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Show r THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION His Size A youth with a very large mouth walked into a music shop to buy a mouth-orga- He was shown every make of mouth-orga- n in the shop, but still was not satisfied. "Look here," said the assistant, "we shall have to measure you for one. Just try your mouth along this piano." ,A fellow asked his boss for a raise. He told the boss that he must have one, as several other companies were after him. It wasn't until weeks later that the boss discovered that they were the gas company, the electric com-pany, and a furnishing company. Safe Is Safe Three partners were riding in a train and one of them said: "We forgot to lock the safe in the of-fice." Another said: "What are you worried abour . . . we're all here together, aren't we?" He Was! Fortune Teller This bump on your head shows you are very curious. Client That's right. I got that by putting my head in the shaft to see if the dumb waiter was coming up and it wasn't. Knew Too Late Sarge Look here, soldier, what's the idea of the barrel? Are you a poker player? Private No, sarge, but I spent a cow-pi-oj hours with some guys who are. Results "And aren't you glad now," said the father, "that you prayed for a baby sister?" "Yes," replied the son, after an-other glance at the twins. "And aren't you glad that I stopped when I did?" Don't Mix Krouse Broke again, eh? What was your business? Grimes Stocks and blondes. $ BETTER A, n DRESSMAKING GOOD-TASTIN- G TONIC Good-tastin-g Scott's Emulsion contains natural A and D Vitamins often needed to help build stamina and resistance to colds and minor ills. Helps build strong j bones and sound teeth, too Give good-tasti- Scott's daily, the d I Recommended by Many Doctors ' SLt FORM TAILORS' PRESSING FORM XlANY women are learning to sew as a conservation meas-ure. It is a way to make spare minutes count. They are finding incidentally that dressmaking is as much fun as any other craft. If one has, or can beg, borrow or buy, a sewing machine, all the other equipment is inexpensive. One of the first things that the beginner learns is the importance of pressing. It begins as soon as the first seam is sewn. She may acquire pressing irons for spe-cial purposes later, but whatever type of iron serves for the family laundry also does very well for dressmaking. An open-en-ironing board that will take the full length of a dress is essential but every r counts that a household must, Her seam pressing board and her pressing cushions are the darlings of her equip-ment. The sleeve form cushion and the tailors' pressing form are easy to make. The latter is often called a ham cushion be-cause that is the shape of it. The cover-ing should be of. heavy muslin or other firmly woven cotton goods. The cover for the sleeve form may be cut by a tight sleeve pattern with all extra fullness taken out. The cushion should be stuffed very tightly. A center core of flat layers of newspaper is sometimes used for the large cushion. Cotton or small bits of clean rags may be used for the remainder. NOTE This drawing is from Mrs. Spears" latest book. BETTER DRESS-MAKING. The beginner may learn to sew from this profusely illustrated book; and the experienced dressmaker will find it a useful reference book on modern sew-ing techniques. Readers wishing to see a copy of BETTER DRESSMAKING should send name and address for complete de-scription and special offer. Address: Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, N. Y. Invest in Liberty it Buy War Bond Lets keep them wrong! The Japs were wrong. you make it your personal duty to take care of the tires more heat. They are given long, hard usage on all kinds now own. of highways. They are all too frequently overloaded, Cutting off our rubber supply in the Pacific didn't you take us out of the war or even slow us up. Frankly, today's synthetic rubber bus and truck tires For Government, the Rubber Director, the rubber in- - 3W fcIXofa IcW Jfaf-SflaPC-s ."f Stan! pr?T Wuld T' dustry, and the petroleum, chemical, and alcohol indus- - ' V overloading. Progress is being made daily--but tries pooled their patents and ideas, worked together, and ' Do no unnecessary driving. Tef? tTthL ' accomplished the seemingly impossible. Live up to the Government regulation-do- n't exceed The Tire Is doing its utmost to solve Today, there is no shadow of a doubt that our planes 35 miles an hour. Industpr will continue to the serious problem of providing the nations fly, our ships to sail, our tanks to roll. Keep your tires inflated up to recommended pressure, f. . . f trucks and buses with satisfactory tires in sum. For America now has nearly enough rubber to and check them every week. - cient quantities. meet our essential needs! Avoid hitting holes in the road, or bruising your tires . on curbs or stones. Don't start or stop suddenly. Slow But thls Problem solved, a dangerous threat , , yrW down for sharp comers. exists to America's most vital transportation. UJUO XCb Ufa CcWUtt Ote WCtS rt&Ze . your wtees m m line Therefore, while treads of present truck and bus tires '. are immensely important ...the carcase, of these tire, ham ; Switch your tires from wheel to wheel every five The American the synthetic rubber mlue heond aU Ama-- people saw new thousand mUes, and have them P"ce to and to America', truck inspected regularly for re-- plants spring up like mushrooms. They heard of large-scal- e moval of foreign objects and repair of cuts. . and bu, operator,! production of synthetic rubber. And they applauded. TJn- - fortunately, they oho jumped to the conclude that they And . most important of aU ... recap your tires Unless tires now in use are made to last, these two could, as soon as they become smooth. essential services will almost certainly break down! ,' top worrying about tire,! It Is true that the RUBBER supply crisis Is past. There tires . . . every one of them . . . must be re-- UQUJ GOOD ARE PAFNGER CAR But the long-expect- TIRE shortage is with us! capped the instant the tread wears smooth . . . "But," you may say, "how can this be when thou- - TIRES OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER? before any damage is done to the carcass. . sands of tons of Government synthetic rubber are being It may be a jong before y get syn. They must be recapped not once; but again and made . . . when such a tremendous tonnage of rubber prod- - mVba tires. Meanwhile, if you should be one of the again! High speeds must be done away with . . . ucts is being turned out, as well as more airplane and truck few who io get them, you wiU want this information: eiplclally on hot roads. Overloads must be tires than ever e ore. Synthetic rubber tires for passenger cars are good avoided. Tires must be properly inflated at all One reason Is that as the Baruch Committee fore- - tires, and will give you satisfactory service if you take times. saw few tires could be manufactured until our synthetic care of them. I he responsibility to take care of these tires ... to rubber supply was well on the way. This resulted in mil- - you snould not thbk o syntletic tbes M im make ,ong ible , . a vital necess;ty! lions of tu-e- going out of use at a tune when there were no tires . . . but tires. remember that Tt must be shouldered by all operators, by all drivers, by replacements. Meanwhile, tires left in service have less they not yet time to prove what they do , mileage in them, and prewar inventories are gone. It i. s beside the poi. nt to theorize on how they would No American can fail to heed this warnmg! The situ- - Another reason is that our military needs are far react to the phenomenally high speeds of prewar days. ation ;s a SQ serious ;t recognized a new tire war. greater than anyone anticipated. Every patriotic American knows that tire treads ...all ranty But Ieal job to COMem, aU 1(W we, rubber lot of tlre treads wear out faster at hl6h sPeeds- - Also, the companies are and 80 d" using a their machinery and manpower to turn out life at today's recommended speed of 35 mUes an hour. rafts, bullet-sealin- g fuel tanks, and hundreds of As time goes on, we will learn more about the effects other urgently-neede- d army and navy products, of under-inflatio- n of rough roads, and of other abuses. tfr in addition to tires. They damage all tires. Indications are that they do pro-- ' . ., portionately more harm to synthetic rubber tires. . lth Kmdltu",s1 43 are' synthetic rubber in And you should know that half of today s require- - its present stage of development, a new tire warranty has ments are for large-siz- heavy-dut- y bus, truck, artillery, Meanwhile, all tires are rationed to you in trust become necessary and has been adopted. It applies to all airplane, and combat tires, requiring much more labor and for the nation, and it is your duty to take every tires. Under its terms, injuries such as bruises, body breaks, materials than peacetime products. possible care of them, to avoid misuse and pre- - cuts, snags, and heat failures as well as tread wear are not Finally, the tire industry, like every industry today, vent abuse. subject to adjustment consideration. is feeling the manpower shortage, and there just aren't . Nor are injuries or failures which result from improper ' , , , ., , As experience teaches us more and more about syn-- . . . .. enough hands for the job. tire care or misuse or abuse, this includes failure as a re- - thetic rubber tires, we will pass the information along to . . suit of overload, excess speed improper mnation, or other . . . you. Meantime, play safe Be careful! ' ZjZ? sA, 7v 75Ai7 conditions. Or when tu-e- s are used on runs Up CKstKZ AZVt&. If you use synthetic rubber tube,, be sure they are not conforming to Tire Rim Association Standards. properly installed. They should be put into the tire, then These problems will be overcome when our enemies inflated, deflated, and inflated again. And they should Toa't forSet everyone ... the Tire Industry, the are overcome. Meanwhile, we want to put our cards face never be mounted on rusty rims. Rubber Director, and many others, are working together up on the table with all their energy, as they have worked from the be- - We've told you frankly uhy there is a serious tire TRUCK AMD EUS TIRE? t0 America - shortage. Now we "want you, and every other American ARE A DIFFERENT STORY And remember that, while the Jnps ware wrong who owns a set of tires, to know that this country's trans- - ...you must help keep them wrong! Take care of the portation system can still suffer a serious blow . . . unless Truck and bus tires, being larger and heavier, generate tires you now have! THE RUBBER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Speaking for the following companies ... Brunswick Tlr. Company Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corporation The B. F. Goodrich Company McCreary Tire & Rubber Co. Pennsylvania Rubber Company The Century Tire & Rubber Company The Falls Rubber Company The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. Miller Rubber Co mpany Th Pharis Tir and Rubber Company The Cooper Corp. Federal Tirei Hood Rubber Company The Mohawk Rubber Company Th ion Rubber Company Corduroy Rubber Company The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company ,n,and Rubbor Corporation Th Monarch Rubber Company The RicMand Rubb8r Company Cupples Company Fisk Tire Th KY-Sp""- T.re Company Montgomery Ward & Co., Sears, Roebuck and Co. The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company The General Tire & Rubber Company Incorporated s.iberling Rubber Company Denman Tire and Rubber Company The Giant fire & Rubber Co. l" R"l & Tire Corporation The Norwalk Tire and Rubber Co. Tn( Uniled Tir. & Rubber Company Diamond Rubber Company Gillette Tires The Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co. - Pacific Rubber and Tire Manufacturing Company United Stales Rubber Company I VU CANT WAmtL-lJZ-Z 1 I V 7 HOW DO ; I ALWAYS USE I 3 I J J NEVER KNEW THAT BEFORE I f 4 HERE'S SOMETHING VOU OUGHT fZ m ANOTHER ROLL AFTER f unurv V " '. VOU GET H FLEISCHMANN S J ! 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NewsIx BEfflNMgjl By PaulMallon Released by Western Newspaper Union. ADDED EVIDENCE OF POLITICAL SWING WASHINGTON. Most interesting and perhaps most significant change in the last election did not show ll until the detailed final ' returns came in. Now a month has passed and an intelligent analysis is pos-sible: ' The Democrats not only failed to get their usual strong labor major-ities, but their city Negro majorities as well. Symptoms of a changeover in the country at large were clearly sug-gested in the scattered sample vot-ing of these two class groups to which the national administration has ap-pealed so conspicuously with special leadership. In Harlem, the Republicans actu-ally won a plurality in the 21st as-sembly district (all Negro). .In low-er west Harlem (19th district), which is also Negro, the Democrat-ic poll was only 700 votes more than the Republican, out of 8,500 cast. Some attribute this almost even split in Harlem to the fact that a Negro candidate was running to be a city court justice (he won). PHILADELPHIA RACE But the same symptoms were evi-dent also in Philadelphia where there is no counterpart of the Tam-many Democratic machine which has run HarlerrH There, the Repub-licans won the Negro 30th ward by 1,500 (during the New Deal, it has been Democratic by 1,500), the sev-enth ward by 2,500 (usually Demo-cratic by 3,000), also the 44th, 20th, 22nd, and 47th wards and this was against Bill Bullitt, the President's friend, for whom Mrs. Roosevelt ap-peared on the platform. This changeover in the Negro vote was suggested in advance by some Negro educators and leaders and some Negro newspapers taking the position, at a religious convention and otherwise, that further support of the administration was not war-ranted. Labor leaders, on the other hand, just could not hold their people Dem-ocratic, with CIO support, the AFL official, who ran for governor un-successfully in New Jersey, was able to pull the full labor vote only in Camden county (shipyards, CIO). UNION STRONGHOLD Elsewhere in union strongholds through the thickly industrialized sections of the state, Republican Walter Edge got the majorities (ex-cepting only Boss Hague's district). Thus the changeover showed even in the case of a candidate who had CIO, AFL, the national administrat-ion and the Jersey City machine. Such detailed evidence, on top of the already noticed decline in power of the American Labor party in New York, the San Francisco mayoralty result, Detroit and Kentucky, obvi-ously confirm a national labor split-vot- S S "S LESS THAN NINETY DAYS? A man whom I believe is the best judge in the stock market does not believe the Nazis can last more than 60 to 90 days more, and I would not doubt but what his guess might "prove correct. I know of a manager of a Fifth avenue hotel who has been receiving letters from people asking reservations for a victory parade which has not even been scheduled or considered. That kind of guess-ing costs less money than the stock market and is more indefinite. It is true that some officials will speak of a costly campaign of in-vasion to come in 1944, but they gen-erally also mention "decisive events" which they say are at hand. They are likewise on sound military ground, even if events make them seem unreasonable. A general nat-urally must measure war prospects upon his own plans rather than in unexpected capitulation of an en-emy. S REPUBLICAN LINE-U- P Mr. Willkie said in Wisconsin that Governor Dewey could not run be-cause he promised. This is true, yet practically all the ranking men of politics in both parties in the East currently consider Dewey as almost a certain nominee. Their reasoning is not hard to fol-low. Ohio's Governor Bricker is now officially out seeking delegates, as predicted. The Favorite Son movement (of which Mr. Willkie also complained) is spreading through the West from the eastern Republican centers previously cited in this column. The lion's share of the South (old Taft following) is gen-erally attributed to Bricker. If you count all the rest for Will-- kie, it will be only enough to tie up the convention temporarily by pre-venting Bricker or a favorite son from getting a majority. To the eastern leaders, that means Dewey; certainly will be it. Mr. Willkie can upset this obvious trend only by winning a majority of primaries or by tying up with the Favorite Sons whom he already recognizes as against him. He has everything a candidate needs, including financial and publishing support. But it can be readily seen that Dewey can win against him without campaigning. S S Colorado's Senator Johnson, whol suggested Chief of Staff General Marshall for the nomination, is an anti-Ne- Dealer. He pulled through for last fall unexpectedly, after fighting bureaucracy, calling 'r economy and questioning the for-eign policy. He has many administration friends (Bernard Baruch is one), but his suggestion seems more of an to emphasize his position pub-"cl-than to start a campaign for Marshall who has given no signs f candidacy, and is not likely to. Yule Accidents Mar Festivities Christmas is usually the happiest 3ay of the year, but at the same time it is a day in which many serious home accidents are likely to occur, unless certain precautions ve taken. In fact three times as many tatalities caused by fires occur in December as in July, when the nation celebrates with firecrackers, Roman candles and the like. About twice as many people die from burns, scalds and explosions, ex. :epting conflagrations, during the last month of the year as compared with July, and there are twice as many firearm fatalities in the homes Ihis month as there are in July, according to the National Safety -- ouncil. Light-weig- materials, tree decor-ations or even "Santa Claus" himself may catch fire from candles. If electricity is available in the home, it may be far less expensive to e a small set of bulbs and wiring for the evening decorations. Candles turning in windows with loose cur-tains are equally dangerous and should not be used. Falls from icy steps and walks, Jspecially when they are covered with snow, are among the most accidents 01 tne Yuletide season. Although it may give an inattractive appearance, scattering ishes or sand over the ice may pre-sent a broken arm or leg, or perhaps a fatal injury to a member of the !amily or to visitors. Sharp and bulky toys left on the loor, stairs or in a doorway cause injuries to those step-ping on them when the room Ms in Highly-polishe- waxed floors and .cy shoes form a combination that iicreases the danger from falls. Fatigue from keeping late hours Juring the holiday season and the lurry associated with Christmas preparations are likewise conducive lo home accidents. Santa's Friend The rather sad gaze this young-ster is' giving Santa Claus was re-placed by a happy smile when the old gentleman assured her that her Christmas list had reached him In 'food shape and that it would be taken care of at the proper time. What Dickens Thought About Christmas Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feel-ing is not aroused in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened by the recurrence of Christmas. Who can be insensible to the out-pourings of good feeling, and the honest interchange of affectionate attachment which abound at this season of the year? A Christmas family party! We know nothing m nature more delightful! There seems a magic in the very name of Chriot-ma- s Petty jealousies and discords are forgotten; social feelings are awakened in bosoms to which they have long been strangers; father and son, or brother and sister, who have met and passed with averted gaze, or a look of cold recognition, for months before, proffer and return the cordial embrace, and bury their past animosities in their present happiness. Kindly hearts that have yearned toward each other, but have been withheld by false notions of 'pride and are again 'reunited, and all is kindness and benevolencel Would that Christmas lasted the whole year through (as it ought), and that the prejudices and passions which deform our better nature were never called into action among those to whom they should ever be strangers! CHARLES DICKENS SANTA CLAUS IND. Every year the little town of Santa Claus, Ind., bursts with activity at Christmas time. Then of the town's population of 200 is busily en-gaged getting out the thousands of letters that pass through the local post office. All seek the coveted post-mar- k of "Santa Claus, Ind." It is necessary to work 10 hour shifts. Turkey for Christmas to England Turkey was introduced James I. It was the cus-tom by a king, in that time to serve a boar s head for the Christmas feast, but King James did not like pork, and substituted the turkey, and it be-came popular on British tables. To5s for Development Children enjoy toys wilh which things; and when they they can do have toys they can use to develop they are less skill and imaginat.on, likely to play with dangerous things. |