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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION - : Karfas on Home Front Sufficient Vegetables Can Be Raised for Entire Family on Small, Fertile Sites Beginners Told to Plan Plots Before Starting Seeding I v . v x i V ' ' " ' pf v-- v "' J However Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini may be kept guessing about Allied offen-sives on the fighting fronts of the world, they can just as well be told right now that there is no secret about one of America's great drives on the home front. It's the Vic-tory Garden campaign, al-ready under way and expect- - ed to set a national record for home food production. When a national poll late last month reported that 54 per cent of the citizens inter- - viewed were intending to grow gardens this year, newspaper readers of the country be-came aware of the propor-tions of this home-fro- nt offen-sive. By January, however, it was no news to the govern-ment's garden promoters that a 1943 bumper crop of home gardeners was in sight. They were already swamped with planted in spring include two rows of pole snap beans, two rows of pole lima beans, two rows of toma-toes, half a row of lettuce, half a row of chard, and one row each of beets, carrots, turnips, cabbage, on-ions, radishes, and spinach. When these are harvested, the "succes-sion" crops include two rows of col-lar-as well as later plantings of the other vegetables. Need Only Four Tools Inevitably, gardening on paper leads to the real thing, and that means tools. Fortunately, however, at a time when metal is scarce, nothing elaborate is needed. There are many garden implements, but four of them will serve all purposes very well a spade or spading fork, a steel rake, a common hoe, and a strong cord. Spading can start as soon as the land is sufficiently dry in spring and the garden has been cleared of de-bris. Eight to ten inches is a good depth for spading if the top soil is deep. On thin layers of top soil ex-perienced gardeners are careful not to turn up too much of the infertile subsoil. To increase the soil's fer-tility, the spader should mix in some well-rotte- leafmold, manure, or oth- - Variety for Everybody. lots, or in community Victory Gar-dens. With the seed sown and the tomato and cabbage plants set out, they will still have to face the Axis agents known to gardeners as weeds, insects, and diseases. But they will know at least that their own home-fro-offensive is under way and that the seeds of Victory are in the ground. The gist of garden fundamentals has by now been reduced to terms so simple that they make gardening er decayed organic matter if these fertilizers are available. Every 25 square feet of the garden can well take as much as a bushel. Commer-cial fertilizer will also be needed on most gardens, but its application can best be delayed until after the spaded clods have been broken up and the whole garden worked up with the rake ard smoothed out for planting. Then the fertilizer is ap-plied in bands along the planted rows. This year Victory Gardeners will have a special fertilizer with 3 per cent nitrogen (about 85 per cent of it organic), together with 8 per cent of phosphoric acid and 7 per cent potash. Described as the best for-mula that can be made available to victory gardeners during the war-time emergency, when war calls for so much chemica nitrogen, this mixture comes in packages of 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 pounds net weight, labeled "Victory Gardener Fertiliz-er for Food Production Only." This fertilizer is best applied along the garden rows in a band about three or four inches wide, about two inches from the line where the seeds will be sown or the plants set. A wide furrow about two inches deep is scooped out with the hoe. The fertilizer is spread uniformly along this furrow, at the rate of 1 pound per 24 or 25 feet or row, mixed with the soil, and covered about two inches deep. It should not touch the seed. Broadcasting fertilizer is easier than applying it in bands, but unless the rows are very close the broadcasting brings less efficient re-sults. If the Victory Garden fer-tilizer is broadcast, it should be used at the rate of three or four pounds per 100 square feet and then mixed thoroughly with the soil. Don't Sow Too Thick Common to all gardeners at plant-ing time is the danger of sowing seed too thickly a mistake that is wasteful not only of precious seed but also of time. For seed that is sown wastefully produces seedlings that must later be thinned at the expense of time and sometimes backaches. Bean and pea seeds should be spaced as the plants are expected to stand, for these vegetables should never be thinned in the rows. Beet and chard "seeds" are really fruits containing several seeds and should thus be sown no thicker than the plants are to stand, although some thinning will be needed. Cabbage and tomato and onion plants and onion sets are also placed where they will remain. popular demands for information and were meeting them with news releases, radio pro-grams,' photographs and a special 1943 edition of a pub-lication called "Victory Gar-dens." The gaidea authorities had seen what happened in 1942 when an es-timated 15,000,000 Victory Garden-ers shouldered spades and hoes. Since then they had seen the nation-al food situation change until by the beginning of 1943 the department of agriculture was saying: "The na-tion needs the help of everyone who can grow a good garden." Will Educate Gardeners The department of agriculture, it may be reported, was precise in making its 'appeal to everyone who can grow a good garden. Getting good gardens from inexperienced gardeners thus became one of the department's war concerns. Fortu-nately, its bureau of plant industry, in the agricultural research admin-istration, has been dealing with this same problem in normal dimensions for many years, and was all set to meet the demands for information as they might arise. It is impossible, of course, to avoid thinnings of some vegetables. Small seeds like those of carrots, collards, onion, parsnips, spinach, and tur- - nips must be sown three or four times as thick as the plants will eventually grow, because many seeds fail to grow well. Surplus seedlings then have to be thinned out before the plants crowd each other. When the inexperienced gardener begins to worry about not planting his seed too deep or too shallow, too early or too late, and realizes the many other details that have to be kept in mind, he will appreciate truly the helpfulness of such publi-cations as the department of agri-culture's "Victory Gardens" and the other free bulletins that can be obtained from the government and from state agricultural colleges and extension services. Most valuable of all to him will probably be the one published nearest to his home, for from it he can obtain most specific information on the times of planting and on the varieties of vegetables best adapted to his locality. With such aids, 18,000,000 Amer-icans and their helpers are this year expected to plant Victory Gar-dens 6.UOO.O0O of ttiem on farms, the resv in ;heir caekyards, on vacant easy in fact that a great emphasis has been put on perseverance. No one reading it garden in-structions, it is pointed out repeat-edly, should set his foot to the spade unless he is determined to stay by his job without wasting seed, ferti-lizer, or effort. The first requirement that the new gardener will find in the speci-fications written by the experts is for a garden spot that is both sunny and fertile. And for his help in judging fertility he is given the rule-o- f thumb: "If the weeds grow rank, the soil is fertile." Good soil, moisture and sunshine are three essentials. If they are missing, no gardener can expect to grow enough crops to justify his use of seed, fer-tilizer and effort. The home gardener this year is advised to grow just as nearly all the fresh vegetables for his family as he possibly can. A garden 50 feet by 100 feet tended and kept growing all season is, for example, expected to produce enough vege-tables to give each member of a family of five at least three servings a day, which comes about as close to providing the needed four to seven daily servings of fruits and vegeta-bles as many gardeners can come. Smallest garden size for which a garden plan is suggested by the partment of agriculture is 30 by 50 feet, but even smaller areas will grow a worthwhile crop of tomatoes and a few other crops, if greater space cannot be obtained. Choose Vegetables You Like With the area located, the Victory Gardener's next step is putting the garden on paper, an exercise not only interesting but also especially helpful for the inexperienced. Ar-ranging the garden properly in-cludes attention to a few general principles. Rows, for example, should not run up and down hill if the garden slopes very much, but jf the area is level the rows should run the long way for convenience. First plantings are generally best placed along the south or east side of the garden, with later crops being sown progressively across the area, and whenever possible the tall grow-ing plants should be on the west or north side of the garden so they will not shade other plants. The main item in planning a gar-den is, of course, choosing what to plant. One thing is certain. There is little to be gained in growing vegetables that the family does riot like, but within the family taste there are many garden products from which to choose. Green leafy vegetables leaf lettuce, cabbage, spinach, chard, collards, kale, and turnip greens should be well rep- - resented in every garden. Toma-toes and beans are also likely to be grown generally. Ail these are rich in vitamins. Potatoes and corn are among the best energy foods, but they require considerable space and are thus not recommended for very small gardens, which should special-- I ize on the valuable vitamin, or pro- - tective, vegetables, No garden plan, of course, is suit-able for all tastes or all localities, but an example of one balanced gar-den is provided by Dr. Victor H. Boswell in his "Victory Gardens." For the 30 by 50 "very small gar-den," Dr. Boswell suggests 13 vege-tables planted in 14 rows. Those Sk; ; , V - ,1 1 ! At , ',( - - r'"' , " fa- - - . , - Run Rows Long Way. Plants Should Be Spaced. By VIRGINIA VALE Newspaper Union. Released by Western MILITARY experts "Singing sol-diers are fighting soldiers -s-o American army men on all fronts and in camps at home are to receive army hit-ki- ts each month, with the lyrics of selected by the six top songs soldiers and a committee headed by Fred Waring As with Mart chairman he conferred Warnow, director of NBC's Youi All Time Hit Parade," Lanny Ross, Boswell. Ma-jor Jimmy Dorsey, Connie Howard J. Bronson and Captain Harry Salter. Kate Smith and Guy Lombardo are also members of the committee. Laraine Day, Cary Grant's lead-in-lady in RKO's "Mr. Lucky, has opportunity in that pic-ture, her biggest but she had to be killed off tc get it. Remember her as Dr. Kil- ,, ' ..,, - LARAINE DAY dare's nurse in the Kildare series? She became so popular in that role that they did away with her in "Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day" sc that she'd have a chance to go on to bigger and better things. That overseas trip made by Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Mitzi May-fai- r and Carole Landis is to have an aftermath. Twentieth Century-Fo- x will base a picture on the girls' ex-periences, calling it for the mo-ment,, at least "Four Jills in a Jeep." For some time the major motion picture companies have been eyeing "One Man's Family" it's been a leading radio serial for 11 years, and has an estimated weekly audience of 2iy million listeners. Charles R. Rogers finally captured the screen rights, for United Artists release, by paying Carleton R. Morse the highest price ever paid for a radio program! They tell us that Virginia Weidler had no warning that her sister Renee was going to turn up in the role oi one of her school chums in "Best Foot Forward." Seems that Renee, two years older than Virginia, had been working as a gas station at-tendant, to release a man for war service, and intends to become a welder, but is taking a turn at the movies between times. The sound effects library at War-ner Bros, keeps right up to date; added some new effects for "Air Force," and ran into one of the most difficult recordings made so far the smacking sound made by the opening of a parachute when a pilot leaps. ' Henry Aldrich and his family have burst into print, by way of an ex-cellent article in a national maga-zine. They're so real that it's a shock tc go to the play, "The Pa-triots," and see House Jameson, Henry's radio father all these years, giving a superb performance as Alexander Hamilton. Incidentally, Madge Evans, silent screen star and wife of "The Patriots' " author, plays Thomas Jefferson's daughter! A sudden switch in the shooting schedule of Columbia's "Attack by Night" meant that Brian Aherne had to be rushed from a golf course to the set. He was hurried through make-u- p and wardrobe and out to his place before the cameras, put on an operating table, and completely covered except for his left knee upon which a motion picture opera- tion was performed! Michele Morgan, who made her Hollywood debut in "Joan of Paris " steps into a tuneful musical comedy with her next role, when she star in "Higher and Higher." Frank Sinatra, whom you've heard on the air, also has a prominent role Miss Morgan's first French film gave heI the lead opposite Charles Boyer. Vera Vague the Bob ff program, who, made several pictures, has been signed by CoObU to appear m a special Ton comedies next season . . . CoLmiia' picked up its alter completing threeJeektlTol army camp, and naval stations she w' expert, made DolTupX'Z test, which won a Ion' term contract with ,h J;. wedding was one re 'ut"M wan acclaimed "",,ver 1942 in the annTal MeriZ Z critic- - poll takm "Sparer Anne Seymour, the harass . recting anrf w v. y "atu di-as producer! 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Here are easy-io-d- o and pretty when finished. All are narrow and are suitable for edging pillow slips, scarfs, luncheon cloths, etc. A lacy knit edge is the fifth given. Filet crochet does the triangles which may be used either as lunch- - eon cloth corners or combined as a square inset. Its motif is an eagle proud, dauntless, symbolic. Directions for the five edgings and the eagle triangle are Z970D, 15 cenls. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box 166-- Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address f I WAS A SLAVE I TO CONSTIPATION Talk about being In bond--1 age I felt as if I were walk-- i lng around in chains. Purges j only helped me temporarily. Then I learned the cause j of my constipation. It was lack of "bulk" in my diet. I So I took a friend's advice and began eating keixogo's all-bra- n. It sure is a grand-tastin- g cereal and did just I what he said it would do. It j got at the cause of my con-stipation and correcied itl s If your trouble Is like j mine, .why don't you try all-bra- Just eat it regu-- ! larly, drink plenty of water ' and "Join the Regulars"! g Made by Kellogg's in Bat-- tie Creek. J ZrihWORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT 10' The new steel helmet just adopt-ed by the Army is no longer called a "tin hat." It's a "head bucket" and when you see one you'll know why. Our soldiers have changed much of their slang since the last war, but not their preference for Camel Cigarettes. Now as then Camels are the favorite. They're the favorite cigarette with men in the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard as well, according to actual sales records from service men's stores. If you want ,to be sure of your gift to friends or relatives in the service being well received, stop in at your local dealer's and send a carton of Camels. Adv. Gs on Stomach Relieved in 5 minutes or double money back When excess stomach acid causes painfuL saffoca intr gag, sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usuall? prescribe the faatest-octin- medicines known for symptomatic relief medicines like thobe in Tablets. No laxative. s brings comfort in a jiffy or double your money back on return of bottle to as. 26c at all druggists. Preserve Our Liberty Buy U. S. War Bonds Relief for Miseries of Put ol up eacn nostril. It (1) shrinks swollen me-mbranes, (2) soothes irritation, and (3) helps clear cold-clo- .vy", ged nasal passages. vifKS V4? Follow complete di-- rections In folder. VA'TaS'K.L al CLEARS STUFFY NOSE When a cold Harts spread I Mentholatum thoroughly inside , each nostril. Instantly it releases vapor "Mentholations" that start 4 vital actions! 1) They thin out I thick mucus; 2) Soothe irritated H membranes; 3) Help reduce swol-- I len passages; 4) Stimulate nasal J blood supply. Every breath brings quick, welcome relief! Jars 30. riAH.'HililW.lnH Lh.lntffc rftttftif ilBliniilii.rr irtniirirtii"irii'fr1f ftnj All this and oven serious illness may be due to B Complex Vitamin deficiency. Play safe! Take GROVE'S B Complex Vitamins arid get all the medically recognized Complex Vita-mins. Quality potency absolutely guaranteed! Unit for unit, you can't get finer quality at any price. Yet GROVE'S B Complex Vitamins are only 29 cents for regular size ... only a dollar for the large size overamonth's supply. Get GROVE'S B JTiIl Complex Vitamins today! ...n...i.'-.,i--,,."'r- ; ' J BAGpGElO for fast diuretic aid WHEN KIDNEY FUNCTION LAGS from this need Functional kidney disturbance due to need of diuretic aid may cause stabbing bac-kache! May cause urinary flow to be fr-equent, yet scanty and smarting! You may lose sleep from "getting up nights" often may feel dizzy, nervous, "headachy." In such cases, you want to stimulate kidney action jast. So if there is nothing systemically or organically wrong, try Gold Medal Capsules. They've been f-amous for prompt action for 30 years. Take care to use them only as directed. Accept no substitutes. 35 at your drug store. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be-- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-flamed bronchial mucous mem-branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un-derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROSK Ell RASHES If you suffer from hot flashes, dizz-iness, distress of "irregularities", are weak, nervous, Irritable, blue at times due to the functional "middle-age- " period In a woman'6 life try Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg-etable Compound the n medicine you can buy today that's made especially for women. Pinkham's Compound has helped thousands upon thousands of en to relieve such annoying toms. Follow label directions. PtnS; LH,M.-'Mr- Applicator ,1 mskei "BLACK LEAF WM rVEW IDEAS aDVERTISEMENTS tre your guide They bring you today's NEWS about the food you eat and the clothes you wear. And the place to find out about these new things is right ia this newspaper. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT fe RUBBER Sclanttitt havm determined That rubber latex ac It dHpi from the tree It about 60 per cent water, 28 per cent chemically pure rub ber, the balance resins, minerals, proteins and sugars. Clothing made water-pro- hy the msb oi lubbor was being sold in Eng-land as oaily as 1791. Beads of the five and ten cents variety have a stronger Influ-ence I ho. ordinary currency in encouraging the Yumbo Indians of Ecuador's Orlente fungle to haul rubber out from tho waters of the Amazon. Next to beads, guns and machetes put the "go' In the Yumbo The first rubber to be imported into the U. S. was in the form of water bottles. They came direct from the Amazon district. A full grown Hevea rubber tree averages 30 to AO feet In height and Its average life It 40 years or more. BIGoodricli I, runmm j TAKE ATONIC J n"-- j j MANy DOCTORS N RECOMMEND MILLIONS WHO "TIKE OUT" easily due to deficiency of Vitamins A and D-- try tak-ing good-tastin- g Scott's Emul-sion daily. Also helps build re-sistance against common colds and other winter ills if there is a dietary deficiency of Vita-mins A and D. Today-b- uy Scott's Emulsion. Take it year yiSs 'round. All druggists. WNU W 1043 May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action Modern life with its hurry and worry. Irregular habits, improper eating and drinking its risk of exposure aiid infec-tion throws heavy strain on the work of the kidneys. They are apt to become d and fail to filter excess acid and other impurities from the blood. You may suffer nagging backache, headache, dizziness, getting up nights, leg pains, swelling feel constantly tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder are some-tiro-burning, scanty or too frequent urination. Try Doan't Pill. Doan't help the kidneys to pass off harmful excess body waste. They have had more than half a century of public approval. Are recom-mended by grateful users everywhere Ask your neighbor! Homemade biscuits will be dif-ferent if tomato juice or fruit juice is used instead of the liquid called for in the recipe. Keep matches out of reach oi the baby's han.ds.. . There are 60 drops in an ordi-nary teaspoon. Before icing the cake, brush i1 over with the beaten white of ar. egg. Buy canned goods with clean wrappers and refuse anything thai seems bulgy. When washing dishes used foi either raw or cooked fish, abou! two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking soda added to the dish water will deodorize the dishes and dish cloth. The mirror tends to get cloudy if it is always in direct contact with the sun's rays. To clean, dampen a ball of tissue paper in methylated spirit and rub well, polishing with a soft chamois leather. Avoid touching the frame with the spirit. The same treat-ment is good for windows. Never leave medicine or bev-erages uncovered in a sickroom. If you are about to clean gar-ments in gasoline or naphtha, wait for a nice day and do the job out-side, where it is safe. Frocks worn constantly always get grubby-lookin- g inside the col-lars and across the shoulders. v Sponge them lightly but frequently with a little and they will keep beautifully fresh and fragrant. Shaking tiands The explanation of the custom of shaking hands is quite simple. Most people are right-hande- and in the turbulent days of old, when everybody even in peace-tim- e car-ried weapons, the safest thing any man could do when greeting an-other of whose disposition he could not be too sure was to grasp his right hand. Each, therefore, had his right hand immobilized, so neither could make a sudden at-tack upon the other. With Patience Everything which is out of our power to amend becomes more supportable by patience. Horace. Paper Parachute A new crepe-pap- er parachute has been perfected which can han-dle loads up to 50 pounds. Crop Prospects Favorable Prospects are favorable for anoth-er record-breakin- g year of food pro-duction, the department of agricul-ture has pointed out in a summary of agricultural developments. Howev-er, the demand for farm products is expected to increase more than pro-duction. Moisture conditions were favor-able at the beginning of 1943 and with only average weather from now until harvest, crop yields per acre are likely to be about equal to the general level in 1940 and 1941, and higher than in any earlier year. Stocks of feed grains and of wheat and numbers of cattle on feed Jan-uary 1 were at an e rec-ord. Numbers of sheep and lambs on feed for market were only slight-ly below the record set a year earlier. Commercial hatchery production reached an e high in 1942 and recent output has been at record pace, reflecting a strong demand for chicks to meet the need for increased production. More than 90 per cent of the recent output has been in heavy breeds many of them going to areas which specialize in produc-ing young chickens for meat. Goals for several important war crops have been increased since the beginning of the year. They include grain sorghums, 152,400,000 bushels; flaxseed, 39,875,000 bushels; soy-beans harvested, 216,000,000 bushels. Marines Get Coffee And Sugar in Tropics Uncle Sam's Leathernecks sta-tioned in Puerto Rico do not worry about two ot the most important staples rationed in the United States sugar and coffee. Although the coffee crop in Puerto Rico is not what it used to be, no-body, including United States ma-rines, goes without coffee. It is still part ot life on the island. Because sugar is Puerto Rico's main crop, restaurants do not dole out a teaspoonful when you order coffee. Field after field of sugar cane assures residents and service personnel that there never will be a sugar shortage here. But coffee and sugar are not the only plentiful items. A trip into the interior which many marines do find time to make reveals an abundance of fiuits considered as luxuries in the United States. Puerto Rito has a mild climate, cool in summer and warm in win-ter. Control 95 of Food Ninety-fiv- e per cent of all food is now under some sort of gov-ernment regulation. Rationing also is being planned over meat, oheese, butter, fats and oils, it has been reported. The War Production Boand is supposed to be making plans to provide necessary materials for the big increase that is expected in canning because of vegetable rationing. |