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Show Page SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1931 THE JOURNAL 10 WOMAN'S WORLD Rug Patterns Offer Sparkle Underfoot By THERES Ertta Haley new color and design It comes to rugs and New Rug Design floor coverings, and the consensus of opinion is that, at long last, the American look is on the carpet. Gone are the days of borrowing designs from other worlds. The new carpet and rug designs capture the spirit of America itself. There are, for instance, simple homespuns which fit perfectly into todays casual living. There are, too, fresh, breezy ranch house motifs which have been especially created to enhance the charm of simple ranch house type architecture and furnishings. Its easy to find handsome interpretations of traditional and wellloved Indian designs translated Into practical yet beautiful carpets suitable for the many prevailing For casual, informal Ameritypes of decor. Earlv chintz and can homes, this fresh new rug American fabric patterns, also have pattern offers unlimited decofound their way to the floor to give rative possibilities. The motif new sparkle underfoot, thus enrandom sqvares of features hancing your other furnishings. twist yarn flecked with heavy All the new designs available reolive green, citron and red, flect some phase of American living The emerald. ground cf this d and today. Home-grow- n carpet is flecked to give materials are used in many extra texture interest. It is of the new rugs, thus giving them a available with either a gray or truly American look. cinnamon ground. Carpet rayon, for example, engineered expressly for carpets, is colors and designs have been inthe most significant contribution to spired by various regional sections of the country and this, too, makes them typically American both in color and appearance. i No Substitute Available For Good Rug Care Since carpeting for the home represents a real investment from the home furnishings budget, theres no good reason for not giving floor coverings the best possible care. Go into immediate action on spots and stains, and dont neglect regular care if you want floor coverings to keep their luxurious good looks. Whether you have rayon plus wool or cotton rugs, see that they are cleaned daily with carpet sweeper or even vacuum cleaner, depending upon the soil in your home. If the carpet sweeper is the means for cleaning daily, then the rug should be vacuumed cleaned at least once or twice a week. Act quickly when something is spilled. Soak up stains such as milk with a clean cloth and then American Landscape use soapless cleaner diluted with Inspires Colors water. Rinse thoroughly any food Color selection in new carpetings stain so that nothing can turn ranis as wide and varied as could be de- cid. sired. The vast choice makes it possible for homemakers to coordinate the rug easily to her other furnishall-wo- home-develope- and uniformity of color makes it possible for cotton rugs to take on hues which are remarkably brilliant when high colors are desired. They are equally amenable when the muted shades are preferred. If you want rugs which will take wear but can be bought at little expense, and are cool, theres almost endless variety available in fibre rugs. These are stunning enough to be used in the living room, and of course, they have excellent use in dens, porches and childrens rooms. For extra wear, choose those which are reversible. all-woo- l, ol ings. The basic colors for home furnishings are with us again, and these include beige, green, gray and rose. however, have been given new interest. Sun or earth tones give a new look to the beige so that the range runs all the way from a sand dune shade through spice shades to wood tones. You may have gray which starts with a pearly oyster color and go right down the scale to deep charcoal which is a high fashion color that sets off the blonde finishes of contemporary furniture beautifully. Green can be found in endless variations, limitless as natures own colors. There is a green, the soft shade of new Spring wheat, willow greens, bright pasture land tones and different values of forest green. Olive appears both as a solid color and as an accent. A new green which has appeared carries the bluish cast of spruce needles. The gold family which came to the carpet scene last year is found not only as an accent color but also in solid color floor coverings. Hints of cornflower, turquoise and Sandringham blue. If youre interested in red, theres Persimmon, barn red and a lovely shade the color of ripe tomatoes, in addition to the old reds with which youre already familiar. The Key rugs to furnishings . . , floor coverings in a century. Some rayon was used along with wool for the first time last year, but today there is a large collection of carpets made wholly or partially of rayon. Carpet rayon is pure white prior to dyeing, and since it is a controlled fiber, clearer, fresher colors and a greater range of tones are much easier to obtain than from other materials. New Weaves, Designs Are Much in Evidence The American look is very much evident in the new carpets created for this year, too. A number of casual designs are reminiscent of traditional and provincial designs, and the development of interesting and novel textures has reached an all time high. Fine, formal texture weaves in two, three and even four levels of pile height are here. Some are constructed with different types of yarn to give added textural interest to the satiny finishes of fine furniture. Many of the new rugs are very hard to tell from the expensive e handloomed varieties. which of the are variations rugs same color, as well as geometric and abstract designs vie for attention with carved and scultpured motifs. Cotton floor coverings are also in evidence, and some are woven on cotton backs. A variety of designs is available in these, from the plain, thick-pile- d textures to beguiling formal plaids, spatterdash effects and varicolored tweed-lik- e designs. Inspiration from the great outdoors is responsible for much of the color and design to be found in the new floor coverings. Subtle desert colorings, bold early morning and soft late afternoon lightening effects have been woven into carpets of great charm. Unusual yet liveable all-wo- ol Tone-on-ton- hit-and-mi- ss s, Rugs Can Dictate Furnishing Trend Previously, the drapes or slip covers have set the decorating trend for the room. With the new color palette in rugs available now, if you like, the carpeting can set the color tones for the room. The reason for this arises out of the many different effects which are now achieved with carpeting. Some of the yarns used have been spun with varied colors, a new departure from the moresque yams which have different values of one color. Now its easy to find deep grays combined with melon pink, brown mixed with citron or pink-beigolive with natural or cockscomb red, and all give delightful effects. In cotton rugs which are such big news, the natural snowy whiteness e, BLAZING RED Pictured inferno Is the result of work done by bombers on a heavy concentranapalm bombs dropped by tion of enemy troops. Communist troops had concealed themselves in this wooded area somewhere along the war front in Korea. Working on information supplied by ground troops, planes turned area into roaring furnace. B-2- G GRASSROOTS Will This Emotional Carnival Over Mac Continue Until '52? By Wright A. Patterson PEOPLE have demonstrated their appreciation of and belief in the abilities of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. By their tremendous demonstrations they have expressed their love nd gratitude for the services he has rendered their nation. Unofficially, that includes the senators and representatives in congress. They, too, rendered their unqualified homage to belief in a great man and their his announced policies, when the general addressed their joint ses- THE AMERICAN sion. keep them fresh with regular care. For good cleaning the visits to a professional cleaner there are any number of good dry cleaners available. Some are liquid while others come in powdered form. These remove surface dirt as well as main stains, but should not be substitutes for real dry cleaning or shampooing since even well cared for rugs can yield as much as nine pounds of dirt after a professional cleaning. once-a-ye- ar Fashion Flashes The smartest piece of clothing to wear over a dress when its too warm for a wool coat is a full length duster made of taffeta or faille. These are featured in jewel-lik- e colors that blend well with either pastels or deeper shades. Flowers find their way to hats, this time by way of being used as the decoration on veiling. If the hat has a snood made of veiling at the back for a chignon, chances are it will also have flowers. Simple suits can achieve a dressy appearance if theyre decorated with a detailing of rhinestone-fastene- d tabs. Pointed revers run through with white faille can also be used to add spice to an old suit. d Select a dress with several jackets if you want a good basic dress with dress-u- p possibilities. One jackets if you wTant a good dress while two others contrast it in color and material bare-toppe- Now there remains the official congressional verdict. Will that verdict, if and when it is rendered, support the President and his unpopular secretaries of state and defense, or will it support the judgement of tbe man in whom the people have so enthusiastically expressed their confidence and appreciation? At the time this is written, I need only one guess as to what the result will be. There will be no definite verdict. Congress will constitute a hung jury, regardless of the wishes of the people. Congress, as such, is a partisan political organization. A bare majority in both houses, senate and house, represents the party of the President, and the decidedly unpopular secretaries of state and defense whom the President appointed, and whom he refused to fire. That bare majority of the Presidents party, controlling both senate and house, cannot afford to repudiate the leader of their party, nor will they censure or vote a lack of confidence in the members of his cabinet whom the people have so definitely denounced. When it is all over, and Congress has had its official say, we will be right where it all started. Except Douglas MacArthur will know as definitely as wild enthusiasm across the nation can express the attitude of the people of the nation, just where he stands in the hearts of the American people. No action, or lack of action, on the part of congress can take that away from him. The President may, if he wishes, accept such a stalemate as a victory for his policies and those of his secretaries of state, and defense, rather than as a vote of partisan political expediency. Such is the way of partisan politics in our United States. Such is the way of our republic of the people who are in control of the government at all times. The only way we can express our displeasure with a President, once he is elected, is to impeach him if he does something that goes beyond his constitutional authority. The people did not question the authority of the President to fire Gen. MacArthur, but they questioned his method of doing it. The extent of such disapproval was evidenced in a radio poll, conducted by Fulton Lewis, Jr., in which he asked 16 questions, with the answers to be mailed to senators and representatives from the states and districts representing those answering in congress. The second question in that list was: Would you today vote for Harry S. Truman for president? More than three million replies were received, only six out of each hundred, six per cent, voted yes. If that condition should continue until 1952, which it will not, it would mean the elimination of the Democratic party as a factor in American politics. As of now President Truman is unpopular, but his party in congress cannot afford to repudiate him or his policies or his appointees, so there will be no verdict in the case of General of the Army Douglas Macarthur and his far eastern policies. Only the voters, if they wish, can render a verdict, and only at election time. Many of those who voted no in the Fulton Lewis straw poll, will vote yes at that election, should the President decide to run again and his party nominates him. Was the hurrahing for Gen. MacArthur expressing but a momentary emotion, or will it keep until November 1952? That appeasement authority, Dean Acheson, votes General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, wrong on military subjects. The threat of Communism in the Philippines is more than threat. The Huks represent a real menace to the Philippine government. It is not, as was the case in Korea, aggression from the outside. It is purely of local origin, but it has become too strong for the island government to suppress without some outside help, either in men or munitions. It is a local Communistic army of better than 10,000 men that has overrun the island of Luzon and is growing in numbers continuously. (Released by WNU features.) |