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Show THE MILFORD Wa Blended Colors in Knitted Rag q [Ff YOU want to make I effective rug from odd; x CommonPeopleGet ‘Meeting Goal of 60,000,000 Jobs In Postwar Period. million D. jobs!’’ phrase has C. been batted who had no responsibility for the actual carrying out of the programs, men who had no power whatever to make the decisions necessary to meet the actual conditions with which they were faced. At about the same time, a simi- about hopefully, contemptuously, with the raised eyebrow of cynical doubt, with the set jaw of desperate lar group was meeting in England. determination. It had moved a little farther ahead, People may believe it is an ideal perhaps because its members had dream or feel that it is quite praccome to the point where they felt ticable but the majority of experts that efficient planning, such as sucwill tell you unless it is achieved we cessful business institutions carried face the old cycle: inflation, depresthrough, might be applied to public sion, war and pestilence. affairs as well. They called themBut the phrase ‘60 million jobs” selves the “P E P” (political and has acquired a new meaning in the economic planning). This group was last few weeks. Why? Because of a made up of British government offiplan that has been presented to cials, people from the ‘‘City’’ (Lonachieve this goal. The men who have don’s Wall street), members of inworked it out, and the things that dustry, finance, the Bank of Enghave brought them together and land .¢which, you recall, is a priwelded their ideas into an effective vate institution) and others. implement, have caused some of the By virtue of a fortunate interhard-headed experts, who are accusnational marriage the ideas of the tomed to weigh such ideas on the American and_ British groups scales of experience and either toss mingled. And so, the American them into the scrap heap or hold group came to the conclusion: first, them up as worthy of use, to call that planning must be done by forthis plan good. ward-looking, rather than _historiThe “‘plan’’ is contained in a little cally-minded groups, including perred-bound booklet issued as Pamsons who actually had to make the phlets Nos. 37-38 of the National decisions to carry out the plans. Planning association and called Second, that since (as the previous “America’s New Opportunities in years had shown) even the wellWorld Trade.”’ And let me hasten planned industrial and governmental to say right here that this organizaefforts fall when the ‘‘unplanned”’ eftion is not to be confused with anforts go down as they did in the other New Deal group of a similar depression, it might be wise to carname which congress in its wisry the planning into the national dom, or otherwise, has weighed in field. the balance and found wanting. By 1934 the National Planning asThe National Planning association sociation had been organized, had about which I am writing is a nonreceived the backing of a number of governmental, non-partisan associfoundations, individual contributions ation of businessmen and scholars, and memberships and was able to labor leaders, farmers, bankers and issue its first report in December of manufacturers,—all, insofar as this that year setting forth its principles. task is concerned, at once selfless Other reports followed. workers in the vineyard of the public good, and husbandmen who} Birth of arealize their neighbor’s prosperity is Big Idea likewise their own. Just when the ‘60 million jobs” There are three reasons why the idea was born, I do not know. Cerplan for creating jobs, worked out tainly it was before anyane had hit by this organization, has made an upon that particular figure which, impression on Washington and elseindeed, must be considered rather where: as a symbol than an exact estimate First, it has been examined and of tomorrow’s needs. But there was praised by certain media of public one statement made at a meeting thought which can hardly be dein 1940 which seems to me to have scribed as champions of the impracbeen the inspiration for the present tical, the utopian or the unAmerican report. —the New York Times, the New It was Donald Nelson who spoke York Herald Tribune, and Business and the gist of what he said was Week, to mention only three. this: ‘ Second, because of the men who ‘In order to get full production authored or sponsored it—all leadfor the war effort we must conquer ers their respective fields of certain future fears. Labor must American enterprise. Third, because of the way the be cured of the fear that this tremendous production effort will bring organization which brought these a reaction and that war workers will men together came into being. be working themselves out of a job Now let me give you the gist of later. Capital must be cured of the the plan. fear that it will bring inflation. and Must Boost Imports, depression which mean that they are working themselves out of their inForeign Investments vestments and profit.’ A 10 billion dollar trade budget Whether this caused the board ot calling for increased imports and intrustees of the NPA to call upon creased foreign investments. That its committee on international policy sounds pretty unorthodox to start to set their heads to writing a pre‘with. There would be tariff teducscription for full employment, I do tions to increase the imports on the not know. But it might seem to have theory that only thus will foreign caused constructive thinking in that countries be able te get the money direction. to buy our goods. These are some of the men inThere would, be steps taken to volved: make foreign capital investments William Batt, one of America’s secure in order to build them up. leading industrialists and a member There would be an international of the War Production board, heads bank for reconstruction and dethe NPA’s board of trustees... The velopment; there would be long-time chairman of the committee of ‘the foreign trade agreements coordiNPA which prepared .the report is nated with leng-time investment Stacy May, economic advisor to the programs. McGraw-Hill publishing company. Now, in order to understand why There are 21 others who compose such an unorthodox program. finds the committee which drew up the resuch ready acceptance in a hard-bitport. They are representative mem: ten world fed up with utopian planbers of industry, labor, agriculture, ning, let me take you back to the finance, public affairs, professiona] genesis of the organization from life. which this plan emerged. (Copies of the plan — ‘“‘America’s e find ourselves in the comNew Opportunities in World Trade,” fortable but somewhat gloomy Pamphlets Nos. 37-38, can be ob. quarters of the old City club in New tained for 50 cents by writing the York where met a group of men, National Planning association, 80 most of them engineers, some econo21st street, Washington, D. C.) mists, others interested as members . s o of that club, who had become tired RATS! They say that rodents de. of the type of “‘research’’ which was sert a sinking ship. largely a collection of ancient hisIf that is the case Washington is tory and which looked backward inassured a safe voyage for we have stead of forward. in the capital more than our share These men saw the weakness in And the White House has its quota, the kind of ‘“‘report’’ frequently too, although the situation there has asked for and submitted to great been ameliorated since the days corporations and other institutions when Theodore Roosevelt hired 2 by high-paid and well-informed exspecial rat charmer to run out the perts, but written entirely by men vermin with trained ferrets. “BRIEFS. “Merry Christmas,” said the boy. “Well, I might,’ said the wistful lady, ‘if he asked re.’ * * * I don’t know who Bobby least he deserves a sock. is, but at It is a dangerous thing when cigarettes, biting your nails, oversleeping or being inaugurated gets to be a habit oe. by s Le Maire, the 20th Century is liked in Hollywood bepac ake about his kidded be can he cause : funny face and laugh, too. time in Rufe himself tells of the anhe when Derby Brown the ns = nounced: “I’m going to for some new faces. heckled Wilson Mizaes Bae for yourner, “and bring one back self!”’ 1944, Iceland became a repub- By BAUKHAGE Washington, Joy actress = the Stork Club a deb pe Hodges was irked when ed a fellow at, the neck up) bother “Oh,” said|. their table for a So and dance, witha Hodges, ‘‘go ahea in the head! the dolly with the hole Governmental changes that. shared world importance with the war news marked the year News Analyst and Commentator WNU Service, Union Trust Building Fingersnap in the Face: Chance to Establish Democratic States Map Expansion of Foreign Trade as Help in That UTAH d shington Digest” Governments of Many Nations Chainnge194 -As Liberating Armies Adv aneed Practical Planners Plot Nation's Economic Future “Sixty NEWS, MILFORD, On June 17 Iceland became a modern republic. On that day the Althing—an 11-centuries-old legislative body sometimes called the “Grandmother of Parliaments’’— elected the nation’s former regent, Sveinn Bjornsson, president. In a national election held in May the people had voted to dissolve their union with Denmark. First settled in 874 and organized as a republic 56 years later, Iceland was independent until 1263 when it joined with Norway. Both Iceland and Norway came under Danish rule in 1381. Norway was separated from Denmark by cession to Sweden in 1814, and the two countries formed a union which lasted until1905 when the union was ended by mutual agreement. Icelanders had long agitated for independ| ence, but it was not realized until / 1918. Iceland was then recognized AS a separate kingdom with unlim| ited sovereignty. | Germany tried in prewar years to | get control of this strategic North | Atlantic island by establishing com| mercial routes. British forces were | Btationed on the island shortly after | the beginning of World War II. They | were replaced in 1941 by American | units. Five Re-enter U.S.S.R. other republics, 1,500 It was at a veddy swank poddy. apwoman indignant veddy A looking a distinguished proached bean man and panted: “I’ve never hodso insulted in all my life! That dible person over there just called ~ floozy!”* colonel) patted eee ‘old shat “I wouldn't,’ her shoulder gently. ‘‘take that'so sefihe comforted, Look ously if I were you, my dear. at me. I’ve been out of. the Army for ten years—and a colonel!’’ ed Jefferson Caffery, former United States ambassador to Brazil, as ambassador to the French government now established in Paris. On Armistice day France was formally invited to become a full-fledged member of the European advisory commission meeting in. London, Belgium’s Regent. Belgium, whose national liberation released its own governing agencies, immediately took steps to restore In the abits prewar standing. miles or more to the east, resuméd their | prewar status. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, freed from Nazi occupation, again became a part of the Soviet Union as Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republics. All three had first entered the Union in 1940. The Karelo-Finnish Republic, farther to the north, was the fourth to be added to the Soviet family. It also had first entered the Union in 1940. Its border city of Viipuri guards the western approach to the city of Leningrad. MRussia’s new Arctic port of Pecheng (Petsamo), acquired from Finland in September, extended Russian boundaries westward to Norway. The fifth state restored to Russia In 1914 is the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, a slice of territory lying between the Ukrainian Republic and Romania. Once known as Bessarabia, this area has experienced a round of governmental changes. Before World War I it was Russian ground; from 1918 to 1940 It belong to Romania. It was turned back to Russia in 1940 and set up as a republic of the Union, only to be reoccupied by Romania the next year. To four German dominated nations — France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece—freedom came toward the close of. the year. France, whose liberation was heralded by Allied landings on the Normandy coast, June 6, was almost completely free by the middle of September. General Charles de Gaulle’s Com- mittee of National Liberation was recognized on October 23 by the U. S. state department as the de facto government of France. On September 21 President Roosevelt appoint- Icelandic republic, Sveinn June 17, 1944, the aay the tion of his powers was conditioned on popular will. Late in the year, Netherlanders saw the beginning of the Allied attempt to smash the western anchor of the German defense system, .prelude to liberation. From the southwest Pacific came more good news —for the first time in more than four years the nation’s flag flew over Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea. Axis-satellites Finland, Romania and Bulgaria broke their ties with |.the. Nazi. government, and moved toward agreements with the Allied o} tc i: Turning in a victory bond is like killing the goose for one gold-plater egg. a small English town they tacked up the conventional sign: ‘“Admiralty—No Admittance!”’ Beneath which a clown “Wrens Nesting.” scribbled: Shifts in Italy King Victor Emanuel III stepped aside in favor of his 39-year-old son, Umberto, designated ‘‘Prince Lieutenant General of the Realm.’’ Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and his Italian cabinet contributed a novelty. when they took office in June. They did not take the customary oath to. the crown; instead they pledged themselves to fulfill their duties according to the constitution. The United States resumed diplomatic relations with Italy in October when Alexander G. Kirk was named ambassa‘dor. On November 10 the presidency of the Allied Commission for Italy was transferred from military to civilian direction. Crown Prince Umberto was named Prince Lieutenant General of the Realm of Italy by his father, King Victor Emanuel, who abdicated when Allied troops entered the capital in June, 1944. The fledgling republic of Syria, liberated from the Vichy-French in 1941, added to its territory the independent mountain-kingdom of Jebel Druz. Its people, dwellers in southern Syria, voted to yield their sence of King Leopold III, held in Germany, 41 -' year - old Prince Charles, brother of the king, became ‘‘Regent of the Realm,”’ to act until the king returns. pendence, and merge the management of their affairs with the government of Syria. President Roosevelt appointed George Wadsworth minister to the republics of Syria and Lebanon, administrative: and In September, the tiny Duchy of Luxembourg, neighbor of France, Belgium and Germany, celebrated its freedom from four years of Nazi tyranny. Allied fighting men landing in Greece in October helped Greek patriots to oust the Germans. Internal political problems had divided the people into factions, some opposing the return of the monarchy. The cabinet decided to inform King George II, in London, that resump- Closer bonds States and its beria were financial inde- between the United African protege Li- assured by the Decem- ber, 1943, treaty, the provisions of which were made public on October 30, 1944. The treaty stipulates that all naval, military and air installations will be supervised by the U. S. Significant changes took place in 1944 in the New world. Argentina abolished all political parties and instituted strict censorship of the The‘ tiny Atlantic island of Bermuda modernized some of its ancient laws. For the first time in the three centuries of its history women were given the same voting privileges as men. Philippines te Be Free. Events in the Pacific area were highlighted by the return to the Philippines of President Sergio Osmena and his cabinet with the invasion forces of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The presence of the official was only suggestive of the resumption of authority on home soil, for it was understood that island affairs will continue to be adminis: tered from Washington. Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of the provisional government of France, reviews the 1944 Armistice day parade in Paris, flanked by Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden of Great Britain. France was formally invited to become a member of the European Advisory committee by the British statesmen. The future status of the Philippines was defined in two resolutions adopted by the U. S. congress, and signed by President Roosevelt on June 30. These resolutions grant independence to the islands as soon as the Japs are ejected, and provide for defense by the construction of United States military and naval bases. olina. It is the only other TVA dam now under construction. Biggest rolled-fill earthen dam in the world is the Denison (Texas) dam on the Red river, completed early in the year by army engineers. Its 127,000-acre lake backs 80 miles up the Red river to Gainesville, Texas, and 60 miles up the Washita river to Ravia, Okla. To save Oklahoma’s Cumberland oil field, the Washita was detoured by construction of 4% miles of dikes. California’s vast power and irrigation program moved forward as the last concrete was poured on Shasta, second highest dam in the world (560 feet). Water from the Friant dam in the San Joaquin val. ley began on June 4 to pour through the new Madera ‘canal. Army engineers completed the concrete Norfork dam on the North Fork river in Arkansas, to supply power and control floods in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, : It happened over at Columbia studios the other day. They were filming a big mob scene having to do with Britain. An ass’t waved some of them away. ‘‘That goes for you, too!’’ he barked at a man watching it all. ‘“‘Why me?” he queried. “Because,” said the ass’t, “‘you don’t look British enough!” “TI don’t have to look British!” replied the boss of the studio. ‘I’m Harry Cohn!” Overheard: ‘“He’s —fiying a desk!”’ DARK ROSE 4 MEDIUM BLUE 5 BROWN ¥X i ter. These ter oval. The Washington Broadway Ballad: inch in colors d around sewn are are evenly distributed fullness. trick is in pinning them first as shown in the diagram you do not have the colors indi ed, remember that it is worth while to dye the ré that they blend harmoniously, * * * ag “-NOTE—This rug is from- BOOK 4 also gives the complete knitting dire for the center oval and the strips. included in this book, Copies are 15 each. Send your order to: . MRS. RUTH Bedford Hills WYETH Drawer 15 cents SPE. 10 for Book No. Name...sseceseeeceeceererenereanns Address Remove Water Spot If a dress is water spotted, it with another piece of the material. Or, the spot may sponged with a cloth that has dipped ina 5 per cent solution | acetic acid and wrung dry. ‘rub with a piece of the same m rial as the garment, until enti dry. Steam entire garment. Falls Dangerous ~ Falls are an especially impo: factor among persons 75- years over. Seven out of every ten dental deaths in this age grot 1942 were from this type of ac dent; and these fatal falls a counted for 44 per cent of all de: from falls. Autumn in A; dies three-eighths Enclose At Gilmore’s they were gabbing about an international socialite (now in her 80s) who for many years garnered reams of publicity by claiming to have retained her ‘“‘joie de vivre” by standing on her head several minutes daily. “Tell me,’”’ said Les Brown to an intimate of the old darling, ‘‘does she still practice standing on her head?” “Heck, no!’’ was the retort. “‘She has all she can do just to stand on her feet!’’ powers. press. The Kentucky dam, on the Tennessee river near Paducah, became the 2lst dam in operation under the Tennessee Valley authority. Its 184-mile reservoir, longest in TVA, provides 4% million acre-feet of water storage space, which would be enough to absorb two feet of Mississippi river flood crest at Cairo, Illinois. Nearing completion is Fontana, largest and highest dam in the eastern United States, on the Little Tennessee river in North Car- they still call me When a detachment of Wrens recently took over an old building in The president of the newly established Bjornsson, addresses the nation by radio on island dissolved its union with Denmark. Record-Breaking Dams Are Constructed During the Year Baukhage What about the rugged individual. ists who can’t roll their own? It is easier to let the cat out the bag before you want to than let it out of the back door when wants to. & *- * lic; five Soviet Socialist republics again took their places in the U. S. S. R.; four Nazishackled.countries were liberated; and three Axis satellites deserted. A year-end bulletin from the National Geographic society reviews these momentous events. |. Treats Ba Small squashes retain their flay best when cooked whole, ei baked or boiled. They are a as good cut in two crosswise, sé ed, spread with plenty of butter, s soned with salt, pepper, a spri of brown sugar and baked tender. So we were happy for a little while eee And found the town a gay, exciting place, But happiness, of course, goes out of |. sty le Cones in Retinas And magic leaves a fresh, enchanted ‘ace; And now the nights are portents of dismay And inns have lost their color and their lure animals are most lizards, ‘And we who had so many things to say ,and squirrels, and some birds. Are silent children, sullen and unsure. Whole Milk : The equivalent of about 56 billi So goes it .. . and our lesson must be learned That rapture fades and mockery is oe OMe ee. That life holds many bridges to be ‘this was a decrease of about 4 burned , pounds, or 7 per cent. And fiddlers ask their pay in purest gold... And That those who play at love must be aware paths are rough—and brambles scratch and tear! —Don Wahn. Midtown Vignette: They would have you believe it actually happened to Earl Benham, who tailors the dandies about town. . . . Earl himself is his best ad—always immaculately Lucius-Beebe’d . . . The other day he was lazying in his limousine waiting for a friend in front of his elegant apartment house. A huge, plump, costly cigar in his teeth and his. jewelry flashing in the sun. . . . Looking at him (as though transfixed) was a has-been in tatters... . . Benham kept puffing on his seegar, trying not to notice the fellow, who. kept looking and looking and looking at him. . . . Finally he caught Earl’s eye and quipped: “Are you happy?’’ Invest in “Liberty Creomulsion relieves promptly cause it goes right to the seat trouble to help | rm laden phe The Late Watch: Ingrid Hallen, named managing editor for the new mag, This Month (due soon), and Curt Riess, the author-correspond. ent, were just divorced. He soon goes overseas again. She just signed him up for articles- . . . The sodajerker in the drug store at 55th and 6th Avenue is an ex-middleweight champ from Calif, Sallies in Our Alley: Frisco, the stuttering comic, walked into a swank clothier’s and asked: ““H-H-H. How m-m-m-much f-f-f-for a W-w-ww-winter overcoat?” ...A starchy floorwalker, in his best frigid tones Said: ‘$225” . . . ‘“‘N-n-never m-m mind,’’ stammered Joe, walking out. “Tl hear it on the t-r-r-radio!”? . . Asked what she thought of a new show, Dorothy Parker said: ‘Well all in all, it left. one thing to be desired.” . “And,” queried he) friend, ‘‘what was that?” - “My money back,” said Dorothy. 570 on your ELGIN WATCH COM « |