something burning. 5 Spend days at a time in heated arguments over what the road signs mean. Tour through endless miles of gasoline, tourist camp arid souvenir zones in the insane belief that it all comes under the head of enjoying scenery. 7 Waste hours in country barns displaying "Antiques signs so the little woman can look at spinning wheels she doesn't want, ox yokes she cant possibly use and early American shaving mugs that don't mean a thing to her. 8 Learn what Americas doctors are prescribing for belly-achthis summer. 0 Spend two or three terrible nights in those 6 hot-do- doggie-and-do- boxes camp cottages. 10 Determine how much the hu man system can endure in the matter of steamed clams, fried clams, clam fritters and clam chowder, not to mention lobsters, crabs, cucumber salads and the strange fish native to stranger communities. Fursue the search for a hotel, lunchroom, drug store or drink fountain that doesn't cut its orange juice down to a point where it might more properly be labeled "IlydrantJuice. t- -j Sample some of the world's worst collee. 13 Find out where the worst chefs go in summer. 14 Make tiro annual discovery that there is no sense in trying to get any salt from a salt cellar a shore resort. 15 Discover that a change courses makes no dilference your golf game. Find out that 97 per cent of the instantaneous systems in tire rural districts are out of order. 17 Observe once again that not one cook in a thousand can fry an egg w ithout burning tire bottom until the whole tiring tastes like something cut from a hot brake band. 18 Experience incredible difficulty getting a room that is not located directly over tire hotel garage, a 16 hot-wat- new federal proj- ect Involving steam shovels on a night shift, or one ilight over the ballroom where the worst orchestra in North America has been engaged for tire summer season. THE MAIN CONCERN With problems high and mighty, seize this world and shake it. The question day and nighty Is, "Will the Yankees make it? To Night harness racing is to be held for 30 nights on the track built for suto speed racing on Long Island. A million dollars was sunk at this track to make it a motor speedway, and if the horses don't do so well you can attribute it to a major outbreak of what is known as the horse laugh. by R. Thumbnail description Jr. "She loved beauty . . and was never without a mirror. Overheard by Seymour: must be a telephone girl; Hello' to her twice and got 1 Roe-lof- s . "She said no an- swer. lllNG GILES Me no care what Confucius say, Bat still . . . me lissen, anyway! TO LI Majorie Ledcrer. Elmer Twitchcll would like to see Gallup Boll taken to see whether there should be any mere Gallop a Bulls. similes: As bored looking as member of a night club Hawaiian orchestra singing the words of a naAdd a tive love song. u Man-Mad- 'ft gone at Wright als. field. "While a tooth brush seemingly has small military value beyond rts hygienic function, two materials developed for it may now speed the preparedness drive," Dr. Fritz said. "When the Japanese invaded China n war-trouble- d Chiin 1937, supplies of super-fin- e nese swine bristles were cut off, but industrial chemists quickly produced synthetic bristles. These are now being used for many military purposes, while the cellulose acetate first used for toothbrush handles is being molded into gun American-mad- e plants and equipment capable of filling thousands of military needs. The development is seen by Dr. Howard E. Fritz, director of the synthetics division of the nations oldest major rubber company, as the direct result of the continued interest manifested in synthetic and plastic products of all kinds by American women from the day 10 years ago when many of the laboratory-createproducts made their first appearance. New Language Developed. The language of synthetics is rapidly becoming the language of security as well, it is brought out in a survey compiled by Dr. Fritz which lists tiie military uses to which many of the developments of the past few years are now being applied. The ABCs of this new language are made up of such terms as atner-ipobakelite, cellophane, catalin, koroseal, lueite, nylon, tenite, and vinylite and a host of others which are well known to the ladies of the nation, he points out. "Since 1929 housewives have been translating these bizarre words into practical everyday housewares things like shower curtains, garment bags, tablecloths, draperies, tooth brushes, tumblers and thousands of other products, Dr. Fritz declares. "Now the fact that most of these widely accepted articles can be created through the magic of industrial research literally out of thin air, from scrap wood, salt and oilier common materials is of profound military importance. And without the acceptance of these products by the ladies, there would be no industry to supply new strategic needs. Plasties Used in Planes. Day by day the news bulletins reveal new cases where materials which first saw daylight in industrial laboratories are applied to the business of national defense, the survey states. Four aircraft companies are developing methods for molding entire plane bodies out of plastics in a single process expect test-tub- g e l, These are a few of the issues. They are as great as any ever presented to the American people. Out of them grows one greater than any of these separately. It is: "How can we continue an administration with a record of such invariable tragic and dangerous fail ure; man is also of all just issue the greatest making as fast as, in the face of public opinion, he dares to go. He went most of the distance when he "sold part of our navy. He is making the awful issue of peace and war. It is the tragic issue of complete adjournment of our democracy for a war dictatorship in which men who have t for centralized perridden sonalized presidential power for almost eight years will realize their wildest dreams. It is true that this No issues" impudent sloganeering has gone so far as to cause lletny Wallace to intimate that if yen state these real ;ssues you are giving aid and comIf Hitler is an enfort to Hitler. the constitutional are these emy. words describing treason. We have surely departed far from our democracy already if people will stand for tins kind of campaign. The "indispensable hell-ben- LABOR AND WAR WORK It seems to be a part of Democratic campaign strategy to assure labor that, no matter what may come in this war situation, workers will lose none of the "social advantages of the past few years. It is also a part of extreme New Deal strategy to tell labor that the Republican party intends to use any war crisis that may come to deprive labor of all its hard-gottegains. As a matter of cold fact, the discussion is probably academic. The greatest gam that labor could have would be full and continuous employment at good wages and much increased income. If we get into full war effort most of the unions will enjoy a boom. There is a great danger there. Labor itself should hope that it will net be the k did of boom that happened in early 1918. Then employeosters working on - What used to the most cherished goals of the synthetic experts has been ths ultimate ptoduction of manmade rubber. Now, due to the impetus given research into synthetic rubber by sales of koroseal to housewives and industry, Dr. Fritz own organization, the Goodrich company, is manufacturing and selling the nations first automobile tires made wholly from American materials. In these historic tires, ameripol is utilized in proportions varying from 50 to 100 per cent, marking, as is pointed out, a significant step toward complete freedom of the nations most vital form of transportation from dependence upon continrubued imports of foreign-growseas. ber through Housewives Helped. The development of this highly strategic material owes much, Dr. Fritz points out, to the interest displayed in its forerunner, koroseal, Koroby American housewives. seal first saw the light of day, Dr. Fritz reveals, "from the Akron laboratory windowsill of young Dr. Waldo L. Semon, now one of the most noted American research chemists. There it solidified for the first time in a beaker containing a heated mixture of ordinary coke, limestone and salt. For his privateuse the youthful chemist made a "golf ball from the new substance, but it soon was being applied as a lining for the tanks of acid in which stainless steel is pickled, because it was found to be one of the most chemically inert of all substances. The metamorphosis from this point became startling, the leap from shower curtains to protective military appliances being made almost overnight. The acceptance by housewives of this first material enabled the hunt for a material capable of replacing natural rubber for all its uses to go on. Synthetic rubber tires were the result, and they point toward the removal of one of the last big question marks on the blue prints being prepared in Washington and wherever industry is girding for the most concerted defense action this Dr. Fritz nation has ever taken, declares. Made From Petroleum. Ameripol is derived from petroleum, of which the United States has vast supplies. By the modern One of d e r is from compounded d if rapidly-growin- bogged down. helter-skelte- I material significance. In tests against mustard gas penetration and hydrogen gas diffusion, koroseal-treatefabrics were found to be superior to fabrics. This the best rubber-treateenables the onetime shower curtain to be used as protective wearing apparel as well as for covering for both lighter and heavier than air craft, it is emphasized. Synthetic Parachutes. L.atesl reports disclose that the filmy feminine stocking is beginning to figure in the military picture. Te new synthetic yarn developed from coal and air by duPont and placed on the market recently in the form of nylon silk stockings has passed preliminary tests as substitute for silk in army parachutes. Further tests are now being under- From ladies hosiery to a substitute for silk in army parachutes is the national defense step taken by duf'oiitB nylon, a compound of coal and air. Unemployment of labor has not materially Reclined and while it will do so because of conscription and rearmament, Mr. Roosevelt will certainly want to claim no credit fur a threatening war situation. Industrial recovery has come to only a few large industrial corporations. The condition of the bulk of little business men is worse than ever. Federal finances are the worst Debt has reached mess of all. mountainous heights, taxes mostly on the poor are unbearably heavy We are emand will increase. barked on a spending program that cannot possibly be financed except by doubling our debt. Our foreign relations have been so blundered that, except for Great Britain, we have not a friend on earth and those with Britain are being pushed as rapidly as the New Deal dart's into an alliance and participation in an overseas war. The utter neglect of adequate defense until it was too late to make slapanything but a dash panicky rush at the effort which is at this moment hopelessly hodge-podg- 12 4 A coke, limestone and salt and called koroseal, which made its home debut as a coating for shower curtains because erf its resistance to water, acids and deterioration, now has been found to have high military fy covery. known as tourist 11 hA have been spent on the farm problem. The basic situation as to surplus, price and income and. except as to refinanced farm debt, is much worse than it was even under Hoover. Federal refinancing of farm debt was not a New Deal dis- e piano , age. Billions ll 1 NEW YORK. The housewives of America, through their ready acceptance over the past decade of household articles made of synthetics and plastics, have made possible ttie building of a $400,000,000 "ersatz industry which is now in a position to make priceless contributions to the national defense program. Tliis industry, though only a fledgling enterprise in 1929, today has WASHINGTON. -- It is the cleverest kind of fourth Now Deal electioneering to say there is no isaue in this campaign that Mr, Willkie has endorsed all of Mr, Roosevelt's principal policies, and that the only remaining question is, who can deal the New Deal better. There is first and foremost the issue of whether in direct defiance of one of the oldest and most respected of American traditions one man can use the taxing and spending arid borrowing powers of this republic first to expand those lowers out of all recognizable semblance to themselves and then to perpetuate himself as President. Out of the sole excuse given for bl'MMKK The summer season is closing, end the great American public has at its UtclaaBfcl bv Western Newspaper Union ri.EN'T V Ol ISSUES hair brush that sometimes served to impress the importance of discipline on the juveniles of the house now becomes a deadlier weapon of chastisement as part of the highly accurate sights used on bombers. e Rubber. Perhaps the most dramatic transformation prescribed by the synthetics expert has been wrought by the koroseal shower curtain and its recently born chemical cousin, ameripol, which signifies a "polymer or recombination of American materi- ed, in the opinion of experts, to triple and quadruple plane body produc. tion. VINCENT CONVERSE be backgammon sets, tea kettle knobs and shower curtains now go into gas masks, as synthetics and plasties first used in the home help speed up the national defense program. stocks in an efficient and rapid operation. Inflammable Plastics. From the collee table to the aviation hangar is tire transition experienced by a wide variety of laminated plastics and cast resins which have high qualities and are now being applied throughout aircraft construction. Furthermore, the chemical cousin of the backgammon set or breakfast table-tomay some day aid in repelling foes of tire nation, for shaped cellulose sheets first used for these purposes are now being used to convey ammunition to guns in planes. Similarly, tea kettle knobs and candid camera developing tanks made from phenolic resins are metamorphosed into noses for shells and mouthpieces and containers for gas masks. And the 3 I '4 ; ? . p anti-aircra- ft high-spee- A. .. Aiiim m Az Washington, I). C. APPEASEMENT MOVE It is no secret that for many months one of the foremost appeasn circles was ers in able the ebullient and Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. ambassador to the court of St. Jamess. Joe has felt that if war continued, the present capitalistic system would crack; that it would be better to accept a now than lose all later. Until recently, however, Ambassador Kennedy has been pretty much alone. Now, however, reports have reached the war and navy departments of an appeasement move inside high British financial circles and inside the admiralty. How far this appeasement attitude prevails is almost impossible to ascertain. However, the indisputable fact is that such reports have been made officially, and here is the substance of what they contain: 1. British naval officers, close up to the war, heartsick over losing vessels every day, struggling desperately to stave off invasion, are wondering whether they are not, after all, really fighting for the United States; whether after the Battle of Britain is over, England, even if uninvaded, will not be helpless, leaving the United States with her navy intact ready to reap all the economic and strategic advantages of the wars aftermath. 2. Furthermore, even if England is able to prevent invasion this fall, British naval and military strategists doubt very much whether the United States will be willing to send bombers and attack planes to her help next spring when the fight will begin all over again. British Factories Damaged. 3. There has been much more damage to British factories than the news indicates. And as this destruction daily mounts into millions, British financial leaders figure it will take years for Britain to rebuild her economic empire. Meanwhile all markets will be lost to the United States. This is the sentiment which prevailed among Dutch bankers and which led to the surrender of Holland. 4. Furthermore, there have been talks in Wall Street by Nazi business emissaries which lead British business men to believe that the United States may make a deal with Hitler. So some British tycoons wonder whether they should not do likewise, perhaps even get there first 5. Finally there has been some underground criticism of Prime Minister Churchill for bartering away British bases in the Western hemisphere. But even more important, the admiralty was very impatient over the slowness in transferring 50 destroyers which the Brits ish believe are of no value to the United States and which spell life or death for England. The fact tnat these destroyers were delayed, when the British navy believes (and Willkie has virtually said) that it is fighting also for the safety of the United States, has caused deep resentment in the admiralty. Churchill Will Fight On. To get the other side of the picture, however, it should be noted that none of this sentiment exists in the mind of Churchill or any of his cabinet The Churchill government has made it clear in conversations with the Roosevelt administration that it is working toward long-terwith the United States. Furthermore it is probable that about 90 per cent of the British public perhaps even 99 per cent is determined to see the war through to the finish. They do not trust Hitler and figure that any half-wapeace would only put them in the present desperate plight of France. Anglo-America- semi-defe- sea-dog- mischievous Sotty, enough I ut just twice as n;t.Lhf lightful new tea towc formed, however, as th disastrously inquire phase of household v.i cross stitch bows ar.-stitched day names m colors will add a cheuful these kitchen towels. ONE s : Pattern Z9193, 15c, bi -designs for tea t, extra matching panholdt r order to: Scotty AUNT MARTI) Kansas Cm Enclose 15 cents for each desired. Pattern No. Box 166-- Name Address Oaar ,.tti tium nps, eaters e farcy so vei led as t! and no; with sped: the hou shadov it. Mom y arra; OCedar lustre at is The soft saves weary hours of and cc O-Ce- i You can wash away the ugly embroider of fingerprints and dim, you can ty go c dull andf listless furniture and vna jje. clean and sparkly; you can leave, STA1 silken lustre soft warm that that LASTS for weeks and for mm , wc if youll use genuine ind.here cloth. your dampened cleaning pleasant astonishing treat in stork are tel Tend t when you do. pays of ... aiHores ke gc POLiM that jeof han CLEANiL e'A MOPS, WAX, DUSTERS, FLY AND MOTH SPRAT? ' f perfec Believe in Life little To believe in immortality f acC thing, but it is first needftCI lieve in life. Robert Louis irl one sw lolc wa: imany. -- 'It, e mo '$ted y continuing research which first koroseal-treate- d produced shower curtains for the home. Dr. W. L. noted chemist, evolved Semon, ameripol, combination of oil, gas and soap, now being used in the nation's first automobile tires made from American materials. By LaSalle Map of Business Conditions 'im I V '1 yc 1 "cracking process, a liquefied gas called butadiene is obtained which is combined with other ingredients by an exclusive process to form an emulsion of synthetic latex very similar to that produced by Nature herself. Standard Oil company is also building a plant in Louisiana to make synthetic rubber from oiL This significant utilization of bountiful domestic materials to produce urgently needed products is continuing to expand, the survey brings out, due to the synthetic manufacturing plants which have sprung up over the country MW Jy ( . v ryfie. "W.-- u uui 4 nivuKw . Hrvnsr well-equipp- The above map accompanying the September bulletin oj V. S. since 1929 and the continuous exbusiness conditions issued by LaSalle Extension university, shows pansion of research and the relative trade conditions throughout the country . Volume of facilities made possible production by revenues trade this fall promises to be close to highest on record after a derived from sale of synthetic products to American summer uhieli failed to show the usual season decline. home-maker- By L. G. ELLIOTT President, LaSalle Extension University Business activity has continued to expand and the rate cf industrial production is moving steadily toward a new peak. If present trends continue and they appear l.kelv to do so the volume of trade and industry this fall promises to be close to the highest on record. A most encouraging development of the last few months has been the upturn in employment and pay rolls. Farm income this year will be the highest in several years and is estimated to reach close to $9,000,-000.00- 0. Larger pay rolls in industry and higher farm income have been reflected in larger retail sales. The steady growth of a great new industry that of armaments, is becoming an increasingly important factor m the business situation, That the present trend is likely to continue is evident by the fact that new orders received by manufacturers have increased as rapidly as has production. s. Latest developments which further accentuate the importance of the synthetics and plastics industry to Rational defense include the synthetic production of camphor. For years the nation has largely depended on the Orient for its supplies of this medicinally and industrially valuable product. But continued American research and production has now brought down the price of synthetically produced camphor that it is supplanting the imported commodity throughout domestic industry. The same result is expected as synthetic rubber production Is stepped up. WILLKIE AND PRESS Gifted with a keen news sense and not afraid to talk, Wendell Willkie is popular with the reporters covering him. Now and then, however, he speaks his mind regarding something written about him. Greeting one newsman, Willkie barked, Youve been writing some fiction about me. Well, replied the reporter with a grin, "you're quite a fictional San nanoUd largo and bit located 1000 BOOMS 1000 BAT $4 on on, $6 two pH pn MANAGEMENT DAN E. 10NDW HOTEL ST. FRANC overlooking UNION SQUARE 'fe- i character. Willkie laughed and said no more. STEXOGS In July cf last year, the government hired 430 "female stenographers and typists. In July of this year, the number was tripled 1,500. The various defense agencies are calling for stenographers so fast e that agencies are losing some of their best and speediest workers. Executives returning from August holidays find their stenogs in defense work at higher wages. The turnover is tremendous. The Civil Service commission certified no less than 3,000 stenographers and typists in a recent month. And more thousands are moving up on the Civil Service lists. When the lists were closed for one exam, at the total of applicants had reached the amazing old-lin- mid-Augus- t, figure of 135,000. NOTE Salaries paid by the gov ernment are: for senior stenographer, $1,620; for junior stenographer for senior typist, junior typist. $1,260. $1,440; $1,440; for ADVEBTIS represents the leader a nation. It points We merely follow" new heights of cos; convenience, of hapri As time goes on a'as4 ing is used more and as it is used all profit more. It s advertising has of bringing a everybody Prc ice: - tionc; ji ? h 6rf f1.' r t ? confe?Jhlr-th- consumer ;h inm inp |