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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION lmileAjjh'lf - Sad Conclusion "Henry, honey, I'm to be in our club's amateur theatricals. What do you think people will say when they see me in tights?" . t "They'll probably say I married I you for your money." 0 ' A milkman, inducted into the army, wrote back home from f camp: "Bessie, I sure do like this army life. It's nice to li6 abed every morning until fiv thirty." Time Changes Things ' Visitor (in defense plant)Look ' at that youngster, the one with ' the cropped hair, the cigarette and trousers on. It's hard to tell whether it's a boy or girl. ' War Worker She's a girl and J she's my daughter. Visitor My dear sir, do forgive 5 me. I would never have been so ' outspoken if I had known you were her father. War Worker I'm not her father ' I'm her mother. i fc2 Don't They? Teacher (to new pupil) Do you know the alphabet? What letter comes after A? New Pupil All of them. They're Even "I'd fire you in a minute,' cried the irascible manager, "if I thought I could get another man to fill your job." "And I'd quit in a minute, sighed the weary bookkeeper, if I was through with my night course in welding." Frightful "What's that ugly insignia on the side of the bomber?" That's the commanding officer looking out of a port hole." A BUCKET OF PAINT "Why is Helen having her por-trait painted?" "Well, she has reached that age when she doesn't look well in a photograph." Seat of Learning The lad was dull at school you see ; His dad took things to heart. He took the lad across his knee And there he made him smart! Judy, aged two and a half, had had a great deal of hard toast from babyhood on. Only a few times had she had fresh bread. At supper one evening she said: "Please, Mummy, may I have some bread without any noise in it?" ' Loved But Not Lost He Have you ever loved and lost? She No, the jury awarded me $10,000 heart balm. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. ALL the Ameches aren't in the movies. Dark-eye- d Jim, who looks enough like brother Don to be his twin, has made good on his own in radio by landing the master of ceremonies assignment on that new pro-gram, "Here's to Romance," on the Blue Network Sundays. Two movie personalities are featured , orchestra leader David Broekman, whose long-tim- e association with Co-lumbia pictures enabled him to score 60 films, and singer Buddy Clark; his latest picture is "Seven ! j . . I S JEVf AMECHE Days' Leave." Jim Ameche was born and educated at Kenosha, Wis., and was introduced to radio by his older brother, Don, who advised him to take an audition for Jack Armstrong All American Boy. Jim landed the part and since has played the lead in several radio series. Pat O'Brien, back at work in RKO's "The Iron Major" is still marveling over his trip home after eight weeks of entertaining at army camps overseas. He breakfasted at Trinidad, lunched at Haiti, dined at Miami, breakfasted the next morn-ing in New York. He wants to make another army camp tour, but says next time he'll take his wife along; that separation was too long. So Merle Oberon said she was re- - tiring from the screen! As usual aft--I er such announcements, the star has signed a long-ter- contract; this one's with Metro, and she'll make pictures in Hollywood and in Lon-- 1 don. Seems as if, when a star wants to retire, the studios realize what they'll be missing and can't wait to make sure of keeping good box-offi- ' material. Susan Hayward, who did an army camp tour after she visited New York when "Reap the Wild Wind" was released nationally, has been given the feminine lead in "The Man in Half Moon Street" by Para-mount. Susan's on her way up, fast! ' Judy Garland is proudly wearing a pair of silver wings, sent her by the young paratroopers of Fort Ben-- i ning, Ga., who recently dubbed her "The Parabelle." You'll see her wearing them for a scene in "Girl Crazy," in which she stars with Mickey Rooney. Joan Thorsen, famous as a model after she appeared on the covers of six national magazines hi rapid suc- -' cession, has been given her first movie role by Metro. She's beauti-- ; ful and glamorous so she'll portray II a Russian girl guerrilla, and will j make her screen debut wearing a peasant smock, and with her face blacked up, in "Russia," the Rob-ert Taylor picture. Mayo Methot Mrs. Humphrey Bogart is on location with her hus-band for "Somewhere in Sahara." The other day when they unpacked their lunch kits she spied three kegs, which they used as chairs and a table till the powder man ap-proached. "Sorry, Mr. Bogart," said he, "But I'll have to move these dynamite kegs." Whereupon the moved, fast and without argu-ment. Looks as if Helmut Dantine, who scored so heavily with his Nazi-aviat-performance in "Mrs. Min-iver," is headed for stardom. Seems he's turned in another grand per-formance in Warner's "The Edge of Darkness," and Jack L. Warner is looking for possible starring materi-- ! al for him. His fan mail has shown a 300 per cent increase during the past three months. ODDS AND ENDS Allan Napier, British actor in "Ap-pointment in Berlin" has a speech that defends the late Neville Chamberlain-- tcho was his uncle . . . Jean Arthur's spent more time in Washington, D. C., on the screen than any other actress; in real life she's been there just a few hours . . . The happiest soldier at my canteen the other night was a lad who'd just led the band on Sammy Kaye's pro-gram . . . Bing Crosby's showing up at a Los Angeles broadcasting station before 7:00 a. m. some mornings, making rec-ords for South American distribution . . . Leslie Howard's daughter is with him in "Spitfire." Bob Hawk, "Thanks to the Yanks" quizmaster, is acting as master of ceremonies for "G. I. Give," a re-corded music show which is pro-duced by Yank, the army news-paper, and short-wave- d to our troops on all fighting fronts. Rosalind Russell, through her wide acquaintance in army flying circles, put RKO in touch with the proper authorities so that the company could get a huge Lock-heed Electra for important scenes in "Flight for Freedom " Something Wrong if RAF Pilots Tut Up a Black' The RAF has developed a lan-guage all its own. Many of the terms, such as "Browned off" for bored, and "Put up a black" for doing something wrong, have been adopted now into common usage. Some expressions have been bor-rowed from the United States, in-cluding "Flinging a woo," which means to have a date with a girl, and "Roughneck" which, in the RAF does not mean a tough guy, but an unlikeable person. "Gen" means the real, inside information on anything, and, similarly, "duff gen" means wrong information. A "flap" is a sudden operation. To be in a "flap" or in a "flat spin" means to be busy on a job, too busy to do anything else. The "Chief Plumber" is, of course, the Chief Engineer; the "Quack" is the doctor; the "Sec-ond Dickey" is the second pilot, and a stickyback is an RAF pho-tographer. Pilots who go "dicing" or on a "shaky-do- " are attacking a diffi-cult and dangerous target; if it's an easy target it's a "piece of cake." After they drop their bombs they sometimes "stooge around to take a beaker," meaning to hang around to have a look. To "carry the can" is to "hold the baby" or to be the scapegoat, while pilots suffering from that morning-afte- r feeling are "newt-ed.- " t PATTERNS t (Ji SEWING CIRCLE Spring Beauty. LL jjjfei WHAT a cute figure will a two Zay . JmM&ZJp year old cut in this en-1 j J semble. The frock is all prettied up with scalloped bodice, buttons mLjIlai and rickrack trimming. The button- I I lmW?Si -down bonnet and matching AiIWtMI Panties are aIso very 8av with mWM& rickrack edging. aamj tmV Pattern No. 8357 is in sizes 2. 3, 4, 5 KJh4 I JI 'fflllllV and 6 years. Size 3 ensemble takes 2'a 34.52 ' '"'"Ml1' yards material. Due to an unusually large demand and From an old French word "mes" s derived from the Latin word "mis- - l sus" meaning a course at a meal,. 5 comes the Army's name "mess' ' for its breakfast, dinner and sup-- s per. Favorite meal with the soldier " is chicken dinner his favorite 0 cigarette, Camel. (Based on actual sales records from service men's own stores.) A carton of Camels, by the way, is a gift that's always ' welcome. And though there are ' Post Office restrictions on pack- - ages to overseas Army men, you a can still send Camels to soldiers e in the U. S., and to men in the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard v d wherever they are. Adv. ' current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San rancisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address B I St.Joseph aspirin T T.li.l:H.m.1:HJHJHJ-Bff- I n Find the Scrap to j Eliminate the Jap t k Deceptive, Smart. DOUNDS thinner and inches tall- - er that's what this smart frock will make you look. It was thought up by a top-flig- designer who wanted her style to be as decep-tive as it was smart! Just look at all the good points the crisp white vestee, the beautiful han-dling of the bodice, the slimming skirt and the attractive styling of the belt. Pattern No. 8364 is in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 takes, with 3A sleeves, 4,a yards material. yard for contrasting vestee. Use Beautiful Flowered Materials For the Panel Type of Slip Covers welted seams as it allows the bulky material to be on the left where it will rest on the machine leaf. NOTE Readers who have sent for copies of the series of booklets numbered one to eight, prepared by Mrs. Spears, will be pleased to know that BOOK 9 is now ready. This new book contains 32 gay and thrifty things for your home with illustrated directions. To get a copy send 15 cents to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 9. Name Address mov Added Savings i Y ,. pFERi Full 'baking effectiveness, now, in it "'sWA??' Cl every ounce of Clabber Girl Baking a: X&jMift YsA T&&fr Powder... No waste of baking pow- - 21 Viirfi llpP der, no waste of baking ingredient, VVV'JHW''' " j( when you specify the new, im- - Jr BAKil5?c!,'otorf proved moisture-proo- f Clabber Bl'SgSy OW container ... In all sizes al J, jso" your grocer's. HEIPI Quk& f CPEC5AL OFFER: .- -J A SMALL IUHN SUIFACE PIMPLES " " c"kc mol So.p, siplt Ro.aol Oiol- ".Sk." Cue Fold.r .nd . H.r. Cl DIT ECZEMA ITCHING MINOR RECTAL ""'" P "' IRRITATION CHAFING CHAPPING bl IEEPajarofsoothingResinol N"" handy and be ready with Suet. m quick relief for itching burn- - G Sltte ing torment of such irritations. " " m Medicated specially for gentle, SiVVThlo.J ?,, J th efficient, comforting action. Rainoi,DePt.w4,Baiii-c- i Ji " Enjoy mild Resinol Soap, too. Y"m" itTt4' TSiv- lo It is delightfully refreshing. rour.if th V)VrfrSSlW li?r, iXissi Lar vlJ a I'd Ejj jig AND SOAP N-i- S - ar LvrT", ' CUT PANELS WITH 1 ) DESIGN CENTERED TN EVERY price range today there are handsome flowered materials for slip covers. The patterns are designed so that a motif may be centered in each part of a chair to make a panel. This is not difficult to do if you cut straight pieces first according to the widest and longest measure-ment of the part to be covered, plus one inch at all seams and four inches for a seat tuck-i- Pin and trim to fit, as shown. Seams that are to be sewn without welting are pinned and basted from the wrong side. Unpin seams where welting is to be used. Baste the welting to the right side of the seam edge, then baste the seam. A right-to- e cording foot is best for " Hi X VOU SAID -- Ny he RACERS . . IT, RANGERCAMELS ) Meysty-- ' ' U ' V HAVE GOT WHAT J I "CAT CRAWL" ' , - S( IT TAKES ! ) for an advance hugging the ground j: , --V C?'"'-- . J th "iBUSHMASTERS" A X I for Rangers trained in the Caribbean ; ' - j , W area for tropic jungle-fightin- g v U ' ia "mmmzLSttovr ;.VV A H NiTN v $ for an attack at night with I mX ' V a' faces blacked up AXN J - I R "CAMEL" fS UlMVjF i for the Army man's favorite f , NfK Th C'garCtte I ' "V? he y mwV V $ i l! FIRST IN THE SERVIC& ' V 'TS CAMELS V ?, 7 t The favorite cferene with men f1J'j " i WITH ME- -' L,K S'-fe- s actual sales records in Canteens THAT 2fTRA X 1 and Post Exchanges.) "CVV "Y MILDNESS AND JJjL I fiJ x FULL FLAVOR j maV rl 7 UW Ui COSTLIER TOBACCOSil h . : Th Vk 'MVCURTAINS WsTARCNtyA g -- FOR EACH QUART OF STARChTh WMWvT SW H ' x.v 9 ARE RUINED AND AND THEY LL l USE 1 TABLESPOONSFOL OF MB... U '." 'i'A'Jyf$'Cj- - rti&wA ..,AND I MAKE IlWASHEDTHEM'lrANUflTii ( tl CRSAMWtWAUHtf coa.WATHU.1 W? CURTAINS I Wik fiw Aiff.fi Mh urylj ' ' jPMtSM AffiN WEAR L0NGER fl OH lrtrl'rrfiHMVA imll tooso thi 'JWTJ I IMPORTANT 1 OMBtHATE) A1 fciWXSR::;: . Vfff WSWAL TODAY J r, ; i p1fp Cfpdiawiwwp I - Advertisement Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. NJEW YORK. For many a long year if you'd asked any mem-ber of the Boy Scouts of America, who was the Chief Scout, he'd have told you, Million Scouts Hail rj r . James Him as 'Chief and E . W e s t . Now Ifs for Keeps !ov? U" tie has been made official, and Dr. West has been promoted to a rank held previously by only one man, Ernest Thompson Seton, another lover of the outdoors with a powerful interest in boys. Dr. West joined the Boy Scout movement January 2, 1911. It was in its infancy in the United States then. He took the job of Executive Chief on a six months' trial basis. He stayed 32 yearsj finally relin-quishing the post February 1 last. On Dr. West's 65th birthday in May, 1941, President Roosevelt told him: "To you belongs much of the credit for the effectiveness of Scouting in this country." Dr. West's great interest in youngsters was spurred by the difficulties of his own boyhood. His father died when he was very young, and his mother, when he was six. There were no near relatives, and the boy grew up in an orphans home in Wash-ington, his native city. To add to his problems, he was crip-pled and on crutches. He saw to it that he had a good educa-- tion, though, and he worked his way through the law school of National university. He was practicing in the capital when Scouting called him. That wasn't his first task in be-half of youngsters, however. His efforts gave Washington its first ju-venile court, and in 1909 he per-suaded President Theodore Roose-velt to call a White House confer-ence on the care of dependent chil-dren. He has had four children of his own, two boys and two girls. Both boys became Eagle Scouts. While in command, he saw his beloved Scouts grow into an organization more than a million strong. pACT finding is the task assigned to Jonathan W. Daniels as he joins the staff of White House ad-ministrative assistants, and that will be an old n About Fair ry for him Play FDR Now He has been Bosses a Daniels dok,8 iust that for 20 years now. His first stint in that line came as a cub reporter on the Louisville Times. There he harvest-ed his initial facts from a police sergeant who had been a Confed-erate soldier. He had learned about newspapers long before that, how-ever, from his father, Josephus Dan-iels, editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer and secretary Df the navy under Wilson. Young Jonathan started out to be a lawyer. He even spent a year at the Columbia law school after graduating from the Uni-versity of North Carolina.' He never practiced, though. He had been rubbing elbows too long with printer's ink. After trying his wings in Louisville, he re-turned home to work for his dad. Later he wrote a novel. "Clash of Angels" it was called, and it helped him win a Guggenheim Fellowship and a couple of years' study in Eu-rope. When the elder Daniels shift-ed his activities to the United States embassy in Mexico City, his son moved into the editor's chair. In World War I a Daniels gave the orders to a young assistant secre-tary of the navy named Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now it will be the other way around. ""R. C. E. M. JOAD used to be chairman of the National Peace Council (British) and a member of the Brains Trust, that London ra-- Through Whiskers whoe He Advocates Five I. Q.s all Wives Per Male came out of the top drawer, but here he is urging over the Atlantic cable that every man be allowed five wives. What peace is likely to come out of that idea, and who would expect a Brains Truster to trot it out! Dr. Joad, who is also a phi-losopher and peddles d notions from a chair in the Uni-versity of London, argues the war will leave so many women without mates that they must be provided with substitutes, even piecemeal ones. Oldsters will remember that the same argu-ment followed the last war --but no substitute replaced the time-defyi-practice of pairing off. Like Shaw, who goes along the same road far enough to insist that any woman should prefer a fifth share of a first rate man to a whole share of a fifth rate man, Joad throws off his recommendation from behind a barricade of whiskers. Grayish whiskers now, because he is 52. This e scheme is just his latest explosive declaration. His many speeches, and his books of which he has written enough to sup-ply a small army, all went boom under society, or science, or govern-ment, or something, or somebody. A while back he scolded science for producing in abundance the means to the good life, without teaching us how to live it. His present proposal may be his own attempt to teach the lesson he says science omitted. Half of World Doesn't Know What Other Thinks A commercial traveler put up for the night at a small country inn. In the breakfast room the following morning he was asked by the landlord how he had en-joyed the cornet playing in the next bedroom during the night. - "Enjoyed it!" was the reply. "I should think not, indeed! Why, I spent half the night pounding on the wall to make that cornet play-er stop." "I'm afraid there's been a mis-understanding," said the landlord, stiffly. "The cornet player told me that the person in the next room applauded so heartily that he played every piece he knew five times over." High-Strun- g Goat Drops In Faint When Surprised An odd kind of goat found in Tennessee, whose origin has never been determined, baffles scien-tists. A sudden clap of hands, a yell or the unexpected sight of a person will cause these goats to collapse in a faint! They roll over frozen in unconscious rigidity for 10 seconds to lVz minutes. Then they arise and become their nor-mal selves again. ' But once these highly strung goats victims, probably, of hered-itary nervous abnormalities have fallen into "trances," they cannot soon be frozen again. All Weathers on Tap The army air forces are building an room at Wright Field, Ohio. In it sand direct from the Sahara desert will blow in howling storms, rubber boats will float on a water-covere- d floor, and all climates from arctic to equator will be reproduced, with snow, ice, rain, fog, and broiling artificial sun or cold to 50 degrees below zero. The room is designed for testing equipment, clothing, and human reactions under all conditions. Trinkets for Africans Every sixth soldier among the American troops that went to Africa carried a bag of trinkets for distribution to the natives as gifts or payments for small favors, reports Collier's. The idea behind these bags, which contained ciga-rettes, candies, beads, scissors, perfumes, sugar, tea and coffee, was to show that our men were not looters but generous friends. Foods to be stored in freezer lockers should be in a moisture-vaporpro-container. In putting on window screens, be sure that they are securely fastened. Otherwise a tragedy may result should a child lean against the screen. Boiling diapers at least once a week is advisable to prevent diaper rash appearing on the baby's tender skin. If the butter is too hard, heat a pan with hot water or otherwise, pour water out and invert pan over butter dish. This does the trick and softens the butter evenly. In order to conserve your woolen clothes, alternate your clothes so that you don't keep wearing the same thing one day after the other. This method gives the wool fibers a chance to relax and spring back into shape. It also saves on pressing, which is hard on woolen fabrics. It is cheaper to put on a new roof when the old one shows signs of wear, than to have rain leak through and cause redecorating as well as f eshingling expense. Leaky roofs are expensive. When rolling doors get rusty and hard to open and shut, simply put a little axle grease on the track. Then the doors Vill open and shut like new. ' Alter, mend, remodel, dye, tint, patch, and darn decoratively. AD may extend the wear of your pres-ent wardrobe and keep you abreast with wartime styles. Don't beat carpets or rugs with a wire contraption. It loosens and may cut the pile. If drastic meth-ods are required, clean the rug or carpet first on one side, then on the other, with a vacuum cleaner. Daily cleanings will keep the floor coverings in such excellent condi-tion that severe methods will be unnecessary. Castor Oil in Demand Big demand for the oil extracted from castor seeds has developed out of war industry through the use of castor oil as a lubricant for air-planes operating at high altitudes. It likewise is used as a hydraulic fluid in retractable landing gear. |