Show 3 X pr THE VE VEGETABLE SUDAN SEDAN henry ford has just turned out a car with a plastic body made largely from vegetables it 1 is part salad and part automobile V it marks the triumph of the vegetable over the steel industry henry has ban been experimenting with the idea tor for years yeam lie he Is 18 a man who always looks ahead and wipes his own windshield A farm boy hank always nourished the notion that the man with the hoe could do anything that could c bo be done by the vice president with the blueprint 11 and after all there was nothing so fanciful in the idea ol of making an auto out ot of vegetables henry had been making spinach out of automobiles all hs his life henrys first problem was to find out which vegetables would go best in automobiles lie he could dismiss the cucumber at the start too many people wont have anything to do with cucumbers ile he then considered onions but dropped them quickly alter after all he was making a car not a hamburger lettuce and tomatoes were suggested lot but vetoed after the opening debate mr ford did not want the public to get his car confused with a reducing diet the soybean had begun to poke its noggin up and attract attention for some time of all vegetables none has gotten ahead in life like the soybean the jelly bean the string bean and the lima bean were better known but never got anywhere industrially once in october 1928 a string bean did succeed in getting into the reception room of mr fords offices but it was kept waiting so long that when the word finally came mr ford will see you now it had gone stale ed note 0 0 0 but it was soon found that almost anything from a harmonica to a trailer could be made from the soybean and henry always liked a bean that was ambitious and full of setup getup and go in 1932 some somebody boily sug suggested geste d th that 0 t automobiles could be made fro from m hay bay but word came from detroit that mr ford was satisfied to keep on making hay from automobiles anyhow henry has succeeded in his experiments and in the priori ties crisis has found a way to make a flivver almost entirely from the vegetable garden the plastic material has 10 times the strength of steel in resisting a blow its if the iron in the vegetables of course the government ca can throw a monkey wrench into mr fords car by putting the soybean and other vegetables on a priorities good luck to the idea but we hope we dont get another one of those tire jacks made out of 0 mashed potatoes THE CALL wants marlene dietrichs legs tor for use in drive to popularize stockings Bloc kings made from suk silk subhi atutes news newa item hark marlenee Mar lenel the calling for or those famous stems listen kid your country begs for the right to use those legs all must make some sa sacrifice crince give those legs I 1 they will suffice ankles such As yours marlene in a war A lot may mean forward then with call calf and knee in the cause of 01 victorya vict oryl 0 0 0 1 LAMENT baby fingerprints to poets are sweet and quite a thrill methinks never washed pern COT off A grimy windowsill beatrice gittleman the chrysler company Is turning out scores of tanks per week ot of course it had the advantage ot of still retaining the designs tor for that model it turned out about 10 years ago with both ends alike |