Show ae q phill cpr THE VEGETABLE SEDAN henry ford has just turned out a car with a plastic body made largely from vegetables it is part salad arid part automobile is 0 C it marks the triumph of the vegetable over the steel industry henry has been experimenting with the idea for years he is a man who always looks ahead and wipes his own windshield a 0 0 A farm boy hank always nourished the notion that the man with the hoe could do anything that could be done by the vice president ent wit with the blueprint and after all there was nothing so fanciful in the idea of making an auto out of vegetables henry had been making spinach out of automobiles all his life henrys first problem was to find out which vegetables would go best in automobiles he could dismiss the cucumber at the start too man many y people wont have anything to do with cucumbers t he then considered onions but dropped them quickly after all he was vas making a car not a hamburger lettuce and tomatoes were suggested but vetoed after the opening debate mr ford did not want the public to get his car confused with a reducing diet 0 0 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 0 0 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 4 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 getup and go in 1932 somebody suggested that automobiles could be made from hay but word came from detroit that mr ford was satisfied to keep on making hay from automobiles f anyhow henry has succeeded in his experiments and in the priorities crisis has found a way to ma make ake e a flivver almost entirely from the vegetable garden the plastic material has 10 times the strength of steel in resisting a blow its the iron in the vegetables of course the government can throw a monkey wrench into mr fords car by putting the so soybean and other vegetables on a priorities list anyhow good luck to the idea but we hope we dont get another one of those tire jacks made out ol of mashed potatoes a 4 TUE THE CALL wants marlene dietrichs legs for use in drive to popularize stockings made from silk substitutes te tes news item hark marlene the calling for those famous stems listen kid your country begs for the right to use those legs all must make some sacrifice give those legs they will suffice ankles such As yours marlene in a war A lot may mean forward then with calf and knee in the cause of victory vict oryl 1 LAMENT baby finger fingerprints prints to poets are sweet and quite a thrill methinks never washed I 1 em cm off A grimy windowsill beatrice gittleman the chrysler company is turn turning ing out scores of tanks per week 0 01 course it had the advantage of st still retaining the designs for that tha model ade it turned out about 10 years ago with wit both ends alike |