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Show | VINCENT (Released Washington, D.C. NEW WILLKIE STRATEGY ~Wendell Willkie already has introduced one major innovation in Republican campaigning by subordinating the regular party organiza-~tion to his new network of Willkie clubs. But now his lieutenants are considering another. This is a plan of "direct selling"'; in other words, personal solicitation or "button-holing'"' to win votes for Willkie. The plan was devised by Hugh Stuart Center of San Jose, Calif., former head of the state's Associated Republican clubs and organizer of the California Independents and Democrats for Willkie. Here is how the plan would work: In each state, separate organiza- tions would be set up in 12 classifications: agriculture, real estate, pro- duction, insurance, professional, finance, education, merchandising, transportation, hotel, personal serv- ices, and religion. Each group would finance its own activities, thus lightening the load of the regular campaign organizations and also not piling up big totals in their official reports. _ Business men would be asked to assign an energetic and personable young man to devote his time to circulating among workmen in the same business, and to selling them the importance to that business of electing Willkie. Sponsors of the plan claim three advantages for it: 1. ‘‘No time is wasted in seeking prospects. Each representative meets them through the day, in the apparent normal course of business,"' . 2. "No sales resistance is encountered. The prospect does not realize he is being approached politically. It is just a case of two or more persons talking shop.'' 3. ‘‘No time is wasted on campaign material that will not interest the prospect, and the cost of the work is carried by the representative's employer or firm, thus avoiding reportable expenditures." * * * TIN FOR AMERICA The capital is full of tin men. Patino is here from Paris, and Hochschild from Bolivia. Pierce has arrived from Liverpool and Van den Brocke from Amsterdam. National Lead is represented, and the Grace Lines, and Aramayo; while an expert is on his way from the Mineral Bank of Bolivia. It is a matter of moment when these men come to Washington. They are Dutch, British, Bolivian only in name. Actually, they are men of all countries. Simon Patino is a Bolivian who lives in France and controls the great tin smelters of England plus tin mines in Bolivia. Mauricio Hochschild is an Argentine of Dutch descent who lives in Bolivia and aspires to unseat Patino from the tin throne of the world. But today they are all willing to be Americans. They see that international tin control is cracking, and that Uncle Sam, who consumes more refined tin than all_the rest of the world, means to smelt his own at last. The tin men have come to talk with the defense commission and the RFC in order to get in on the business. . * a TIN STORY Here are the latest facts in this trestendously important tin story: 1. The United States is on the point of signing a contract with one or more American metal firms to establish tin smelting in this country. 2. Bolivia is ready to sign a contract to deliver metallic tin to the equivalent of 1,000 tons per month. 3. Van den Brocke declares the readiness of the Dutch government to deliver 2,000 tons a month from the Dutch East Indies. 4. Grace Lines are ready to reduce freight rates on tin ore from Bolivia to the United States. Behind all this is a tangled skein of conflicting interests. Patino, the Bolivian, is worried that his government is playing a close game with his rival, Hochschild, the Argentine. Van den Brocke, the Hollander, would like to set up a smeltery with Patino, but insists that he should control it, since he would supply moré ore. Meanwhile, the U. S. government Sits back, dickering over prices. Out of all this frenzied activity, there can be no doubt that a smelting industry will be established here. remains But the long-range question undecided: Will this new industry outlast the emergency, or will it, as in the World war period, smelt itself out of existence and return control to the international cartel overseas? . 7 AT THE CLOSE OF SUMMER The summer season is closing, and the great American public has only a few weeks more in which to: 1-Get its discomforts away from home. 2-Sleep on o ago clashed bitterly with - known as tourist camp cottages. #& [ee 10-Determine how much the human 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. 7 * ft 11-Pursue 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 prop}) erly be labeled rAd An AH es ‘"HydrantJuice."' e sda net world's worst coffee. 13-Find out where the worst chefs go in summer. 14-Make the annual discovery that there is no sense in trying to get any salt from a salt cellar at a shore resort. 15-Discover that a change in courses makes no difference in your golf game. oe 16-Find out that 97 per cent of the instantaneous hot-water systems in the rural districts are out of order. 17-Observe once again that not one cook in a thousand can fry an egg without burning the bottom until the whole thing tastes like something cut from a hot brake band. 18-Experience incredible difficulty getting a room that is not located directly over the hotel garage, a new federal project involving steam shovels on a night shift, or one flight over the ballroom where the worst orchestra in North America has been engaged for the summer season. 7 a A. Ballinger, mem- involving a sale of government land. Newspaper Union.) ed, in the opinion of experts, to triple and quadruple plane body production. from compounded material A coke, limestone and salt and called dehome its made koroseal, which but as a coating for shower curtains water, because of its resistance to has now deterioration, and acids been found to have high military nce. In tests against mussignifica hydroand penetration gas tard gen gas diffusion, koroseal-treated fabrics were found to be superior to the best rubber-treated fabrics. This enables 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 me From ladies' hosiery to a substitute for silk in army parachutes is the national defense step taken by duPont's nylon, a compound of coal and air, plants and equipment capable of filling thousands of military needs. The development is seen by Dr. Howard E. Fritz, director of the rapidlygrowing synthetics division of the nation's 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-created products made their first appearance. Parachutes. Latest reports disclose that the filmy feminine stocking is beginning to figure in the military picture. The 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 undergone at Wright field. "While a tooth brush seemingly has small military value beyond its hygienic function, two materials developed for it may now speed the preparedness drive,'' Dr. Fritz said. "When the Japanese invaded China in 1937, supplies of super-fine Chinese swine bristles were cut off, but industrial chemists quickly produced American-made 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 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 the military uses to which many of the test-tube developments of the past few years are now being applied. The ABCs of this new language are made up of such terms as ameripol, bakelite, cellophane, catalin, koroseal, lucite, nylon, tenite, and vinylite and a host of others which What used to be backgammon are well known to the ladies of the sets, tea kettle knobs and shower nation, he points out. curtains now go into gas masks, as "Since 1929 housewives have been synthetics and plastics first used in translating these bizarre words into the home help speed up the national practical everyday housewares- defense program, things like shower curtains, garment bags, tablecloths, draperies, tooth stocks in an efficient and rapid brushes, tumblers and thousands of operation.'' other products,'' Dr. Fritz declares. Inflammable Plastics. "‘Now the fact that most of these From the coffee table to the aviawidely accepted articles can be cretion hangar is the transition exated through the magic of industrial perienced by a wide variety of lamresearch literally out of thin air, inated plastics and cast resins which from scrap wood, salt and other have high non-inflammable qualities common materials is of profound and are now being applied throughmilitary importance. And without *out aircraft construction. Furtherthe acceptance of these products by more, the chemical cousin of' the the ladies, there would be no indusbackgammon set or breakfast tabletry to supply new strategic needs." top may some day aid in repelling Plastics Used in Planes. foes of the nation, for shaped celluDay by day the news bulletins relose sheets first used for these purveal new cases where materials poses are now being used to convey which first saw daylight in industrial ammunition to guns in planes. laboratories are applied to the busiSimilarly, tea kettle knobs and ness of national defense, the survey candid camera developing tanks states. Four aircraft companies are made from phenolic resins are metdeveloping methods for molding enamorphosed into noses for anti-airtire plane bodies out of plastics in craft shells and mouthpieces and a single high-speed process expectcontainers for gas masks. And the Business Holds Steady Near Peak . LaSalle Map of Business Conditions a Night harness racing is to be held for 30 nights on the track built for auto 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. 7 o « + Thumbnail description by R. Roelofs Jr.-‘‘She loved beauty . and was never without a mirror." a ao o Overheard by Seymour: must be a telephone girl; ‘Hello' to her twice and got swer."" ¢ "She I said no an- s TO LI HUNG GILES Me no care what Confucius say, But still . . . me lissen, anyway! -Majorie Lederer. s om a Elmer Twitchell would like to see a Gallup Poll taken to see whether there should be any more Gallop Polls. Add similes: As bored looking as a member of a night club Hawaiian orchestra singing the words of a native love song. Man-Made 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 materlals. One of the most cherished goals of the synthetic experts has been the ultimate production 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 nation's 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 nation's most vital form of transportation from dependence upon continued imports of foreign-grown rubber through war-troubled seas. Housewives in its forerunner, koroseal, by American housewives. ‘‘Koroseal 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 private use 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 nation has ever taken,'' Dr. Fritz declares. Made From LA SALLE ac Business Balletin EXTENSION UNIVERSITY ‘ Sed a uy : XX: ; The above map accompanying the September business conditions issued by LaSalle Extension bulletin of U.S. universit y, shows the relative trade conditions thro ughout the country. Volume of trade this fall promises to be close to highest on record after a summer which failed to show the usual season decline. By L. G. ELLIOTT President, LaSalle Extension University Business activity has continued to expand and the rate of industrial production is moving steadily toward & new peak. If present trends continue-and they appear likely 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 $9,000,000,000. : Larger pay rolls in indust ry and higher farm income have been reflected in larger retail] sales. The steady growth of a great new industry-that of armame nts, is becoming an increasingly important factor in the business situati on. That the present trend is likely to continue is evident by the fact that new orders received by manufac. turers have increased as rapidly as has production. Service Man About Town H. Hopkins, F. D. R.'s favorite friend, and Betsy Cushing Roosevelt (James' ex-wife) are expected to announce it after Election day . . The duchess of the Bahamas sent a letter postmarked Bermuda to @ Washington chum, topping her sta- tionery thus: ‘St. Helena, Aug. 15th'' Who is that lovely lady Mr. Justice Frank Murphy is frequently seen Supreme courting along Park avenue? . . . Sterling Hayden, her new leading lad, is making Madeleine Carroll forget her French flier. The nation's most radical congressman is in a federal tax jam. Two warrants are out-for distraint 2S Petroleum. Ameripol is derived from petroleum, of which the United States has vast supplies. By the modern lightful "‘cracking"' process, a liquefi ed gas called butadiene is obtained which 1s combined with other ingredi ents 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 well-equippe d synthetic manufacturing plants which have sprung up over the country since 1929 and the contin uous expansion of research and production facilities made possible by revenues derived from sale of synthet ic products to American home-makers, Latest developments which further accentuate the importance of the synthetics and plasti cs industry to national defense inclu de the synthetic production of camph or. For years the nation has large ly depended on the Orient for its Supplies of this medicinally and indus trially valuable product. But continued Ameri can research and produ ction brought down the price of cessed cally produced camp hor that it is supplanting the in)po rted commodity throughout domestic indus try. The result is expected as ®ynthetic rubber production is Stepp¢d up new tea towel moti formed, however, as these disastrously inquire into | phase of household work, cross stitch bows and the stitched day names done ir colors will add a cheerful ny 9s these kitchen towels, aff I rn Z9193, 15c, wh Scotty" designs for ue eis "a oa extra matching panholder motif, order to: AUNT Box Name an interesting announcement Kansas City, ie a 15 cents Pattern Coe Address have MARTHA 166-W Enclose CC OOOO for each NO..ccsceicaunn OOOO OCC OLOCCERS Pere in November. (seizure of assets) . . . Uncle Sam is readying another indictment for tax tricks against a movie epicbuilder. Book-of-Month Bessie Love, silent film star, is doubling between being an air-raid warden in London and evacuating tots . . . Helen Deutsch, Girl Friday to the N. Y. Drama Critics' Circle, will middle-aisle it next month with a medical man. Sinclair Lewis is quitting the stage to teach novel-writing at the U. of Iowa. Later he will holiday indefinitely in Hawaii. Ernest Hemingway's ‘‘For Whom the Bell Tolls'' will be the Nov. Book-of-the-Month selections Dorothy Bigbee, the Diamond Horseshoer, and Mary Dowell, the ditto, have inherited hunks of airplane stock from Wall _§ street ‘‘johns."' Dewey Willkie promises intimates that if elected Dewey will be his attorneygeneral. That Dewey's ‘‘material'' on New Dealers is ‘‘already in the files.'' Al Capone is richer than ever. . . Hope Davis Kenrig, daughter of Richard Harding Davis and Bessie McCoy, is stranded somewhere in France. Her lawyer is Harding Cowan of 2 Rector street. George Jean Nathan has _ bequeathed his letters and literature to a college after he goes to heaven . . Jinx Falkenburg of the Jolson show is badly hurt in Philly after a fall. Her fall in Hawaii kept her in a hosp for % a year. Pull Same ONE mischievous Scotty tainly enough-but two, that's just twice as much fyp desired. The development of this highly strategic material owes much, Dr. Fritz points out, to the interest dis- played q (WNU Helped. By continuing research which first produced koroseal-treated shower curtains for the home, Dr. W. L. Semon, noted chemist, evolved ameripol, combination of oil, gas and soap, now being used in the nation's first automobile tires made from American materials. THE MAIN CONCERN With problems high and mighty, To seize this world and shake it, The question day and nighty Is, ‘‘Will the Yankees make it?" e 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. ‘ 3 Secretary Harold Ickes over his de- fense of Richard ber of the Taft cabinet who was forced to resign because of charges by Western 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 the building of a $400,000,000 "ersatz'' industry which is now in a position to make priceless contributions to the national defense program. This industry, though only a fledgling enterprise in 1929, today has o 6-Tour through endless miles of hot-dog, gasoline, tourist camp and souvenir doggie-and-doll 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 can't possibly use and early American shaving mugs that don't mean a thing to her. 8-Learn what America's doctors are prescribing for belly-ache this summer. 9-Spend two or three terrible nights in those piano boxes s* The bolt will be particularly in. teresting because a few years ago Pinchot had a personal squabble with the White House, and only a a % mattress stuffed with anthracite coalin a bed that oo is a souvenir of the metal industry at its worst. 3-Becomé 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 sunshield, one defective headlight and a constant aroma of something burning. : 5-Spend days ™ ata time in heat:, ed arguments over what the road signs mean. . PINCHOT TO BOLT G. 0. P. Gifford Pinchot, twice Republican governor of Pennsylvania, will "take a walk" in favor of President Roosevelt as against Wendell Willkie. few months THOUGHTS CONVERSE wee By we . wo LPhillips . - eum Dug 2 Housewives Aid National Defense Plans By Buying Synthetic Products for Home ficee ee : INDEPE; NDENT , MOAB, UTAH THE TIMES- The wedding plan of Margie Whittington of the Ziegfeld shows and Bandsman E. Hines has been wastebasketed . -. Hoot Gibson's slugfest at the Atlantic Beach club was with a husband named Cummings Peter Lind. Hayes and Rita Lupino, Ida's kid sister, are cupiding. P. Riedl, German air attache at the embassy in Washington, boasts that the reason he is kept there, despite recent attacks on his various activities, is his pull with the duPont family. Iss dot zo? , Se ed O-Cedar it, Mom! The soft O-Cedar lustre saves weary hours of You can wash away the ugly mu of fingerprints and dirt; you can m; dull and listless furniture and woo_ clean and sparkly; you can leave be, soft warm silken lustre that STAY: that for weeks and for mont ..-if you'll use genuine O-Cedar P your pened cleaning cloth. Th pleasant astonishing treat in store when you do, O-C% MOPS, WAX, DUSTERS, FLY AND MOTH SPRAY ; mM Believe in Life - To believe in immortality f bit thing, but it is first needful P%?¢ lieve in life.-Robert Louis Haul British and American authorities made a terrific haul of Nazi correspondence when the S. S. Exochorda decided to pause at Bermuda on August 9. The Nazis here relied on the N. Y. post office's official publication, called "Foreign Mails,' which on August 7 stated that American Export Line ships would seil to Portugal with no stops. Sherman Fairchild, the airplane instrument magnate, has proposed to ae Steele, the model, 10 times to ate. Snub The U. S. minister to The Hague, George Gordon, and_his wife returned on the S. §. Excalibur, which brought over the duke and duchess of Windsor . . Some time ago a magazine reported that Mrs. Gordon once gave her old clothes to Wally The duke and duchess tendered a reception on the boat. The passengers not invited were the Gordons. largest and best located hotel . 1000 ROOMS # 1000 BATHS ». $4 one person, $6 two persons: MANAGEMENT DAN E. LONDON? 0Ut for HOTEL ST. FRANCH:. overlooking UNION SQUARE bis ian. mae ‘Facts of a ‘ADVERTIS the e ADVERTIS os they represents the leadershig, . a nation. It points the Were. to We merely follow-follo¥,. " "s new heights of comio convenience, of happittilters Read Walter Winchell Every Week In. This Newspaper , dv Ze ho As time goes on advéy p,.» ing is used more and = be sui and as it is used morei, | th all profit more. It's the * "Dy advertising has- oo. of bringing a profit ! everybody concern@l., the consumer includ, aa --- |