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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEIII, UTAH S? World Cheerful Curtains for Kitchen Made from Chintz Goods w r.n-rr. . News ix Behind i be your kitchen curtains weary A ir year-long use? Is the ma- lLavy to be suitable for rl dayi ahead? vou nave - - B y .4 .nnnt find a nice mate- 5 for curtains, perhaps you have fold chintz bedspread or drapery Sal tucked away in an old trunk attractive framing for kitchen windows. , gingle-slzed bedspread will iny yieM at least two pair of chen windows. Yes. this includes -V from the same material, too. nf course, if you prefer to make I eurtain- look fust a little bit more tailored, men you uugm wu-trimming wu-trimming the edges with a con- ffasting coiorea p". val"tl"a'v K the pattern of the material is ttD-covered witn a norai aesign. hpst tattern for kitchen win- tn cut a tissue paper fac- (jyffi v jinile of the curtains you now use. I am assuming uiey are we cor--t lonirth and fit properly. The important thing in windows is to hart sufficient fullness so the cur-aim cur-aim do not look skimpy. If your home, and particularly the wtMi Is done In a very early American motif or Is strictly modem, mod-em, you might forego some of the hiinMi for an effect of simplicity or good tailoring. Then you will plan a clothe the windows cunerenuy: the ruffle, settle for bric-a-brac it a contrasting band around the idge, and let the curtain fall in soft Slds rather than in a gathered ef fect Correct Measurements For Curtains Curtains are generally measured Iron) the rod to the silL If you do :ot have curtains that fit well, it is ell to make the measurement and fee that you have ample fullness and length. If you are using a piece of old material as suggested, and it has you have a worn-out bed spread. . . teen washed, you will not have to the two inches per yard of shrinkage as is done in new material, mate-rial, but you will have to make al- awances for the following: bottom em, which is two Inches plus a one-quarter inch turn; top head-is? head-is? which is one and one-half inches od casing which Is one inch plus p-quarter inch for turning. If you are making sash curtains two piece or half curtains, as they te sometimes called measure from toe center rod to the' bottom of 'ie sill for the lower halt For the Wr half, measure from the top rxi to one and one-half to two inches w the center rod. If desired. 'k two parts may be in different oatenals and colors. Procedure Given for anr Curtains , It Is very irrmortant to have all absolutely straight before to sew on the curtains, as Seu om kitchen curtains. T hane within rdat oit and can give a slightly W I Will LL the fabric by tearing or pull-thread pull-thread r.r m j 2m Sxn 1L Spring Fashion Notes Hood for the playsuit? Yes, In-3 In-3 and it's especially good with style top. J for the unusual in prints jf the moment-'You will see jWc figures and designs that you a sculptured look. J nits for the week-end out of W.W" ,omethJtog fetching at 7 f your suit Rippling ruf-u ruf-u feminine and charming. Smile, Little Boy '"""y""-"""""" J rymyljiij imj it N i " I ft 1 ' ' 1 itirfwinfintfirttimftrf,i ia This little gentleman doesn't have to beso self-conscious because be-cause he's well turned out in a two-piece ensemble of kiduroy.the new corduroy that can take a beating such as only a youngster can give it. and If necessary straighten the fabric. fab-ric. Watch this closely when working work-ing with a printed fabric. Some women prefer leaving the selvage on the curtain to save sewing sew-ing a side, but it is advisable to cut it off and finish the material The selvage edge may shrink and give the curtains, and naturally the room, a rather bizarre appearance. If the selvage is removed, make a hem on the fabric. If plain stitching is not desired for the hem, the material may be hemstitched or darned with colored col-ored stitches, featherstitched or even bound in harmonizing" or contrasting con-trasting colors. Casings at the top of the curtain usually depend upon the size of the rod. This may require from one and one-half to two inches. If you are worried about shrinkage, place a tuck across the curtain on the inside in-side below the casing. Use a long stitch on the machine for this or baste in place. If you have decided upon ruffles for your curtains, then measure one of the long sides and the bottom and make the ruffle two and one-half one-half times this length. Use long stitches on the machine first, then gather to fit the curtain, the ruffle going to the inside of the curtain and at the bottom. If you have tie-backs tie-backs for the curtains, here again, use two and one-half times the length of the tie for making the ruffle. ruf-fle. For placing the ruffle on the curtain cur-tain stitch in place and finish with a french seam. For the tie backs, however, tuck the ruffle in-between the material (tiebacks are made of a wide piece of material folded) and stitch once or twice on the edge, depending upon the fabric. Furnishings Women who are handy with the needle can do a lot toward making mak-ing the home attractive and livable. liva-ble. Slipcovers and draperies, well matched and with an eye to good tciste, can bring together a room if' it contains many odd pieces of furniture. For dark rooms, consider the lighter fabrics to add chew to the room. For bright rooms, you may use darker colors. If you live near an industrial section, choose fabrics that launder laun-der easily so that you can keep clean and still be kind to your cleaning budget It is worthwhile worth-while to buy good fabrics with good finishes for covering much-used much-used chairs, etc. When selecting binding and draperies for chairs and sofas, make sure that the material is washable or easily cleaned. If s far better to hunt than try to mend or re-dye the binding after the first cleaning. Special patterns are now being created In cotton to make that textile tex-tile attractive even for dressy frocks. Lady-like elegance is the phrase being used more often as we gel back on a prewar basis in the world of fashion. That's why you're seeing see-ing flowery hats, swathed in veiling, dressy suits and blouses that are the height of frilliness. JAPAN'S WOMEN NOW POLICE TOKYO ... Not only have the women of Japan been given the right to vote, and many elected to office, under the American army occupation, but they have been placed on the police and other civic departments of government. Photo shows one of the female police force patrolling the streets of Tokyo along the market place In the Eonda district of Japan's capitol. PwwswwwwTOSvwjctww QHwwqfxvM jcyww.Mv.'.jpwq i" n jiiii'ihim m ,i "wjpwq iuj 1 ' i '" g, i.,iip,PM.nyi im'iMi mi-y 'til . rf .4 f : ' IrSf rf" iv .'J I "'v." i - ' "j t- J. f , J t ...n.r r .-. , -'f TWELVE BABY FINGERS AND TWELVE BABY TOES . , . When Mrs. Jeanne Diaz, 20, plays "this little piggy" with her three-months-old son, Michael, she has to figure on a few extra porkers. Michael, born March 10, is shown here in two poses in which his mother displays his six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot. Physicians in Chicago, where the child lives, are unable to recall similar babies io their experiences. The baby is reported normal in every other way. ; I v ft ; - ?x " V1, A Ml 1 X ? i " . jf ' 4- x PRESIDENT NOW A PHOTOGRAPHER . . . Members of the White House News Photographers association, composed of ace cameramen who cover the White House, gave the chief executive a desk set as a present and made him an honorary member of this organization. i ROXAS VTSITS THE UNITED elect, Manuel Roxas, left, Is shown at nreaiuast wiin neu to nKnW Col. A. C. Strictiand, commanding officer of McChord field, SeatUe; Paul McNutt, U. S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and his military mili-tary air aide, CoL M. A. Llbby. Roxas and McNutt later visited President Presi-dent Truman and other government officials. iff 1 ' 1. . mc- 9 - I STATES . . . Philippines president BIG LEAGUER IN MAKING . . . Richard "No-Hit" Klimozak, 17, St. Florlan high school, Detroit, pitched four no-hit games. r, 'i HE NEEDS MORE THAN PLAIN-BREAD PLAIN-BREAD . . . While this Greek child has some bread, he needs much more nourishment. The Emergency Food collection will provide food for many such cases. TnE NAVY'S BUREAUS WASHINGTON.-If Secretary of the Navy James Forrestat wants to head off the army-navy merger, he might do some merging in his own department. As it is, some of his reserve officers are about ready to believe the army is right. Perhaps because the navy is suf fering from admiralitis (too many admirals), Forrestal has set up a special duplicating public relations co-ordinator. This bureau does exactly ex-actly what another bureau also does. Chief difference between them is that one is on the first floor (deck in the navy), the other on the third floor) one Is commanded by a vice admiral, the other by a rear admiral; finally, the rear ad miral takes a few hours to do a job' while the vice admiral sometimes takes a few days. Hitherto, navy public relations have been handled by efficient young Rear Adm. "Mln" Miller, one of the up-and-coming youngsters In the navy. If you need a speaker for a naval rally, want to stage an air Bhow, or have a ship visit your city, Miller usually has been able to arrange it in a few hours. But now, Vice Adm. Arthur S. Carpender, newly appointed coordinator co-ordinator of public relations, sits in naval splendor with a staff of five senior officers, a large force of junior officers, and a small army of WAVES and enlisted men. ' THE BALKY SWISS Insiders say that Switzerland, th little nation which posed as the benign be-nign and friendly neutral, is now displaying the same tactics as the Capone gang in hanging on to Nazi loot. The secret negotiations now going on in Washington to recover Nazi gold from Switzerland have been carefully guarded, but it has leaked out that Switzerland's policy is to keep all the gold which the Germans stole from France, Denmark, Bel gium and other occupied countries and sent to Switzerland for safe keeping. Like the Capone gang, the Swiss won't return this looted gold to France, Denmark, Belgium Bel-gium and other countries from which It was stolen. Despite all this, some treasury officials of-ficials urge a lenient policy toward the Swiss. It happens that they have $1,500,000,000 of assets now frozen in this country Including $500,000,000 In gold, and the French are preparing to clap a lien on these assets. Some treasury officials, however, are opposed. Not so, however, sage Secre tary of the Treasury Fred Vln. son, who remembers all the Swiss collaboration with the Nazis during the war. "Down In my state," drawled the Kentuckiaa, "when you bet on the wrong horse, you pay off. The Swiss bet on the wrong horse." VETERANS COME SECOND Young GOP Rep. James G. Fulton Ful-ton of Pennsylvania, a Pacific war vet., did some vigorous protesting about the way veterans are being "stood up" on surplus war goods when he called at the White House. "Veterans are just not getting an even break in the present - setup," he told the President. The Pennsylvania congressman also gave Truman some inside slants on RFC purchases of abandoned aban-doned property which would warrant war-rant congressional scrutiny. He reported re-ported that no effort is being made to sell army and navy equipment piled helter-skelter in and around a Pennsylvania glue factory purchased pur-chased by the RFC In May, 1945, for use as a surplus property depot. RED ARMY WITHDRAWS The inscrutable Russians have a way of refusing to do something when asked, and then going ahead and doing it when not asked. For instance. Secretary of State James Byrnes has been hammering at the Russians to reduce their troops In the Balkans, Austria and Hungary. Among other things he has warned that the United States won't send food into these countries while tremendous tre-mendous Russian armies are living off the land, in effect taking away the food we send in. Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, however, has turned a deaf ear to Byrnes' plea. He has been just as stubborn on this as about most things. But here is the payoff. U. S. representatives in Vienna have wired the state department that the Red army has started a large scale withdrawal from Austria. There is no explanation, and state department officials are mystified as to the reason. UNDER THE DOME Democratic National Committee Chairman Bob Hannegan tried to submit his resignation to President Truman last week-end, but was turned down cold. Hannegan's wife and doctor are both urging him to resign. However, the President told Hannegan he could not be spared, at least until after the November elections. . . . President Truman has asked Secretary of the Interior Cap Krug to set up an interdepartmental interdepart-mental committee to handle oil problems. ByPAULMALLONj Relet led by Western Newspaper Union. LOAN TO BRITAIN WOULD PROMOTE SOCIALISM WASHINGTON. The senate de bate on the proposed loan to Britain has conspicuously ducked the fact that the British government is lav ishly buying its way into socialism. Some of the senate newsmen, who are the senator's severest critics, attribute the void to the broad lack of knowledge among politicos of financial matters. They should charge it, instead, to the masking op erations of the Attlee government. Not even the most learned financial authorities of the empire can ascertain ascer-tain how the Attlee treasury has taken over the Bank of England and the mines, or how it is proceed ing now to take the cable and wireless wire-less companies, railroads, steel and whatnot. The operations have been covered with secrecy and confusion worthy of an Eisenhower Invasion of Europe, in which false moves and rumors were used to conceal the real Intent from the enemy. ' Yet sufficient general evidence is available in the government bills proposed In parliament to piece together to-gether a general outline of the scheme. Each industry is being seized in a slightly different way. The government has steadfastly refused re-fused to announce a general policy. But the actions taken so far warrant war-rant these following conclusions: The government is buying Its nation na-tion with debt. It is purchasing industries in-dustries by offering government stock or securities to private owners own-ers for their private stock and securities. se-curities. The price paid is rarely divulged, but seems generally to be the current market value, or better. GOOD PRICES OFFERED The London Times analyzed the processes so far in an effort to offer of-fer some worthwhile advice to holders hold-ers of railroad securities who may be next, and reached this conclusion: conclu-sion: "Whatever method of nationalization nation-alization is adopted, railroad stocks should be retained." In short, tha Times concludes the government will offer at least the current market mar-ket value or better for the railroads. Only in the taking for the Bank of England did the government tell what it was really offering. Then it gave a S per cent government gov-ernment bond for stock, but guaranteed dividends until 1966 equal to what the Bank had paid in the past 20 years. In the seiz ure of the coal Industry alone did the treasury permit free sale of its substitute stock (there is a big debt in coal and operations have not been profitable). profit-able). So the general conclusion conclu-sion Is inescapable that the socialism so-cialism of Britain represents the government Issuing stock to the same people who held the private stock, at market prices, ften promising them the same Dividends, and in effect guaranteeing guaran-teeing them against losses, while depriving them of influence influ-ence in operations or the right to sell their stock. Tliis is an expensive operation. In effect, it transfers the debts of Industry from private ownership to the people as a whole, making tha treasury liable for success of the enterprises, atop all the war debts. How will it work out? Not a man alive can guess. Offhand you might reasonably conclude that if the industrial in-dustrial operations continue profitable, profit-able, the government may pay off in 20 to 25 years as contemplated. If business becomes unprofitable, the people in their taxes, will have to foot the bill as well as the American taxpayers who are furnishing fur-nishing this proposed loan. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it may be difficult for a labor government to promote profitable profit-able operations because such a government gov-ernment must be amenable politically polit-ically to wage increases and increased in-creased operating costs for public service. j MANIPULATION POSSIBLE 1 But these simplest truths may not stand the test of time, because government gov-ernment can do anything. As it has let money rot, it can allow its special securities for each of these industries in years ahead to find levels lev-els less burdensome upon the treasury. treas-ury. Only imaginations unlimited unlimit-ed can possibly conjure the limitless limit-less possibilities. Mr. Attlee's arrangers ar-rangers are keeping things that way. In the cables and wireless bill, there is no clear indication of prices to be paid for the involved holding company stocks. Apparently Appar-ently price is to be established by private bargaining between tha treasury and holders of the stock Yet these astonishing and perplexing per-plexing developments in socialism social-ism have caused remarkable little Interest among tbe phleg:-matic phleg:-matic British. The public likes to look at the surface of things (indeed has no opportunity to do otherwise in this instance) and on the surface fair exchange ex-change seems to be no robbery. What difference does it make if the stockholders get s government govern-ment security of the same value and interest rate for their private pri-vate stock? So say the BritisI f all classes. j |