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Show VI JUDGE BLAKE Dear Readers: This suggestion from Hannah Hiatt comes a bit late for the canning season, but it's a good one to remember for another year: While your jars are still hot, write the date (contents, too, if you wish) on the lid with a grease pencil. No labels to soak off and you'll know when the food was canned - a great help in keeping your food supply properly rotated. Sara Worthen, Panguitch, Utah, (the pine gum ointment lady) has shared another home remedy with us. This one is for colds and coughs. She got it from her aunt, whose grandfather was a doctor in the United Order during the early days of the Mormon church: mix one part glycerin with three parts whisky. Sip as needed, taking only a little at a time. (Have you noticed that many cold and cough remedies contain a high percentage of alcohol?) An indication, I should think, that Sara's grandfather's old cough and cold remedy will be effective if used with descretion. Now, I would like to request some help. Since I am revising and updating my book, HOME WORK (currently out of print), I am looking for some NEW and UNIQUE ways people are earning money at home, especially with computers. If you have any ideas or experiences in this line you would like to share, please tell me about them. So many people need to earn or supplement their living through home industry -single parents, those who must be home to care for children or invalids, retired people with insufficient Incomes, the unemployed and 'unemployable, and on and on. I sincerely believe we should encourage, not restrict home enterprise. Consider, for example, the millions of children who are neglected because their parents must be away at work, In 1942, the U.S.f Department, of (Labor banned homefwork, In theygarment and knitting (industries onthe, grounds that they could not otnerwise control minimum and child labor laws. Petitioners in New England succeeded in getting the ban rescinded two years ago, but The International Garment Workers and other unions soon got it reinstated. The need for home industry is great, however, so the battle continues, with organizations such as the National Alliance of Homebased Businesswomen springing up throughout the nation. If you feel, as I do, that people should be allowed to earn at home as long as they do not infringe on their neighbors rights, ask your congressmen and local lawmakers to support rather than supress home industry. I am glad to report that Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, has recently introduced a bill in Congress which will permit working at home as long as the minimum wage is paid. I believe that our families will be stronger and, consequently, our nation will be stronger when parents, especially mothers and single parents are encouraged to earn their livelihood at home when they are sorely needed there instead of seeking public assistance or jobs that will force them to leave their children in the care of others. Because of this conviction, I consider HOME WORK the most important writing I have ever done, That is precisely why I want to get this book which encourages cottage industries updated and back in print. Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Readers: This is your feature. We invite you to share your ideas and get the satisfaction of helping others, plus my personal check for $2.00 if your letter is used here. Address: IT MAKES CENTS, P.O. Box 122, St. George, Utah, 84770. For your autographed copy of IT MAKES CENTS, my book containing literally hundreds of time and money saving ideas we have shared, send $7.95 plus .65 postage to me. Or ask for it at'your library or book store. . |