Show I 1 I AN EDITORIAL BYI BY 1 I FLORENCE DAVIES I I KIPPED M l Every one grinned a Ii week eel or 01 wo ago when the papers pap ra printed the story atory of ot Calvin Calsin Jr and his fathers father's pants They grinned part part- partly ly Jy y because e the tha Idea of ot thrift seems eem just a little Incongruous with presidential dignity and a presidential alary and partly because there s H lays lou humor something just a bit humor humor- bus loua about a small boy who In- In Inherits In herita father fathel a s or big brother brothers s clothes Probably every grown up boy had ever worn em rIpped I and turned read the little tale with a Ii chuckle which was w s 4 cent of o the old das dabs when he too too had had walked off oU to school a n little self elt consciously In III a rebuilt out out- outfit out outfit fit But by rights the smile ought to be the other way tsay round The laugh Ls Li really on the great ma- ma ma majority ot of us who to have graduated from the old careful wa waa was sand a and seem seem to think that for some somo strange reason our appalling habit ot of wastefulness Is smart or clevi I Whether Its It's false pride or ju just t plain laziness which makes us throw things away ay and buy new newis I is open to question But the fact is that the tho ho ot of AmerIcan housewIves throw v away and gise ghe giveaway away enough perfectly good ma- ma ma material to keep out right many a 8 small family In matters of dress especially we l have hae allowed our standal ds of stale sl Ie and elegance to creep up and up until nothing but the tho very sery cry latest the very sery ery Smartest and the most beautiful b In texture will do Then Even our It I seems can no longer trudge e off ot of to School In the tho kIn ot or sturdy flan flan- flannel flan flannel nd nel shirts and corduroys or 01 serge |