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Show ,an outboard motor, ,the paper, proposes the old Latin method of Ling the bare feet, in the same maimer as stamping out grape juice for the annual vintage. "The way we figure it -out," the editorial concludes, "is to dump two or three pounds of margarine in the bath tub, strip to the skin and then jitterbug on the mess until it is all one gorgeous golden color." EDITOR COMMENTS ON "YELLOW PERIL" Tell-tale stains on the fingers these days are not always the familiar key to 'nicotine addicts. Rather, as pointed out this week by the CHATHAM (N. J.) COURIER, COUR-IER, stained digits now may be just another sign of a household calamity. They are not smoker's fingers, but "oleo" fingers. In an editorial entitled, "The Yellow PerU," the paper gives sympathetic space to the lament of the oleo mixer. Yellowish fingers today, it points out, are trade marks of the domestic pinch-hitter, trying to beat the nation's butter shortage through a heroic tussle with margarine. mar-garine. Chief complaint of this new domestic do-mestic martyr is the producer's "passing of the 'buck" in the problem prob-lem of mixing and coloring margarine. mar-garine. The editorial says on this point: "If margarine makers would quit trying to cram their product with vitamins and other health-giving health-giving properties and instead make some bow with that insidious insid-ious packet of dye. "We admit frankly that we aren't up to the job and we also make no bones about the fact that we try to duck out of the task as much as possible. There are occasions oc-casions though, when we don't dock fast enough and those are the times that try one's- soul. Whenever we do the job, our margarine mar-garine looks as if it had a hemorrhage, hemor-rhage, for there are vivid spots of scarlet scattered about where the dye balked at blending into a golden hue. Method Suggested . . . "We also find that we have often of-ten missed the boat completely and that there are great white blobs of virgin grease. As for mixing receptacles, we've tried all size bows and they prove either too unwieldy or so small that they slip from the grasp and scoot across the floor, like a hookey puck, finally smashing against the wall. We have also used everything every-thing from a fork to a canoe paddle pad-dle to knead the gob and have come to the ultimate belief that one method is no better or worse than the other ..." After considering other proposed propos-ed methods, ranging from use of |